A-Z Linux Guide

if you want more feature and free of cost office application then you have to use open office software. this is feature rich and secure and do all sorts of work which microsoft office application does. it has appications which does work done by word, excel, power point, this is developed by sun microsystem … one of the most reputed company and enhanced by the open source community…..

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I received an interesting email the other day that I wanted to share with you:

Hi, Matt

Here’s another tip-of-the-cap for LinuxMint, as compared to my Ubuntu distro.

I went to Yahoo to check one of my mailboxes, and there was an interesting video being shown on the opening Yahoo page. Well, after adding several ‘flash’ components to my Ubuntu distro, I still couldn’t show the video, and Yahoo complained that several things needed to be upgraded, etc., before it would even offer to play. I switched over to my LinuxMint box, went to Yahoo and the video played. My point? LinuxMint just worked, when, after several minutes of futzing, etc., Ubuntu still didn’t.

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I have a little esoteric set of screen attached to my Linux Workstation. That’s three 20″ LCD screen which are all pivoted (rotated 90 degrees incase you’re not familiar with this word). Now I need to use the nvidia binary only kernel package with this computer, because nothing else would work. I know, since I’ve tried Matrox cards, and they didn’t cut it, and you can’t use two ATI cards in the same linux machine with either the xorg ati driver or the binary only fglrx driver. There didn’t seem to be any problem with the nvidia driver at all for the longest time. Then one day when I came home, the machine had halted, I rebooted, an thought it’s probably nothing, but this started to happen more frequently, and now we are at the point where it will stay up for a few hours and then livelock the computer. The xorg nv driver doesn’t work for all the screens in the setup, but it doesn’t crash or anything, so I tend to think this is a driver releated bug. And the thing is, I’m giving up this computer as a windows workstation in the very near future, so I don’t want to waste time trying to fix things.

Having a fresh Ubuntu Edgy Eft installation on a moderately or very powerfull PC makes up for a pretty complete and comprehensive machine. The problems begin when you have some other rather unusual setup to run, like for example my 3 monitor system. I really hope the driver doesn’t regress when I start using it in the near future, once the good people at verkkokauppa.com deliver my machine and parts.

Ok, these are the moments for which I have a tv. The classic movie Sneakers just came on mtv3. I missed the first 45 minutes of the film, because I wasn’t aware that it was airing.

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Hewlett-Packard is closing custom deals for thousands of desktop PCs running Linux, which has the company assessing the possibility of offering factory-loaded Linux systems, an HP executive said.

“We are involved in a number of massive deals for Linux desktops, and those are the kinds of things that are indicators of critical mass. So we are really looking at it very hard,” said Doug Small, worldwide director of open source and Linux marketing at HP. “We are in a massive deal right now for … multi-thousands of units of a desktop opportunity for Linux. That’s an indicator.” He declined to give details about the Linux deals.

Though HP doesn’t offer a specific SKU of a notebook or desktop PC preloaded with Linux, several of its notebooks are certified to work with Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 operating system and with Red Hat Linux. The Palo Alto, Calif., IT giant also provides Linux-loaded PCs for custom orders, such as large enterprise deals.

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Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large community and we invite you to participate too!

The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.

These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to.

Ubuntu is suitable for both desktop and server use. The current Ubuntu release supports PC (Intel x86), 64-bit PC (AMD64), Sun UltraSPARC and T1 (Sun Fire T1000 and T2000), PowerPC (Apple iBook, Powerbook, G4 and G5) and OpenPower (Power5) architectures.

Ubuntu includes more than 16,000 pieces of software, but the core desktop installation fits on a single CD. Ubuntu covers every standard desktop application from word processing and spreadsheet applications to web server software and programming tools. Read more about Ubuntu on the desktop and Ubuntu on the server.

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