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Thursday, June 26th, 2008 - 5:45 am
More than an operating system Linux is a large community and strong relationship between its members. A relationship of sharing knowledge and reusing it, unlike reinventing the wheel!
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Friday, June 20th, 2008 - 5:10 am
Remember, more than actually being difficult, Linux has been taught to be so. We would like to adhere to a new statement saying, Linux is different and not necessarily difficult.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008 - 5:56 am
Generally, a source code comes as a bundle which is a compressed file having an extension — .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz et al. They are often known as tar balls.
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Monday, June 16th, 2008 - 8:05 am
Installing software on Linux is not only easier than most of us think, but it also has some special features which help software’s to be updated automatically!
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 - 5:16 am
‘Root’ is the default name for system administrator in a *NIX system — a super user who can do anything and everything within the operating system.
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Monday, June 9th, 2008 - 9:54 am
A Linux system, just like any *NIX based system doesn’t differentiate between a file and a directory, since a directory is just another file which contains names of other files. Applications, programs, documents, services, images and just about everything else on a Linux operating system is a file!
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008 - 8:11 am
With rich GUI enabled installation procedures and live-CDs, installing a popular Linux distro is very easy. Gone are those days when you needed to compile the kernel from the source.
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Friday, June 6th, 2008 - 5:41 am
Presence of numerous distributions of Linux, each having its own unique set of characteristics but, basically compatible with each other gives users’ a variety. This allows users to select the versions which best meet their requirements.
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008 - 5:50 am
The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free and open source software (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/Python/PHP), used to run dynamic Web sites or servers.
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 - 6:23 am
In the proprietary closed source model, the entire development cycle evolves within a single company. Programmers write code, hide it behind binaries and charge the customers to use the software. No one ever gets to know how bad the software really is!
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008 - 9:31 am
People take good pictures not cameras. It’s up to you to compose the shot carefully, making sure that the lighting is correct, etc. You can experiment by taking as many test shots as you like using various camera settings, compositions, etc. “Practice Makes Perfect.”
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