Linux>1% Campaign. Prove that we are more than 1% !

2010-10-25 1 min read Linux Uncategorized

Linux>1% Campaign. Prove that we are more than 1% !

At http://www.dudalibre.com they are running a campaign to make every owner of computers running Linux register. The aim is to prove that the general assumption, that only 1 % of all computers run Linux is wrong. Everyone is needed if this effort is going to succeed.

http://www.dudalibre.com/en/gnulinuxcounter

The page can also be displayed in Spanish and French

I voted for my distro Fedora, hope you do the same for your linux distribution and prove that Linux does run on high number of desktop.

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http://ninite.com/linux/makeuseof – very good collection of utilities for .deb based distro’s

2010-10-08 1 min read Linux Uncategorized

Head over to http://ninite.com/linux/makeuseof and you will find a nice utility created by the makeuseof guys. This will allow you to select the applications that you want to install and once you have made the selection you can download the unattended installer.

Well, to be frank with you I really do not see the need for this unless you don’t know how to add repositories or install simple stuff. Most of this (no, actually all of this except dropbox in my Fedora setup with the repositories that I have set). Now for one application why would I do that if that was available for Fedora. Any-ways pretty good for newbies, still.

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l-exp listrs – A new look at linux blogs and sites

2010-04-07 0 min read Uncategorized
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Linux Malware – Proof that Linux is not as secure as we all think

2010-03-26 1 min read Linux

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