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2009 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

The polls are closed and the results are in. We had a record number of votes cast for the ninth straight year. Congratulations should go to each and every nominee. We once again had some extremely close races and a ... Read More
Published By admin On March 2, 2010   Under Linux  

Upload Facebook Albums And Videos From Your Desktop

Upload Facebook Albums And Videos From Your Desktop
Bloom is a multi-platform, Java-based application for Facebook that allows you to upload albums, download photos and view your friends’ albums right from your desktop. Using Bloom, you can upload photos and videos, tag people, set privacy settings for albums, ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

[USN-896-1] Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities

[USN-896-1] Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities
The following security announcement applies to firefox and xulrunner. If you have firefox and xulrunner installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine of Firefox. If ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

[USN-895-1] Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 vulnerabilities

[USN-895-1] Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 vulnerabilities
The following security announcement applies to firefox and xulrunner. If you have firefox and xulrunner installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine of Firefox. If ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

EXT3, EXT4, Btrfs Ubuntu Netbook Benchmarks

After those Linux file-system benchmarks were published, we received a request from Canonical to look at the EXT3 performance too. With that said, we have done just that and have published EXT3, EXT4, and Btrfs benchmarks from Ubuntu 9.10 and ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

No Human Theme In Ubuntu 10.04?

In an interview recorded on February 19 2010, Mark Shuttleworth revealed that a new light theme will replace the Human theme in Ubuntu 10.04. The Human theme has been the default theme in Ubuntu since the first release. More hereSource: ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

Install Perl modules using CPAN

If you’ve come across any software that requires Perl modules, you might have found yourself pulling out your hair, trying to figure out how to install those modules. You’ve tried downloading the source, only to find one dependency issue or ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

Window-specific options in KDE 4.4

Window-specific options in KDE 4.4
Continuing with the KDE 4.4 theme we will turn our phasers towards configuring window-specific options. What exactly does this mean? It means you can configure options for a specific window that apply only to a specific window or a specific ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

Configure and use the KDE 4.4 pager

Configure and use the KDE 4.4 pager
Have you ever used the Linux pager? If you’ve not you might want to read my article “Get to know Linux: The pager“. The KDE 4.4 pager is, as the above article will agree to, a very handy tool – ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

Easy folder sharing in KDE 4.4

Easy folder sharing in KDE 4.4
Once more unto the KDE topic my friends, once more. This time, however, we take a look at a very useful feature that allows you to easily share out folders with a few clicks. These folders will be shared with ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

Network Analysis With Wireshark On Ubuntu 9.10

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer (or “packet sniffer”) that can be used for network analysis, troubleshooting, software development, education, etc. This guide shows how to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop to analyze the traffic on ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

Confessions of an Ubuntu Fanboy

Hi, my name is Jim and I’m a recovering Ubuntu fanboy. The Urban Dictionary defines a fanboy as “a person who is completely loyal to a game or company regardless of if they suck or not.” More here Let me be ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #181

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #181
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #181 for the week February 14th – February 20th, 2010. In this issue we cover: Debian Import Freeze in effect, Feature Freeze in place – Alpha 3 freeze ahead…… New MOTU, Ubuntu single sign on service ... Read More
Published By admin On February 23, 2010   Under Linux  

Tips to help users migrate to OpenOffice

The office suite. Ah the importance you hold over the PC user. You help our business to flow, you help us to draft our papers and novels, and you help us communicate. But what of those users who previously were ... Read More
Published By admin On February 22, 2010   Under Linux  

FBReader Is Brilliant eBook Reader, Manager, & Downloader

FBReader Is Brilliant eBook Reader, Manager, & Downloader
FBReader is a dead-simple all-in-one desktop and mobile eBook reader that we missed out while compiling the top 4 eBook readers list. What makes it remarkably outstanding is an option to download eBooks quickly under creative commons license and also ... Read More
Published By admin On February 17, 2010   Under Linux  

[USN-899-1] Tomcat vulnerabilities

[USN-899-1] Tomcat vulnerabilities
The following security announcement applies to libtomcat6-java. If you have libtomcat6-java installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: It was discovered that Tomcat did not correctly validate WAR filenames or paths when deploying. A remote ... Read More
Published By admin On February 17, 2010   Under Linux  

[USN-898-1] gnome-screensaver vulnerability

[USN-898-1] gnome-screensaver vulnerability
The following security announcement applies to gnome-screensaver. If you have gnome-screensaver installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: It was discovered that gnome-screensaver did not correctly handle monitor hotplugging. An attacker with physical access ... Read More
Published By admin On February 17, 2010   Under Linux  

[USN-897-1] MySQL vulnerabilities

[USN-897-1] MySQL vulnerabilities
The following security announcement applies to mysql-server. If you have mysql-server installed, please see below for details on the vulnerability and instructions on patching your system: It was discovered that MySQL could be made to overwrite existing table files in the data ... Read More
Published By admin On February 17, 2010   Under Linux  

How To Install Open Office in Ubuntu

This tutorial will explain how to install latest version of openoffice in ubuntu More hereSource: How To Install Open Office in Ubuntu ... Read More
Published By admin On February 17, 2010   Under Linux  

Configure KDE 4 to work with Compiz

Configure KDE 4 to work with Compiz
If you read my most recent article (“Upgrading to KDE 4.3.5 and should you“) you will have noticed two things: 1) I am behind by one release on my KDE updates ;-) and 2) KDE has come a long, long ... Read More
Published By admin On February 17, 2010   Under Linux  
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