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Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Virtual computing in Ubuntu

Posted by Ryan Grange on November 20, 2008

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VMWare Player won’t start on Ubuntu

Posted by Ryan Grange on March 13, 2008

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French police move from Windows to Ubuntu

Posted by Ryan Grange on January 30, 2008

In a move set to continue the large savings in licensing fees French Police forces are moving from Windows to Linux as they begin to replace aging systems. I wouldn’t be surprised if they also have Linux put on some of those aging systems to breathe extra life into them.

Thanks to Linux Today for the story link.

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Improve performance in Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org

Posted by Ryan Grange on January 29, 2008

I was looking up some ways to speed up a default Ubuntu install so my kids would feel better when they get stuck on the slower kid computer I have it installed on. There was also some great advice on settings changes to make to OpenOffice.org that helped it load faster even on my Windows systems.

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Installing Linux over the network without a CD-ROM drive

Posted by Ryan Grange on January 15, 2008

Given the proliferation of tiny computers and laptops without external drives, there is a very timely article named “Installing Linux over network no CDROM drive” over at PolishLinux.org that goes over installing Linux over a PXE capable network card.

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How to Handle “.rpmsave” and “.rpmnew” Files

Posted by Ryan Grange on January 15, 2008

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Slowing Down Brute Force Attempts To Hack Your SSH Server

Posted by Ryan Grange on January 8, 2008

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