Die hard Gnome 3 and Fedora fans will be happy to know that Fedora 16 is now officially available for download from the Fedora homepage. This release includes the brand new Linux kernel 3.1 and the latest updates from Gnome 3.2. It is a completely bleeding edge OS, and Gnome 3 fans are encouraged to […]
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There are many software, which needs a restart after installation. For me there were quite a few. One of the annoying ones is Oracle XE. After installing, if you don’t restart, you wont get the sqlplus command under your username. The workaround is , after installing oracle-xe, open a terminal and .. 1. stop oracle
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Novell released the second version of opensource implementation of Silverlight, Moonlight 2.0, today for linux users. Although Moonlight is lagging way behind the Silverlight version which is at 3.0 stable and 4.0 beta, this release will give users compatibility with SIlverlight 2.0 applications and some 3.0 ones as well. Moonlight is opensource, however, the codecs
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Google released the beta version of Chrome for Linux and Mac today. The packaged files for major distributions are availabe at http://www.google.com/chrome. Users who were already using the dev channel version can find the beta packaged seperately in synaptic . Trying to install the beta will prompt you to uninstall the unstable version though. Try
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For times immerorial, Linux users have had a problem with MS Exchange mail, Global Address Books and Exchange calenders. Users had to be content with accessing the email only through IMAP and by manually creating contact lists on their systems. The OWA will work well only with IEs . The moment it detectes firefox, it
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All those who are using Fedora 11 as their operating system, you can enable the NTP server on your system to avoid manually setting the clock on your pc every time the clocks go forward or backward. Go to system -> administration -> time & date -> network time protocol and enable it. Mine was
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When I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 on Fedora 11 , catalyst 9.9 stopped working and I got blank screens. I had to be content with the opensource graphics drivers which did not provide 3D acceleration in fedora 11 systems (surprisingly!) Now, after the release of catalyst 9.10 , I’m back using compiz and my favourite
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TIme to rejoice for Skype Linux users!!!! Skype developers yesterday released the much awaited beta of skype 2.1 . This new version is hoped to improve on all the pulseaudio related issues in Ubuntu distros and all the other distros using pulseaudio as the main sound server. Plus it is touted to provide better video/voice
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Most of us who use Gnome, use Nautilus as the file manager. It is a very powerful file manager we all know about it. It gives a user a lot of flexibility to customize the way we want to use it. But at one point where Nautilus gets confusing is when we try to access
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