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Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Alpha 3 Screenshots Gallery

Posted 03-01-2010 at 05:24 AM by sridhar11

The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04, bringing with it the earliest new features for the next version of Ubuntu.This Screenshots Gallery includes installation process and what is new in ubuntu 10.04

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Simplicity, The Art of Unix Programming, and Taekwondo

Posted 02-28-2010 at 05:15 PM by bartonski

My former Taekwondo had a saying "Never do anything in which does not give you an advantage, or reduce your disadvantage". The theory being that doing anything else wastes time and energy, and leaves your opponent open to increase his or her advantage.

Eric Raymond writes in The Art of Unix Programming

Quote:

Rule of Simplicity: Design for simplicity; add complexity only where you must.

Many pressures tend to make programs more complicated (and therefore

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Unhide .spec (20100201 release)

Posted 02-27-2010 at 05:50 PM by unSpawn

Tags rpm, spec file

security-projects.com released version 2010/02/01 of Unhide, a forensic tool to find hidden processes and TCP/UDP ports by rootkits / LKMs or by another hidden technique. Here's a minimal spec if you want one:

Code:

# No debuginfo:
%define debug_packages	%{nil}
%define debug_package %{nil}

%define name unhide
# Version
%define ver 0.2
# Release
%define rel 1

%define _prefix /usr/local
%define _mandir /usr/local/share/man

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how do i open terminal

Posted 02-25-2010 at 02:50 PM by Rob1949Scott

trying to install IE. o/s linpus linux v1.0.13.E, but cannot get into terminal to enter commasnds. please give step by step insts.

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Debian Lenny + GUI = ?

Posted 02-24-2010 at 10:01 PM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])

Tags debian, gui, lfs

Yet another - to debian.
Few days ago I was trying to make a backup and write it on DVD. But failed to do so with:
1. nautilus (recently i used that, it was a simpliest way)
2. xfburn (i use xfce)
3. brasero.
All of them either hang or fall when I add too many files. Well, what the heck if I don't have any other choice? I need all of those files.
I was beginning to think about frontend to "genisoimage"... say, a GTK app, allowing to create an...

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