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Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” released!

30 minutes ago Ubuntu 10.04 has been released, according to the features page: Your Ubuntu, your way Enjoy the simplicity of Ubuntu’s stylish, intuitive interface. Fast, secure and with thousands of apps to choose from, Ubuntu gives you a clean and streamlined experience that you can really make your own. And now you can even [...]

Video: The Unity Desktop Environment

Mark Shuttleworth discusses Unity, the shell for the Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 at Debconf 10.

Ubuntu Wireless Compaq Mini

First lets see what is your wifi card info, type the following in a terminal: lspci | grep Wireless My info is: 02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe Next you have to install the dkms package: sudo aptitude install dkms Now download the file rt3090-dkms_2.3.1.7-0ubuntu0~ppa2_all.deb from this page (I’m using Ubuntu 10.04, [...]

openSUSE 11.4 has arrived!

As reads on their website “After 8 months of hard work, you can learn what is new, download it and upgrade!” Yes, openSUSE 11.4 finally has arrived! Some features: The default openSUSE desktop, the KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.6, but also includes GNOME 2.32, XFCE 4.8 and LXDE 0.5. The first shipping LibreOffice and Firefox 4. [...]

BASH: Rename multiple files with sequential number at end

Spent way too much time trying to do this, hope this help someone else: i=1;for f in *.jpg; do mv “$f” “newname$i.jpg”; let i++; done

Gentoo Linux – LiveDVD 11.0 Released

Gentoo Linux LiveDVD 11.0 was released yesterday! It includes Linux Kernel 2.6.37 (with Gentoo patches), KDE SC 4.6, GNOME 2.32, OpenOffice 3.2.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13 among other great software! Special Features: Writable AUFS support so you can emerge new packages! Persistancy for $HOME is available; press F9 for more info! More details here Download in [...]

Extract emails from big text file

Fount it here: perl -wne’while(/[\w\.\-]+@[\w\.\-]+\w+/g){print “$&\n”}’ emails.txt | sort -u > output.txt

Zentyal – The Linux Small Business Server

For a couple of years now I’ve been deploying this solution for some clients, the former name was “Ebox Platform” but this year they decided to make the change to Zentyal, just let me tell you this is a great solution for manage domains, firewalls, vpn, proxy or email servers (among other services). The most [...]

10 reasons why you shouldn’t switch to Linux

Let’s face it, not even a week passes in which does not appears an article on a blog that says something about the myths of Linux , or the advantages of Linux. I can only guess to say “bahhhhhh.”

Which Linux distro is good for you?

A friend of mine recently sent me this link: http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php Take a look and find out which Linux distribution is good for you, this test has helped over 135,000 users pick the Linux distribution best suits for them.

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