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Installing VMWare Tools in Linux Guest
I’m a big supporter of desktop virtualization, and have posted before how to use VMWare Player to install and test other Operating Systems. However, along with installation of a guest Operating System you will also generally want to install VMWare … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Linux, Operating Systems, Virtualization, VMWare
Tagged foss, Linux, LinuxMint, Tools, VMWare
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Upgrading can be such a hard thing to do
Excellent article about upgrading to a new version of Linux. But even though you’d think the problem might be more difficult on a Linux or Unix system, it’s actually more difficult on a Windows system where you don’t generally have … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Linux, Operating Systems, Windows
Tagged foss, Linux, Windows
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How Can I Justify Using Red Hat When CentOS Exists?
This is the kind of open-ended discussion I truly love to see and on a topic I care deeply about. Originally posted HERE, a Slashdot reader asked a candid question about how Open Source (free) software is treated in the … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Linux, Operating Systems
Tagged CENTOS, GPL, Linux, Red Hat
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Adding desktop shortcuts problematic in Unity
I’ve been using UBuntu 11.10 for a week or so now but hadn’t really had an opportunity to poke around much yet. That began to change yesterday when oddly enough I wanted to add a couple shortcuts to my desktop. … Continue reading
Posted in Howto, Information Technology, Linux, Operating Systems
Tagged Desktop, Gnome-Panel, Shortcuts, Ubuntu, Unity
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Microsoft, Windows 8, and the UEFI controversy
I’ve been following the “Windows 8″ UEFI controversy for a few weeks now and remain as concerned today about it’s impact on the average user who might wish to try Linux as I was then. As is to be expected, … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Linux, Operating Systems, Windows
Tagged Microsoft, Open Source, UEFI, WIndows 8
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Clonezilla is all you need for full system imaging
I’ve been using Clonezilla for a couple years now so when I saw Linux Journal run an article espousing it’s use I had to read through to see what they said. Which is to say, pretty much what I already … Continue reading
Initial Ubuntu 10.10 thoughts
I promised some thoughts about the new 10.10 beta over the weekend and finally got around to kicking the tires Sunday night. As a minor upgrade from the long term support version 10.04, not much looks different though there are … Continue reading
Ubuntu 10.10 beta released
Just a quick note to let those interested know that Ubuntu 10.10 beta was released this morning. If you are new to, or still thinking about trying out Linux I’d recommend you not try a beta, but instead try or … Continue reading
Installing OTRS 2.4.7 on Ubuntu 10.04 redux
Last weekend I ended up going the hard route trying to install OTRS 2.4.7, but at the end of the day (quite literally as it took me all afternoon) I did get the job done. But that wasn’t the way … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Howto, Information Technology, Linux
Tagged Apache2, Canonical, MySQL, OTRS, Perl, Postfix, Ubuntu
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What would persuade you to ditch Windows for Ubuntu 10.04?
ZDNet ran an article a few days that I just had to link to titled as my subject says. It’s not a lengthy, or even a technical analysis of either operating system but does serve as a good sedgeway into … Continue reading
Installing OTSR 2.4.7 on Ubuntu 10.04 was interesting
It just so happened that I had need for a trouble ticket resolution system, and is my wont, turned to the open source community first. Where of course I found OTRS. OTRS is a full fledged trouble ticket resolution system, … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Howto, Information Technology, Linux
Tagged Apache2, Canonical, MySQL, OTRS, Perl, Postfix, Ubuntu
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VMWare Player makes installing guest Operating Systems a piece of cake
Every once in a while you might find yourself coming across the need or desire to run an alternate Operating System than the one you have loaded on your computer. As little as a few years ago the only options … Continue reading