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Archive for May, 2007

Is Linux Still a third Choice?

By • May 12th, 2007 • Filed under: Open Source Advocacy

Is there a right way to bust apart the challenging fortress of metaphor that Apple has created with the “Get a Mac” campaign? With such a powerful dichotomy between the Mac and PC archetypes, is it even possible to insert Linux and have it come out on top? To answer that question, I think we […]

Things I can do in Linux

By • May 9th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks

1. Update every single piece of software on my system with a single action. This is one of the main reasons I run Linux. For every Linux distribution I’ve used (Gentoo, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu,Fedora, Mandriva), updating is simple. When you update, you have every application, every library, every script – every single piece of […]

Linux is not just for Geeks

By • May 7th, 2007 • Filed under: Open Source Advocacy

LifeHacker – BackTrack 2.0

By • May 4th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Security, Ubuntu

BackTrack is a live CD Linux distribution that focuses on penetration testing. A merger of two older security-related distros Whax and Auditor Security Collection. BackTrack bundles more than 300 security tools. It is based on the SLAX distribution (a live CD derived from Slackware) and runs a patched 2.6.20 kernel. It offers users both KDE […]

Pictures of the Day

By • May 3rd, 2007 • Filed under: Italy-Specific

Joy is Indescribable