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There’s more to open source than Linux. Mayank Sharma takes an excursion to test some BSD distros. On Test FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD DragonFly BSD GhostBSD PC-BSD For the
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Annoyed by niggling differences between Linux distributions? Try Webmin, a consistent web-based tool for system administration. If you work with multiple Linux distributions, or different flavours of Unix,
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Root your way inside the most popular Android hack with Mayank Sharma. The CyanogenMod project is the quintessential open source success story. It’s got open source code, an
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He’s the Pharaoh of community management, but what led him to switch from Ubuntu to the millionaire philanthropic prize fund, XPRIZE? Jono Bacon is the co-founder of LUG
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Install and configure the best audio streaming solution we’ve found: Logitech Media Server. Why do this? Stream music from one source throughout the whole house. Put dusty old
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We take a brief break from our normal our sysadmin coverage to reveal two of the most important commands you should learn: screen and tmux. Many of us
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Drag and drop your user interface and tie it all together with a few simple lines of Python. Why Do this Learn how to quickly prototype ideas. Develop
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Don’t run away screaming in terror. Linux audio is easier to understand than the, er, boot system, as these two pages will demonstrate. Hasn’t PulseAudio been with us
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Part 2: Start to write full programs and create your own library of useful subroutines. Why do this? Learn what compilers do behind the scenes. Understand the language
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Or: how one perfectionist PhD student was able to compose his thesis in a month and was completely happy with how it looked. Donald Knuth, the author of
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