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Fedora Project Hires New Leader

[13 Jan 2008 | No Comment | ]

The Fedora Project has hired a new leader from the community. Having not worked at Red Hat hiring Paul Frields shows, once again, how committed Red Hat is to fostering community and Open Source.
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Howto : Installing software from source in Linux

[13 Jan 2008 | No Comment | ]

Procedure.
The installation procedure for software that comes in tar.gz and tar.bz2 packages isn’t always the same, but usually it’s like this:
# tar xvzf package.tar.gz (or tar xvjf package.tar.bz2)
# cd package
# ./configure
# make
# make install
If you’re lucky, by issuing these simple commands you unpack, configure, compile, and install the software package and you don’t even have to know what you’re doing. …

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What is DeLi Linux ?

[13 Jan 2008 | One Comment | ]

DeLi Linux stands for “Desktop Light” Linux. It is a Linux Distribution for old computers, from 486 to Pentium II or so. It’s focused on desktop usage. It includes email clients, graphical web browser, an office programs with word processor and spreadsheet, and so on. A full install, including XOrg and development tools, needs not more than 350 MB of …

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KDE 4.0: Rough, but Ready For Action

[12 Jan 2008 | No Comment | ]

The KDE development community officially announced the much-anticipated release of KDE 4.0 this morning. This new version of the open source desktop environment represents a daring leap forward for the project and includes many radical deviations from the previous KDE 3.5.x series.
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