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• — Video review: Xubuntu 11.10 - Elegant and Simple XFCE

     (Friday, 27 January 2012 15:18)

  Simple and Elegant is all I have to say about Xubuntu 11.10. I have done a short Video Review on Xubuntu 11.10. Fast and stable this *buntu favorite run extremely well in my Virtual Machine. Check out this short video and try Xubuntu for free today!

• — Yup, Ubuntu again. Number 11.10.

     (Friday, 27 January 2012 14:30)

  Notice how the 11 comes before the ten. This does signify that eleven is, indeed, louder than ten. Everyone loves hating Unity. It's new. It's different. It's pretty. It's everything that Linux typically isn't. People also love hating Ubuntu in general. While people struggle to make their Linux desktops look and feel more like OSX every day and there are over 9000 different OSX-like docks out there, people apparently really hate having something that looks and acts like an OSX desktop. It's very odd.

• — Basic Backup Script in BASH

     (Friday, 27 January 2012 13:43)

  Everyone should be backing up their data. This just doesn't go towards sysadmins, but even people at home who never even think of it. Just like everything else in I.T., hard drives were built to fail. If you do not make efficient back ups, you are at your own mercy when your drive will no longer spin up, meaning all that data is now gone.

• — How-To: Make KDE Like Unity

     (Friday, 27 January 2012 12:56)

  KDE is a super-powerful DE, and here I'm going to show how to make it look and act a bit like Unity.

• — Microsoft's magic bullet for Azure: Red Hat Linux

     (Friday, 27 January 2012 12:08)

  If Microsoft loves money, and it does, then making Linux publicly available on its proprietary Azure cloud can't come soon enough. Last June Microsoft ran a build of Linux on its Windows Azure compute fabric in the labs of the Server and Tools division, which is responsible for its cloud.