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Newbie flunks firefox update

07/19/2007  
Relevance: 8.08
OK, Desktop Linux heads, I'm a confessed newbie trying to switch to Linux from XP. My simplyMEPIS install from an ISO went well, but now, on day two, my attempts to install the just-released Firefox update have failed.
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A walk in the park with Puppy Linux

08/22/2006  
Relevance: 7.91
Puppy Linux is a small Linux live CD distribution that can boot from a CD, DVD, or USB drive; a hard disk is optional. According to the Puppy Linux Web site, Puppy's goals include being Linux newbie-friendly, booting and running quickly, and including all the applications typical users need. The newest version is its most usable yet.
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Why the Linux Desktop will succeed despite itself

09/13/2007  
Relevance: 7.19
If you expect me to argue with the 13 reasons Kim Brebach gives for why the Linux desktop is unlikely to make it to a desktop near you any time soon, prepare to be disappointed. He's right. No, you didn't mis-read that. Brebach may be a Linux newbie -- well a newbie who's getting up to speed at a remarkable rate -- but he hit the nail right on the head with his 13 reasons for why the Linux desktop isn't likely to make it. But, what he doesn't do is look at some of the reasons why Linux may yet become a popular desktop despite itself.
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Fedora 9 - an OS that even the Linux challenged can love

05/13/2008  
Relevance: 6.88
Fedora 9, the latest release from the Fedora Project, goes up for download on Tuesday. The ninth release of Fedora ushers in a number of changes aimed at making the venerable distribution a more newbie-friendly desktop, but longtime users needn't fear a great dumbing down; version 9 packs plenty of power user punch as well. Fedora is a community-driven distribution sponsored by Red Hat and, while Fedora may be best known as a popular server OS, most of the changes in Fedora 9 are aimed at making the system friendlier for desktop users.
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Hardware Detection under Linux [For Newbies]

05/30/2007  
Relevance: 6.48
I installed Linux (RedHat) first time in 1996. Naturally I was a Microsoft Windows user then and didn't have much knowledge about Hardware. Without GUI I was just like a Computer Illiterate. As a Newbie I had to face a huge problem to detect Hardware under Linux because then I was not familiar with Linux commands. I had to blindly depend on kudzu. Now a days Fedora, Knoppix use state_of_the_art Hardware detection as well as support very good GUI application to retrieve the Hardware information of the system. But This superior technologies also hide the actual commands on which these detection procedures are based on; from the users. Here I have tried to provide some information, Linux commands based on which a newbie can easily collect information of its Hardware without firing up any GUI tool.
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The Viral Clause

07/09/2007  
Relevance: 6.33
Paradoxically, the viral clause, the part of the GPL licensing framework that so many people objected to because it wasn't business friendly, made the license business friendly - in the future, a license that liberates business from the drug of DRM and the prison of software patents may turn out to have been equally prescient and business friendly...
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Microsoft's Open Source Trashware

08/24/2007  
Relevance: 5.98
Opinion: I recently took a look at Microsoft's most active open-source projects and—there's no polite way to say this—they are all junk. OK Microsoft, you want to be taken seriously by open source? I know that's a rhetorical question, I don't believe for one moment that you're ready to really embrace open source. You just want to be able to confuse the market by being able to say that you're"open source friendly." What a crock. Microsoft is open-source friendly in the same way that a butcher is friendly to a cow.
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Php Basics, Revised

10/10/2006  
Relevance: 5.90
What is the PHP scripting language? Why is it so popular? How does it work? How can I start using it? What's the latest version? These are all questions that the newbie Web professional (and others) ask, especially as PHP becomes the de facto standard rivaling ASP and JSP.
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GNU/Linux is user-friendly - and logical too

11/10/2008  
Relevance: 5.65
Over at iTWire, we are often in the position where we disagree with a fellow writer and say so. This morning, I found my colleague Davey Winder's piece"Opinion: why Linux sucks at being user friendly" to be a litle too general to pass without comment.
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m0n0wall: Big Friendly Firewall Power in a Tiny Package

11/15/2008  
Relevance: 5.44
m0n0wall is a popular, specialized implementation of FreeBSD + ipfilter designed for routers and firewalls. This Tip introduces us to its friendly natural-language ipfilter rules syntax, which has all the power and flexibility of iptables, but is much easier to understand.
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