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I was using Stardict for a long time in openSUSE 11.1, but it could not work after I upgraded a number of packages. I always see the screen that be stuck in the Loading of the phenomenon even installed openSUSE 11.2 this problem still can't be solved. Fortunately, there is a specific Qt package for KDE environment can be used normally, it called QStarDict. It's a translation package like Stardict. We can use it to replace Stardict and there is nothing better than it...

GiftWrap is a really cool tool that helps you create Ubuntu packages

"The Purely Functional Linux Distribution NixOS is a Linux distribution with a unique approach to package and configuration management. Built on top of the Nix package manager, it is completely declarative, makes upgrading systems reliable, and has many other advantages."

Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc).

You maybe want to know why i need to install 64bit flashplayer in openSUSE 11.1 x86_64, and openSUSE 11.1 default installation contains flashplyer package. That is because flashplayer dead silent when i opened any flash media for a while even 32bit flashplayer can run on x64 platform. You can see that as below picture...

Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project for Red Hat Network Satellite. Its capabilities include: * Inventory your systems (hardware and software information) * Install and update software on your systems * Collect and distribute your custom software packages into manageable groups * Provision (kickstart) your systems * Manage and deploy configuration files to your systems * Monitor your systems * Provision virtual guests * Start/stop/configure virtual guests * Distribute content across multiple geographical sites in an efficient manner

Stresslinux 0.4.136 has been released recently. It's a openSUSE-based live CD for stress testing. This release (0.4.136) is the first one which is available as 32-bit and 64-bit build, contains all official updates from the base distribution and additionally updates the following packages to current versions: stress, nbench, nepim, netperf, lm_sensors, memtest86+ and busybox...

Isn't Qubes just another Linux distribution after all? Well, if you really want to call it a distribution, then we're more of a "Xen distribution", rather then a Linux one. But Qubes is much more than just Xen packaging -- it has its own VM management infrastructure, with support for template VMs, centralized VM updating, etc, and also its very unique GUI virtualization infrastructure. What is the main concept behind Qubes? To build security on the "Security by Isolation" principle. Key architecture features:Based on a secure bare-metal hypervisor (Xen)Networking code sand-boxed in an unprivileged VM (using IOMMU/VT-d)No networking code in the privileged domain (dom0)All user applications run in "AppVMs", lightweight VMs based on LinuxCentralized updates of all AppVMs based on the same templateQubes GUI virtualization presents applications like if they were running locallyQubes GUI provides isolation between apps sharing the same desktopStorage drivers and backends sand-boxed in an unprivileged virtual machine(*)Secure system boot based on Intel TXT(*)

Several readers have pointed out this interview with Maximilian Attems, posted by Raphaël Hertzog. Therein, Maximilian states that, while the cross-distribution cooperation on the 2.6.32 kernel has been a great thing, Red Hat is making things harder by shipping its RHEL 6 kernel source as one big tarball, without breaking out the patches. Your editor has downloaded the 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6 source package and verified that this is the case.

The CD and DVD sold on this page are not like those that you can buy elsewhere. They are not official Debian DVD although they have been built with the same tools and contain official Debian packages.

Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit

Pardus is a GNU/Linux distribution funded and developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey. Pardus has a range of unique features, such as Mudur, a start-up framework of Pardus to speed up the boot process, and PiSi, an efficient package management system with a user-friendly graphical interface.

Samba is an opensource and most popular package that provides file and print service using SMB/CIFS protocol. This step by step article explains how to setup file server on centos 7 using samba .

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