Here is yet another Linux distribution. OpenLX! This time from India. Should wait and see if it suceeds!

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Open Source Victoria (OSV), an industry cluster of more than 60 open source and free software providers, has responded to a group of IT teachers who want a simple way to test and deploy Linux servers in schools with a free server software CD.

OSV has developed a free product ...

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Dual boot machines with Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux is more widely seen in the Desktop PCs than a machine which is operated by GNU/Linux alone. Most of the newbies somehow manage to install GNU/Linux on their machine by stealing some space which is used by Windows. But ...

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It seems that there is a minor problem with Debian 3.1r0 CD/DVD images. Here is a news about it.

Note: 3.1r0 CD image problem A bug has been discovered in the 3.1r0 CD/DVD images: new installs from these images will have a commented-out entry in ...

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The most awaited stable release of Debian, the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 code named 'sarge' is released yesterday. Here is the release notes. Tons of new features and changes. Debian has gone more desktop friendly.

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There is a shocking news that Larry McVoy decided to stop giving BitKeeper (distributed software configuration management tool) free for Linux developers. BitKeeper was exhaustively used by the Linux kernel developers. This will have a major impact on the schedules. Linus Torvalds is developing a new tool known as 'gits ...

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GMail offers POPoSSL and SMTP on non-standard ports. Novell Evolution doesn't provides an explicit way of specifying the port. Instead, the port should be specified implictly in the URL. Expand the post to find some screenshots to help a Evolution newbies to configure GMail on Novell Evolution.

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There is a very good list of Linux applications against Windows applications available here. Some of the applications seems to be outdated. But this page has very valuable data and it will reduce a lot of your research time when you are looking for a Linux application which should replace ...

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I am in the process of building Gnome 2.10 from source code on my Ubuntu 5.04. The process is smooth throughout except that I had some wierd problems in evolution-data-server module. It was because of the missing libnss-dev package and I took a long time to figure it ...

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I would like to share the GNU/Linux tutorial for Beginners in Tamil written by MK Saravanan. This is a bit outdated document. Still, it holds good for beginning in Linux. It would be of much use for Tamil people who are not much fluent in English.

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