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Git and Gitlab: From Start to Finish
Although there is a plethora of Source and Revision Control options around today, only one was created by our favorite Linux author Mr.
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CentOS 7: Take the Plunge into SystemD
CentOS 7, along with Kernel, Desktop, package and application changes galore, has taken the “Fedora” and “Debian” plunge into the deep end and converted daemon and service management from the older “service or /etc/init.d” paradigm into the “systemd” end of the pool.
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Linux Multimedia: Using Audacity to Remove Background Noise
Video isn’t the only media that Linux has made great strides in.
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CentOS 7: An Introduction
Like our series of ongoing articles on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, we are starting a series of articles on the recently released CentOS 7 distribution.
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CentOS 7: Upgrading from CentOS 6.x In Place
One of the newest things added to CentOS 7 is the capability to do an in place upgrade of CentOS 6.x to CentOS 7.
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Customizing Unity
Although the Unity Desktop Manager has made HUGE performance and usability strides since the initial release in Ubuntu 11.10, some people are still put off by a number of the limitations in customizing the look and behavior of the window manager.
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: Codecs and Multimedia Updates
As part of the new LTS version from Ubuntu, some of the more “long standing” ways of doing things have changed just a bit.
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Ubuntu 14.04: Hardware Compatibility Updates
As Ubuntu moves more and more spiritually away from being another “Linux” Distribution (check their site, the word Linux is not to be found, they have changed the language to refer to themselves as “the world’s most popular open source desktop operating system” instead), they continue to make efforts in certifying hardware from various vendors […]
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Linux and Oracle JDK: Add or Install
Although all distributions of Linux have access to a purely open source “Java” for application support and basic Java development (called OpenJDK with the IcedTea Java Compiler), we all know that there are certain pieces of the full JDK that are missing or have yet to be reverse engineered and release as purely open source.