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We have a few exciting items to announce in the upcoming month, one of them being BackTrack 5 R1 (Release one) which will be available for download on the 10th of August,2011. This will complete our first 3 month cycle since the last release. With over 100 bug fixes, numerous package updates and the addition of over 30 new tools and scripts – BackTrack 5 R1 will rock. We will have a

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The BackTrack Dev team has worked furiously in the past months on BackTrack 5, code name “revolution”. Today, we are proud to release our work to the public, and then rest for a couple of weeks. This new revision has been built from scratch, and boasts several major improvements over all our previous releases. Based on Ubuntu Lucid LTS. Kernel 2.6.38, patched with all relevant

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if you downloaded one deb file, whether it is from a repository or just a single deb file from elsewhere (an opensource website that has a compiled deb file, for example), run: dpkg --info deb_file_name.debThis will display the information about it, with a section named "Depends". To list the dependencies from a package in the repositories, simulate its installation like this (apache2 is an

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Ubuntu Tweak is a tool that lets you change hidden Ubuntu settings, for example: hide or change the splash screen, show or hide the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network icons, change Metacity, Nautilus, power management, and security settings, etc. Currently Ubuntu Tweak is available only for the Ubuntu GNOME desktop, i.e., it will not work on Kubuntu or Xubuntu. This short guide shows how to

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Hi, and welcome to the Openpenguin guide to successful backing-up and restoring of a Linux system! Most of you have probably used Windows before you started using Ubuntu. During that time you might have needed to backup and restore your system. For Windows you would need proprietary software for which you would have to reboot your machine and boot into a special environment in which you could

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If you are trying to install nVidia drivers from their website you might receive the following error Well, i am one of those users who never install Nvidia drivers from repository, but manually - by downloading from Nvidia`s website. It was never a pain in the rear on previous Linux distros (including Karmic), but i failed to do so on Lynx. Whenever i tried to install it, i got an error:

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YAST can install a package from the command line or from a script. This functionality is useful if wanting to install software on a group of machines, such as a cluster. YAST can install a package given the full path or by pulling from the software available in the listed installation sources (i.e. Those listed in YAST -> Software -> Change Source of Installation) To install an rpm package

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Well, I am seeing how Ubuntu is getting out of a bad move where most binaries (bash included) are broken due to a bad libc package. And I was thinking, nice, need to keep some doc on this somewhere. The problem and there solution is at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/201673 I am mostly recopying an email here: In glibc 2.7-9ubuntu1, many critical programs (such as bash

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This article shows you how to do an offline cdrom update of your Ubuntu from version 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") to 10.04 (aka "Lucid Lynx") and is meant for people whose PC to-be-upgraded has a slow internet connection. Ubuntu ver 10.04 is to be released on the 29th of April, 2010. For those of you who are not aware of this, the 9 in 9.10 refers to year 2009 and the 10 - month 10. Hence, 9.10

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2D Platform game A 2D platform game with a persistent world. When Edgar's father fails to return home after venturing out one dark and stormy night, Edgar fears the worst: he has been captured by the evil sorcerer who lives in a fortress beyond the forbidden swamp. In The Legend of Edgar, you take on the role of Edgar as he ventures across the world, battling fearsome creatures and

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If you ever wondered what that mysterious ISO file you downloaded two years ago is, and don’t want to burn the image, you can view details of the volume with a simple command: isoinfo -d -i filename.isoYou’ll be given details like the volume size, if the image file is a bootable one and other valuable information.

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The process of installing software is very simple. Start YaST by selecting it from the menu under System, or by using the run command dialog (press Alt+F2) and typing yast. You will be required to enter your root password. Start the Software Management-module by selecting it from the Software tab in the YaST Control Center. Search for the required package, and YaST will display a list of all

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Adding software repositories Open the YaST from the Computer main system menu. Choose Software Repositories Then press Add  button to choose Media Type of the repository. Choose "Local Directory" on "Media Type" to browse Directory with your repositories inside. You should now see your custom local repository in the list. Click "Finish" to complete setting up the new repository.

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Most DivX/XviD movies you download from Torrent sites are packed in multiple RAR archives. It takes some time for each to extract. If you don't want to wait, you can use VLC and unrar to play the file within instantly. You won’t be able to rewind and move fast forward within the file, but you’ll be able to play it and stop the movie without actually unarchiving the video file. Here’s how:

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So you've downloaded a software package with tar.gz or tar.bz2 extension and have no idea what to do with it. Or perhaps you already know that it's most likely the source code of the program you want to install and you have to compile it, but don't know how. Don't worry, compiling and installing software from source in Linux isn't as hard as it may sound! The procedure The installation procedure

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The development codename of an Ubuntu release takes the form "Adjective Animal". Initially these weren't in alphabetic order - until Dapper DRAKE (6.06) that is. Let's take a look (in pictures) at all Ubuntu mascots - from the Warty Warthog to the latest Maverick Meerkat: Ubuntu (4.10) Warty Warthog : Ubuntu (5.04) Hoary Hedgehog : Ubuntu (5.10) Breezy Badger : Ubuntu (6.06) Dapper

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Wine-Doors is an cool and easy way to install useful softwares and fonts on your PC. The best part about it is that it requires no terminal typing and it lets you install tons of softwares which includes Internet Explorer, Adobe Photoshop CS2, WinRAR, Google Sketchup, World of Warcraft 2&3, Half Life 2,  Call of Duty 1&2, Steam.According to the developers 'Wine-Doors is an Windows

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Play the role of a computer hacker in this challenging game. When the number of computers in existence and their processing capacity exceeds that of all mankind, a point of technological singularity is encountered. A massive economic and systematic crisis hits the entire world. Nobody knows the exact cause, and all solutions to fix it, are failing. We are about to lose our position as a dominant

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Printers such as the HP LaserJet 1020  (1000, 1005, 1018, 1022 inclusive) are usually detected by the various Linux distribution.  However, there seem to have little success in ensuring that the printer drivers installed works. Luckily for us, there is a driver that works very well with OpenSuSE (I have also tried it with Ubuntu and SuSE Enterprise) and it can be found here. Installing has

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Wine is a free software application that aims to allow Unix-like computer operating systems  to execute programs written for Microsoft Windows. Installation To install Wine in OpenSuse, go to Yast software search for wine and install it. You can also install Wine from the terminal as su type zypper in wine. If you want to get the latest updates you need to add the wine repository here.

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Here is the script (ubuntu restricted extras offline installer) written by hacktolive.org along with most commonly used packages to make life easier for those who do not have internet connection or those who want to install multimedia codec and other useful packages offline. All the links listed below will direct to the rapidshare and other file hosting sites. Download the package, extract

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While the release schedules for Ubuntu Linux aren't exactly a close secret -- new releases generally coming in April and October with the version scheme being YY.MM such as Ubuntu 11.04 for the April 2011 release -- Canonical's Robbie Williamson has laid out tentative release schedules for Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10, and even Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. These release schedules are coming after Robbie

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There are a lot of things that I do to simplify things when using Linux, and I decided that I would start writing about them. First, I’m going to describe a method I use personally to make Linux commands easier to remember. The information here has been tested on Arch and Ubuntu, but should work regardless of what distribution you use. This tip is probably best suited for beginners but

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A few minutes ago,the Ubuntu development team unleashed the Release Candidate (RC) version of the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, due for launch at the end of this month. As usual, we've downloaded a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS development. What's new in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS RC? Well, there's not much to talk

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