The Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)

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May 042013
 

Trying to build a Linux desktop that replaced Windows is something I tried 4 years ago with Ubuntu 9.04.  For me it was the first time I ever became truly excited about Linux.  The experience accelerated my adoption of the Mac.  I enjoy articles such as this one.

By Falko Timme and Christian Schmalfeld at HowToForge.com…

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 13.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

via The Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials.

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Better Than Photoshop? Make GIMP Even More Powerful With These Plugins

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Feb 232013
 

By Danny Stieben at MakeUseOf.com….

We all know that Photoshop is the premiere application for image and graphics manipulation. It simply does everything you could possibly want, which is the reason why most professionals choose it and why your wallet has a deep hole after you buy it. But Photoshop isn’t the only image manipulation tool on the block. The leading open source alternative to Photoshop, GIMP, has plenty of power under the hood as well.

via Better Than Photoshop? Make GIMP Even More Powerful With These Plugins.

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Backblaze Blog » 180TB of Good Vibrations – Storage Pod 3.0

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Feb 222013
 

What a great DIY project!  From Backblaze.com…

We thought ten people would care; instead a million people read our Storage Pod 1.0 blog post where we open sourced the Backblaze Storage Pod design and introduced the world’s most cost-efficient way to store big data. The interest grew when we published our Petabytes on a Budget: Revealing More Secrets blog post that announced Storage Pod 2.0, which doubled the amount of storage and reduced the price. Since then several companies have built businesses selling Storage Pods inspired by Backblaze to hundreds of organizations around the world who are storing hundreds of petabytes of data on their own Storage Pods. Today we introduce Backblaze Storage Pod 3.0 which stores more data, costs less, is more reliable, and is easier to service.

via Backblaze Blog » 180TB of Good Vibrations – Storage Pod 3.0.

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If You Don’t Know Linux, You Better Learn Fast

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Feb 212013
 

Amen to this, especially if you work in Information Technology.  By Jennifer Cloer at Linux.com…

Jobs again this year were a major theme in the State of the Union address with the President saying that we must train our students for the jobs of tomorrow. Guess what? Those jobs of tomorrow are Linux jobs. Maybe the President didn’t realize he was talking about Linux, but we know that Linux is supporting the computing infrastructure that makes our 21st century lives possible. From the phones we use to the websites we frequent to the cars we drive, Linux is running it all. And nothing underscores this fact more than year-over-year demand for Linux talent to support its pervasiveness in every day life.

via If You Don’t Know Linux, You Better Learn Fast | Linux.com.

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Making Linux A Genuine Windows Replacement

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Jan 312013
 

Linux keep getting closer to this goal.  Good review, but incomplete when it comes to music – unless you use Android.

By Chris Hoffman at MakeUseOf.com…

With Windows 8 casting a long shadow over the PC industry and Valve committing to create Linux-based gaming PCs, there’s never been a better time to start using Linux. For many users, the Linux desktop is now there — so many applications have moved to the cloud, hardware support has improved, and the desktop has been polished. You can even watch Netflix and play a variety of games on Steam — two big holes that have been filled recently.

via Making Linux A Genuine Windows Replacement.

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Do Linux Servers Need Antivirus?

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Jan 252013
 

Great opinion piece by Jon Buys at Ostatic.com…

Having your datacenter audited at the office can be a painful experience. One of the toughest is known by the initialism “PCI”, which stands for Payment Card Industry. The PCI audits are in-depth, and require several layers of security, logging, and documentation. Unfortunately, many of the requirements of such audits are derived from a Windows centric environment, and make little sense in a pure Linux system. At the top of this list is the requirement for anti-virus to be installed on all servers, but how necessary is this precaution in real life?

via Do Linux Servers Need Antivirus?.

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