For Ubuntu Server amateurs, Webmin is a web management application that can greatly simplify administration tasks. Below is a step-by-step guide to installing this handy tool. 1. From your command prompt, edit the APT sources.list file: sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list 2. In the editor, add the Webmin source and save the file: deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge [...]
I seem to be going with a theme here lately. Windows to Linux…. Well, here is yet another topic that fits this category. One of the things, that I find almost necessary in windows is the Task Manager. I use it mostly to kill locked applications and research a processes’ resource usage. What is the [...]
You will notice a Linux theme in today’s post. It seems to me we are getting closer and closer to a major shift to open source in government and business. The gap between Windows and Linux from a user point of view is narrowing and the switch makes a lot of sense monetarily. You [...]
Welcome to a new daily post linking to interesting Information Technology stories published recently. In today’s edition: Jack Wallen over at TechRepublic writes about 10 reasons why GNOME is better than KDE. “A new battle is playing out in the Linux desktop arena. See why Jack Wallen believes that today’s GNOME has pulled ahead [...]