The old Red Hat Linux wallpapers were the best.
How to download the old Red Hat Linux artwork and wallpapers to use on a modern PC.
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Install the Youtube Red app on Ubuntu and watch Youtube videos.
The Youtube Red app for Linux is very interesting indeed. This would be great to use on your machine to play music and videos.
Read MoreNew exoplanet discovered 32.7 light-years from Earth.
Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that is 37.7 light-years from Earth. And it is a very short trip too, at 50,000,000 miles per hour, an intrepid space traveler could reach it in 43.86 average Gregorian years. That is not long at all. At 8000,000,000 kilometers per hour, our space…
Read MoreHow to add a Red Hat Linux 7.2 subscription after installation.
To add a subscription after installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2, type this command as root. [root@localhost jason]# subscription-manager register –username USERNAME –password "PASSWORD"[root@localhost jason]# subscription-manager register –username USERNAME –password "PASSWORD" This will setup your Red Hat subscription. Then enter this command. This will refresh all of the information on…
Read MoreLinux still a better option than Windows.
http://www.walkernews.net/2007/06/22/download-official-redhat-linux-iso-image/ The link above is to the Redhat 6.2 Linux distribution, the first version of Linux I used. It ran very well on a Celeron 600 with 64MB of RAM and integrated graphics. Linux has come so far since it was first released, the desktop has gotten even easier to…
Read MoreWhy Linux is very useful on the desktop compared to the Windows operating system.
The Linux kernel is very flexible. There are so many distributions of Linux that I have lost count. There is the Vyatta routing distribution that is useful for creating a router on an old computer. The Clonezilla utility distribution is also very useful, this is a Linux based distribution of…
Read MoreMunich council handing out free Linux distribution CD`s to replace Windows.
The Munich council is handing out free Linux CD`s to help replace Linux on the desktop. This can only be a good thing when Windows XP is no longer supported with upgrades on the desktop. There is a case study here: http://blog.credativ.com/en/2013/01/case-study-munich-city-council.html this describes the migration process of the council…
Read MoreThe olden days of Linux and some awesome Beryl Emerald themes.
The Linux distribution that I most remember using in the olden days of my Linux experimentation is the old Mandrake Linux distribution. This was a Linux distribution geared towards beginner Linux users and had some awesome themes. I loved using it due to the solid way it was put together….
Read MoreComcast cable television boxes run Redhat Linux 9.0 as an OS. Interesting.
So that is what Comcast are running on their cable television boxes. Of course they would run a stable and reliable operating system like Linux to make sure that the boxes work as expected, but kernel 2.4.24 in 2013? Still, the 2.4 kernels are still being maintained so they are…
Read MoreFirst colour photograph sent home to Earth by the Curiosity rover.
This is the first colour photograph taken by the Curiosity rover sent by NASA. This photograph is taken with a new high-resolution camera called the Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) at the end of the rover’s robotic arm. This imaging device can resolve super-small details when the camera is up close…
Read MoreNASA’s curiosity rover to land on Mars and bring us new images of the Martian surface.
The NASA Curiosity rover is due to land on the Martian surface and bring us many new images of the Martian surface. This craft is travelling at over 13,000 Miles an hour and it needs to be able to slow down to a full stop before it creates a new…
Read MoreDesktop Linux under attack.
The recent attacks on Desktop Linux enacted by the cracking of the Kernel.org website and the more recent attacks against the Linux Foundation websites has cast a cloud over desktop Linux. The Kernel.org website is still down for maintenance and the security of the Linux kernel is in doubt. The…
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