Ubuntu :: Free-BSD OS Benefit In Certain Tasks ?
Feb 11, 2011
I Had used Windows but fed-up of his Crashes and Viruses, Therefor i decided to Check out Linux for the 1st time, so i installed Ubuntu and as time Passed, i just love it now..I had also used KDE Environment but a lot of bugs+Little slow KDE Compelled me to stuck with Gnome,And am fine with it......I seen a lot of more OS's which are for special purposes like Backtrack , Free-BSD , Fedora etc....But i don't know their Purpose , So the post Objective is to find their Purpose and Benefits....
First of all i want to know about Free-BSD OS benefit in certain Tasks... & Why would Someone use Fedora , Backtrack..?
Moreover, I am Home-User, but i am interested to know about these OS's benefits, Where they are used and why...? Is these OS's are not for Home-Users....?
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Sep 17, 2010
Because I install/uninstall a fair few operating systems, I occasionally run Kill Disk off Hirens Boot CD to clean my drive.Being a 500GB Drive this takes about 12 hours.Is there any benefit to doing this? ie. drive longevity, speed, etc
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Jan 17, 2010
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Jun 15, 2010
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Feb 13, 2011
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Feb 12, 2011
Wondering if the internal network will benefit of connecting to a local DNS server, rather than my ISP dns server. Can I create this local DNS server, without having an external domain, pointing to my server ?
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Apr 4, 2011
Basically, whenever I am on an unencrypted wireless hotspot, I open up an SSH tunnel to my home server to do all my browsing for the privacy and security it provides.But I got to thinking, and now I am curious, if I am visiting a site like gmail for instance that always uses SSL/TLS for it's connections, is there any added benefit to also using an encrypted tunnel? or is it perhaps superfluous to use both
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Mar 27, 2010
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Jun 16, 2010
During playing around sources, synaptic playing I messed up the default list. I know I should have been more careful. Anyways could someone tell me what the default the default sources.list that has free and non free etc for squueze please? I have been trying to get the default list but I cannot find it anywhere. There are alot of lists out there but nothing tagged like the "default" list.
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May 18, 2011
I've got a question on free disk space. I'm currently running CentOS 5.5 on in Xenserver virtual environment. We've had an issue with disk space. My question is as follows: - from a ssh connection i run df -h this gives the value of 90% used leaving me with 9GB. If I use system monitor via a VNC connection the free disk space value is 20GB free on the same volume. Which one is correct? I do use SNMP to monitor the same volume and should alert me when < 10% is free I know this works as I set the alert threshold to < 90% I get an alert.
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Jun 10, 2010
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I posted here and there, and seems like no answer, and I do not get any reply from UBUNTU support team,forgive me if I run out of google's keywords.I just need a simple answer, is my WIFI going to work in UBUNTU with a layman effort? I like linux and UBUNTU had put great effort in providing me such a great OS, but if a basic internet connection will need to spent sooo much time to setup, and it still doesn't work. IS IT WORTH to switch to UBUNTU at all
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Jan 28, 2011
I've just installed Fedora 14 64bit and would like to add new repositories. I read here to do the following command (which as you can see doesn't works) :
Code:
$ su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'
[code]....
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Jan 28, 2011
I have installed F14 yesterday but i can not install rpmfusion repository, the problem is that i can not access the url [URL] so i cant download the files:
rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
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Aug 12, 2010
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Jul 25, 2010
I have 160gb laptop. i installed vista in c primary partition which is 25gb and installed ubuntu in d primary partition which is 20gb. A remainig for my data. Now i tried to install CENT OS by formatting ubuntu. I inserted CENT OS DVD and restarted and i selected to delete my /dev/sda2 which is showing 20480mb and it shown me free space. but i tried to add partion /boot of 100mb it got added. but, when i am trying to add / of 3000mb in the remaining 20380mb free space it showing an error message that no free space is available.
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Jan 29, 2010
Here is the code, which just creates a dynamic array? fills it? and prints.
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How do I need to change the source-code, not to recieve a message from debugger?
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Jan 6, 2011
I've been trying to create a script to run some tasks, for example: I have this script receita.sh, that needs the input of a time data to run. like: receita.sh <yyyymmdd> and I would like to get it running every 5 am with the computer time date..I have found the command date, that retrieves the system time date like:Thu Jan 6 17:39:39 WET 2011 Is there any way of getting the time date, and make it work in the script
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Apr 14, 2011
Recently installed 10.10 netbook edition, and evolution is behaving strangely. Albeit I've never used it before, but having read the documentation and googled it a bit I'm still lost. I cannot create or manage task lists. It's as if their functionality has been completely cut out of ev calendar. When I try to go to File->New->Task List, the Task list option does not appear in the menu (not greyed out, nothing). Can't find the button that's supposed to be there either. I've also checked synaptic for evolution task packages, but no avail.
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May 10, 2011
Well I'm totally frustrated. I have been trying to figure out how to use anacron (schedule tasks). I Googled,Binged,Yahooed, and manpaged.I cannot find how to, at least, start anacron. To use 'cron' I use crontab -e. What do i use to start anacron?.
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Jun 9, 2011
I'm using Evolution in Gnome 3 and I'm having this rather annoying issue---whenever I make a new Task, it does NOT show up in the Tasks bar. Even if I try searching for it, the task doesn't show up (even making a new Task List doesn't show up), which makes me think it was never saved properly in the first place. I also tried seeing if there was any sort of error while running Evolution by opening it via the terminal, but I don't get anything. Does anyone else have this issue? Is this a known bug with Evolution
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Jun 20, 2011
Yesterday, I found that the majority of my tasks on Evolution (2.28.3) had just disappeared. I last did a backup of my system 2 weeks ago but in that time important data has been added to my tasks lists on Evolution. I've read around and found that the problem may be fixed by rebuilding evolution-data-server (see here). However, if this means re-compiling evolution-data-server from the package manager, well, I don't seem to keen on doing that unless I can get confirmation of how to implement it, i.e. how do I rebuild evolution-data-server?
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Jun 20, 2011
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Jun 27, 2011
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Nov 9, 2010
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Feb 10, 2010
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Mar 6, 2010
Ok so i have a IOn based PC that i use for only xbmc. I previously had a full ubuntu 9.11 install.
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I need to install lirc, copy some keymap files into my xbmc folder and then setup wireless. What would be the best way? Can it all be done through command line? Can i install a desktop environment?
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Jul 13, 2010
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Aug 10, 2010
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* /etc/rc0.d/K01mycustomscript --> execute script after X is killed
* $HOME/.bash_logout --> This looks like does nothing.
* ./app-to-run && sudo shutdown -h now --> Don't like it for 2 reasons, prompts for sudo password, and can't use my laptop shutdown button.
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Jan 11, 2011
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Jul 14, 2011
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