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How to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux

Tuesday, 06 June 2006 08:00 administrator

Most modern laptops use Advanced Configuration & Power Interface (ACPI) for power management, so we'll focus on that. Since ACPI support for Linux (ACPI4Linux) is in constant development, you'll need a recent kernel (2.6.15 or later) in order to utilize all the latest advancements.

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Linux distros for older hardware

Friday, 24 February 2006 08:00 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier

For these tests, I dug out Igor, an old PC that had been collecting dust in my closet. Igor is a Pentium II 233MHz machine with 64MB of RAM, an 8x CD-ROM drive, a 3GB hard drive, and an integrated ATI 3D Rage Pro video card with 4MB of video RAM. You can run Linux on older and slower machines, but this is the most under-powered machine I had available.

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Disk usage analysis and cleanup tools

Wednesday, 01 February 2006 08:00 administrator

Some distributions set up cron jobs that warn you when disk usage exceeds a certain percentage. But when your usage gets flagged as high, it's deciding what goes and what stays that takes time. Finding the right file or folder to get rid of can be a chore if you have a huge disk. But don't panic. Among all that clutter, you've got some simple tools to bring order to chaos.

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Building a Linux home media center

Thursday, 12 January 2006 08:00 administrator

My LHMC would have to interface with my existing home configuration via a wireless network with WPA security enabled and output to my television's S-Video or composite inputs, and it would have to connect to my media server via NFS.

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