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Linux Mint freshens Ubuntu’s palate
Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Ubuntu is a strong desktop distro, but it falls short for some users in a few areas. Where are the multimedia...
Back to baseball with Retrosheet and OSS
Author: Mat Kovach
One out and the bases are full of Indians. Grady Sizemore steps up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth...
Conary: An innovative second-generation package manager
Author: Bruce Byfield
rPath's Conary is a second-generation package manager. Considering that Erik Troan, rPath's CTO and co-founder, was one of the original authors of...
Make your own packages for Debian-based systems
Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
For the uninitiated, creating Debian packages is a mysterious process that looks much harder than it really is. To make it...
Packaging report wrap-up
Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Over the last few days we've covered a wide range of software packaging and installation utilities. Some, like Autopackage, Klik, GoboLinux's...
RPM development on the road to revival
Author: Nathan Willis
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) package format and utilities are the backbone of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Fedora Core, SUSE,...
My sysadmin toolbox
Author: Leslie P. Polzer
My working day includes a variety of tasks, and most of them take place on the command line, because that approach...
Autopackage struggling to gain acceptance
Author: Bruce Byfield
Fourteen months ago, the Autopackage project was small and active, and members sounded optimistic about its success. Now, although the alternative installer...
Linspire to be based on Ubuntu
Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
Yesterday, Linspire and Canonical issued a joint announcement that Linspire would begin to base its distributions on Ubuntu rather than Debian,...
ROX Desktop provides light, quirky alternative to GNOME and KDE
Author: Bruce Byfield
The ROX Desktop is a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE built around the ROX-Filer file manager. The project's name is an...