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Exploring Gentoo
The last few days, I am playing with Gentoo Linux. I have read loads of reviews that talked highly about this distro. But even then I have to say that I am very much impressed by Gentoo’s speed and versatility. Looking at the last few years, I can see that I am regularly changing my…
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Running Windows viruses with Wine
“Matt Moen” shares his experience of “Running Windows viruses with Wine” in Newsforge. Of the five viruses he tested on Wine only SomeFool managed to affect the Linux system. But it was not able to propogate. The other four viruses are also popular viruses like Klez, MyDoom, Sobig and SCO.
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Fedora Core 3 Released
Fedora Core 3 is now available on all the mirrors and also in the torrent. Keeping in track with Redhat’s policy of 2-3 releases every year, this new version has come out within six months from the release of Fedora Core 2. It is good for the OSS community, in the sense that there are…
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Linux in Tamil language
I have set up a new blog called Linux Ulagam, where I am going to write about the Linux OS and how to use it in Tamil language. Initially I thought about participating in the localisation projects to translate Linux and other OSS to Tamil. But then considering my command over Tamil language, I decided…
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Dumping Fedora Core
Dumping Fedora Linux
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Oracle 10g Installation (no) Woes
I don’t know what has got into my head. For the last two days, I have been fighting with a strange problem with Oracle 10g’s TNS Listener. I could not establish a connection to from the remote clients, the TNS Listener was not responding at all. And at the end I traced to problem to…
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Suse Linux Personal Edition – Free Download
German based SUSE which normally does not provide free downloads of its distribution has now anounced a free edition of its personal Linux edition. SUSE Linux 9.1 personal is now available for download from SUSE’s FTP server and also from its mirrors. I have always rated SUSE higher than other major distributions for a personal…