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Conky is a light-weight and highly configurable system monitor for X. It can monitor many different aspects of your Linux computer. You choose what to monitor and you choose where the monitor is displayed on your desktop through use of a configuration file .conkyrc. As for me I like to have it at the top right of my display.
To get conky running in Ubuntu execute:
sudo apt-get install conky
Fedora users should install it with yum:
sudo yum install conky
Then regardless distro you use, you should edit configuration file that is located at your home directory ~/.conkyrc. For example like this one.
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Date: September 28, 2007. Categories:
linux and ubuntu.
The FREE Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community fullcirclemagazine.org just released it’s 5th issue containing articles useful for Ubuntu newbies:
- Fluxbuntu - Step-by-step Install
- How-To : Report Bugs with LaunchPad, CoLoCo Edubuntu Presentation, From VMware to VirtualBox and Learning Scribus Pt.5.
- Review of Bridge Construction Kit.
- Preview of Gusty Gibbon
- Letters, Q&A, My Desktop, My PC, Top 5, the new My Opinion column, and more!
English version is available in PDF here.
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PageRank 10 page google.com, turned 9 years old at 27th of September 2007, according to the special logo put up for the occasion yesterday.
wikipedia.org:
Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Through a series of new product developments, acquisitions and partnerships, the company has expanded its initial search and advertising business into other areas, including web-based email, online mapping, office productivity, and video sharing, among others.
Here is a screenshot of google.com page in early 1997 (as you might notice Linux specific resources search was available from the beginning, unfortunately I didn't find any information when BSD related search become available):
Respect to Google!
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FaunOS is a portable (easy-to-carry), fully integrated Linux operating system with over 500 pre-installed packages. It is specifically designed to run from a portable USB Memory Device (USB Flash Drive). It can also run from a DVD. It does not change or install anything on your hard drive unless you specifically ask it to. This means it is safe to take your USB to a friend’s computer and boot from it (see minimum requirements). When you finish, shutdown, and remove your USB key from your friend’s computer, there is no trace of any of your activity on that computer.
Here are FaunOS features list:
- Ability to save files back to the USB flash drive.
- Tools that allow permanent installation to a hard drive. Supports the following install options on a hard drive:
- Permanent Arch Linux Installer using archin
- Frugal install (not to be confused with Frugalware Linux) installs the compressed FaunOS files to a hard drive permanently leading to an “unbreakable desktop” meaning the end user can totally ruin everything at runtime. To revert back to the starting point all the user has to do is reboot the machine and everything goes back to normal since all changes happen in RAM (unless the FaunOS session is saved on shutdown).
- Ability to install additional packages before permanently installing FaunOS to the hard drive.
- FaunOS Installer for creating additional FaunOS USB drives from within FaunOS.
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Good news for owners of Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series as manufacturer’s binary Linux drivers are available for free downloading. The driver is compatible with ALSA. Bad news: it’s available only for x86_64 Linux.
Here is the list of supported cards:
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Driver is available here.
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New version of nice Polish Linux distribution KateOS that is based on XFCE is released.
KateOS is currently the best Polish(ed) Linux distro. It is developed dynamically by Kate team, and actively supported by a well educated community. Since early 2004, the team members have learned exactly what are the needs of Linux users in Poland and worldwide. The current 
development of KateOS is based on experience of people all around the world, who support and broaden the ideas of the project. KateOS is fast, stable and secure, and most importantly of all, gives its users a choice. We do not believe in applications satisfying the needs of all users. This is why we let our users choose their tools on their own.
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Fedora users should install it with yum:
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