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This tutorial explains how to upgrade to Fedora14 from Fedora 13 &12. Your personal data is the most valuable thing in your computer, before to upgrade it is always a good idea to back up any data that you have on your systems.

The apt-fast script little shellscript that increases the speed of apt-get by many times. You need to have the axel download accelerator installed, which is a simple, short process, but everything else is extremely straight forward. After installing and using apt-fast you will notice that the speed of downloading and installing a package is more than 26 times faster than before.

Wildfire Games has announced the release of "0 A.D. Alpha 2 Bellerophon", the second alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source game of ancient warfare. This release comes with victory conditions, fog of war, formations, a new in-game GUI and many other features that make 0 A.D. feel more like a real RTS than ever before.

Few days ago LinuxMint 10 Julia RC1 was released, this release comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your linux-mintdesktop even more comfortable to use.

A Jump and Run game like Super Mario World with an advanced Editor and highly detailed Graphics based on SDL with a OpenGL accelerated Graphics Renderer developed in C++. Secret Maryo Chronicles has been described as a Super Mario Bros. clone by PCtipp. It was listed as the number one open source video game by APC in January 2008.

The magic SysRq is a key combination understood by the Linux kernel, which allows the user to perform various low level commands regardless of the system's state. It is often used to recover from freezes, or to reboot a computer without corrupting the filesystem. The key combination consists of Alt, SysRq and another key, which controls the command issued

Tiny Core Linux 3.2 is released. This release comes with many updates and improvements, Updated busybox, adding mouse "select for copy" to several GUIs, better internationalization suport, and improved Onboot and OnDemand handling.

Ajaxterm is a web based terminal. It was totally inspired and works almost on all OS. Ajaxterm written in python (and some AJAX javascript for client side) and depends only on python2.3 or better. Ajaxterm is '''very simple to install''' on Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, cygwin and any Unix that runs python2.3.

Skolelinux is often refered to as Debian Edu or the educational subset of the GNU/Linux distribution Debian. It is a Debian Pure Blend, a subset of Debianthat has been tailored to be used out-of-the-box in schools.

The Medibuntu repository for Maverick (10.10) is ready to be used with your freshly updated/installed Ubuntu distribution. Some packages have been removed for this release: Googleearth, realplayer, gizmo5. These softwares can easily be installed following the documentation provided on their respective websites. They will still be maintained for earlier versions.

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick meerkat is released, here are our final screenshots for this new release.

To ensure the continuous development of the popular monitoring software Nagios, a group of active, long standing Nagios community supporters have decided to fork Nagios and open its development to a broader base. Unfortunately this had to be done under a new name: Icinga

Peppermint OS Ice is a lightweight, user-friendly linux distribution with built-in cloud technologies. It is ideal for notebooks and old computers. The default desktop environment for Peppermint is LXDE, Chromium is the default web browser, cloud applications like Editor by Pixlr [Image Editor], Facebook, Hulu, Last.FM, Pandora, Seesmic Web, The Cloud Player, YouTube, eBuddy, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Mail, Google Reader come also by default.

G'MIC has been made available as an easy-to-use plug-in for GIMP. It extends this retouching software capabilities by offering a large number of pre-defined image filters and effects. Of course, this plug-in is highly customizable and it is possible to dynamically add your custom G'MIC-written filters in it.

The final release of Ubuntu 10.10 Marevick Meerkat will be out this week, after you install or upgrade to this new release you will need to customize your ubuntu by installing all needed software, tools, games and repositories your system, in this post you can find Top things to do after installing Maverick Meerkat.

Sabayon Linux 5.4 is out , Dedicated to those who like cutting edge stability, out of the box experience, outstanding Desktop performance, clean and beauty. Sabayon 5.4 will catch you, anything that could have been compiled, has been compiled, anything cool that could have been implemented or updated,

If you want to configure compiz in ubuntu10.10 Maverick Meerkat , there is a simple configuration tool for compiz called SimpleConfig settings manager that will help you doing this job, it is quick and useful especialy for linux newbies.

Fedora 14 beta is released, this is the last development build before the final release scheduled for early November ,The Beta release of Fedora 14 “Laughlin” similarly provides a preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under development, integrated into an ordered distribution that anyone can freely download, use, modify, and redistribute.

This is a nice script to automatically backup your MySQL tables and send them to your email.

f you want to share files between Ubuntu and Windows computers, the best option is to use Samba file sharing. The installation and configuration can be done by command line or by via GUI, In this post we will see how to install and configure samba in ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat via GUI.