Toughbook. Creating a bootable USB Ophcrack. Ophcrack is an open source Windows password cracking utility that uses rainbow tables to find passwords. It can be run from Windows, Linux or Live CD. The following tutorial explains how to install and boot Ophcrack from a portable USB device. Since the Live CD version (running from a SLAX now SliTaz core) is already available, creating USB Ophcrack is similar to converting any other Live Linux CD to USB and now they even offer their own tazusb.exe installer. Ophcrack Desktop Screenshot Distribution Home Page: Minimum Flash Drive Capacity: 512MB Persistent Feature: No – Doesn't need to be Tools used to create USB Ophcrack: Windows Computer (Windows XP is used here)512 MB or larger portable device (USB stick)Ophcrack XP or Vista Live CD and tazusb.exe Download a Ophcrack Vista or XP Live CD ISOInsert your USB Flash DriveDownload and run tazusb.exe then follow the onscreen instructionsReboot your PC and set your BIOS boot menu to boot from the USB device.
Linux Bootable USB Flash. Mac4Lin brings OS X eye candy to Linux. Wubi - Ubuntu Installer for Windows. Welcome to Linux.com. First Look at Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope - Ubuntu 9.04. For me, Jaunty has been a very positive experience. I downloaded it through a torrent and burned it to a CD, then booted it on my laptop, a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4487, then in a dual boot configuration with Vista and Hardy. From the first it worked almost flawlessly. The first thing I looked for was wireless support. I clicked on the network icon and was pleased to see my (and my neighbor's) network, which led to my first great surprise. When I first tried Ubuntu from a Hardy Live CD, I was also able to see these networks, but since I had WEP enabled was of course unable to connect to the network. I tried putting in my WEP encryption key but was unable to do so until I installed it to my hard drive.
With Jaunty I was able to enter my encryption key and access the internet through wireless from the Live CD. Since I'm quite experienced with partitioning operations (I substantially rewrote this Ubuntu Community Wiki page: [help.ubuntu.com] ), I chose the manual partitioning method. Top 10 Ubuntu Downloads - Ubuntu. Taking Puppy Linux for a Walk - Boot CD. Turn Your Old PC into a Webapp Monster with gOS - Consumerist. MoviX2 Creates a Bootable, Self-Playing Video - Boot CD. Linux Foundation picks "We're Linux" video finalists.
Microsoft and Apple have been spending millions of dollars on sleek advertising campaigns. Linux, on the other hand is an operating system maintained by a worldwide network of volunteers. Nobody's really promoting it as a desktop operating system other than enthusiasts spreading news by word of mouth. So the Linux Foundation decided to put together a video contest asking some of those enthusiasts to develop their own ads.
The odds of any of these commercials showing up on prime time TV aren't great. But this week the Linux Foundation picked five finalists from more than 90 entries. Tomorrow the winner will be announced, but all five of the finalists are worth a look if you're interested in open source software development. The video at the top of this post wins my vote for the funniest of the bunch. [via OStatic] Tags: ads, linux, opensource, videos. Roll Your Own Streaming Media Server with Subsonic - Streaming Media. Tiny, Super-fast Linux distro Moblin V2 alpha 2 released. Late in January of this year I installed Moblin on my MSI Wind U100 netbook.
At the time, it wasn't officially supported by the distro and my wireless wouldn't connect, so I ended up removing it. In a little under two months, the team has released alpha 2 which - among other things - includes full-on support for the Wind. The update also includes the 2.26.29-rc7 kernel, XFCE version 4.6, the Gnome 2.26 release candidate, and drivers for additional wireless and wired lan adapters.
Moblin's boot process and graphics subsystem have also been tweaked, and it started up about two seconds faster than my previous install. There are still a few apps missing that other similar distributions include by default, like Skype or an instant messaging client like Pidgin. It's still Linux, though, so you can always add packages on your own - Skype for MIDs is available to download from the official developer site. Tags: instant-on, intel, linux, moblin, netbook, opensource, osupdates. Quick Drop-Down Terminal With Yakuake - Linux.
Change Your Forgotten Windows Password with the Linux System Rescue CD :: the How-To Geek. So far in our series we’ve covered how to reset your Windows password with the Ultimate Boot CD, but if you are a little more technical you might want to simply use the excellent System Rescue CD, which is based on Linux. Note that if you are using standard Windows encryption for your files, resetting the password will permanently disable access to those files. In that case you should crack the password, which is something we’ll cover in an upcoming article. If you are an Ubuntu user and forgot your password, we’ve covered how to do that as well, either the easy way with the grub menu or alternately with the live cd. Creating the System Rescue CD Before you can do anything else, you’ll need to download a copy of the System Rescue CD and burn the ISO image to disc. If you are using ImgBurn, click the Write image file to disc button… Click the File button near Source and then pick the ISO file, then click the Burn button near the bottom.
Download the System Rescue CD from sysresccd.org. Xandros Presto promises yet another instant-on Linux experience. Xandros isn't a new name in netbook oeprating systems. After all, it was their OS that first appeared on Asus' category-defining EeePC. What next? Why, instant-on, of course! Called Presto, the new OS will be joining other options like JoliCloud, Moblin, gOS Cloud, and Phoenix Hyperspace. As is the case with competing products, the goal is to provide a fast-booting desktop experience that includes must-have applications like Firefox, Skype, and a media player. In addition to that core functionality, Presto will also include full access to files on Windows partitions.
It remains to be seen whether there's an appreciable market for Linux installed in tandem with Windows XP. Presto will cost about $20 after its scheduled release this April, but until then the beta version is a free download. . [ via Webware ] Tags: eee-pc, instant-on, laptop, linux, netbook, osupdates, xandros. Enigma Desktop Ported to Linux - Featured Desktop. @Kaelri: If you get into the whole scripting of Conky you can move stuff. It's definitely not easy, but possible nonetheless. @LegoAddict: You can do a lot more with conky if you are inclined to spend a few hours with it. Otherwise, it's easier to go the google gadgets/screenlets way @Kaelri: Yes, it is possible.
But here is one tip: set the "own_window_type" variable to "widget" so you can move conky by pressing alt and dragging. It might seem as a lot of work, but trust me, its better than guessing. @Kaelri: I thought I'd told you! Samurize is no staticer than Rainmeter, and it's still more powerful :P. WineHQ - Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. Hack Attack: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks. Portable Ubuntu for Windows: Files. Portable Ubuntu for Windows. Top 10: Top 10 Ubuntu applications. KDE apps work on Gnome too, but they aren't quite integrated visually (KDE is more aero/aqua, while gnome is rather opaque).
I have tried Katapult in the past, but it doesn't come up to par with Launchy, so I find myself using the common launch dialog a lot (Alt-F2 on a standard systems) or just a plain terminal. Tilda has quite a good concept, but I haven't got it working yet. Regarding must-have applications: well, I find myself using a lot of the Beryl functions; but setting up Beryl can be a pain in the ass to install (as is the case for binary drivers for ATi/nVidia, which is required before installing beryl). For audio, I use Quod Libet, which is just a bit buggy but has some features that made me a Foobar2000 user on Windows.
This is a piece of GTK software (so integrates well into Gnome). Some more alternative applications which extend your functionality a lot: Beagle, Deskbar and Gimmie. Download - Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference. Yet Another Technology Site. Linux App Finder | Helping find the Linux apps you need. Unix Mages. The Linux Alternative Project - linuxalt.com. Main Page. A Guide to the Linux Operating System. Lg3d-livecd: Welcome. Eyecandy for your KDE-Desktop - KDE. FreeNAS: The Free NAS Server - Home. Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. Cygwin Information and Installation. UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads.
Ubuntu 8.10 Persistent Flash Drive install from Live CD. How to run Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex from a flash drive - Download Squad. In ten days, Canonical will officially launch Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, the next version of the popular operating system. But you don't have to wait until October 30th to take it for a spin. The beta version of Ubuntu 8.10 is available today, and for all intents and purposes, it's pretty close to the version that will be available in a week and a half, and you can always install it now and update files and settings as necessary when the time comes.
But what if you're not ready to devote valuable hard drive space to a new operating system? Fortunately, you can download the Ubuntu 8.10 LiveCD today and try the operating system out without making any changes to your hard disk. But you can install Ubuntu 8.10 (and a number of other Linux distributions) on a USB flash drive which will allow you to save any changes.
This can come in handy if you want to try out the operating system without committing to it. Tags: intrepid-ibex, osupdates, pen-drive-linux, ubuntu, ubuntu-8.10, usb-flash-drive. PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost) The New Wave of Linux ! After a long wait a new NimbleX version is finally out. First of all keep in mind this is a Beta so many things will still have to be polished but nevertheless it has to be eventually released because your feedback is what will make it better. Many things have changed hopefully for the better in the long run. First of all, after about 5 years, the ideea of keeping it limited to less than 200MB was dropped. There is a lot more in the distro right now so in the end it should make the user experience better. Even though almost everything is new, we can still say the major changes include: Kernel 2.6.33 with the latest squashfs and aufs2 As some of you notices NimbleX 2008 was quite stable but the aging kernel meant new hardware was unsupported.
XServer 1.7.5 Probably the most significant feature this new component brings for the end user is the possibility to run without a configuration file. Many fresh libs where included New applications New Desktop Environment. The Windows-to-Linux roadmap - Lifehacker. Ubuntu and XP, together in harmony - Download Squad. Lg3d-core: LG3D Core Project. Learn how to 'Make The Move' to Linux - Lifehacker. Notes on Linux distros. I am a bit of a nerd and spend a lot of time at home working on computer, building them and fixing them for my friends. I studied computer technology in college some 17 years ago when computers were still mostly calculators. I am quite astute with both Windows and Mac. I have the fastest PC of anyone one I know and I built it myself. I have become more interested in linux recently and have hopes of it increasing its market share especially in the cell phone, pda market.
I recently went about testing and installing the GUIs for; Ubuntu Xubuntu Kubuntu Mandriva Fedora DSLinux Knopix as well as a few others just for Sh*ts and giggles. I have 3 computers at home so I used these varying Operating systems in conjunction with both windows XP and Vista and Mac OSX. My priority was to find among these available OSs one that was more usable for the layman as well as being light enough and still be able to do the things most people need a computer to do.
Basically everything works here. Damn! This is one small Linux Distribution. DSL was created by John Andrews whose main motive was to restrict the size of the resulting distribution but at the same time give a complete GUI environment which included all the softwares that a user might use on a day-to-day basis. He made sure that what ever softwares that are needed were included as long as the size of the resulting distribution could be restricted to just 50 MB.
The result is what you see as Damn Small Linux. Tiny Linux distributions are nothing new. In fact, the tiniest Linux distribution (Tomsrtbt) fits inside a floppy and has been around quite some time. DSL can be downloaded in three formats. I downloaded the embedded zip file and tried it in both Windows and Linux environment (See screen shots below). Fig: DSL running inside WindowsXP Fig: DSL running inside Fedora. DSL harnesses the power of QEMU DSL relies on QEMU to run on top of the host OS (whether it be Windows or Linux). DSL gives the user a choice of two window managers. Fig: DSL Control Panel Damn!