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About PCLinuxOS » PCLinuxOS. What is PCLinuxOS? PCLinuxOS is a free easy to use Linux-based Operating System for x86_64 desktops or laptops. PCLinuxOS is distributed as a LiveCD/DVD/USB ISO image, and can also be installed to your computer. The LiveCD/DVD/USB mode lets you try PCLInuxOS without making any changes to your computer. If you like it, you can install the operating system to your hard drive. PCLinuxOS has a script called mylivecd, which allows the user to take a ‘snapshot’ of their current hard drive installation (all settings, applications, documents, etc.) and compress it into an ISO CD/DVD/USB image.

PCLinuxOS has additional support for over 85 language through our simple Addlocale interface. PCLinuxOS is safe and secure. The PCLinuxOS distribution was founded October 24, 2003 by Bill Reynolds aka Texstar and headquarters are located in Houston, TX USA. What can I do with PCLinuxOS? Everything you do with that other OS you can do with PCLinuxOS. Where can I get a copy of PCLinuxOS? Processor Memory & storage. Linux Mint 9 Review part 1 of 4. Linux Magazine. Linux Kernel Newbies. Security/Features. This page in maintained by Rahul Sundaram. Feel free to edit the wiki or contact the maintainer for any kind of feedback.

Fedora is the thought and action leader in many of the latest Linux security initiatives. The following security features were developed by Fedora engineers. In line with the Fedora policy, these security features have been pushed upstream and they are available to all Linux distributions who choose to take advantage of them. For a table of which features are in particular Fedora versions, refer to For Red Hat security information, refer to Firewall by default Fedora provides a default firewall that can limit both incoming and outgoing connections and Fedora 8 and above includes a very user friendly system-config-firewall utility.

Easy and Painless Administration: PolicyKit Following all the other security enhancements comes PolicyKit . ! SELinux References: Online - User Groups. Virus Scan A Windows Machine. How often do we all hear the phrase, “Could you take a look at it for me?” Whether you are checking out a machine for a friend or colleague or looking after one of your own machines, it's handy to have the ability to virus check a Windows setup from the safety of a Linux boot CD or USB stick. This short guide shows you how to scan for infected files by booting into SystemRescueCD and running ClamAV, a virus checker. We recently covered SystemRescueCD, a bootable disc that constitutes a Swiss army knife of Linux based tools for system recovery. ClamAV is one of the useful tools that it includes in a preconfigured, ready to run state. Boot into the SystemRescueCD desktop in the normal way by accepting the default options and then typing “wizard” when prompted. The first thing to do is to start the ClamVA demon by typing clamd After a few moments, control of the command line should return to the user.

Freshclam The next stage is to mount the NTFS partition that contains the suspect files. Stupid tar Tricks. One of the most common programs on Linux systems for packaging files is the venerable tar. tar is short for tape archive, and originally, it would archive your files to a tape device. Now, you're more likely to use a file to make your archive.

To use a tarfile, use the command-line option -f Instead of using a tarfile, you can output your tarfile to stdout or input your tarfile from stdin by using a hyphen (-). With these options, you can tar up a directory and all of its subdirectories by using: tar cf archive.tar dir Then, extract it in another directory with: tar xf archive.tar When creating a tarfile, you can assign a volume name with the option -V tar cf - dir1 | (cd dir2; tar xf -) You can go even farther and move an entire directory structure over the network by executing: tar cf - dir1 | ssh remote_host "( cd /path/to/dir2; tar xf - )" GNU tar includes an option that lets you skip the cd part, -C /path/to/dest. Tar cvf username@remotehost:/path/to/dest/archive.tar dir1. Linux Journal | The Original Magazine of the Linux Community.

Which Linux distribution do you primarily use on your Linux desktop? | TUX. Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick. Pack for Linux: Our List of the Best Linux Downloads. @gearkraft: 1) Power. In 10 minutes, I can create a script to accomplish almost anything on Linux, Solaris, BSD, AIX, HP-UX, and many other *nix flavors. 2) Linux is free unless you want commercial support. Even then, you can pay whoever you like to provide the support, not just a single company or "approved" subjects from the home office. 3) Using Linux doesn't give either Apple or Microsoft any more money (usually). 4) If I don't install the "pro" version of linux, I can still remote into the computers from anywhere in the world. 5) Remote computer access that behaves just like being there. 6) I upgraded operating systems for 25 servers this year and there was $ZERO cost for me and my company. 7) Hundreds of thousands of free programs with source code. 8) The current versions of Linux runs well on 6 yr old hardware. 9) Customization - desktop, server, networking, everything. 10) *nix shells. 11) No centralized dictatorship for what an OS can and cannot do. 12) Virus attacks are minimal.

The delicious distribution » PCLinuxOS. Triple Boot XP, Fedora, ubuntu | Linux Operating System - Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch. Making your system a triple boot box, this can help you achieve this. Triple boot XP and two linux (FC5 and Ubuntu 6.06 in my case) Hi,Now i want to share my experience of making my system a triple boot one.

Ok what i have is a Desktop with a 120 Gigas SATA disk. As usually what you need to do is install XP first but be sure to let enough space for the linux OS.after you have finished, install some of the two linux, lets say Ubuntu, if you install from the live CD, be sure to manually edith the disk partition and left room for Fedora.I recommend something like this/dev/sda1 XP NTFS/dev/sda2 Extended partition/dev/sda3 boot ext3 -> 100 Mbytes (for Ubuntu)/dev/sda4 Swap -> 1 Gbyte (for Ubuntu)/dev/sda5 / ext3 -> any size you may want for Ubuntu this edition of CD will not let you choose where to install the Grub so, it will be installed directly on your MBR, once you finished you can confirm that you can boot from XP or Ubuntu. and use manual partition for doing this.