Software Portal. Readers' Choice Awards 2010. The votes are in! Read on to find out how your favorites fared in this year's awards. Welcome to the 2010 Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards. We love doing these awards because we get to interact with you, our readers, more than usual. This year, more than 12,000 of you generously took time to participate and share your perspectives on what tools are helping you work and play. We always are fascinated by your preferences and how your usage patterns change over time.
This year, we have more categories than ever, so let's get right to the results. Here, ladies and gentlemen, Linux geeks of all kinds, are the winners of your 2010 Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards. Best Linux Distribution Ubuntu Honorable Mention/Runner Up: PCLinuxOS Third Place: Debian Fourth Place: Fedora Fifth Place: Pardus Times they are a changin' (just a bit) in the distribution department this year. Best Distribution for Netbooks/Limited Hardware Ubuntu Netbook Remix Best Mobile OS Google Android Tie: GNOME and KDE. Instructions. About backports Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates) in a stable environment so that they will run without new libraries (whenever it is possible) on a Debian stable distribution Backports cannot be tested as extensively as Debian stable, and backports are provided on an as-is basis, with risk of incompatibilities with other components in Debian stable.
Use with care! It is therefore recommended to select single backported packages that fit your needs, and not use all available backports. Add backports to your sources.list Install a package from backports All backports are deactivated by default (i.e. the packages are pinned to 100 by using ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes in the Release files. Apt-get -t stretch-backports install "package" of course you can use aptitude as well: aptitude -t stretch-backports install "package" sloppy distributions. Documentation.
How to upgrade Debian Lenny to Squeeze | Linux Operating System. How to upgrade Debian Lenny to Squeeze (5.0 to 6.0) Written by Guillermo Garron . Date: 2011-01-21 14:36:30 +0000 Introduction Updated 02/15/2011 Please be sure to read the release notes for your architecture: for i386 and for x64 I’ve used the method below to upgrade my Debian Lenny to Squeeze and had not problems at all, but in the release notes are considerations you should follow depending on your configuration.
Updated 01/21/2011 Debian Squeeze is going to be released on February 5th or 6th this 2011, so I am updating this how-to a little bit. How to upgrade Debian from Lenny to Squeeze First edit your sources.list sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list Now change there, any word lenny to squeeze,(or from stable to testing -This will not work after the release date, so use squeeze, or stable after that date-) and save it, it could be a good idea to backup your original file before, just in case.
Updating and upgrading sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install apt dpkg apt-get sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. OpenSUSE HOWTO. Flip the switch I have switched my main system from Ubuntu Gutsy to openSUSE 10.3 recently. A very smooth transition, I must say. I can mostly run the same software and the same up to date versions. Notable exceptions: bzr support (python-paramiko, python-celementtree), etherwake, kvm, run-parts, sawfish, upstart.
Panel and menu SUSE does not use the Application/Places/System menus on the top panel, but it sports a `Computer' button (right where Windows has its start button) on the bottem panel that opens a smorgasbord panel of choices. My first impression was that it's awkward but after using it for a while it turns out to be real nifty. Zypper Zypper is SUSE's command line apt/yum replacement. One word of caution if you're on x86_64: do not use yum unless you really know what you're doing and not before having added exclude=*i586* to your /etc/yum.conf. Miscellaneous Another thing is that SUSE 10.3 is not using upstart yet so digg up my inittab entries.
Cheat sheet Not installed by default. NvidiaManual. This is not the recommended way to install the NVIDIA drivers - please see BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia for the supported method. Any problems that occur after using the following instructions should not be reported to the launchpad bug area. If the drivers were downloaded from the NVIDIA web site then the NVIDIA Linux web forum is an appropriate place to report issues. Other places for binary driver manual installation support can be found on the Community Support page. Sometimes using the drivers in the Ubuntu repositories is not the best option.
Your card is too new, and is not supported by the Ubuntu provided binary packages. bugs are present in provided packages that are fixed in later drivers not yet distributed by Ubuntu. newer drivers provide a new feature not yet available in the Ubuntu packages. The purpose of this page is to detail the necessary work to install the official NVIDIA Linux driver from www.nvidia.com. Obtaining Needed Software uname -r Or you can use simply run this: