Presently, i have virtualbox installed on my ubuntu 7.10. however, i want to uprade to 8.04. will upgrading to 8.04 adversely affect my virtualbox? will upgrading also affect my opera broswer already...

Published at LXer:Adobe Systems is throwing open its Flash and AIR file formats to speed delivery of Rich Internet Applications to billions of mobile devices with its tools and players. The company...

Hi,I'm sure most of you have at least heard about spkg:http://spkg.megous.com/---Quote---comparing pkgtools to spkg here: installation is at least 4x faster---End Quote---So, I'm wondering if...

Published at LXer:I've been combing through Microsoft’s "get the facts" web site this last fortnight. Here Microsoft promise to reveal the "facts" on Windows vs Linux solutions. They cite company...

Hello. I would like to start flwm with "flwm -fg green -bg black" but I can't put the args in the flwm.desktop in /usr/share/xsessionsIs there a way I can pass these args to flwm using gdm?

When I connect to my webserver running apache though FTP (or even locally on the server) When I try to create a new file or delete a file or overwrite a file in root/var/www it wont let me and this

Published at LXer:As a way of nurturing the developer community surrounding its open storage initiative, Sun Microsystems is putting together a cookbook of sorts. Sun has released a couple of...

Hello,I have hundreds of filenames of the form CEU_NA21322_NSP.CEL. I am trying to use tr to first systemactically remove the 'CEU_' prefix; then remove the '_NSP' string; and finally, replace the...

hello when i try watching movies online i cant hear the sound.i can watch them if i download them but i cant watch them online because there is no audio..i am using ubuntu and had it upgradde to...

hey all,I'm kinda stuck here and hopefully you all will be able to help me out.I have registered my domain with godaddy.setup my dns server to point to my linux box,created my dns entry's,

I have written a device driver (Linux 2.6) to access my hardware char device. I have tested this driver using a userspace program using the open,write,read and close function calls.I now need to...

I want to install WLAN access on a DEll Latitude X300. The NIC is Intel 2915ABG.Does anyone know where I can find the INF file on the Windows partition? I don not have an install CD, as everything...

I've genareted a gpg key pair using gnu privacy assistant, on a windows machine, and now I need to import the private key on my ubuntu box, but after exporting it and backing it up from windows to a...

LinuxSecurity.com: Updated thunderbird packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

LinuxSecurity.com: Joel R. Voss discovered that the IAX2 module of Asterisk, a free software PBX and telephony toolkit performs insufficient validation of IAX2 protocol messages, which may lead to denial of service.

LinuxSecurity.com: I have downloaded the beta of Firefox 3 to check out the improvements related to SSL. First, there's the added support for Extended Validation SSL certificates, but I am not very excited about that (I wrote about this previously

LinuxSecurity.com: Think server sprawl is bad now? Just wait till you experience virtual server sprawl. When users can clone a virtual machine with the click of a mouse, or save versions of applications and operating systems for later use, you're

Mason J. Katz has announced the release of Rocks Cluster Distribution 5.0, a CentOS-based distribution designed for building Linux clusters: "Rocks 5.0 is released for i386 and x86_64 CPU architectures. New Features: 1. Xen support. You can use the Xen

Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 4.3: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.3. This is our 23rd release on CD-ROM (and 24th via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more

The easys development team has announced the release of easys GNU/Linux 4.1, a Slackware-based distribution featuring a graphical installer and an advanced package manager: "We are pleased to announce the release of easys GNU/Linux 4.1. This release is a milestone