Basic Linux Tips and Tricks, Part 3
Part 1 of this article provided the general background a reader needs to solve problems with Linux. Part 2 of this article discussed the process of solving Linux problems. In this final part of a...
View ArticleLinux and Unix Software Security Basics - Part 3
Part four of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.
View ArticleX Devs Drop NVIDIA Auto-Config Support
Sparking a heated Sunday afternoon debate, NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner had commited a trivial change to the X Server that resulted in several key open-source X developers becoming disgruntled. Ultimately,...
View ArticleHOWTO to setup Stumpwm for a fully Lispy environment (2008-08-07)
"... thought I would throw this out there as I have spent some time recently getting this working. I had used the stumpwm binary built with the configure && make dance, but it does not run...
View ArticleHow To Set Up A Headless X Server On Redhat Linux
The Headless X-Server Rides! Rides, Rides how he rides. Sorry -- sourcing The headless horsemen and the Dead Kennedy's for some reason ;)
View ArticleX Server 1.6.0 Has Been Released
It's arriving about two months later than originally scheduled (and didn't arrive in 2008 like Intel wanted), but X Server 1.6 has been officially released this afternoon and it wasn't 212 days late...
View ArticleX Window Managers Part 1
The implementation of the X suite allows for the creation of a wide variety of graphical window managers. Although there is a great website that documents the wide array of window managers both large...
View ArticleBash History Editing
"This post sets a challenge; the goal is to come up with a bash one-liner (which can include multiple statements, pipes, etc. to arbitrary level) which removes "incriminating" lines from the...
View ArticleLPC: 25 years of X
The X Window System quietly hit its 25th anniversary back in June; it is, undoubtedly, one of the oldest and most successful free software projects in existence.read more
View ArticleX Server 1.8 Release Candidate Is Here
Keith Packard has just made available the first release candidate of X Server 1.8 and confirms that its release schedule is still on track. Snapshots and the Git code for X Server 1.8 go back to last...
View ArticleIf Or When Will X12 Actually Materialize?
The first version of the X protocol for the X Window System emerged in 1984 and just three years later we were at version 11. However, for the past 23 years, we have been stuck with X11 with no signs...
View ArticleHow To Enable The Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Combo In KDE 4
The Ctrl+Alt+Backspace combo, which allowed killing the X server is now disabled by default in many major Linux distributions. Here's how to enable it in KDE.
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