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A Cheat Sheet That Teaches Linux Commands To Beginners

A self confessed convert to Ubuntu, Raphael has put together a nice cheat sheet for beginners in Linux, which explains all the important Linux commands in a clear manner.Terminal Cheat Sheet V5 A self confessed convert to Ubuntu, Raphael has put together a nice cheat sheet for beginners in Linux, which explains all the important [...]

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The New Firefox Permissions Manager

You can open the new permissions manager in Firefox by loading about:permissions. Just enter the about page in the location bar and hit the return key afterwards. The screen that shows up should look like this. The screen that opens up displays the default permissions for all sites accessed in the web browser, and a [...]

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Mozilla Add-On Site Gets Updated

When you open the add-ons section over at Mozilla, you are now greeted with a modern design that focuses on staff picks, featured extensions, up and coming extensions and featured Personas. Source: addons.mozilla.org When you open the add-ons section over at Mozilla, you are now greeted with a modern design that focuses on staff picks, [...]

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Pinguy OS + Screenlet + Impulse theme “circle lcd” improvment + Lyrics screenlet (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) Pinguy OS + Screenlet + Impulse theme “circle lcd” improvment + Lyrics screenlet (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

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Pinguy what is the difference between your os and ultimate edition? They have a lot more apps games and effects…. I read ur post on some forum but that wasn’t clear enough 4 me. So can you explain them?? Comment by Humayun Saleem To help answer this I will give you insight into the Distro [...]

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How to install Kernel 3.0.0-8 in Pinguy OS 11.04.1

I have seen a few places post about installing the Kernel thats in Oneiric to be able to run Kernel 3.0 on 11.04. You can grab the Kernel packages for Oneiric from here (you will need to grab all 3 packages for your architecture. The 2 headers and image package). Its still very buggy and unusable. [...]

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MD5Sum: What is it and Why Should I Care?

MD5Sum is pretty important and something everyone should be aware of. You can read the Wiki page for a full in depth description, but to summarize its a way to check to see if the file you download matches the one that was uploaded. Every version of Pinguy OS will be released with a md5 [...]

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Backing Up Your Pinguy OS Install Into an Installable Distro

A few people have asked me how they can backup their system so they will be able to re-install from it, or to be able to install it onto a different system. With this guide I will show you the steps needed to have a working installable distro built from your Pinguy OS system that [...]

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A guide on how to cut your boot times if you are using ext4.

How To Cut Your Linux PC’s Boot Time in Half With E4rat How To Cut Your Linux PC’s Boot Time in Half With E4rat

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Installing Broadcom Wireless Driver Offline

Pinguy OS comes with many Wifi drivers pre-installed, but due to the way some Broadcom wireless drivers need to be installed they can’t be pre-packaged into the distro. This is due to it recompiling the kernel. If it was pre-installed you would never be able to activate the driver. This is a Catch-22 for many people. [...]

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