http://www.linuxophile.com Linux Freak Forever! Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:36:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stuck with a default, boring, uninspiring depressingly drab Computer name?? Here's the simplest, easiest, most convenient way to get rid of your old boring Computer name (Workstation125??!!) and give your beloved semiconductor based super-friend a great uber-cool new name! In the terminal window, type the following command and press enter:gksudo gedit ... http://www.linuxophile.com/change-your-computer-name-2/ LinuxPlanet has a pretty cool prediction set for free software in the new year. Some of the major events that they have highlighted/ predicted are: KDE 4 - Radical new look, excellent performance, etc. End Software Patent Coalition comes out of the wild and looks for its first public case to abolish software ... http://www.linuxophile.com/11-predictions-for-free-software-in-2008-predictions-one-through-six/ Did you ever think of how powerful Linux could be? In your daily lives? Yes? No? Well, going one step farther than most students, [Rhythm Reloaded], four engineering students at Calvin College are designing an electronic stethoscope that will: Record high-quality audio data from a patient's body Store this audio data in ... http://www.linuxophile.com/linux-powered-stethoscope/  In 2004, McKesson Provider Technologies began focusing its efforts on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and nedical offices. The cure they found and implemented was to switch to Linux! This made a lot of immediate sense since the money could be used to buy less expensive hardware ... http://www.linuxophile.com/linux-to-heal-it-budgets/ So you've shifted to Linux. You love it! And its so totally cool! But ... you miss those happy days of using Nero or Adobe products or iTunes even... What do you do? You go to the nearest forum and ask your people for some answers only to get the same ... http://www.linuxophile.com/application-alternatives-on-linux/ The linux Foundation let out an early look at the result of their third annual desktop Linux survey. Key highlights of the report have been: The number of users who filled out the survey has doubled to around 20,000 this year, compared to last year's survey. The survey users were mainly from ... http://www.linuxophile.com/desktop-linux-survey-results/ Because of our being forgetful in nature, we oftentimes forget the files that we have created. We can only be fortunate if we can still remember the path, folder, or directory where we have stored those missing files. If that's the case, it would never be a big deal then. ... http://www.linuxophile.com/finding-text-in-files/ The RPM package manager is one of the most powerful command line driven package managers. It is free software and has many libraries that allow for it to be used for advanced development. RPM is a core component in most of the Linux distributions like Redhat/ Fedora, SUSE, Mandriva, Ubuntu, ... http://www.linuxophile.com/installing-packages-rpm-in-linux/ The Compiz (compiz-fuzion) is one of the coolest options available on a linux desktop! It has such an extensive collection of features (all configurable) that sometimes one just gets lost, I know I do! So here is a cool tip to make the menu's and taskbar transparent. If you don't have ... http://www.linuxophile.com/transparent-menus-with-compiz/ Wal-mart, which has been selling Linux PCs for some time now has officially sold out its stock of the Everex TC2502 PC which runs the gOS (linux). The reviews and ratings that this product has received from new and old Linux users has been really great and I am sure ... http://www.linuxophile.com/wal-mart-sells-out-linux-pcs/