Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Raspberry Pi: the Perfect Home Server


Ever since the announcement of the Raspberry Pi, sites all across the Internet have offered lots of interesting and challenging uses for this exciting device. Although all of those ideas are great, the most obvious and perhaps least glamorous use for the Raspberry Pi (RPi) is creating your perfect home server.

Read the rest here: http://m.linuxjournal.com/content/raspberry-pi-perfect-home-server

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

great-linux-operating-systems-for Netbooks


One of the most common questions asked on the Linux based sub-reddits at Reddit.com is "Which Linux distribution would be the best for a netbook?".  The following distributions have either been installed on a netbook or should run perfectly well on an netbook. There links to the original reviews so that you can see any issues that were found.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Anti Virus Solution for Linux


If you've been asked by someone to investigate why their Windows machine is running slow.. run.  If, by some chance, you are unable to escape try using Clam Antivirus.  It's in the Software Center and you just need to run:
sudo freshclam
before you perform a  Recursive Scan so that the virus definitions are up to date.

But really: run.  Don't look back, run.

Thanks to: Makeuseof.com for their informative tutorial.