Peter
Forgive me, as I'm a few days late with this news, but the KDE Project have announced that Alpha 2 of the upcoming major KDE 4.0 release is now available.
The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the second alpha release of the K Desktop Environment. This release comes straight out of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland where aKademy is currently taking place.
As I …
PeterWhen you're looking for some documentation and help about a specific command, man really is your best friend. Almost all the commands on your system will have a man page where you can look to find all sorts of information.
However, sometimes you can find more detailed manuals on GNU-based systems with the info command. It works slightly differently to man, but on some software, you will be able …
Peter
Copy and paste is probably one of the most fundamental concepts in the GUIs we use today. Every modern operating system has some form of a 'clipboard' where you can temporarily store some information when you want to move or copy it from somewhere on your system to somewhere else.
Most clipboard implementations only have the ability to store one item in them, so if you copy and paste a …
JacobSo you've got your LAMP server up and running, you have some basic pages set up and have maybe even tried WordPress - but what do you do now?
Say you have a big site that could potentially have a large userbase. What do you do? Well, you install Drupal!
Drupal is a modular open-source content management system. The "modular" aspect of it means that you can remove or …