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What happens when you
turn a perfectly good
Apple PowerBook into a
tri-boot system with Mac
OS X, Yellow Dog Linux,
and Ubuntu Linux? Read on
to find out.
In a lot of ways, Linux
seems pretty similar to
other modern operating
systems, with overlapping
windows, a mouse, games,
an e-mail program that
talks to Outlook, an
application that can read
and write Microsoft Word
documents, etc.
Q: AnswerSquad, I need
your help. Try as I
might, I can never seem
to keep my users from
sucking up all the
available disk space. I
know I could try using
the quota system on my
Linux box to keep people
in check, but I know my
users and know that
they'd just get ...
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of it as Really Simple
Syndication or RDF Site
Summary or Rich Site
Summary, this lightweight
multipurpose extensible
metadata description and
syndication format is
here to stay. And its
uses are becoming more
and more diverse. Not
wishin...