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For several years ago, I was using Linux Mint on my desktop PC and on my Lenovo Laptop. For years ago, actually I impressed and satisfied with Linux Mint. And for years ago, I was keep searching for more-lightweight linux distro that suitable for daily use at office and home, until I met ZevenOS . I see ZevenOS is unique. This Linux distro is inspired by Haiku OS . At the time I write this article, Haiku OS is still alpha 2 stage, but if you interrested, you can download and try it. I downloaded the iso file of ZevenOS 3.0 stable version from its download page. I burned this iso file into a CD.  And since it is a live CD, I was testing it on my PC for a week. I impressed with the idea of Deskbar on top-right of my work space. The deskbar give me a quick access to menu navigation and to application window that already opened. I think this is great and very helpful. My PC used a small-old 14 inches screen, so when I open an application in full windows, the application windows wi

For Development purposes, I try to install NGINX, PHP and MYSQL on My Linux Mint 9. Following instruction on HowToForge Site , bellow are all steps I made to install NGINX, PHP and MYSQL: (All commands, need root privilege, and run from terminal) 1.  run "apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client" to install MySql server and client. And you will be asked to provide root password, at the end of this process. 2. run "apt-get install nginx" to install Nginx 3. run "/etc/init.d/nginx start" to start Nginx 4. go to your browser and open http://localhost, then you will see "Welcome to nginx!" page. It means that nginx is running successfully. 5. run "update-rc.d nginx defaults" to make nginx start at boot time. 6. run "apt-get install php5-cgi php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-idn php-pear php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mhash php5-ming php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5

IPFire is one of Linux Distro that specialized to be a router/firewall. Installing IPFire is very easy, just follow the instruction at wiki.ipfire.org/en/installation/start. The very simple type of installation is Green - Red type. Green means your internal network and Red means your external network. You have to use private IP for Green, such as 192.168.0.x and you can assign the Green network Card as 192.168.0.1 and use DHCP server enable for Green network. For the IP Address of Red Network Card, you have to ask your Internet Service Provider. And the informations you must know are  Default Gateway, DNS server if your internet connection use static IP Address. After successful installation, you can connect to IPFire router machine through other computer that connected to Green network card. Then launch internet browser and go to https://192.168.0.1:444/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi. After successful login to web-based administration panel of your IPFire router, you will see many featur

I am using Linux Mint 9 as my desktop operating system. I want to try new release of Campsite 3.4.2. Campsite is well known as free and open platform for publishing newspaper or magazine online. The website is here . I am using Xampp for Linux 1.7.3a. It can be downloaded at ApacheFriends Site . To install Xampp, use terminal and go to directory where you place your xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz file. Run the command "sudo tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz -C /opt". It will prompt you to input your root password.To start Xampp, from terminal run this command "sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start" I download Campsite 3.4.2 from Sourceforge , extract it into /opt/lampp/htdocs/campsite. As a root from terminal, I change the owner of campsite folder and all the file in it to "nobody", using command "chown -R nobody /opt/lampp/htdocs/campsite/". Then I change Group of campsite folder and all file inside it to "root" using command "chgrp -R roo

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You see.. You have many distro to choose. Why do You still use Windows? I myself used Linux Mint. 2X : 2X ThinClientOS is a Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution with a small footprint, optimised for remote desktop computing. 64 Studio : Debian based, digital content creator Absolute Linux : Desktop oriented light-weight modification of Slackware Linux ADIOS : Fedora-based boot CD  aLinux™ : advanced Office/Multimedia RPM based GNU/Linux distribution.  Alpine Linux : routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes and servers ALT Linux : Rusian distro for desktop and server  APODIO : Ubuntu based with large collection of open source audio and video software Ark Linux : Linux distribution designed especially for desktop use Arch Linux : a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple. ArcheOS stands for Archaeological Operating System. ArtistX : Ubuntu-based bootable DVD containing many free multimedia software packages for audio, 2D and 3D

I would not make a kind of review on PHP framework, just want to make a list, so it is just a kind of bookmark list. Absolutengine Badger Finance Blueerp Browsercrm CakePHP Civicrm Cmsmadesimple Contrexx Cubecart Dbxwebapp Deluxebb Dragonflycms Drupal Elite Bulletin Board Enano CMS Gallery Habari Blog Ice Bulletin Board Itodo Jelix  Jojocms Kohana Framework Love CMS Lucid Desktop Mantis Bug Tracker Midgard Mondo Shop Moodle Mybb Bulletin Board Mzz Framework Omnium Collaborative PHP on TRAX Qcodo Rabbit PHP vcd db Enjoy to compare.

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