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Quick Look on GNOME and KDE Desktop features

GNOME and KDE is probably the most famous windows manager for GNU/Linux based operating system. This is because major GNU/Linux distro opt to use either one of them as their main Windows Managers.

This move however has divided the users into two major camps, the GNOME and KDE camps. Each Window Manager has its own distinctive style and ways of handling user interaction

I found a nice website that try to compare features available between the two desktop environment (using Ubuntu as a base distro) : KDE and GNOME Environment

[tags]ubuntu,kde,gnome,linux,desktop,distro, gnu/linux[/tags]

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Download Ubuntu Eft (6.10) Knot 2

Although schedule to be released on October 26, 2006, you may download Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) Knot 2 CD from Ubuntu website. The Knot designation can be taken as preview release of Ubuntu, it is based on Linux kernel 2.6.17.6 and it features GNOME 2.16 RC 1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 and Firefox 2.0b1 among other new softwares.

Edgy Eft is said to improve the previous release Dapper Drake of memory usage and applications like Evolution e-mail client and Nautilus file manager uses less memory? and loads faster.

Hope that they can get more features into Edgy Eft soon, the Linux 2.6.17 has improved Broadcom wireless chipset support and that would be an added plus to those who are using laptops.
[tags]ubuntu,linux,dapper drake,dapper,eft[/tags]

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RFC 2822 Email Validator in PHP

Here’s regex pattern that checks for email validity that conforms to RFC 2822 specs : regex.txt
This may be useful for you if you’re writing a robust email validation class/function in PHP, that checks for validity according to specs. This will also indirectly address security concern against injection attempt by malicious users.
Additionally, there’s a demo with complete source code for checking email validity using eregi : Validate Email Addresses using Regular Expressions

If you are planning to validate email addresses for use in a home-made php mailer form, then you should read this too : Sanitize Your Forms

You might find it handy as it guard your form againsts malicious users that want to manipulate your form to do Email Injection for spam purposes
[tags]php,regex,email,validator,validate,source code,spam,injection[/tags]

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Start64 – Start using 64 bit (Linux) Operating System Now

start64 is a website that advocate the use of 64bit application software in our daily computing lives. Now why do we need to run 64-bit application? Because it run natively on 64bit machine like AMD Opteron/Turion or Intel Core Duo for that matter.

The website also feature a beginners guide to 64bit computing, starting with 4bit processor that could only process data 4 bit a time, and gradually introduce us the bottleneck of 32bit computing that we are so use to have (mostly from Windows/x86 users).

Software Guide

Aside from providing informational article about 64bit machine. Start64 also functions as a place where 64bit application are showcased, complete with reviews and recommendations.

64 bit GNU Linux Distro

The website have Linux section which specificly list binary only driver update for 64 bit Linux,which mostly focusses on Nvidia and ATI Graphic cards driver.

There’s also one post that deals specificly with Mozilla plugins wrapper which makes 32bit browser plugins works under 64 bit Linux environment.

Conclusion

All in all, you can see Start64 as your source to help you ease up your transition from the 32 bit computing to 64 bit working environment.

[tags]linux,debian,ubuntu,64 bit, intel, core duo, amd, opteron, turion[/tags]

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Why you don’t have to defrag Linux like Windows?

One of the question that come out every once a while from new GNU/Linux users is how to defrag Linux? Usually most would be satisfied with the short answer “Linux does not need filesystem defragmentation like Windows”.

For curious users who prefer a rather complete explanation about why GNU/Linux filesystem doesn’t need defragmentation like WIndows are, then this article might provide such answer to you : Why doesn’t Linux need defragmenting?

Hope that answer your questions about Linux (or other Unix-like) filesystem for that matter.
[tags]linux,windows,fat32,ext3,filesystem,defrag,defragmentation[/tags]

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OpenOffice Premium – openoffice 2.0.3 with extra toppings!

Some nice folks have released Openoffice Premium 2.0.3 , OpenOffice suite packaged with extra stuffs into a single binary. The English language binary download is 190MB and the binary is packed with :

  • Clip Art (currently more than 2,800 objects)
  • Templates (number varies by language)
  • Samples (number varies by language)
  • Documentation (if available)
  • Fonts (more than 90 fonts)

Which is handy for those who want to have extra templates and clip-arts for their project.

Depite its name, OpenOffice Premium is available freely (free as in beer and freedom), and the package can be downloaded from OpenOffice Premium Project Website

[tags]openoffice,open office,linux,office,desktop,opensource, open source, free software[/tags]