Category Archives: Linux

Data recovery with knoppix

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Did you know that one of the best tools for Windows data recovery is Linux? When all else fails and you desperately need information off of your hard drive, Linux is your safest bet. One of the best CD-bootable distributions out there is Knoppix (available for free at www.knoppix.org). Knoppix will allow you to not only possibly recover lost data that Windows simply cannot access, but also potentially fix hard drive errors and partition tables. Give it a whirl for all of your data recover needs.

Access Linux Drives from Windows

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If you run a dual boot between Linux and Windows (or want to), then it would probably be handy to be able to access your Linux files from Windows. Natively, you cannot do this from Windows as it will recognize the standard Linux file system’s, ext2 and ext3, as an unknown partition.

To solve this problem, look no farther than the Ext2 Installable File System For Windows. Once you have this tool installed, you will be able to read and write to your Linux drives, just as you would in Windows.

If you run a dual boot, this tool is invaluable.

Dual booting XP and Linux

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# First, start off with a machine with XP already installed on it.

# Next, download a Linux distro.

# Burn a CD of the ISO you downloaded and pop it into the drive and boot up off of it.

# Start the install process. This will take you through the Welcome screen, the Where are you? screen and the Keyboard layout screen.

# Now you’ll come to the disk partitioner. Choose the Resize [main partition] and use freed space option. This is where you find out if you have enough free space to do the job. The default recommendation for the new partition size will be ideal, but you can move the slider along to change the values to suit. When you’re done, click Forward.

# Now you can go away and leave the install to churn away until it’s done. It shouldn’t take all that long.

# When the install is complete the system will reboot.

# When the system boot up, now you’ll be greeted by the GRUB boot menu. From here you can choose which OS to boot into. In my case Ubuntu will be the default and will start automatically in 10 seconds.

# The first time that you reboot into Windows the OS will more than likely want to check the disk since the partition has changed size since Windows was last running. XP will also likely want to re-detect hardware and such and probably reboot.

# That’s it!

RedHat will open a store online of programs of open code

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The company has predicted to announce its strategy the week that comes, when it presents the first important update in two years his central operating system based on Linux. Network Hat did not want to comment out. Linux is the program of more popular open code and was developed like an alternative to another one like the Windows of Microsoft.

Mandriva 2008 — The new Linux

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Mandriva announces the color for its distribution Mandriva Linux 2008 to leave on September 27, 2007.

According to the official calendar, the final version of the distribution Linux Mandriva 2008 should be born on September 27, 2007 after in particular the publication of a first version beta between the 2 and August 16. In short Based on the very recent core Linux 2.6.22, Mandriva Linux 2008 will integrate its batch of traditional updates with the graphic waiter X.org 7.3, the last stable versions of the environments of Bureau XFCE 4.4.1 and KDE 3.5.7 as GNOME in its grinding 2.20 which will be available next September.