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Here in the days of DHCP running on everything from cable modems to knock off cisco switches, what do you do when DHCP fails to assign an address to a large multi-user LAN?

Instead of having a stroke, you implement this script in Ubuntu to auto assign an ip address. As it was designed specifically for fact that the LTSP projects DHCP-3d can not assign multiple networks DHCP leases without physical adapters being present.

The CentOS community annouced that their clone of Redhat Enterprise Linux, has been released. CentOS 5.6 clones many of the features found in Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.6 (RHEL), including the new file system make up (ext4). Full release notes are available here

Eye candy, not really, windows like GUI perhaps, but Gnome is defacto Desktop environment for Redhat, Fedora, and many others.

"The GNOME project is proud to release this new version of the GNOME desktop environment and developer platform. Among the hundreds of bug fixes and user-requested improvements, GNOME 2.30 has several highly visible changes: new features for advanced file management, better remote desktop experience, easier notes synchronization and a generally smoother user experience. Learn more about GNOME 2.30 through the detailed release notes and the press release."

This is how to mount a CD-ROM in Linux

at the command line type in

Red Star Linux, the an be freely purchased in Pyongyang for $5 and the operating system is available in both client and server versions. Red Star requires, at minimum, a Pentium III 800-MHz CPU , 256MB of RAM and 3GB of hard disk space.

Wine, the Windows emulator for Linux has updated its code to fix numerous bugs and improve greater compatibility for applications

An open-source, non-linear video editor for Linux jam packed full of features that rival many commercial editors. You can get your copy here

Upgrading most systems is a hassle, how ever with Fedora core its just time consuming. Here is how in a few short steps you can upgrade your version of Fedora to the next version

" One-third of the 35 million netbooks on track to ship this year will come with some variant of the free, open-source operating system, ABI Research said. The exact split is 32% Linux versus 68% Windows, said Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI, which works out to about 11 million Linux netbooks this year." Source ComputerWorld

OpenSUSE 11.2 is now available in final form for free download. More information and links to download sites may be found here.