Featured LDN Articles
Performing Custom Actions when NetworkManager Goes On/Offline
By Ben Martin
NetworkManager is used by many Linux distributions to allow the machine to connect to wired and wireless networks automatically. NetworkManager can remember the credentials you need in order to authenticate with your wifi networks and can get online automatically when certain networks are detected.
Learn SQL
By Cameron Laird and Kathryn Soraiz
It's easier than ever to learn SQL. More precisely, it's easier than ever to start to learn SQL. SQL is in its sixth or seventh revision as an official standard, and understanding why there are two different counts, let alone comprehending all the variations of the query language through the years, is a task few undertake. The latest of these standards is almost 4,000 pages long.
Featured Blogs
Opera's Brick Walls
By David Goemans
Today Opera announced something amazing. Unite. The basis is a webserver in a browser. It allows you to share your music, images, files, and host chatrooms with anyone you choose, whether or not they use Opera. Futhermore, the APIs for writing your own services are available now. And the press has jumped onto this. Even Slashdot incorrectly reported it as the 10.0 release. However, will this actually get them users? In truth I doubt it.
Xorg, A Stumbling Stone?
By David Goemans
Statement: Xorg is a stumbling stone in the advancement of desktop linux, discuss. This may seem like a university essay, but there's a valid point hiding in there somewhere. Xorg is bigger, slower and more complicated than the graphical servers of other operating systems.
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