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PS3Magic, is an astonishingly simple Linux Installation software guide that allows PC applications on your PS3 Instantly. Generally Gaming consoles are designed so that foreign systems cannot run on them, but PS3 goes in the total opposite direction, allowing an experienced Linux user to personalize their unconventional in allowing this.

What is really unique about the PlayStation 3 is that - it is the same processor used in some of the high end IBM systems. That means you can use the PS3 as a fun, Game Playing console as well as the front end of super computing system for better performance such as: game development, internet programs, open office, movies and other type of functionality on computer desktops today.

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There are several types of Linux programs that can be considered for this; some are perfect for your console and others are not. Yellow dog Linux and Ubuntu are the best programs that will fit well for your PS3, but if you have different intentions here is a list of others:

YELLOW DOG LINUX- is specially customized for the PS3 and was released for only PS3 users. YDL has over 2200 programs and accessories that will give you the ultimate experience of a Desktop PC.

UBUNTU- is an operating system built by a worldwide team of expert developers. It contains all the applications you need: Web browser, office suite, media apps, instant messaging and much more.

FEDORA- is not a good option of the PS3 right now as it does not have the required optimization and runs slower than Ubuntu and TDL.

EDUBUNTU - is packaged for education

KUBUNTU - uses KDE which looks closer to windows in terms of default color and menu apps. It also offers more options to configure your programs and Desktop.

XUBUNTU - Uses XFCE which is good for older computers, computers with limited resources in terms of RAM or storage but is also good on new computers if you want a lean system. To Get PS3Magic Check Author Resource.

If you are still struggling to install Linux your PS3 and feel deceived by all the How-To guides and Software's available on the net - well all I can say is this: It's Not Your Fault. I know how confusing they all are. On this page you are going to discover how to choose the right Linux for your PS3 and how to install it without all the technical hassles. PS3Magic is an easy to use software guide that takes away all the guesswork and helps you to install Linux in your PS3 effortlessly. With PS3Magic you can install Yellowdog Linux(up to latest Version!) and also Ubuntu Linux.

Doing so allows you to Play Movies, Music and most other type of multimedia file formats which your PS3 usually doesn't support. Never have an unplayable file again! Run Windows with Yellow Dog Linux or Ubuntu Linux - according to your preference.PS3Magic has also been updated to install Windows. If you are not familiar with Linux Operating system, then our product will also help you install and Run Windows in your PS3 seamlessly. Receive free lifetime updates and support with the latest features available for your PS3.

The Linux operating system has experienced huge growth in the past few years. With excellent stability. flexibility and the free price tag. People are realizing that Linux is a great alternative. Just like Windows, users would have to learn how to use Linux. Linux developers have taken note, and have come up with several ways to allow people to try Linux without getting rid of your Windows installation. Here are a couple of ways you can get a taste of what Linux has to offer.

Live CD

Linux distributions like Ubuntu offer a feature called Live CD. Live CD allows you to boot off of the install CD instead of your hard drive. All you have to do is burn the CD, keep it in your CD drive when booting your computer and press the option to boot from CD. Now each computer is different so consult your PC manufacture for instructions to boot from CD. Once booted you will be able to use almost all of the functionality of the Linux distribution that you have on CD without impacting your Windows installation. There are two drawbacks: You cannot save your settings once you turn off your computer and the operating system tends to run slow because CD drives access data slower than hard drives. If you like what you see you can install to your hard drive from the live CD. Get more information at

Wubi

Wubi is great. What Wubi does is creates a virtual hard drive in one folder stored on your Windows partition. Then Wubi gives you the option to boot into Windows or Linux upon booting by changing your boot record. Installation is easy. Just download the install file. Select the install path and what install of Ubuntu you would like. That's it. Once complete you will have the option to boot into Linux or Windows. If you want to remove Linux just go to add/remove programs and uninstall Wubi. That's it. No mess. There is a small risk of damage to your boot record but I have never seen it. Check Wubi out at /

Virtualbox

Virtualbox is really cool. Virtualbox is a piece of software that you can install in Windows and Linux that will allow you to emulate another operating system while running another. For example, if you use Windows you can install Virtualbox and install Ubuntu then run Ubuntu in a small window or full screen while being able to use everything in Windows. I hope that makes sense. The only drawback Virtualbox has is it runs slow because it has to share system resources with your host operating system. So you won't be playing any games while running Virtualbox. If you want just learn this is a great solution. Once you are done you can close up Virtualbox to free up system resources. For more information go to

That's it! You have three free ways to get your feet wet with Linux. If you like Linux give it an install as your main operating system. There are too many things to explore with Linux to fit in one article. I recommend trying out Ubuntu.

The Operating system is the most essential part of a computer system. Operating system vendors periodically release updates to increase their performance and add new functions. In Ubuntu Linux you can use apt-get for complete up-gradation. Apt-get is a powerful command line utility, which is used to communicate with Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) of Ubuntu. It performs installation of new applications packages, update package list index, and upgrade existing software packages. It can even upgrade the core Ubuntu operating system files. Apt-get upgrade checks all software packages in system and then checks those software packages that could be upgraded without uninstalling or affecting anything in the operating system. Then it installs the upgrades. Ultimately you have a fully upgraded Linux system and the software packages that could not upgrade automatically. Being a straightforward command line utility, apt-get has a number of benefits over other application package manag ement toos available for Ubuntu server administrators. Some of the key benefits of this upgrade include: Ease of use as compared to the Simple Terminal Connections (SSH) Compatible with system administration scripts Automated upgrade using the cron (short for chronograph) scheduling toolAlthough, apt-get is an extremely useful tool for Ubuntu up-gradation, but sometimes it may lead to problems. After apt-get upgrade, you may get potential fsck errors on the Linux workstation during startup. The boot process may get halted. Also there is a possibility that you see the system dump in shell with the error:/dev/hda3: Super block last mount time is in the future /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLYThis behavior of Linux could be the possible result of damage to the file system or errors in the MBR. Due to the same, Linux does not get complete boot information and shows the above error message. Nevertheless the cause of this problem, the ltimate result of this pr oblem would be the loss of your valuable business data. To overcome this problem, you need to perform data recovery in Linux. The data recovery in Linux is best possible with the help of Linux data recovery software. The software is capable of systematically scanning your hard drive, extracting your data leading to absolute Linux recovery. To ensure safe, easy and complete Linux data recovery, a good Linux recovery software is the must have. Stellar Phoenix Linux Data Recovery is the most comprehensive and the best ever Linux recovery software. With powerful scanning algorithms, this robust Linux recovery software performs a thorough scan of affected hard drive and extracts all of your inaccessible, missing or lost data. Phoenix Linux Recovery is applicable to all flavors of Linux operating system including Ubuntu.

Most people pick up the phone an call for help the moment their Windows system crashes or doesn't perform as expected. Typically that mean an expensive and time-consuming call to Microsoft support or to a local tech support person. In the Linux world, help is readily available, and often free.

Now, there are paid support options as well. Some large companies have Linux experts on call in case there are problems. But another option, especially for desktop users, is to access the Linux community of experts via online forums. If you are using Ubuntu and have an issue, nine times out of ten someone else has had the exact same problem, have already solved it, and posted a solution online. The forums for Ubuntu users are an excellent resource for those new to Ubuntu who have a problem.

For a time Linux users got a bad rap for being rude to new users who didn't know anything about computers. On the Ubuntu forums this isn't the case at all. The discourse is usually quite courteous. Make sure to do a search for your particular issue before posting. Again, you probably aren't the first to have had this particular problem (which should be a comforting thought) and there may already be a conversation, or thread, going discussing what to do and how to recover. If you cannot find a current conversation about your issue, then you may start a new thread, but try to be as specific as possible. If the title of your message is "Help me!!!!", you may not get a response, but if the title is "no sound in Skype, 10.4, Fujitsu NF40T laptop, you may be surprised how helpful the Linux community can be.

Paid support options for desktop and server installs for Ubuntu can be found at shop.canonical.com. The desktop support option starts at just over $100 for one year of professional support.

If you want to go the free support route, then you can't go wrong with the ubuntu forums here:

Presented are views that the community behind Linux (not all) has similar practices as Soviet communists and a clear example to support this opinion is given to the reader, as the author of this article has experience from the communist Czechoslovakia. Some advantages of the BSD license are highlighted too.

Communism is the ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization; however, its practice got far from the original ideas. This may also happen to Linux and its GPL.

Linux is the kernel on top of which are many (userland) utilities (and software) - this "beer and the barrel" makes a Linux distribution. There are two basic movements in the Linux world - communists and social democrats. Social democrats are not very harmful and they are often agreeable.

The communism type Linux is the "free-software" (and cult-like) movement of Mr. Stallman, which included even such distributions as Slackware, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD (/distros/common-distros.html) into the list of "non-free" distributions. They monopolized the interpretation of what the GPL license and freedom are and they practice "groupthink", which is a term coined by a social psychologist Janis. However, you do not have to adopt the full psychologists' interpretation of what groupthink is, as this would give a podium for another form of groupthink.

I will explain it in my own words - you may either think convergently (as groups always want you), or divergently (you may be in harmony with the general opinion of groups, but not in total harmony). If you think divergently, groups tend to consider you an enemy, or not an enemy - they just ignore you. Unfortunately, all these psychological theories are actually nonsensical, as groupthink cannot understand groupthink. If you can liberate your mind from all these theories, you will understand why the crash of the US Space Shuttle Challenger happened and why the story about it is included in a number of sources that deal with groupthink.

In the communist regime, which had lasted from 1948 to 1989 in Czechoslovakia, there was a Socialist Property Ownership Act - it prohibited anyone from taking the shared (GPL'd) property of socialist ownership under sever punishment. Here readers will understand the following:1) You can take a code of the BSD licensed software and make it your own. 2) You cannot appropriate the GPL licensed software (if so, you are punished).

Here you see two different conceptions of what freedom is. The GPL license is the same thing as the communist Socialist Property Ownership Act, because you get equally punished in both cases (braking the GPL or the communist law).

The BSD license is in compliance with the philosophy of FSF - you can run, copy, distribute, study, change, and improve the software (see my above note about groupthink - philosophy of BSD is in harmony with FSF, but not in total harmony). However, BSD distributions are not in the list of "free software" that Mr. Stallman recommends, so here you must clearly understand that it is not "freedom", but the "monopoly of freedom" that matters here. The practice of communists was often aimed at depriving disobedient people of their jobs and this is what cult-centered communities do everywhere, not only in the Linux world. Cult-centered people always live in the glasshouse of groupthink.

I wrote (and sold) a number of Linux articles (I also wrote an Xmodmap howto -(/HOWTOs/mini/Intkeyb-1.html), but as I also write articles about FreeBSD, I realize that the community of readers is often unfriendly (because of groupthink), which reminds me of the past communist days. I remember my brother when he was arrested for being honest - he only said that communist had failed in making a few things better. Two years in communist prison is something Mr. Stallman has never experienced. My brother also knew some inmates that had shared the same cell with Mr. Havel, the first president of the post-communist Czechoslovakia.

I would be happy if readers understood that communism, like fascism, was a very bad thing and that they should not support groups that want to put a noose on their necks. This is not aimed at Linux, but at the communism of it. I appreciate Debian. I almost love it. Slackware too. However, both above distributions are on the list of "non-free" software and this why I will never use distributions that FSF considers free. They will never be free for me.

The FreeBSDnews.net informs that the FreeBSD Foundation has kicked off its annual end-of-year fund-raise drive - please support freedom and not communism! Donate! /donate/