This is a short tutorial on setting up a FreeNas server.  This tutorial covers the installation of FreeNas on a single drive and enabling Samba to create a public share.  You can use this to share files between computers on your local network. This tutorial does not go into detail on all of the options
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Linux Mint Helena was finally released, new theme with the same good style. Linux Mint has been a favorite Linux distribution of mine for the past couple of years now. This group takes Ubuntu and dramatically improves the visual style to give a this distribution an eye catching look. They have also improved some core
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KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. Knoppix is one of the oldest tools I have used since I started working on computers.  It has been
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I have almost nothing but good things to say about this particular Linux distro. I have used this distro plenty of times and never stuck with it, this time I think they have it right. FreeNAS is a Linux distro meant to be, as the name indicates, a Network Attached Storage server. It has support
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