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Read Me: Why Linux doesnt need an anti virus ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page) aripaka (Mar 27th, 2006)	Jul 7th, 2008 by blueclock	58	13,835
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Gentoo vs Ubuntu ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page) extofer (Nov 5th, 2005)	Jun 12th, 2007 by planetxmail	75	57,468
Ubuntu - installing g++, make, openssh server stupidenator (Mar 16th, 2006)	Mar 30th, 2006 by stupidenator	2	33,898
Quick Reference for Linux Commands ( 1 2) cscgal (Nov 16th, 2003)	Jan 17th, 2006 by jackfusion	18	24,770
Linux/Windows "Workgroup" Home User-Suse 9.2 bci (Mar 18th, 2005)	Apr 20th, 2005 by abushman	6	19,928
Best Linux Distribution for Server? ( 1 2) spice (Dec 9th, 2006)	Feb 10th, 2007 by John A	19	18,878
Linux Torrents... fooumang (Feb 2nd, 2005)	Jan 5th, 2006 by fooumang	8	17,853
Starting GNOME on Ubuntu extofer (Apr 28th, 2006)	Mar 20th, 2008 by lio04	7	15,713
Define x86-64 vs i386 Thong_Ispector (Dec 12th, 2004)	Dec 17th, 2004 by Thong_Ispector	2	15,190
Confused x86_64 or i386? ( 1 2 3) emen (Jul 19th, 2005)	Jul 1st, 2007 by jbennet	28	13,923
Is Linux Gui ( 1 2) chound (Jan 31st, 2005)	Nov 26th, 2007 by TheNNS	12	13,396
Burning ISO Images- MD5 Checksums winddancer (Aug 7th, 2005)	Mar 10th, 2007 by mepnoob2005	5	11,924
Linux: Some Ugly OS' ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page) sinjix_media (Jun 10th, 2007)	Mar 5th, 2008 by linux	57	10,555
could an old machine run linux ( 1 2 3) mikeandike22 (Aug 30th, 2004)	Apr 7th, 2005 by jbennet	26	8,858
which linux for gaming? Gotmad (May 30th, 2005)	Jul 5th, 2005 by linux-tech	3	8,822
Knoppix for Newbies! ( 1 2 3) Tekmaven (Oct 10th, 2002)	Jan 10th, 2008 by TheNNS	23	8,632
Poll: Favorite Distro ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page) TheNNS (Jul 24th, 2006)	Aug 22nd, 2008 by MONODA	52	8,056
Poll: What is your slackware version? ( 1 2) TKS (May 4th, 2004)	Apr 7th, 2005 by alc6379	10	7,728
mounting FAT32 windows partitions on RH9 linuxnewbie (Jun 9th, 2005)	Jun 15th, 2005 by alc6379	1	7,673
knoppix or else ( 1 2 3) drummerboy (Feb 15th, 2004)	Sep 17th, 2005 by SaraSD	28	7,578
Ubuntu 64 bits and INTEL processors ( 1 2) VicenteCallejon (Nov 26th, 2006)	Jun 27th, 2008 by Ed Lata	10	7,513
Dell Notebooks NOT Linux Friendly ( 1 2 3) Thong_Ispector (Dec 11th, 2004)	Jan 5th, 2005 by TKS	22	7,511
"The Futue is Open" IBM Commercial Tekmaven (Jan 23rd, 2004)	Jan 29th, 2004 by twilli227	7	7,386
samba 3.0.22 on solaris 9 gegestic (Jun 20th, 2006)	Jul 12th, 2006 by geoff menner	2	7,382
HOWTO Using Babylon Dictionary Glossary in Ubuntu Ubuntu (Nov 9th, 2007)	Dec 20th, 2007 by nogamal	7	7,152
Cygwin Bash Shell extofer (Feb 3rd, 2006)	Feb 4th, 2006 by alc6379	1	7,116