WordPress nice permalinks is a way to create search-engine-friendly url's for WordPress posts and pages. Unfortunately they sometimes do not work out-of-the-box even after choosing your permalinks structure in WordPress options. I have found the issue in Cent OS 5 as also in Fedora versions before.

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Windows control panel is something we are all familiar with in Windows operating systems like Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista & now Winfows 7. Unfortunately you may not have found a direct equivalent of Windows Control Panel which works in Linux systems like RHEL, Cent OS, Fedora, Ubuntu etc. Despair no more for the solution is here.

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With recession hitting hard on the economy, businesses are holding back on ways to minimize IT expenditure. Top notch companies providing ERP software are affected by the ongoing financial crisis in the global market scaling down the IT investment. Implementation of ERP solution involves a hefty budget, long time and conscientious efforts for customization. To rescue the situation, open source ERP software have emerged as feasible alternative. The key reasons for the diversion includes lower cost, flexibility, large group of users and independence from solution providers. Additionally, companies can easily download the open source ERP solutions and customize them to fit the needs of the company. We had already done with the top 10 ERP software. This time we went for extensive research to assort a list of the best open source ERP software.

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There are a majority of enterprises running Java applications and working on Java web development framework. What remains to be seen is that a number of companies are tied to the conventional web development framework and  haven’t actually started to anticipate what could be the best Java web development framework. Even the JavaOne might hold no unified voice for what web framework is best. There are several easy to use Java web frameworks that are out now a days, and they are too many. Essentially choosing the best web development framework has become more intricate, specifically due to three reasons. On a broader perspective, the web technology landscape has undergone a sea change; far more choice of technology; and changing requirements for modern web applications. After an extensive research we assorted the 10 best Java web development framework that we would like to share with you.

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With perilous threats from crackers and script kiddes lurking in the network, IT administrators could do no better than placing a firewall protection. Firewall prevents unwanted access to departmental systems while preventing local systems from attacking systems on the other network. It ensure that the traffic entering and leaving the secured LAN is accessing the correct applications on the correct computers. We had already done with the top free Windows firewall. However, there are cool open source firewall to take advantage of. Open source firewall not only offers better customization options, but also reduces the cost of ownership.  After an comprehensive search we assorted the top 5 open source firewall.

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CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. Other than logo and name changes CentOS Enterprise Linux 5 is compatible with the equivalent Red Hat version.

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Blender is popular open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D content creation. Here is how you can install Blender on CentOS 5 (enterprise version of Linux) and equivalent to RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.

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In our top 10 CRM software we had mentioned two widely used open source CRM software - SugarCRM and vTiger. There has been much altercation over the fact that vTiger will become the SugarCRM alternative in the CRM space. vtiger CRM was actually forked from Sugar CRM designed to create a fully open source CRM that would offer functionality comparable to salesforce.com. vtiger has undergone significant improvements over the years and is one of the leading CRM software now. Although vTiger shares several common features with Sugar, it includes a few propriety extensions. We decided to bring the two major open source CRM solutions face-to-face.

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Twinkle seems to be one of the most ambitious Linux softphones.  This free open source softphone offers voice communications and instant messaging using SIP protocol. Twinkle is one of the most widely used SIP softphones. It's popularity can be given to the fact that it is available in the stable repos in the main distros (Ubuntu, OpenSuse and Fedora). The VoIP application uses Qt toolkit for its graphical user interface. For calls Twinkle uses the session Initiation Protocol (widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice calls over IP). It can be used for straight IP to IP calls as well as in a network using a SIP proxy to route your calls and messages. Let's delve into its key feature of Twinkle to find out where does it stand in the queue of open source softphones.

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