Do you want to give your desktop a dash of Mac OS X? Do you want to
change your GNOME desktop from the default look to something like this?
Then read on…..
The goal of this project is to bring the look and feel of Mac OS X (latest being 10.5, Leopard) on *nix GTK based systems.
This document will present the procedure to install Mac4Lin pack
& tweak certain things to get that almost perfect Mac OS X like
desktop. Compiz here, refers to Compiz Fusion.
Recently there’s been a lot of news about OpenSolaris, more
specifically in reference to the great progress made by virtualization
technologies in it. In this article, I will exam some of these
technologies, and compare them with the state of the art on other
platforms.
This is to help people install LAMP(LINUX-APACHE-MYSQL-PHP) server in ubuntu(if u use the desktop edition,not for server edition).There are many ways in installing LAMP in a desktop edition. now lets see them.
The first way is using commands in the terminal…. the command is…
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-xsl php5-gd php-pear libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
I am writing this post because a reader of this site has suggested.
Polipo is a Linux proxy, like squid but it is intended in a personal use, I used to use squid as my personal proxy but because I have a PIV HT processor and 1 Gig of RAM, in Laptop that approach was just to heavy for it.
Now with Polipo things will change, well go to the installation.
Installation
apt-get install polipo
There is almost no need to change the configuration file as with the defaults it will work great as a personal firewall.
Since this was written Sunbird 0.7 has been released. The package in
the Ubuntu repository is 0.5. Here are steps for manually installing
the latest.
Manually Installing Sunbird 0.7
This document describes how to set up a Linux Mint 3.1 "full
edition" desktop. The result is a fast, secure and extendable system
that provides all you need for daily work and entertainment. Linux Mint
3.1 builds upon Ubuntu Feisty and is compatible to its repositories -
about 22.000 packages are available.
This howto is a practical guide without any warranty - it doesn’t
cover the theoretical backgrounds. There are many ways to set up such a
system - this is the way I chose.
Some days ago while I was on a business trip, and trying to work in
the Hotel, the second day the Internet connection was really slow,
(maybe some other guest was downloading a lot of information), while
trying to look for some information on the web, it took lots of seconds
to even get the IP of the pages I was trying to visit.
I decided that I needed a local DNS on my PC to improve at least a little my speed experience.
This article explains how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with HAProxy
and keepalived on Debian Etch. The load balancer sits between the user
and two (or more) backend Apache web servers that hold the same
content. Not only does the load balancer distribute the requests to the
two backend Apache servers, it also checks the health of the backend
servers. If one of them is down, all requests will automatically be
redirected to the remaining backend server. In addition to that, the
Last week
we learned some useful tips about font management in Linux. Today we’re
going to learn a few more ways to preview fonts, how to view font
character maps, how to manage console fonts, and how to design your own
fonts.
How many times have you been stuck at work when the latest episode of a podcast such as LugRadio
has become available for download, or the latest version of your
favourite Linux distribution has been released? Wouldn’t it be really
useful if you could access a server at home through your web browser
and order it to download that file, so that it’s waiting for you when
you get there? Or, if you like to sleep in peace with your desktop off,
wouldn’t it be great if you could remotely access a BitTorrent client
Torrent is a great way to transfer large files very quickly. However
most torrent clients are gui based and have quite some impact on system
resources (e.g. Azureus). rTorrent is a lightweight client running from
the terminal. Being able to run it in a screen session (also upon boot)
makes it ideal to also control it from a remote location.
Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server.
Install Ruby on Rails (ROR) on Ubuntu
First we need to install Ruby and irb (Interactive ruby shell) and we’ll add ri and rdoc. The recommended Ruby version for rails is 1.8.5.
GeoGebra,
a GPL-licensed teaching and learning tool that integrates geometry,
algebra, and calculus, benefits both teachers and students alike.
Developed by Markus Hohenwarter at Florida Atlantic University,
GeoGebra constructs geometrical figures and demonstrates the
relationship between geometry and algebra. GeoGebra can help you create
interactive demonstrations and precise images of geometric figures for
inclusion in teaching and testing materials.
Part 1 of this article provided the general background a reader needs to solve problems with Linux. Part 2 of this article discussed the process of solving Linux problems. In this final part of a three-part series, we’ll step through a real-world example of solving a Linux problem.
With the new release of Ubuntu 7.10 I figured I should go back and
revisit some of my macbook specific tutorials. Today I’ll touch on
configuring / enabling wireless on the macbook (second-gen) in Ubuntu
7.10.
Enable Wireless on the Macbook