Hardware 2. Portal [Nero Linux 3 - Info Page] 7 "must read" Linux tutorials | Linux Screw. 10 Tips for After You Install or Upgrade Ubuntu. Ubuntu is becoming more and more complete and easy to configure. However, like any operating system there’s work to be done after the installation. Here’s a list of 10 tips that you can use after installing or upgrading Ubuntu. Install software faster As a commenter on Slashdot said: I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if thousands of apt-get repositories had cried out in pain, and were suddenly silenced.
The Ubuntu software repositories can get really slow, and even stop responding completely around the time of a major Ubuntu release. Install restricted extras (and enable the multiverse repository) Install support for playback of many types of audio and video, web fonts, Java, Flash, and DVD playback all in one go.
Open Applications->Add/Remove. Silence the internal speaker beep Some Ubuntu applications make heavy use of that annoying speaker inside your PC’s case, such as Firefox when you are searching in a page. Clear partition icons off the desktop Remove old configuration files. Hack Attack: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks. Seamlessly integrate XP into Linux with SeamlessRDP. To make this work, you need three tools installed on your system. Though not open source, VMware Server is free as in beer; it requires a license number that you get from the same page where you download the program.
(Of course you also need a copy of Windows XP to run under VMware Server.) rdesktop is a Remote Desktop Protocol client bundled with virtually every Linux distro, and Cendio's SeamlessRDP is a GPL-licensed utility that lets you integrate rdesktop with Windows XP. With this solution, you're connecting to a virtual machine in the background, but you don't see a window frame or the Windows desktop. All you see is the Windows XP menu bar along with your regular KDE or GNOME menu bar, creating the illusion that both operating systems are working at the same time side by side.
In Figure 1. below, notice the KDE menu bar on the top and the Windows XP menu bar on the bottom of the screen. You can launch applications from both. Now it's time to use rdesktop. Voilà! Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies | HowtoForge - Linux Howto. In this guide I will show you how to install a LAMP system. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The guide is intended to help those who have very little knowlegde of using Linux. Install Apache To start off we will install Apache. 1.
Open up the Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal). 2. Sudo apt-get install apache2 3. Testing Apache To make sure everything installed correctly we will now test Apache to ensure it is working properly. 1. You should see a folder entitled apache2-default/. Install PHP In this part we will install PHP 5. Step 1. Step 2. Sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 Step 3. Sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Test PHP To ensure there are no issues with PHP let's give it a quick test run. Step 1. Sudo gedit /var/www/testphp.php This will open up a file called phptest.php.
Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. The page should look like this: Congrats you have now installed both Apache and PHP! Install MySQL Step 1. Change the line. 35 Cool Applications to install on Ubuntu 7.04. 35 Cool Applications to install on Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.04 is undoubtedly one of the most popular Linux distribution especially for Linux newbies , now overall it is extremely usable and good but a very limited number of applications are by default shipped with Ubuntu 7.04 . Now here in this sudo aptitude install libqt3-mt and sudo dpkg -i opera_9.20-20070409.6-shared-qt_en_i386.deb After completing above step launch opera from (Applications -> Internet -> Opera ) 2.
Downloader for X is a nice download manager that allows downloading files from Internet , pausing them and downloading them later . Anyways to install " Downloader for X " type the following command in the terminal window. ¨sudo aptitude install d4x " After installation is over launch ¨Downloader for X¨ by typing ¨d4x¨ in the terminal window , or by going to (Applications-> Internet -> Downloader for X ) This is how Downloader for X looks 3. Sudo aptitude install amarok AmaroK running on Ubuntu 4. Sudo aptitude install skype 5. 6. 7.
Wine Doors. Little Ubuntu » Awesome Ubuntu/Linux Apps you might not know abo. Using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and any other operating system. GNU/Linux can be scary to a new user. After all, what if you mess up? What if you end up corrupting your hard drive so badly that you need to format it to get rid of GNU/Linux? The solution is to use virtualization technology.
A virtual machine creates a virtual hard drive as well as a virtual computer, so you can install and run it from within another operating system. First, choose which virtualization tool to use. VirtualBox is free software. Getting VirtualBox varies from platform to platform. Now that VirtualBox is installed, create your first virtual machine. Select the “New” button (or hit Ctrl + N). Figure 1: New Machine Wizard Click “Next”. Figure 2: New Virtual Disk Wizard Click “New”, and yet another window opens. Now, click “Ubuntu” once, then click “Settings” (figure 3). Figure 3: Adding a CD/DVD-Rom Select “CD/DVD-ROM”. You are now ready. Figure 4: The Ubuntu installer Select “Start or Install Ubuntu”, with the arrow keys, then hit “Enter” . [1] Open source at CeBIT 2007. The Linux Alternative Project - linuxalt.com. Full Circle Magazine.
Anatomy of the Linux kernel. History and architectural decomposition M. Tim JonesPublished on June 06, 2007 Given that the goal of this article is to introduce you to the Linux kernel and explore its architecture and major components, let's start with a short tour of Linux kernel history, then look at the Linux kernel architecture from 30,000 feet, and, finally, examine its major subsystems. The Linux kernel is over six million lines of code, so this introduction is not exhaustive. Use the pointers to more content to dig in further. A short tour of Linux history Linux or GNU/Linux? You've probably noticed that Linux as an operating system is referred to in some cases as "Linux" and in others as "GNU/Linux.
" While Linux is arguably the most popular open source operating system, its history is actually quite short considering the timeline of operating systems. Twenty years later, Andrew Tanenbaum created a microkernel version of UNIX®, called MINIX (for minimal UNIX), that ran on small personal computers. Figure 1. Issue 18 | Free Software Magazine. 17 Must-Have Free Apps for New Ubuntu Users.