Fedora RPM Fusion Repositories
For the sake of making a long story short, patent and copyright restrictions, complicates Fedora’s ability to distributing software to support proprietary formats such as DVD, MP3, Quicktime, Windows Media, aa well as other propietary formats. While Fedora has limitaions on including nonfree software by default meaning that proprietary media formats such as the ones [...]
Fedora: Installing Skype
This howto covers setting up the skype repo and installing skype. If you are like me then you do your VoIP calling from your Fedora machine using the Skype network. Well lets get it installed.
Fedora: Canon Pixma IP1800 Printer Driver
Today I switched to Fedora (Fedora 11 as of this writing but 12 is only a couple days away so it should still work the same way) and one of the first things I needed to was to install the print drivers for my Canon Pixma IP1800 printer. I love my little Canon printer and [...]
Moving the /home folder to its own partition
Just a heads up, we talk about and mention Ubuntu in the article but this will really work for any distro. Some of these instructions may vary just a bit for Logical Volumes but you should easily be able to figure out the slight differences. Having the “/home” directory tree mounted on it’s own partition [...]
Ubuntu Grub Splash Image
For some crazy reason the grub selection menu in Ubuntu does not have a splash image background install (I am guessing it is because if it were there you would hardly ever see it, unlike some M$ OSes). Anyway to add your own or just a generic one that comes with the package, you have [...]
Ubuntu: Broadband Local DNS Cache
Ever wanted to run your local DNS cache in order to speed up your over all browsing speeds. Well with Linux especially with Ubuntu this is super easy to do. I am going to take a few moments here and explain how it is done. This should only taje about 5 to 10 minutes of [...]
Mount a remote filesystem using SSH via SSHFS
You like hundreds of other people have decided that it is easier to work on files using a program like Geany, Jedit, or gedit, but your files are located on a remote machine. Some of the GUIs out there have SFTP modules, but you still need good old Filezilla or some program similar to transfer [...]
Instructions for Installing RPM Files Using Alien: Ubuntu, Debian
Have you ever found a package and all you get your hands on was the rpm file and you stilled wanted to install that package. If you can get your hands on the rpm file and you cannot find a .deb debian package in any of the Ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can still install [...]
Introducing SSHMenu
OK, I stumbled across one of the most useful apps I have discovered in a long time, SSHMenu. SSHMenu is a panel applet for GNMOME (I have been informed it can be used outside of GNOME as well) that keeps track of all your regular SSH connections and makes them available with a single mouse [...]
Ubuntu: Installing Fonts on Linux
There should be reason for me to try and convince you that everyone needs to know how to install fonts on Ubuntu or even Linux. Installing fonts is one of those things that is done on any and every platform around. The good news is that there are tons of fonts to choose from out [...]
