Articles by CSch

• The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 13 (Maya)

  Author: CSch • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 8

  The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 13 (Maya) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 13 (Maya) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

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• Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage

  Author: CSch • Tags: linux, backup • Comments: 1

  Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage Backups are usually made in one of two ways - either file-based which means that single files are backed up, often via synchronization and on an external disk, or image-based which means that a whole partition is stuffed into an image file that can be restored on the partition, containing everything there was on it. This tutorial covers image-based backups using Partimage from a live desktop environment.

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• The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

  Author: CSch • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 5

  This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

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• Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux)

  Author: CSch • Tags: ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 8

  Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux) This article is about how to create a DVD image of your machine with the exact same software included on the disk. This can be done using a software called Relinux. Relinux is a fork of the recently discontinued Remastersys.

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• Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12

  Author: CSch • Tags: ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 14

  Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12 Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint 12 alongside Windows 7 - the procedure however should be the same for all Ubuntu based distributions and only slightly different for every other.

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• How To Encrypt Mails With SSL Certificates (S/MIME)

  Author: CSch • Tags: linux, security, desktop, email • Comments: 7

  How To Encrypt Mails With SSL Certificates (S/MIME) This article is about how to use the S/MIME encryption function of common e-mail clients to sign and/or encrypt your mails safely. S/MIME uses SSL certificates which you can either create yourself or let a trusted certificate authority (CA) create one for you.

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• Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD

  Author: CSch • Tags: ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 2

  Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD This article is about how to create a DVD image of the Ubuntu distribution on your machine with the exact same software included on the disk. This can be done using a software called Remastersys. Remastersys allows you to either create iso-backups of your whole system, including the home folder, or just backups of the installed software, leaving the home folder aside.

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• How To Let Your Wallpapers Rotate With Webilder (Linux Mint 11)

  Author: CSch • Tags: ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 2

  How To Let Your Wallpapers Rotate With Webilder (Linux Mint 11) This article is about how to automatically change your desktop wallpaper on prespecified intervals with a software called Webilder that also downloads new wallpapers from flickr and webshots every few hours. This is also the software used for rotating wallpapers in the Ubuntu derivative Pinguy OS. I have installed and tried Webilder on Linux Mint 11, however it should also work on all other Debian and Ubuntu based distributions.

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• Installing Windows Software With Wine (Linux Mint 11)

  Author: CSch • Tags: ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 8

  Installing Windows Software With Wine (Linux Mint 11) This tutorial is supposed to show you how to install .exe files on your Linux system. I am using Linux Mint 11 as an operating system, however the steps should not differ greatly from other distributions. The software I am going to use as an example will be VLC Player. I am aware that there is a version of VLC for Linux, in some cases even preinstalled, but it serves well for the purpose of guiding through the steps of installation.

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• Moving Files Between Linux Systems With SCP

  Author: CSch • Tags: linux • Comments: 4

  Moving Files Between Linux Systems With SCP This article is about how to move files between servers using the scp (secure copy) command. To show how it works, I will move files from my HDD to a virtual machine running on VirtualBox. There is Linux Mint 11 installed on both drives.

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