Articles by CSch
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How To Encrypt Mails With SSL Certificates (S/MIME)
Author: CSch • Tags: linux, security, desktop, email • Comments: 7How 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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The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 12 (Lisa)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) 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. Linux Mint 12 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience even for Linux newbies.
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Indicate Mail Accounts On Your Desktop (Ubuntu)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, email, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 Indicate Mail Accounts On Your Desktop (Ubuntu) This article is about how to get informed about new mails without actually opening your mail client using a handy indication tool called popper. Popper is silently running in the background and gives you a notice when a new mail arrives at your mail account, containing the mail's sender, subject and the time it arrived. Popper does not actually display the mail's content - it only gives you the information mentioned above. I have tested it on Linux Mint 11, but it should work fine with all other Ubuntu derivatives.
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The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 12.1 (GNOME)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, suse •
Comments: 3 The Perfect Desktop - OpenSUSE 12.1 (GNOME) This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 12.1 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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Enabling Compiz On A Fedora 16 GNOME Classic Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 1 Enabling Compiz On A Fedora 16 GNOME Classic Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Fedora 16 GNOME classic desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. I will use the free nouveau driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver. nouveau is an accelerated Open Source driver for NVIDIA cards that comes with experimental 3D support on Fedora 16 - on my test system 3D support was working without any problems.
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Configuring Compiz On Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 4 Enabling Compiz Fusion On Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu Linux 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Unity desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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Back Up Files With Déjà Dup (Linux Mint 11)
Author: CSch •
Tags: backup, desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Back Up Files With Déjà Dup (Linux Mint 11) This article is about how to back up your files with the file based back-up program duplicity's Graphical User Interface déjà dup. I have tried the tutorial on the Linux Mint 11 distribution, but it should work fine with all other Ubuntu based distributions.
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The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 16 i686 (GNOME)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 7 The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 16 i686 (GNOME) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 16 desktop (GNOME) 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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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.
