Articles by CSch
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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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The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 11.10
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 1 This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 11.10 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. Please note that Ubuntu Studio 11.10 uses Xfce as the default desktop environment (instead of GNOME).
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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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The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 11.10
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 3 The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 11.10 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. Kubuntu 11.10 is derived from Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and uses the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME desktop.
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The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 8 The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) 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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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.10 (LAMP)
Author: CSch •
Tags: apache, mysql, php, ubuntu, web server •
Comments: 20 Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 11.10 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Changing Desktop Appearance On Linux Mint 11 (Advanced)
Author: CSch •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Changing Desktop Appearance On Linux Mint 11 (Advanced) This tutorial is supposed to show you how to change the GNOME desktop's appearance on Linux Mint further than the standard options of the Appearance section in the Control Center allow. I am going to use several different applications for this cause. This tutorial will describe how to alter the appearance of a Linux Mint 11 system with a GNOME desktop. This is the standard desktop that comes with Mint, so if you have not changed anything about that all steps should work fine for you. Be aware that the use of the nVidia proprietary drivers may not be unrisky!
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Editing Images With Pinta
Author: CSch • Tags: debian, fedora, mandriva, suse, ubuntu, centos, desktop, pclinuxos • Comments: 14Editing Images With Pinta This article is about how to use the Pinta graphical editor to edit pictures and covers some of its most important features. Pinta is a lightweight image editor for Linux and is far more easier to handle than Gimp but still has a large variety of tools and features to use. It can be used for quick editing like resizing images or adjusting the colours of photographs, but also for more professional tasks which depend on layered images and more. It is a good mixture between MS Paint and professional image editing tools and is recommendable for most purposes of image-editing-everyday-use.
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Ripping An MP3 CD On Linux Mint 11
Author: CSch •
Tags: ubuntu, desktop •
Comments: 0 Ripping An MP3 CD On Linux Mint 11 This article describes how to rip music off an audio CD in acceptable shape with a moderate bitrate and in MP3 format on Linux Mint 11. There are are numerous ways of ripping a CD on Linux, but not all of them provide the standard comfort one should have, for instance a fairly high bitrate for your music, so that it does not sound like hammering on a trashcan with an iron spoon, or automated fetching of disk and track information from the internet, so you do not have to do it all manually. The way I describe should provide all these things, however it may be that if you are ripping a rather unknown audio disk, there is no data about it on the CD database.
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Android Smartphone USB Tethering (Linux Mint 11)
Author: CSch •
Tags: android, desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 0 Android Smartphone USB Tethering (Linux Mint 11) This article is about how to tether your Android smartphone with Linux Mint 11 and similar operating systems via USB, meaning how to use your smartphone's network to access the Internet on your computer by linking them with a USB cable.
