Articles by o.meyer

• The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 3.1 "Celena" FE

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, linux • Comments: 2

  The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 3.1 "Celena" FE This document describes how to set up a Linux Mint 3.1 "full edition" desktop. The result is a fast, secure and extendable system that provides all you need for daily work and entertainment. Linux Mint 3.1 builds upon Ubuntu Feisty and is compatible to its repositories - about 22.000 packages are available.

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• Using The Avant Window Navigator (AWN) On Fedora 7

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, fedora • Comments: 0

  Using The Avant Window Navigator (AWN) On Fedora 7 This document describes how to set up the Avant Window Navigator (AWN) on Fedora 7. The result is an eye candy, dock-like bar at the bottom of the screen as a replacement for the standard gnome-panel. The Avant Window Manager provides an easy to use interface where you can configure/customize it to your needs. Launchers, task lists, and third party applets are supported.

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• Chrooted SSH/SFTP On Fedora 7

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: fedora, security • Comments: 6

  Chrooted SSH/SFTP On Fedora 7 This document describes how to set up a chrooted SSH/SFTP environment on Fedora 7. The chrooted users will be jailed in a specific directory where they can't break out. They will be able to access their jail via SSH and SFTP.

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• The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon"

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 3

  The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" This document describes how to set up an Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" desktop. The result is a fast, secure and extendable system that provides all you need for daily work and entertainment. About 23.000 packages are available in the repositories.

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• How To Set Up Mumble Voice Chat On Fedora 7

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, fedora • Comments: 1

  How To Set Up Mumble Voice Chat On Fedora 7 This document describes how to set up a Mumble voice chat environment with Fedora 7. Mumble is a low-latency voice chat software with focus on games.

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• Managing Packages And Repositories With Yum And Yumex On Fedora 7

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, fedora • Comments: 1

  Managing Packages And Repositories With Yum And Yumex On Fedora 7 This article explains how to improve/optimize/speed up package installation with Yum, install packages with "Yum Extender" (a GUI for Yum with extensive features to manage packages), and manage different external package repositories - with focus on prevention of problems with different repositories - on Fedora 7.

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• Displaying System Details On Your Desktop With Conky System Monitor On Ubuntu 7.04

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, monitoring, ubuntu • Comments: 2

  Displaying System Details On Your Desktop With Conky System Monitor On Ubuntu 7.04 This document describes how to set up the light-weight Conky system monitor on Ubuntu 7.04. Conky is a desktop widget that is able to display most diverse information like CPU temperature, current used network-bandwith or anything you want. You can customize the whole layout including colors and fonts.

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• ASSP With Embedded ClamAV Integrated Into Postfix With Virtual Users And Domains

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: antivirus, debian, postfix • Comments: 4

  ASSP With Embedded ClamAV Integrated Into Postfix With Virtual Users And Domains This document describes how to integrate ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) with embedded ClamAV into a mail server based on Postfix featuring virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database.

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• Installing The IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 1 Office Suite On Ubuntu 7.04

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 4

  Installing The IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 1 Office Suite On Ubuntu 7.04 This document describes how to set up IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 1 on Ubuntu 7.04. IBM Lotus Symphony is an office-suite that is based on OpenOffice.org (a fork of v1.x) and ported to Lotus Expeditor (IBM's enhancement of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform). It contains programs for word processing, spreadsheet and presentation.

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• Disk Based Backups With Amanda On Debian Etch

  Author: o.meyer • Tags: backup, debian, ubuntu • Comments: 4

  Disk Based Backups With Amanda On Debian Etch This document describes how to set up Amanda (The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) on Debian Etch. For this tutorial I chose Ubuntu v7.04 as a backup-client. The resulting system provides a flexible backup-system with many features. It will be able to back up multiple hosts via network to various devices. I chose the disk based backup for this howto.

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