Linux Tutorials on the topic “desktop”
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How To Install Latest Intel Driver 2.12 On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Author: bnight •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 27 How To Install Latest Intel Driver 2.12 On Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) After a long time waiting the most interesting update of the Intel drivers for linux is now a fact. We can now have this great hardware acceleration for playing h.264 video. Or in other words we now have Hardware acceleration for HD content with our Intel video cards. As an owner of U400-138 with Intel 4500 MHD I have been waiting for this over a year but now I can play 720p without an issue. And so here is how to install this.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 13 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 4 Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 13 GNOME Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 13 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion 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 13 - on my test system 3D support was working without any problems.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu •
Comments: 3 Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200) This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 13 i686 (GNOME)
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 12 The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 13 i686 (GNOME) This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 13 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 Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora
Author: homer.xing •
Tags: desktop, fedora •
Comments: 0 How To Install Ailurus 10.05 On Fedora Ailurus is a small GPL application which helps install some nice software, clean yum cache, backup yum, etc. Currently Ailurus is available for Fedora 11, 12 and 13. This simple tutorial will explain how to install Ailurus, and how to solve the problems.
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Unattended Fedora 8 Installation With NFS And Kickstart
Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, fedora, storage • Comments: 2Unattended Fedora 8 Installation With NFS And Kickstart This document describes how to set up an installation environment with kickstart and NFS. With the resulting system you will be able run unattended Fedora 8 installations on the client systems in your LAN - additionally, you will save lots of Internet bandwidth. The whole client configuration can be included into the kickstart file (especially the post-installation script) so you, the admin, will also save a vast amount of time.
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How To Install VMware Server 1.0.x On An Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu, virtualization, vmware •
Comments: 9 How To Install VMware Server 1.0.x On An Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 1.0.x (1.0.10 at the time of this writing) on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop system. This is for those who prefer VMware Server 1.0.x over VMware Server 2.
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Installing VirtualBox 3.1 On An Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization •
Comments: 8 Installing VirtualBox 3.1 On An Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.1 on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system.
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How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 9.10
Author: Falko Timme •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu, virtualization, vmware •
Comments: 15 How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 9.10 This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).
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How To Install VMware Server 1.0.x On A Kubuntu 10.04 Desktop
Author: pierino, la peste! •
Tags: desktop, ubuntu, virtualization, vmware •
Comments: 11 How To Install VMware Server 1.0.x On A Kubuntu 10.04 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 1.0.x (1.0.10 at the time of this writing) on a Kubuntu 10.04 desktop system. This is for those who prefer VMware Server 1.0.x over VMware Server 2.
