Linux Tutorials on the topic “desktop”
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Managing Packages And Repositories With Yum And Yumex On Fedora 7
Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, fedora • Comments: 1Managing 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: 2Displaying 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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Network Analysis With Wireshark On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, monitoring, ubuntu • Comments: 3Network Analysis With Wireshark On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer (or "packet sniffer") that can be used for network analysis, troubleshooting, software development, education, etc. This guide shows how to install and use it on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop to analyze the traffic on the local network card.
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Installing The IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 1 Office Suite On Ubuntu 7.04
Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 4Installing 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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Virus Protection With F-PROT Antivirus On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 3Virus Protection With F-PROT Antivirus On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn This tutorial shows how you can install and use F-PROT Antivirus on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop. Although there aren't many Linux viruses out there, this can be useful if you often exchange files with Windows users - it can help you to not pass on any Windows viruses (that don't do any harm to Linux systems) to Windows users. F-PROT Antivirus for Linux is free for home use.
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Watching Live-TV On Your Ubuntu Desktop With Zattoo
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 4Watching Live-TV On Your Ubuntu Desktop With Zattoo Zattoo delivers free Live-TV (P2P IPTV) to Linux, Windows, and Mac desktops. Depending on the country you live in you can select between multiple real TV stations to watch (if Zattoo is available in your country). This article shows how you can install the Zattoo player on an Ubuntu desktop.
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Modifying PDF Files With PDFedit On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 16Modifying PDF Files With PDFedit On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn This article shows how you can install and use PDFedit on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop. PDFedit is a free and open-source editor for manipulating PDF documents.
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Installing Ubuntu From A Windows System With Wubi
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 9Installing Ubuntu From A Windows System With Wubi Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system (a loopmounted partition), this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk. That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation. The resulting Ubuntu installation is a "real" Linux system, not just a virtual machine. Wubi makes it easy for Linux newbies to play around with Ubuntu.
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How To Enable NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, desktop • Comments: 1How To Enable NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems. This is where ntfs-3g comes into play. ntfs-3g is an open source, freely available NTFS driver for Linux with read and write support. This tutorial shows how to install and use ntfs-3g on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop to read from and write to Windows NTFS drives and partitions.
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Virus Protection With AVG Antivirus On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, security, ubuntu • Comments: 10Virus Protection With AVG Antivirus On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn This tutorial shows how you can install and use AVG Antivirus on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop. Although there aren't many Linux viruses out there, this can be useful if you often exchange files with Windows users - it can help you to not pass on any Windows viruses (that don't do any harm to Linux systems) to Windows users. AVG Antivirus for Linux is free for private and non-commercial use.
