Christmas… Linux… Wallpapers…
As it comes from the title below is a small set of Christmas holidays wallpapers which should fit any Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Suse, Mandriva, Slackware, RedHat, Centos desktop…
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Open .docx documents in Linux (OpenOffice)
Well, as for now it is not a problem anymore to open Microsoft Office 2007 .docx documents in any Linux distribution coming with OpenOffice suit. It may be Ubuntu (Feisty, Gutsy, Interpid whatever), almost any version of Fedora/RedHat/Centos, *SUSE, Mandriva and of course Debian (as… Read More »Open .docx documents in Linux (OpenOffice)
Nagios installation and configuration in SUSE Linux
As we know Nagios is extremely popular open source network monitoring system. It watches hosts across the local area network (LAN) and/or across the Internet, services that you can specify, alerting you when things go bad. The following step-by-step guide written by Novel people (actually… Read More »Nagios installation and configuration in SUSE Linux
Run Photoshop with Ubuntu (or any other Linux)
Adobe Photoshop (or simply Photoshop), is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. Currently it’s market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. Unfortunately it’s available for M$ Windows and Apple OS X users only.… Read More »Run Photoshop with Ubuntu (or any other Linux)
Convert WMV into AVI with Ubuntu
Actually this tip is applicable to any Linux distribution mencoder can be run at (like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse and even Slackware 🙂 ) MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. It is… Read More »Convert WMV into AVI with Ubuntu
Get changelog information from RPM and DEB package
Here is a nice Linux tip: to get change information of some RPM package it’s enough to execute the following command rpm -q –changelog package for example rpm -q –changelog openssh will output something like: * Fri Mar 03 2006 Tomas Mraz – 4.3p2-4 -… Read More »Get changelog information from RPM and DEB package
Select Linux distro for Lenovo ThinkPad
Here you can vote for Linux distribution (or Unix) to be pre-installed at Lenovo ThinkPad notebooks. As usually Ubuntu is the most popular distribution, Debian is second, Fedora is third: Please note: it’s not a full list of suggested distros at the screen.
Web server cluster with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Spreading a workload across multiple processors, coupled with various software recovery techniques, provides a highly available environment and enhances overall RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) of the environment. Benefits include faster recovery from unplanned outages, as well as minimal effects of planned outages on the… Read More »Web server cluster with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10