January, 2006 - Archive

FreeBSD 6.0 on HP nx6120 Laptop

Apart from Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux, my laptop has one more feather in its cap. It is FreeBSD 6.0 My passion on this OS stands for long time since I read about its background through Linus's autobiography. I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 on my laptop. Here is the configuration: 1. Intel Centrino 1.7GHz. 2. 512MB RAM 3. 2.5 GB Partition for FreeBSD 4. Intel ICH6 sound (AC97) 5. Broadcom BCM5705M ethernet 6. Intel Wireless 2200 7. Broadcom Bluetooth Out of 2 CDs of FreeBSD 6.0, I have first CD o...
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SMB (Windows) Printer access from Ubuntu 5.10

My office network is Windows 2003 domain server based one. We have a shared printer connected to a Windows 2000 machine. I tried to configure this printer as my default printer in Ubuntu 5.10 laptop. I tried with the GUI tool availabe in System->Administration->Printing. It was not successful. After googling I found a simple way to do this. Here is the hint. I have installed samba and cups. 1. Changed the DeviceURI entry in /etc/cups/printers.conf as shown below: DeviceURI smb://<domai...
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Local software repository for apt-get

We use to apt-get the packages to install in Debian derivative of Linux. The packages are mostly downloaded from internet based repositories and locally cached at /var/cache/apt/archives directory. In case we reinstall the Linux, we need to download the packages once again to install through apt-get or synaptic GUI tool. To avoid this situation we can backup the *.deb files available in /var/cache/apt/archives path in some other partition than root. After re-installation, we can create a local r...
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