I have installed enlightenment (e17) desktop shell in my Ubuntu 5.10. Ubuntu comes with e16, which is quite old one. I downloaded and installed the e17 from source. Really it is amazing quality of animated eye candy desktop shell.However it needs improvement in useability (clearly GNOME leads!). e17 does not
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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
Continue reading »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.
Continue reading »Complex script font rendering in SimplyMEPIS 3.4-1 (RC1)
I have installed SimplyMEPIS 3.4-1 (RC1) in my nx6120 HP Laptop. Hardware detection is simply superb. Almost all the hardware are working out of the box without any configuration. This is the first Linux desktop I have seen working most of the hardware without going and tweaking in command shell.
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