Recently I updated my HP-Compaq nx6120 laptop with Ubuntu Dapper Drake alpha 6.06 release. Then I have updated to Beta-2 release. Here is the screenshot of this cute desktop. The first impression is Fantastic Performance and eye candy. Following are the improvements over Breezy 5.10 version: 1. Faster booting –
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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
Continue reading »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:
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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.
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