Archive for 'Linux' Category
Getting Back to Linux
26 October 2006Find out about one person’s effort to learn Linux and make the switch from Windows.
AmaroK 1.4 - Music Player
7 June 2006I love to listen to music when I run, but haven’t been a big fan of listening to music on my computer. With AmaroK that has started to change. AmaroK is a music player that is styled much like Windows Media Player, but I find it easier to use. I really like its interface, which [...]
klik - An Easy Way to Check Out Linux Software
24 May 2006While perusing a Linux forum yesterday, I found an interesting capability for Linux called klik. By following some simple install instructions (wget klik.atekon/client/install -O - | sh) you can install klik. Then you use the klik software to access the klik website where you can select a 'package' to download. The package is actually an [...]
Setting Up Sound
9 May 2006Since I had installed Debian sound hadn't been working. Every now and then a dialog box would pop up saying something about sound, but I had been ignoring until I had more time to explore what was wrong. Yesterday, I deciided to see if I could get sound to work on my Linux box.
My initial [...]
Printing from Linux to a Windows Shared Printer
7 May 2006After a couple of weeks of trying various configuration combinations, I finally was able to print from my Linux box to a shared printer on my Win XP box. It took a long time and I'm still not entirely sure what I did to make it work. As I've mentioned before, this continues to be [...]
Using Samba in File Managers
28 April 2006In my last post, I described how I set up and configured Samba. Now it is time to see how to use Samba, both on the Windows and the Linux boxes.
First, to the Windows box. Chapter 3 of the O'Reilly online Samba book offers a comprehensive discussion on how to set up a Windows client for [...]
Setting Up Samba
25 April 2006As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the reaons I'm setting up this Linux box is to see if I can make do the normal things that I do with Windows XP. Of course, that means I need to be able to network my Linux box with other Win XP boxes. The easiest [...]
Installing Firefox from a Tar.Gz
22 April 2006In my last post, I talked about installing Firefox using a Debian package and Kpackage. But, this method provided me with an older version of Firefox than I wanted. So, I went searching for a newer version that was Linux compatible. Once I found it, I then had to learn how to download and install software [...]
Installing Firefox from a Debian Package
20 April 2006My first attempt at installing a major program was to install Firefox. I first installed Firefox using Kpackage. This was very easy. I opened Kpackage, found a menu selection that said "Search for Package" and found "Mozilla-Firefox" as a package that could be installed. No major problems occurred as I worked my way through Kpackage [...]
Linux and Packages
19 April 2006Using Kpackage, the package management GUI software that comes as part of KDE is pretty straight forward. It doesn’t take much time to get the feel of it and learn how to find available packages and install them. Different from Windows, Linux installs generally display a lot of info about dependencies, which files are going [...]