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imported from wiki, 20 February 2007
This page describes how to set up your system to use a suitable default encoding and character set, and to configure X to give you a keyboard map which will allow you to enter a selection of symbols and foreign characters.
Character sets, Unicode and UTF-8
First, a bit of background. You can skip this if you don’t want to know the details, but it may help to explain what’s going on.
Computers ultimately store all their information, including text, as numbers. In order to make it easy for people to read these numbers, they typically go [continued…]
imported from wiki, 18 February 2007 NVIDIA Driver Installation
If you’re planning on running software on Linux that utilises openGL, such as Blob and Conquer or XGL, you’ll need to ensure your graphics card drivers support hardware acceleration. If your card is made by NVIDIA, you’ll find that the open-source nv driver provided by X.org isn’t suitable. Fortunately, NVIDIA have packaged their drivers for easy installation on several platforms.
Getting the Drivers
To get NVIDIA’s proprietary drivers with support for hardware accelerated 3D, it’s as simple as going to http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html and clicking the link to the latest version for your platform (be [continued…]
imported from wiki, 17 February 2007 This guide was produced using Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 and Ubuntu Breezy 5.10, and Ubuntu Dapper 6.06. It’s also therefore applicable to Debian. Although most of the commands should work generically across different distributions.
Packages
Qemu packages are available in the Debian and Ubunutu repositories for version 0.6.1 or 0.7.0 (and 0.8.0 in Ubuntu Dapper 6.06), depending on what distribution and version you are using. Qemu also has an optional kernel module called KQemu, previously this was not redistributable (it now is) therefore packages for any Linux distribution may not include this module. The advantage of KQemu is much improved emulation [continued…]
imported from wiki, 17 February 2007 Warning
I would highly recommend that anyone wishing to compile QEMU from CVS should first look at the Qemu Compilation page. Specifically it would be wise to ensure their environment is setup correctly to enable them to compile QEMU from the latest stable version on the author’s home page before attempting this.
That said, there’s really very little difference between the procedure on this page and that on the Qemu Compilation page. It makes sense therefore for this page to only detail the differences rather than duplicate the entire compilation procedure as this [continued…]
imported from wiki, 12 February 2007
Quite a lot of people use the Mozilla Firefox web browser on Linux. One of the great features of Firefox is the extension capability. Additional functionality can be just a few clicks away. Here’s a list of some of our favourite plugins and why we like them.
[[https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60|Web Developer]]
Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
Proponents: AlanPope, DanPope, AdamTrickett
[[https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=433|Flashblock]]
Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won’t get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click.
Proponents: [continued…]
imported from wiki, 9 January 2007
While many distributions have quite advanced package managers, there will come a point when compiling from source is a must. But, how then do you manage it so that you can keep track of where the [Mm]akefile has put all the compiled applications, etc?
Enter: http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/stow.html (stow). This program will keep track of all your compiled binaries by linking all binaries/libs/etc in /usr/local/.
For a more general overview, see /CompileFromSource as to why stow is considered useful.
To set up Stow, all you have to do is:
mkdir /usr/local/stow
Then when compiling [continued…]
imported from wiki, 9 January 2007
I was recently trying to protect my desktop from my son who loves to come in and play with Tux Paint. This app runs very small on my screen (1600×1200) and it is not possible to resize it unfortunately. If I change the screen resolution the desktop size stays the same and results in the screen scrolling when the mouse hits the edge. This drove my son up the wall (he’s only 3 1/2). Possibly more importantly I wanted to protect my running applications (so no odd messages in IRC or closed applications etc.), so…
It is easy [continued…]
imported from wiki, 9 January 2007
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imported from wiki, 21 December 2006
If you are DHCP configuring your interface(s) but won’t always be attached to a network with a DHCP server, then you can tweak the settings to reduce DHCP boot up delays signifcantly.
By default DHCP will wait 60 seconds before timing out when trying to get a DHCP lease. If you boot while the ethernet interface it is not connected and the interface is set to be DHCP configured, it will delay the time it takes to boot up. Open /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf in your favourite editor and find the settings below. Then change them as shown.
timeout 5; [continued...]
imported from wiki, 21 December 2006
Linux is a Unix-like kernel, released under the GNU Public License. A kernel is nothing without the tools to use it with.
The GNU organisation has produced most of the system tools used on Linux systems, and some high quality applications too, like The GIMP.
The basic argument is that without GNU, Linux would be nothing. The availability of the GNU tools enabled the Linux platform to become a viable operating system, and to acknowledge this partnership between Linux and GNU, the title GNU/Linux is usually used.
: In practise, everyone just says “Linux” in conversational [continued…]
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