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Installing Oracle (sun) Java 1.7u1 openSUSE 12.1
As many of you know, SUSE decided to drop Oracle Java starting with openSUSE 12.1. This decision was due to licensing changes, that we all [ continue reading... ]
Category: Tutorials
Fluxbox 1.3.1 on Fedora 14, 13 or 12
By ben.kevan on Feb 28, 2011 in Software Installation
If you’re looking for Fluxbox 1.3.1 on Fedora 14, then you’re in luck. I’ve gone through the .spec and cleaned it up a bit, along [ continue reading... ]
Installing openSUSE 11.4 GNOME Live CD Step by Step
By ben.kevan on Feb 19, 2011 in OS Installation Guides
Here are a bunch of screenshots for the installation of openSUSE 11.4 using the GNOME Live CD. The screenshots are self explanatory and shouldn’t require [ continue reading... ]
Black Box While Using Flash on x86_64 Arch Linux
Recently I re-installed Arch Linux onto my Laptop, and upon installing Chromium (9) and copying libflashplayer.so (the Beta that is full x86_64 bit compatible) into [ continue reading... ]
Fluxbox on openSUSE 11.3
Are you sick of Gnome? KDE? or XFCE? Do you have a very old machine that you want to run Linux on, but the newer [ continue reading... ]
Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL from rebooting a Linux machine
By ben.kevan on May 06, 2010 in Administration How-To
In normal hardening techniques one should in an enterprise setting always disable the usage of CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot a Linux Machine. This key sequence is [ continue reading... ]
Install KDE 4.4.3 on Kubuntu 10.04
The KDE Developers today announced the release of KDE SC 4.4.3. With the immediate release of KDE 4.4.3 is the possibility of upgrading your Kubuntu [ continue reading... ]
Visually Seeing Your Boot Speed With Bootchart Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
By ben.kevan on Apr 29, 2010 in Software Installation
Have you ever wanted to know what your computer did while it booted? Are you new to linux, and want to understand what actually went [ continue reading... ]
Things to do after installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
Previously (in 2008) I wrote about “Things to do after installing openSUSE 11.0“. Well I felt like it was time to start this up again, [ continue reading... ]
Using sudo without a password
One of the most noticeable features of ubuntu is the common use of sudo in order to perform ‘root’ level tasks. By default the ‘root’ [ continue reading... ]
Packages Installed with apt-get kubuntu-desktop
In my journey to give GNOME and Ubuntu an honesty try, I found myself installing kubuntu desktop, withsudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktopAfter a few minutes of [ continue reading... ]
Adding Users in openSUSE Linux 11.2
Users can be managed several ways in openSUSE. One of these methods uses YaST, the management and configuration platform that openSUSE, SLES and SLED use [ continue reading... ]
Installing VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.2
By now, everyone has heard the hot phrase “Virtualization”. But did you know, there is more then just VMware in the Desktop Virtualization arena? Although [ continue reading... ]
Optimize Your Infrastructure with HP BladeSystem for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Register to WebinarAt my current place of employment, we are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux as our standard Linux Operating System, and are currently using [ continue reading... ]
5 helpful vi and vim (vi improved) cheat sheets and quick reference cards
Have you used vi or vim just to be frustrated or confused with its key strokes and usage? Well, these 5 VI and VIM Cheat [ continue reading... ]
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