While browsing recently I came across reference to the Redhat Liberation Fonts, and a number of favorable reviews of the quality of the fonts. Since they are genuine Open Source fonts I decided to install them on my laptop.
This was dead easy ad the fonts are installable with emerge…
angus ~ # emerge liberation-fonts-ttf
…
>>> No packages [...]
Kim Brebach has written a lucid and compelling article arguing why you should be using Linux on your desktop. You can read the article here
Yakuake – One key, all desktop access to konsole
21 Oct
Posted by Nigel Ball as Applications, Developers, Home, KDE, Productivity
This isn’t for everyone! However, users like myself and my team involved in software development and testing typically have several konsole terminal sessions open and spend much time switching between applications and terminals. On my machine this is compounded by the need to switch between desktops — you can see from the screenshot that I [...]
In my previous post I described installing Reader v8 on Gentoo.
After that installation I discovered that I could not view PDF files in Firefox. Being a pragmatic Linux user, I ignored this inconvenience until tonight when I thought that I’d find out what I did wrong.
Firstly I checked what plugins were installed in Firefox by [...]
AdobeReader (also known as Acrobat or acroread) is the free Adobe PDF viewer which is an essential for any modern PC or workstation. While this has been available for Linux for some time, we Linux users have often had to make do with an outdated version, ie a version older than available to Windows users.
Netgear WG311 (Ver 3) Wireless Network Cards
24 Sep
Posted by Nigel Ball as Connectivity, Drivers, Home, Kernel
Wireless networking is ideal for home and small office networks avoiding the costs of cabling, patch panels and allowing complete freedom of workstation location. Also, visitors with laptops can easily use your internet connection or share files easily.
In both my home and office I use a combination of wired and wireless networking. Basically, servers are [...]
It always amazes me that there are so many options for us on our PC/Workstation. I doubt that there is a week that goes by when I do not discover a new application to add to my toolkit. And, for each one that I start to use, there will have been 4 or 5 that [...]
Apart from the fact that I spend a lot of time trying to get the highest level of Linux <> Nokia connectivity possible, this has little to do with switching to Linux!
Anyway, to find the MAC address of an N-series or E-series phone, enter *#62209626# It is easier to remember this as *#mac wlan#
Preview: I [...]
My ASUS V6X00J (V6J) has a Realtek 8168 gigabit PCI ethernet card. Since getting the machine I have been painstakingly compiling the driver from http://realtek.com.tw (firstly R1000 and more recently R8168).
However, since kernel version 2.6.22 these no longer compile. But…
The kernel driver for the Realtek 8169 also works for the RTL8168, even though there is [...]
… there was nothing. But, as the days progressed there emerged more and more information about using Linux on a PC or Workstation. There were tips, stories about overcoming insurmountable obstacles, toys and many “hell, it couldn’t have been THAT” expletives deleted.
For a more formal explanation of what this blog is about, you guessed it [...]
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