Linux And Friends

TrueCrypt is an open source software that helps you set up and maintain an on-the-fly encrypted volume. On the fly encryption means data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention.

This review of Jolicloud details my experience in running this Linux distribution on my Samsung NC 10 notebook. I am typing this in JoliCloud. It is a netbook centric OS based on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. My search for a good operating system to run on a netbook started when I got a  Samsung NC 10 [...]

mod_rewrite is an Apache web server module which is used to rewrite a URL at the server level. This module has a variety of uses. But it is most frequently used to provide clean, search engine friendly URLs. This article explains how to enable Apache mod_rewrite in Ubuntu Linux.

This guide teaches you how to install LAMP server in Ubuntu Linux the easy way. LAMP is an acronym for Linux Apache MySQL and PHP. Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP form the de facto standard for running any content management system – be it WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and so on.

Maximus is a command line tool that maximizes the windows of desktop applications that are running. This tool is useful if for example, you have installed a normal Linux distribution in a netbook – a laptop with 10″ inches or less screen size, and you want to utilize the screen to the fullest.

Installing GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is easy. This is how you do it. $ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell Once GNOME Shell is installed, you can start it by running the following command :

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala was released on October 28 2009. This latest version of Ubuntu has numerous features and improvements over its predecessor Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.02.

This guide explains how to install LaTeX in Ubuntu Linux. LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing. LaTeX is not a word processor! Instead, LaTeX encourages authors not to worry too [...]

In GIMP, you have access to many scripts which allow you to do complex tasks with the click of a button. When you install GIMP in Windows or when GIMP comes pre-installed in Linux, it comes with a good subset of these scripts installed by default. These scripts are consolidated and are found under the [...]