Author Archives: Mel Kham

About Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

How do I install .deb packages on Ubuntu?

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions

Question : I`m a new ubuntu user, I downloaded drivers for my printer, the drivers are in .deb format, how do I install them ?

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Transcript of an intervieuw with Larry Ellison by reuters on the acquisition of sun Microsystems

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Interview with  Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison What Oracle will do with Sun’s open source products and initiatives, it does make very clear that Oracle will retain and extend Sun’s hardware business, focusing on “designing hardware and software to work together.” … Continue reading →

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Switzerland : Parliamentarians begin group on digital sustainability

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Six members of the Swiss parliament (Nationalrat) last week formed a group called ‘Digital Sustainability’ which aims to increase the use of open source software by Swiss public bodies.  

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Install BackupPC server in Centos|Rhel|Fedora

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Unix Tutorials

BackupPC is an entirely disk-based backup and recovery system. It offers a number of advantages, some of which are available only with BackupPC, Backuppc Support any client OS and has a Web interface to allows user control of and access … Continue reading →

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Install Microsoft core fonts on Linux

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

In Linux,for some distributions by default, does not include Microsoft core fonts in its installation (for exemple : Ubuntu), to have them on your ubuntu, you will need to install the msttcorefonts package. The msttcorefonts package include the True type … Continue reading →

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Install Ubuntu 9.04 and ubuntu9.10 Karmic koala on a PC with Nvidia graphic card

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

Before to start, if you want to install Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope in a pc with other grafic card than Nvidia then go here.For Nvidia cards , Many peoples who have a PC with Nvidia graphic cards find the problem … Continue reading →

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How to: Mount an ISO image under Linux without burning a cd

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

An ISO image is an archive of an optical disk in a format ISO, the files typically have a file extension of .ISO . The name ISO is taken from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media. Now … Continue reading →

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What is Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administrations ?

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What is Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administrations ? The IDABC Open Source Observatory has now become OSOR.EU – the Open Source Observatory and Repository for European public administrations

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French police switch from Windows to Linux

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The French national police force has slashed its IT costs by 70 per cent by cutting Microsoft out of the equation. There are many arguments for or against switching from Windows to Linux. Many times these arguments are based more … Continue reading →

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2012: The End of the Internet

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2012: The End of the Internet According to research that’s supposed to be published later this year, growing demand for Internet use will soon outstrip the stamina of the infrastructure supporting it, and the

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