Category Archives: Linux tutorials

Mac OSX-like theme for your GNOME desktop

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

X-Style is a Mac OSX-like GTK theme that requires the Murrine engine and the Lucida Grande font. The theme requiere the icon theme pack Mashup to be installed to work properly Download Mac OSX theme Download the icon pack Mashup

Install LAMP in slackware 13

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LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform that uses Linux as operating system, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. In this … Continue reading

Configuring Compiz effects

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux Tutorials-Video-

See how to configure compiz effects

Exaile, another media player for Linux

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Exaile is a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm scrobbling, support for many portable media players including iPods, internet radio such as shoutcast, … Continue reading

install packages in Opensolaris from Blastwave

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Blastwave is a collective effort to create a set of binary packages of free software, that can be automatically installed to a Solaris computer (sparc or x86 based) over the network. Blastwave has a substantial build server farm for the … Continue reading

Pidgin store passwords in clear text!!!!

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For pidgin users , there is a security issue regarding storing passwords in pidgin, so this program stores the passwords in archives .xml in clear text without any encryption. So any one can easily boot into recovery mode while you … Continue reading

Nice collection of themes for Gnome and Ubuntu-September2009-

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Here is a nice collection of themes for Gnome and ubuntu for September 2009, most of these themes are just updated in this month or just published, so you will find themes that you see for the first time.

Install AMP in opensolaris 2009.06

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AMP (Apache, MySQL and PHP) is an open source Web development platform, Apache as the Web server, MySQL as the relational database management system and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language. In this Simple tutorial we will explain you how … Continue reading

Start Simple HTTP Server with Python

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This methode wil install the webserver in The same directory where you apply the python command. The command will read automaticly the index.html page . if there is no index.html will list the contents of the directory .  

Install LCMP in Centos/Fedora/Redhat

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, SSI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Load Balancing, Apache compatible log … Continue reading