Installation Guide: Fedora 8 Desktop (a.k.a. The Perfect Desktop)
This document describes how to set up a Fedora desktop – including
how to enable special mouse buttons, improve laptop support (depending
on your model), set up printers (especially HP) and the usage of Compiz
Fusion. The result is a fast, secure and extendable system that
provides all you need for daily work and entertainment.
How To Upgrade Your Desktop From Fedora 7 To Fedora 8
This guide shows how you can upgrade your desktop from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8.
Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop (ATI Mobility Radeon 9200)
This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion
on an Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) desktop (the system must have a
3D-capable graphics card – I’m using an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 here).
With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows
or a desktop cube on your desktop.
How To Install courier-imap, courier-authlib, And maildrop On Fedora, RedHat, CentOS
For some reason there are no Courier packages (courier-imap, courier-authlib, maildrop)
available on RedHat-based distributions (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS), and
the only third-party repository that had such packages seems to have
closed (enlartenment.com). Therefore this
tutorial explains how you can create and install your own Courier rpm
packages from the sources, and I provide download links for my Courier
rpm packages that I compiled on Fedora 8 (i386) so that you can save
some time.
Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 8 GNOME Desktop (ATI Mobility Radeon 9200)
This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion
on a Fedora 8 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics
card – I’m using an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 here). With Compiz Fusion
you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube
on your desktop.
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on
Ubuntu 7.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB
protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as standalone
server, not as a domain controller. For this setup, I will use the
Ubuntu Server installation CD but the same installation procedure will
work on an Ubuntu desktop as well.
Installing Openfire 3.3.3 & Spark 2.5.7 On Debian 4.0 Etch
This artivle explains how to install and use Openfire and Spark.
Openfire (previously known as Wildfire Server) is a Jabber/XMPP server,
and Spark is a Jabber/XMPP client; both are written in Java. Spark is
an open source, cross-platform instant messaging client optimized for
businesses and organizations.
How To Manage An iPod From A Linux Desktop With Songbird 0.3
This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with Songbird
0.3. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your
iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, and how you
can delete files on the iPod. Normally, Apple’s iTunes software is
needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux.
Fortunately, there are Linux alternatives such as Songbird that can
handle the task.
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2008.0
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on a Mandriva 2008.0 server with PHP5 support (through
FastCGI) and MySQL support.
Fedora 8 Server Setup: LAMP, Email, DNS, FTP, ISPConfig (a.k.a. The Perfect Server)
This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 8
server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web
server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND
DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota,
Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of
Fedora 8, but should apply to the 64-bit version with very little
modifications as well.