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- How do I... Create desktop icons in KDE and GNOME?
- One would think the creation of icons on a desktop would be a simple matter of dragging and dropping or having the icon created upon installation of a program. That's all fine and good, but what about a program that was installed during the operating system installation? (Remember, Linux installs...
- Tags: GNOME, KDE, Icon, KDE Let, Desktops, Open Source, Hardware, Jack Wallen
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- How do I... Create desktop icons in KDE and GNOME?
- Most Linux installs include thousands of applications, but not all those applications get an icon on either the KDE or GNOME desktop. If you want to launch one of those applications from the desktop you are going to have to create an icon for it. Jack Wallen shows you how....
- Tags: Most Linux, Desktops, Open Source, Hardware, Jack Wallen, How do I, screenshots, kde, gnome, linux, icons
- Image galleries 2008-01-17
- SolutionBase: Getting to know GNOME
- Linux has come a long way from the early, oft-crashing days. GNOME is now one of the primary desktops for the Linux operating system; not only is it highly customizable, but it is amazingly stable. Jack Wallen explains why Linux -- running GNOME -- is a viable desktop alternative. ...
- Tags: Desktop, Panel, Linux, Application, Window, Author, GNOME, Layout, Panel Properties Window, Figure C, WindowList Applet, Application Launcher, Nautilus, Open Source, Jack Wallen
- Technical articles 2007-10-23
- SolutionBase: Getting to know GNOME
- Getting to know GNOMEGreat post! I've just recently started to play around with GNOME a little, but it's still on my secondary desktop, so I don't get lots of time to tweak it. It's great to get a gentle nudge in the right direction on where to start...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, brian.mills@..., GNOME
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- How do I… Play World of Warcraft on a Linux box?
- With a little ingenuity and some alternative OS magic, it is possible to play World of Warcraft in a Linux environment. This document shows you how. by James M. Garvin
- Tags: Linux, screenshots, world of warcraft, geekend, off topic, Game, Video Card, Administrator, Password, Disk, CD, EULA, Operating System, NVidia Corp., Blog, CD-ROM, Patch Management, GNOME, Microsoft Windows, ATI Technologies Inc., Kernel, Graphics, News, Games, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Unix, Open Source, Software, Personal Technology, Marketing, TechRepublic Inc., Linux Server, Environment, James M. Garvin
- Image galleries 2007-09-11
- A Snacky adventure in the World of Warcraft
- First there was Leroy Jenkins, and then there was Chuck Norris. Now there is Snacky. As a Horde guild, Technologia doesn't spend much time with Gnomes unless it is to dispatch them with all due haste. But sometimes, a little Gnome humor can brighten your day. In...
- Tags: GNOME, Adventure, Snacky Series, Open Source, Mark Kaelin
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- SolutionBase: Create custom versions of Fedora by 'respinning' it with Revisor
- With the introduction of Fedora Core 7, you have more options than ever to create your own custom versions of the distributions, called respins. In this article, Jack Wallen shows how to quickly and easily respin Fedora Core 7 using Revisor.
- Tags: Fedora Core 7, Repository, Desktop, Developer, Linux, OpenOffice, Hard Drive, Mozilla Firefox, Administrator, Password, BitTorrent, CD, Open Source, Information Technology, Operating System, Window, Media, Fedora Project, Disc, GNOME, ISO, Open-source Community, GUI, Web Site, GIMP, KDE, Tool, DVD, Productivity, Construction
- Technical articles 2007-08-20
- By Jack Wallen (SolutionBase: Get a handle on GNOME settings with Gconf-edit)
- Different Distro Gconf settings?I would like to see an article listing how the most popular distros handle certain gconf settings and how they affect the desktop experience.ie: Ubuntu does this ...OpenSUSE does this ...Fedora does this ...Then administrators can pick their favorite distro but might like how another distro handles...
- Tags: dagar, distro, GNOME
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- SolutionBase: Get a handle on GNOME settings with Gconf-edit
- If you want to create an image CD to use to setup large numbers of client machines, having to go through every single application to set up preferences could easily be a full-time job in and of itself. Or say you have hundreds of desktop machines and each of them...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, GConf, rescue, handle, word-processing, GNOME, Apache Software Foundation, MySQL, patch management, XML, CD, developer, job, database, e-mail
- Image galleries 2007-06-27
- GNOME goes WordPress
- Jeff dropped a note mentioning that GNOME has gone with WordPress µ on blogs.gnome.org. I used to contribute bits and pieces to GNOME before being consumed by WordPress full time. I found out about WordPress through some GNOME developers. I took some of the GNOME philosophy...
- Tags: User Submission
- Blog posts 2007-06-10
- SolutionBase: Get a handle on GNOME settings with Gconf-edit
- IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'D HAVE TO ACCESS YOUR GOD MIND HEREAll the stuff on Linux is like this.I see this as script,it is not programming.If anything it will discourage somebody from installing Linux.
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, BALTHOR, GNOME
- Discussion threads 2007-05-16
- SolutionBase: Setting up Apache as a Web server under Linux via GUI
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.Linux is increasingly becoming a popular alternative toMicrosoft Windows for network administrators wanting to provide services fortheir organization. Learning a new OS like Linux can present some challenges toa long time Windows administrator however. This is the beginning of a series ofarticles...
- Tags: Open source, Linux, Hardware servers
- Technical articles 2007-05-15
- SolutionBase: Get a handle on GNOME settings with Gconf-edit
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.If you want to create animage CD to use to setup large numbers of client machines, having to go throughevery single application to set up preferences could easily be a full-time jobin itself. What if you have hundreds of desktop machines, and...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Jack Wallen, GNOME, GConf, tool
- Technical articles 2007-05-15
- Dell Chooses Ubuntu: Linux community whines
- Most days Im proud to be a member of the Linux community. But recently I had a moment where I was just really irked that such a large amount of the community looked a gift horse in the mouth threatening to blow a very good move by Dell.Remember a long...
- Tags: Window Environment, Ubuntu, Open Source, Linux, Kde, Gnome, General, Enlightenment, Blackbox, Afterstep
- Blog posts 2007-05-06
- Dell picks Ubuntu for Linux PCs
- Good choice for the massesDell picked a good choice for an alternate to Vista. Ubuntu is very easy to use and although the Gnome desktop app is a bit lacking, it works great and is functional. What surprised me was the ability to browse a MS network with no problem...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Dell Computer Corp., mrpjb, Linux PC, PC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, KDE, Linux, Ubuntu, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, GNOME, desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-05-01
- YaST2 and the state of Linux administration
- Recently I was asked to write a series of articles focused on setting up Linux servers strictly via GUI. The other stipulation: using OpenSuSE and GNOME.No problemo.So I did a full install of OpenSuSE 10.2 all five CDs and fired up YaST2. My immediate impression? WOW! Those boys at SuSE/Novell...
- Tags: Windows, Window Environment, Upgrade, Suse, Open Source, Novell, Linux, Installation, Gnome, Get Jacked, General, Fedora, Enlightenment, Distribution Upgrade
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- GNOME: user un-friendliness
- And they wonder why no-one important will ever take them seriouslyOn one hand, you have the evil empire, which has software with sane names, a single DE and compatability across the board. On the other hand, you have Linux and its stick on bits. The grand high phooba of the...
- Tags: GNOME, paul@..., software, open source, linux, kde, enlightenment, multimedia
- Discussion threads 2007-02-19
- GNOME: user un-friendliness
- I dont know if youve heard about the recent little squabble in the open source camps but Linux Torvalds creator of the Linux kernel has taken his best shots at the GNOME Desktop environment. Why is this happening?A while ago, Linus was quoted saying that Linux users should switch from...
- Tags: Enlightenment, Get Jacked, GNOME, Gpl, Kde, Linux, Open Source, Uncategorized, Window Environment
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- PCLinuxOS
- Recently one of my readers suggested I give the PCLinuxOS distribution a try. I did. Here are my thoughts.For the longest time my distro of choice for newbies was Ubuntu. Ubuntu was simple to install, easy to configure, and simple to manage. Ubuntu discovered hardware for the most part well...
- Tags: card, Distribution Upgrade, Fedora, Get Jacked, Gnome, Gpl, Installation, Kde, Linux, Open Source, operating system, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu, Uncategorized, up-and, Upgrade, Window Environment
- Blog posts 2007-02-11
- Fedora changing the choices: good or bad?
- For the next release of Fedora things are going to be a bit different. And Im not so sure they are going to be for the better. Let me explain to you what they are doing. As of FC7 the isos will come in different flavors:Fedora DesktopFedora KDE Fedora Server...
- Tags: Afterstep, Blackbox, desktop, Distribution Upgrade, Enlightenment, Fedora, Fedora Project, Get Jacked, Gimp, Gnome, Gpl, Installation, Kde, Linux, Open Source, Ubuntu, Uncategorized, Window Environment
- Blog posts 2007-01-28
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