A guide to quickly changing your X11 mouse cursor theme without using a full desktop environment. Intended for users of stand-alone window managers.

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development and a proven architecture that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, data integrity, and correctness.

The gOS distribution is based on the Ubuntu 7.10 distribution. It uses the Enlightenment 17 window manager instead of the usual GNOME or KDE desktops, allowing for lower memory and speed requirements.

Backerupper is a simple GUI utility program to make scheduled backups of specified directories over a network. It is not intended for full system backup, but just to make archive copies of a user’s personal data.

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.

Instruction guide with two modes, online and offline, for setting up Airgo-based Pre-N wireless cards. In particular the following:

• Belkin F5D8010
• Linksys WPC511GX
• Netgear WGM511
• Buffalo WLI-CB-G108
• AeroGuard AGN1023PC
• Planex CQW-NS108AG
• Planex CQW-NS108G
• Samsung X20 Laptop
• GemTek WPCO-131G
• Corega CG-WLCB108GM

This is a thorough guide to installation of Ubuntu using the alternate disc, including a section on setting up separate partitions for /home.

i have been using a php-based program called eticket to keep track of all my customer’s helpdesk requests for my consulting business for awhile now. it’s really easy to setup and use, so i thought i’ll post my setup steps to help anyone else out.

first download the latest version of eticket from the sourceforge website, then move the file to your server via ftp, ssh, etc… and unzip the archive to an appropriate directory.

create a mysql database and assign a user for the database.

mysql -u root -p

create database eticket;

he submits howto's and tips based on what he does. not many up right now, but what is up are pretty good so far.

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has new boot option "only-ubiquity" which does not load the Gnome desktop and only starts Ubiquity installer on default Ubuntu background. I decided to try this option on one COMPAQ Desktop PC with 128 MB RAM.

Quick and easy guide to getting the most out of the Vim text editor.

I’d like to contribute 10 things to avoid and 10 things you can do if you want to increase the chances of getting good results from bug reporting (meaning a fix or solution). Some of them come from the Best Bug Reporting Practices wiki page.

The traditional Unix environment is a CLI (command line interface), where you type commands to tell the computer what to do. That is faster and more powerful, but requires finding out what the commands are." -- from man intro(1)

This is a simple, straightforward guide to help users install the latest stable version of Pekwm, a fast and flexible window manager. It covers building from source and basic Pekwm configuration, and contains links to more resources.

A detailed guide to using the powerful VI/Vim text editor. While Vim is a favorite of many experienced power users, it can look very intimidating to new users. This guide will help smooth out the learning curve.

A script, and instructions for using it, that make some aspects of installing apps on a non-networked Ubuntu machine easier.

Detailed tutorial on using readahead to reduce boot time.

Quick and easy way to repair a corrupted .mozilla profile, without losing your bookmarks.

This document is a step by step guide for configuring Ubuntu 7.10 as a Samba Domain Controller with an LDAP backend (OpenLDAP). The point is to configure a server that can be comparable, from a central authentication point of view, to a Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller. The end result will be a server with an LDAP directory for storing user, group, and computer accounts. A Windows XP Professional SP2 workstation will be able to join the domain once properly configured. Please note that you do not have a fully comparable Windows domain controller at this time.

Rick and Richard Computer Consulting is proud to be a member of the information technology community. As such we will, from time to time, write articles for general use. These articles are available for free for anyone. All articles are copyrighted to Rick and Richard Computer Consulting. You may print, reproduce, and copy all articles without permission as long as the copyright and our company name remains in tact.

Not really an Ubuntu documentation site, but general Linux.
It's rather theoretical but provides excellent insight in how computers in general, and the Linux operating system in particular, work.

This is the place you go to when cookbook howto's and step by step 'click here, click there, copy these commands in a terminal'- style tutorials don't satisfy your needs anymore and you're ready to really learn Linux.

Do-It-Yourself projects to get to know the inner workings of a Linux system.
If you're a "learn by doing" kind of person, here are some small projects that will help you learn how Linux works underneath the drag and drop interfaces of Gnome, KDE and window managers.

If you're interested in (server) system administration or want to find out how to troubleshoot a Linux desktop by simply editing a configuration file, these projects will help you with your first steps.

Webpage dealing with my Ubuntu experience, tutorials on tricky issues I have encountered and great Ubuntu art, wallpapers and linklist.

Big Gimp Tutorial

Great wallpapers - every day new ones.

My PC configuration is: Dell 1501 Inspiron with an ATIxpress and a selfmade desktop PC with nvidia FX5200 3d card.

Use a Wii remote as a mouse.

x11vnc is a VNC server that shares your physical X session. These instructions are designed for Ubuntu and its sister projects, but will also work for other GNU/Linux distributions with minor changes (such as using su rather than sudo).

The Linux Vault is a new wiki project founded with the mission of creating a centralized GNU/Linux information website. It has just been created, so we are begging everybody to take part of it and make it the place for writing guides, how-tos, configurations, administration tips, tricks, tweaks or whatever else related to the GNU/Linux system.

Explains the differences between Ubuntu and other popular Linux distros, with instructions detailing how to make Ubuntu behave more like what you may be accustomed to.

Step by step guide to using rsync as an automated backup utility.

An introduction to the way that security works in GNU/Linux systems, geared toward those with a background in Windows security concerns.