Vor ein paar Tagen ist mein Acer Travelmate 5744Z, das ich bei Amazon für 305,95 Euro bekommen habe, angekommen. Ich habe es mit „Linux“ als System gekauft. Wie sich herausstellte, ist MeeGo release 1.0 mit dem Kernel 2.6.37, installiert. Das System startet zwar in sensationellen 29 Sekunden, aber Ubuntu ist mir doch lieber. edit: *argh* [...]
I don’t understand why all desktop environment seem to lack a good theme chooser/editor and good themes. I have one favorite theme – called “Balanzan Theme” which should be available in every distribution. The Balanzan Theme is part of the bisigi-project. According to the package, it is licensed under GPL. So I think I can [...]
PPAs (Personal Package Archive) provide additional resources. They are small repositories you can add to get some special content. You can add them with Bash: Lets make an example: If you want to install Clipgrab, you add the repository first: Then you have to update your sources: Now you can install clipgrab the usual way: [...]
I’m using Ubuntu now for many years, but I always have to look the commands for retrieving hardware information up. Now I will not Google any longer but search in my own little cheat sheet. I guess most commands will work in every Linux distribution, but I tried it only in Ubuntu 10.04LTS. Maybe you [...]
The following tipps work under a Linux terminal and were tested with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I guess they will also work with other systems, as the programs are available for them. If you know some further file conversions, please let me know. I am also very interested in Web based conversions. Image Files If you [...]
