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Linux is the popular system nowadays, offering all the benefits of the well known Windows OS, still having considerably less bugs. The reason of Linux being used not as often as Windows lies in the fact most of the computers already go with the Windows OS, so people get used  [ Read More ]

Introduction StarOffice 5.1 is a complete office suite with a word processor, spreadsheet, presenter, mail client, and more. StarOffice was orginally a commercial product developed by a German company, Star Division. Sun Microsystems in 1999 acquired Star Division and began shipping StarOffice free of charge for both personal and commercial  [ Read More ]

Introduction AxY FTP, formerly known as wxFTP, is a graphical FTP client for X Windows based on the GTK+ libraries. The latest stable version is 0.5.1. It has a nice user interface with side-by-side windows representing the directory contents of both the local and remote computers. AxY FTP Installation AxY  [ Read More ]

Introduction Many of you are probably familar with Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF files and also as a Netscape plugin. Linux has other PDF viewers that come with some of the distributions. The original was ghostview. KDE and Gnome now have their own versions of ghostview called Kghostview and  [ Read More ]

Introduction Macromedia has developed a version of its popular Shockwave plugin called Flash Player. Many websites embed Shockwave on their first page. This plugin is easy to install and works well with Netscape 4.0 and higher. In addition, the glibc version of Netscape must be used. It can be installed  [ Read More ]

Introduction linuxconf is Red Hat’s “all-in-one” configuration tool. It was written using the GTK libraries(the same as Gnome). In my personal use of linuxconf, I find it to be unreliable. For instance, even after saving and applying the changes, the changes do not show up when you view the configuration  [ Read More ]

Introduction The SuSE distribution comes with a nice “all-in-one” configuration tool that uses the ncurses libraries to create the GUI. The ncurses libaries creates a graphical interface that can be viewed in a terminal or console without X Windows. In other words, you can use YaST even if you telnet  [ Read More ]

Introduction Our first GTK+ program will be nothing more than a basic window. There are no event handlers, which means that the window will not respond to any user input such as mouse clicks. Although clicking the X button on the title bar to exit the program will cause the  [ Read More ]

Introduction RPM stands for Red Hat Package Manager. It uses a RPM database to maintain a listing of all software installed using RPM including the last version installed. There are RPM switches to install, erase, update, and query the software database. Refer to the man pages of RPM for further  [ Read More ]

Introduction Usually, the Linux kernel source code is installed with the operating system. If for some reason the kernel source is not installed, you will have to download and install them. Or perhaps you already have older kernel source installed but wish to upgrade to an entirely new kernel. In  [ Read More ]