8thString

This is both a screen-shot tour and guest addition installation in Mint 9, GNOME edition. Installing Mint 9 (Isadora) is very easy. Easier than Windows 7 and please don't talk about installing Windows XP. Installing patches in Windows XP takes forever. Anyway, head to Mint 9 download site to grab Live CD (with GNOME DE). Create a VirtualBox guest machine for Linux Mint 9, see below for my configuration: General Name: mint9 OS Type: Ubuntu System Base Memory: 512 MB Processor(s): 1 Boot Order: CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk VT-x/AMD-V: Enabled Nested Paging: Enabled Display Video Memory: 64 MB 3D Acceleration: Disabled 2D Video Acceleration: Disabled Remote Display Server: Disabled Storage Storage Controller IDE Secondary Master (CD/DVD): Empty Storage Controller 1 SATA Port 0: mint9.vdi (Normal, 80.00 GB) Audio Host Driver: Windows DirectSound Controller: ICH AC97 Network Adapter 1: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, Microsoft Loopback Adapter)

This is a screen capture sequence installing PC Linux OS 2010 KDE in VirtualBox 3.2.0. Figure 1. Boot screen Figure 2. Keyboard Layout selection. In most cases the detected layout is appropriate. Figure 3. Click on the highlighted icon to install PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE Edition. Figure 4. Install root password, this should be root. Figure 5. GRUB options. Default should do just fine here, in my case, changed boot delay to 2 seconds. Figure 6. Default Linux image to boot machine. You should still be able to select fail safe or no frame buffer (nonfb). Figure 7. Installation is done!!! Reboot machine to configure root password and a user. Figure 8. This will be your machines password. Figure 9. Add a user here, this will be your workhorse username. Figure 10. Login to your new PCLinuxOS machine. Figure 11. Welcome to PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE Edition!!! Enjoy. ~ts

This is a quick guide to install GNOME in FreeBSD 8.0. Create a minimal install of FreeBSD, see this post . As of 5/21/2010, this will install GNOME 2.26.3 As a root user add the following packages. pkg_add -r xorg pkg_add -r gnome2 Edit /etc/rc.conf and add the following if not there yet. gdm_enable="YES" gnome_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" That's it...reboot the machine and enjoy!!! ~ts

How to install Opera in CentOS 5.5 Step 1: Head to Opera's website . Step 2: In "Select distribution and vendor", choose "CentOS". Leave the rest using the default values. Step 3: Hit on Download Opera, and save it to ~/soft. Or any other convenient location. Step 4: After download is done, do: [timus@localhost ~]$ cd ~/soft [timus@localhost soft]$ su [root@localhost soft]# rpm -i opera-10.10.gcc4.shared.qt3.i386.rpm Enjoy using Opera!!! ~ts

Google Chrome Beta (5.0.375.29 beta) cannot be installed in CentOS 5.5 due to a dependency that cannot be meet. On a freshly installed CentOS, trying to install Chrome using rpm -i google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm spits out the following: [root@localhost soft]# rpm -i google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm warning: google-chrome-beta_current_i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 7fac5991 error: Failed dependencies: lsb >= 3.2 is needed by google-chrome-beta-5.0.375.38-46659.i386 xdg-utils is needed by google-chrome-beta-5.0.375.38-46659.i386 Unfortunately, the latest version of "lsb" that comes with CentOS 5.5 is redhat-lsb-3.1-12.3.EL.el5.centos.i386. ~ts :(

This is a screen capture documentation of FreeBSD 8.0 minimal install on VirtualBox. Before we can start the install, we need to have: a) Guest machine configuration for FreeBSD 8.0. b) ISO installer, we will be using bootonly in this case. As usual, create a guest machine configuration, below is my configuration: General Name: fbsd80 OS Type: FreeBSD System Base Memory: 512 MB Processor(s): 1 Boot Order: CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk VT-x/AMD-V: Enabled Nested Paging: Enabled Display Video Memory: 9 MB 3D Acceleration: Disabled 2D Video Acceleration: Disabled Remote Display Server: Disabled Storage IDE Controller IDE Primary Master: fbsd80.vdi (Normal, 80.00 GB) IDE Secondary Master (CD/DVD): Empty Floppy Controller Floppy Device 0: Empty Audio Host Driver: Windows DirectSound Controller: ICH AC97 Network Adapter 1: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, Microsoft Loopback Adapter) Serial Ports Disabled USB Device Filters: 0 (0 active) Shared Folders None W

ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) in Windows XP is quite useful in few occasions. Like if you have a laptop connected to a wired connection and you want to share your connection to other wireless devices, then it can be handy. Note that Windows XP works quite well as Wireless AP in adhoc mode. There are cases where your wired connection IP range will be in 192.168.0.x, in this case ICS and adhoc sharing will not work, not at least without some tweaks. To put this in perspective, here is my network. [Cable Provider (network1)]--[Home Network (network2)]--[XP Machine with ICS (network3)] My high speed internet connection from my cable company provides dynamic ip in the range 66.90.106/22, let me call this network1. My second network (network2), is my home network. This is a wireless AP with wired capability. I was too lazy when I setup this network and used the default. So its network is 192.168.0/24. Well, this is the same network that ICS is using. For my network3, of cours

Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and modify the line that shows something about hosts: hosts: files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 Install winbind: sudo aptitude install winbind For system with more than one network and with WINS server up and running, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf, like: wins server = [ip_of_wins_server_here] name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast wins proxy = yes ~ts

Chrome and SELinux does not play nice by default in Fedora 12, see below on how to fix this: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update selinux-policy-targeted You should be running this command as root. See this link for more details. ~ts

Install the following packages - xorg-server - xinit - xorg-docs - X-start-menu-icons - inetutils - rxvt