Software appliances provide a means for developers to build highly portable, easy to support workloads. Most applications only require a small fraction of OS capabilities in order to be installed. Software applications can be packaged with just enough operating system (JeOS) to perform tasks involved with installing and maintaining software.
Novell has announced The Disters contest with prize money USD 10,000 . Contest runs from July 27th till Sep 30th 2010 . Entries are invited to build a uniq software appliance with suse studio. To enter the Contest, you must be a registered user of the SUSE Studio and submit your name, company name and e-mail address via the “Enter the Contest” link found on this page, along with entering a submission in one of the following two Categories…
1. Install ufraw . On a ubuntu machine run the following command in a treminal,
sudo apt-get install ufraw
2. cd to the directory which has raw images to be converted
3. Run the following command which will recursively traverse the directories underneath, find a RAW image with extension .CR2 and convert it into [...]
This howto explains steps to make Ubuntu 10.4 LTS codenamed “Lucid Lynx” detect, configure and install Huawei EC1262 usb modem used by Reliance Netconenct Broadband+. This should also apply to various other similar devices used by Tata Photon, Alcatel, Vodaphone etc. 3G connections.
Solution:
Install
usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data
Two ways to do it,
Automatic from [...]
Ubuntu 9.10 “karmik Koala” released in the last week of October. New feature is Ubuntu One Online Storage.
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/910features
OpenSuse 10.2 released on Nov 12th, 2009. http://news.opensuse.org/2009/11/12/opensuse-11-2-released/ Fedora 12 is set to release on Nov 17th , 2009. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/12/Schedule
Ubuntu Studio is a tailor made multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu aimed at audio/video, graphic editors, both enthusiasts and professionals. One could setup a decent studio, and connect midi devices, synthesizers, audio/video recording devices, additional sound cards and installing ubuntu studio on the system. Look and feel of ubuntu studio is very attractive. Folks [...]
In this article I am going to provide you a simple and quick way to setup reliance data card on ubuntu hardy heron. Most of the tasks could be done with the script that I am attaching here.
1. Plugin Data Card
Are you tired of waiting till your favorite yououtube video stream is being buffered to avoid jitters? Are you looking for an application to save youtube videos offline and watch them at your convenience
later? Do you want to save multiple parts of a video and watch it as a whole in [...]
Here is a howto to install Broadcom wireless card drivers on opensuse 10.3 using ndiswrpper and windows drivers. I installed Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI adapter on Compaq Presario 3611AU. The process of Installing windows drivers on linux using ndiswrapper is more or less same for most of the adapters.
Windows Drivers : You need [...]
The much awaited version of ubuntu, named ‘Hardy Heron’ (ubuntu 8.04) is officially been launched today. “You’ll never go back” is what canonical says on their official website http://www.ubuntu.com . Ubuntu releases LTS (Long Term Support) every two years and provides 3 years and 5 years of support respectively for desktop and server editions. Last [...]
Here is a procedure to create PDF files, convert from any format (html, text, doc ….) to PDF format.
This simple procedure involves adding PDF printer. I have tried it on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
From the menu, go to System —> Administration —> Printing Click on New Printner, let it search and come up [...]
I just removed my system tray from the gnome top panel in Ubuntu. I did right click on the panel, and selected add to panel option. I tried searching for System Tray / Task Bar / Launch Bar without any success. Finally searched through some docs and found out that they actually call it ” [...]
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