Tweaking Linux To meet User Needs

Till recently I was using Fedora 15 - "Lovelock" as my alternate OS, which usually is always a Linux flavor. Now, at present I am using Ubuntu 11.10 - "Oneiric Ocelot" on my system. One thing one must realize, is that Linux distributions run in a very different manner from Windows. They do not (yet) support executable facility, so the installation of many a software is not as easy or automatic as in windows. Also, a general OS install of Linux distributions is very general. It does not do much more than install the kernel and other must haves in order to run a system. They do, however provide repositories for the easy installation of many open source softwares that are popular, or open source alternatives to commercial softwares.

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Ubuntu 11.10:

In this post, I will entail the different softwares that I feel one MUST have in their system, and how to go about installing them - in fedora 15 and in ubuntu 11.10. Please note, that this is simply a comparitive study.

31 Useful Ubuntu 11.10 Unity Keyboard/Mouse Shortcuts

In my opinion, the overall Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 experience is so much better and involving if you know some essential Ubuntu Unity keyboard and Mouse shortcuts. So here are a bunch of very basic yet useful Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 (Unity) keyboard shortcuts. Thanks to askubuntu for the list.

QT - An introduction

Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software with a graphical user interface (GUI) (in which cases Qt is classified as a widget toolkit), and also used for developing non-GUI programs such as command-line tools and consoles for servers. It is produced by Nokia.

Qt is most notably used in Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop Elements, OPIE, Skype, VLC media player, VirtualBox, and Mathematica, and by the European Space Agency, DreamWorks, Google, HP, KDE, Lucasfilm, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Volvo, and Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Broadcom wireless 802.11 Installing Wi-fi Broadcom 802.11 driver for fedora 15

As mentioned earlier, I recently installed fedora 15 on my system. Unfortunately, the packages did not include the drivers to my Wireless LAN card. Hence I was unable to use the newly introduced wi-fi feature of fedora. Many of my friends, I presume must have faced the same problem, so here is a little trick I used to get my wi-fi on!

Please mail me at nardz07@gmail.com with any suggestions or doubts.