By Kushal ~ December 30th, 2008. Filed under: Linux.
Purpose: Every now and then, you will be find the need to take screenshots of your Linux system. It can be either to post in a blog entry, posting in forums and mailing list for debugging purpose, writing a tutorial, etc. This blog entry will show some methods on how to take screenshots in console, X windows system, GNOME/KDE system. People usually have a difficulty in taking screenshots…
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Tags: console, Debian, imagemagick, images, Linux, screenshot, virtual, xwd | No Comments »
By Kushal ~ December 28th, 2008. Filed under: Linux.
Purpose: Wondering why Windows XP or (Windows Vista) on your dual-boot computer, i.e. having Windows XP and Linux installed, is not able to boot? The answer is that either there is a
bug in the GRUB2 package or IDE disk naming convention has changed in GRUB2 from legacy GRUB.
Are you getting following error messages from GRUB2 when you try to boot Windows XP?
Tags: Boot, dual boot, Error, grub2, problems, windows, xp | No Comments »
By Kushal ~ December 23rd, 2008. Filed under: Linux.
Purpose: Have you ever felt the pain of rebooting your dual-boot computer, having Linux and Windows XP install, back and forth to access/edit your data on your Linux partition? Yes, many of us have and it's quite tedious. Accessing Windows partition from Linux is old school but there are very few utilities which would let you do the other way around - accessing Linux partitions from Windows XP. There…
Continue reading Tags: access, ext2, ext3, IFS, Linux, local, partition, windowsxp | 7 Comments »
By Kushal ~ December 19th, 2008. Filed under: Linux.
Purpose: To count the total number of packages in the Debian distribution.
I have read on many websites that Debian has the most number of packages than any other Linux distribution out there. Also as per
Debian, there are 18000+ packages in Debian. This got me curious and I decided to query the total number of packages that are currently actually there in Debian. The…
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Tags: count, Debian, etch, Lenny, number, packages, sid | 1 Comment »
By Kushal ~ December 16th, 2008. Filed under: Information Technology, Linux.
Purpose: This post is a follow-up of my previous post which had explained how to install GRUB splash images with "grub" package (legacy one). Couple of people requested to show how to do this with the new version of GRUB i.e. GRUB2 or GRUB-PC. So in this article we will Continue reading
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By Kushal ~ December 12th, 2008. Filed under: Information Technology, Linux.
Purpose: Are you tired of seeing the plain old (black background and blue blox) Grub screen when you turn on your computer to boot Linux? If yes, then here is a quick and easy way to install a fancy Grub Image in less than 2 minutes.
Note: This is not the same as installing "bootsplash" image when Linux kernel boots. We will leave that for some other day. Although there are
Continue reading Tags: Boot, Debian, GRUB, Linux, Loader, Splash Screen | 9 Comments »
By Kushal ~ December 12th, 2008. Filed under: Linux.
If you are wondering, like me, what happened to the Debian's upcoming release a.k.a Lenny/5.0, here is a short story for you curious types.
The Story
Debian Lenny was slotted to release earlier this September 2008 as per the
release goals. However due to a large number of RC (Release Critical) bugs which were not fixed the release date
Continue reading Tags: Debian, Lenny, Linux, RC Bugs, Release | 2 Comments »
By Kushal ~ July 30th, 2008. Filed under: Linux.
Purpose: To show resources which might be useful if you are looking to support Debian on Intel's Atom processor.
Sometime back Intel
announced it's new low power Atom processor. These processors are specifically designed for UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC), MID (Mobile Internet Devices) and other hand-held devices.
I started looking around the Internet to see if there is any kind of support for Linux with regards…
Continue reading Tags: atom, Debian, intel, low power, lpia, menlow, moblin, Net, remix, ubuntu | 1 Comment »
By Kushal ~ July 22nd, 2008. Filed under: Linux.
Purpose: Suppose you have created your own Custom Linux LiveCD by generating an ISO image file using mkisofs command or any other command. Now you want to distribute these ISOs to people and therefore you upload them to a web site and provide a link for the download. Suppose someone downloads the ISO but how can he/she make sure that he/she is getting the exact same copy that…
Continue reading Tags: checksum, ISO, Linux, Linux ISO Image, LiveCD, MD5SUM | 5 Comments »
By Kushal ~ July 19th, 2008. Filed under: Linux.
Purpose: This post will explain how you can mount a Linux filesystem (ext2/etx3) on your Windows XP machine over a network.
Note: If you are looking for how to the reverse - Mount a windows share drive on a linux machine over a network then please refer to my
previous blog entry.
Also this blog entry does NOT…
Continue reading Tags: access, domain, ext2, ext3, filesystem, Linux, mount, network, samba, windows, workgroup | 8 Comments »
