Linux

Offline Blog programs for Linux

1. ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730

Must-have-programs in Linux

1. Unison: a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows

Create Your Own Operation System: How to Remaster Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Dreamlinux/PCLinuxOS

Updated Oct. 15, 2008
I always make my own OS. The tools I am using to create Live-cd/Install CD are:

Remastersys for Ubuntu 8.04

1. download the Remastersys.

How to input/type Romanized Pali and Sanskrit in Openoffice 3

Update (March 16, 2010): Openoffice.org 3.2 supports Alt keys as shortcut keys, how to use it? Read this: http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/147

How to install Linux/Ubuntu from usb flash disk / How to run livecd Linux/Slax from usb flash disk?

Just download unetboothin and use it to load your CD image file to usb flash drive.

Get unetboothin at:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

How to uninstall Grub (fix bootMBR) to restore Windows xp bootmbr?

Method 1: Use MBRFix
MBRFix is a tool to fix Master Boot Record (MBR) on harddisks. It also works for Windows Vista.

Download here:

How to use MS Office 2000 to open and save OpenDocument Format (ODF)

In MS Office 2007, there is an ODF addon, one can download it from it here: http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net

8 Steps to make a Slackware Package

http://www.talug.org/howto/Steps_to_make_Slack_package.html

Step 1
Download the source code of the program.

Step 2
Unarchive the source.
tar zxvf foo-1.0.1.tar.gz

Step 3

Read and Save Office 2007 file format in Linux

Many people are using Office 2007, in order to share files with them I need to use windows. Here are some programs I installed in my Linux desktop (five years old notebook with 256 MB RAM).

Favorite distro

Here are my favorite distro lists:

  • Slax 6
  • Ubuntu 7.04
  • PCLinuxOS 2007

Slax 6 is fast, stable, small in size. The module manager in Slax 6 make uninstall module easily. It will become Slackware 12 once you install it at hard disk. Slackware is my daily based distro.

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