Debian

There was an interesting post to ILUG this morning with links to alternatives for a lot of common Windows applications. Ken Guest's list of applications is an excellent starting point. I'll definitely be adding that to the resources section when I get a chance. There are still a couple of areas that it is hard for linux to compete, but things are definitely improving. I only … [Read more...] about Common Windows Software alternatives

Niall has packaged Skype for Debian. It works perfectly! More details on his site here … [Read more...] about Skype

I installed x.org 6.8.1 on my desktop (debian unstable) yesterday to see what it was like. The installation was quite painless, but getting it to work properly did require some work. The documentation on the X.org site is fine for compilation / installation but does not cover usage and configuration. I found some documentation, with pointers, on the gentoo site, however the … [Read more...] about x.org 6.8.1 – transparency and more

Niall has written an excellent howto for setting this up: Postfix + smtp auth It worked for me first time … [Read more...] about SMTP Auth with postfix

Firefox is a very nice browser and makes an excellent replacement for Internet Explorer. One of the things that was a little annoying after installing Evolution in Debian was that hyperlinks in emails did not work. Niall provides a simple way of fixing this here. … [Read more...] about Firefox / Evolution