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First Install Fest

Some finally here comes an awaited event which all of you might be waiting “Linux Install Fest”. Many of our friends have approached with their laptops/desktops to get Linux installed on their system. We came up with a noble idea, “Why not organize a Install Fest where all people can bring their laptops and we [...]

Linux Software Installation: Myths and the Truth

THE MYTHS The first problem which people face while switching over to Linux is the “unavailability of softwares” as they claim. They just try to run their windows installer/setup file and end up with frustration saying “Linux is so incompatible!” Is it really so? Linux is not a clone of Windows. Then how come you [...]

3D effects on ubuntu 7.10 on ati 1250

Well after going through a large number of guides like this i finally thought about giving guide at cchtml a try, well the hings mentioned are really great but not all steps are needed so here is a simplified version Here i assume that you have not done any of this step before and are [...]

What is a webserver? Clear your myths…

Most of you must have heard about something called webserver. To most of the people it more of a mystery. Actually a webserver is nothing magical piece of software, but its really marvelous. There are many webservers available, many of them are frequently heard- Apache-the leading webserver which serves 70% of the website, Microsoft IIS-a [...]

Installing any PHP based software over LAMP/WAMP

Any PHP based software can be run over a web-server. The most famous of them is Apache-the webserver used in around 75% of the websites. For running most of these PHP applications you need a webserver and a database for storing the data. Database is not required in all the cases. Some softwares use flat [...]

Fedora 8 on HP 6515b

Well i have installed Fedora 8 now and well i was facing the usual problems, install proceeded well in text mode without any problems but on booting after the ATI driver install i was presented with a console login that is no xserver started and then started the problem with WiFi, ndiswrapper wont install it [...]

Installing WAMP on your Windows system

WAMP (now known as WampServer) is like a AIO package that allows you to setup a web server on your local machine to simulate any project that you may run on a remote server. WampServer 2.0 includes: Apache 2.2.6 MySQL 5.0.45 PHP 5.2.5 Download it from here. Installation is a piece of cake. There are [...]

Installing any Linux on HP Compaq 6515b

Here is the post which is very important for Linux in Manipal, its How to install Linux on those ATI machines?? Let us go step by step You need to know that this install procedure is for Ubuntu 7.10 but can be followed on any other Distro as well you only need to change 1-2 [...]