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18-03-2005, 05:13 AM
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Laptoping
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Linux Resources
New to Linux? Need to find appropriate drivers or programs to do everyday tasks? Read on... Note that this list is by no means complete. Additions and suggestions are welcome The topics discussed in the open-source dealt with only issues and some features but it was never exhaustive --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introductory information - Linux general info Picking the distribution that suits your needs - Linux.org - DistroWatch Drivers you may need: Graphics cards - ATI Linux Drivers: 32bit - 64bit - NVIDIA Linux Drivers: 32bit - 64bit Sound - The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) project Modem drivers Linux Winmodem Support USB devices (including ADSL modems, scanners, printers, keyboards etc etc) - The Linux-USB project - Linux-USB device overview Network drivers -Linux network drivers Printer drivers - Linux printing Hardware monitoring - lm_sensors Wireless networking -NdisWrapper - linux-wlan Plus, you can find many, many more driver resources here: http://www.linux-drivers.org/ Programs you may need: Instant messaging - Gaim Internet browsers - Firefox - Opera Office applications (equivalent to Word, Excel etc) - OpenOffice Image editing - The GIMP Music playback - X Multimedia System (XMMS) - Beep Media Player (BMP) Sound software - Audacity - Sound and midi software for Linux Video Editing - Cinerella Misc - Cedega (play Windows games under Linux - formerly known as winex) - The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux - Find RPMs in rpmfind and rpmseek Documentation - Read the man pages first! Type "man command" - The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP)
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18-03-2005, 10:59 AM
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Cool!! Mighty impressive list!
 Here's some small addition  Eyecandies for desktop environments KDE-Look GNOME Art Mail clients Thunderbird Ximian Evolution Miscellaneous OOo links OpenOffice Extras OpenOffice Macros http://www.oooforum.org/forum/]OpenOffice Forum[/url] Some more OOo macros Small tutorial on OOo Writer Macros Here're 2 more links I dare not forget GNU and FSF
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Join Date: May 2004
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Media Players
MPlayer VLC Xine Helix kaffeine Real Player Totem More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor..._media_players
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Re: Linux Resources
Some linux documentation translated in Kannada - http://ubuntu-in.info/wiki/index.php/LinuxaayaNa
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