Most time of the day I surf through many web sites & come across many interesting articles / posts which can be useful in future. Like every web user I bookmark all these URLs. I use both Xmarks & Mozilla Weave to keep bookmark backedup, as bookmark is really important for me I do not [...]
Full Story »Yum – How to Exclude package update
In previous post we have covered openoffice-3.2 installation, by mow many must have noticed while running yum update, yum is trying to upgrade openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586.rpm which belongs to openoffice-3.2 installation. This package is being replaced by openoffice.org-ure-3.1.1-19.14.fc12.i686 as a result openoffice does not work, to fix you need to reinstall openoffice.org-ure-1.6.0-9483.i586.rpm. To avoid it further, you [...]
Full Story »Installing OpenOffice-3.2 on Fedora
Download Openoffice-3.2 from torrent / web link given below. Download Torrent Download From Web Remove Older version yum remove openoffice.org* Install Latest one su #Extract tar package & access directory cd RPMS rpm -ivh *.rpm rpm -ivh desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.2-redhat-menus-3.2-9472.noarch.rpm OR #Extract tar package & access directory ./setup
Full Story »Installing OpenOffice-3.2 on Ubuntu
Download torrent Make sure you select with bundled jre package (ensure you selected version 3.2, till now there is no version 3.2 mentioned for Linux (x86) (with bundled JRE) (.deb based)), this may be rectified soon. Otherwise use following link to download from Web. Download The reason I recommend to download using Torrent is to [...]
Full Story »OpenOffice 3.2 Released.
OpenOffice 3.2 Released. Features * Faster start up times * ODF Support * Proprietary File Support * Support for Postscript based OpenType fonts Read More
Full Story »Google’s Experimental Fiber Network.
Google’s Experimental Fiber Network. From Google Blog Google is planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. Google will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. plan [...]
Full Story »Experience with Xubuntu
In my previous post I have expressed my love to use Linux on my OLD COMPUTER, which is Celeron 1.1Ghz with 256 MB Ram. For a long time I have used Fedora on this computer, but with the latest versions I have experienced limitation of my pc. Since I use Laptop at home for most [...]
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