Since in next versions of Ubuntu the default office suite will be Libreoffice. Here is the small how to which will help you to install Libreoffice on your Ubuntu. Remove openoffice (This is not necessary, as by the time of installation of libreoffice, openoffice gets removed) sudo apt-get purge openoffice* Add Repository for libreoffice sudo [...]
Full Story »How to Split & Join Large Files
This is incredibly easy to split & join files in linux. This is inbuilt utility in most of the Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Centos.. How to split large file to multiple small files? split -b 1024M largefile.iso /dst_dir/ In above example we are spiting large iso files to multiple files. in dst_dir you’ll [...]
Full Story »NConf Installation & Configuration
NConf is a PHP based web-tool for configuring the Nagios monitoring software. The tool is based on PHP / MySQL. Nagios is one of the best tool for monitoring & alerting, only missing part is web based configuration which is available in modern monitoring systems like cacti. Using NConf & pnp4nagios Nagios becomes complete monitoring [...]
Full Story »Availability of Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition
Faster boot speed, enhanced application suite and more visual appeal — give users more reasons than ever to choose Ubuntu LONDON, April 20, 2009 – Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition is free to download from Thursday 23 April. Also announced were the simultaneous releases of Ubuntu 9.04 [...]
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