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The book Linux Unleashed is available online at the following location.
It might be of use to those who are new to the [...]

I got the following from
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=105598. A useful little
note. Thanks to the author.

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Well, installing from an RPM doesn’t compile the program. The RPM file
contains the already-compiled program and just copies it into place. It
also saves info in a database about what files belong to what package
and where they are installed.

Compiling a program from source, on the other [...]

I want to use a dot matrix printer (epson lx 300) with openoffice. The
quality of printout is really poor and I simply cannot get openoffice to
give me the kind of prints I got with [...]

I have been using KDE instead of gnome. Simply because I like the graphics design of KDE more than that of gnome. But there is this one silly lacunae in KDE. It does not allow the user to shutdown without logging out. Shutting down the machine is therefore a two step process. You first log-out and [...]

The following link explains how to enable read-only access to [...]

Let us see. Following things still require me to boot the machine in WinXP mode.

1. When I have to open one of the old MS-ACCESS databases. Or when someone sends me an ACCESS file.

It seems openoffice (with mysql backend) can do almost everything that ACCESS did (and perhaps much better than ACCESS). But the problem is [...]

The following link gives the basic info on installing software in linux.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45094

There is also another, smarter, way of installing software. Use apt (with its GUI interface called synaptic) to search for the software you want, download it and automatically install it. It allows you to upgrade your whole linux distribution, upgrade software etc. The great thing [...]

I still have winxp on my machine. It is installed on an NTFS drive. But there is another Fat32 drive where I keep all my data. That drive can be accessed from both windows (obviously) and from linux.

Yes. That is one of the best things that has happenned. I keep all my data on the fat32 [...]

I am one of those millions of people who at some stage got fed up with Microsoft, decided to take the plunge and shift to linux. I installed redhat 9 on my Compaq PIV box.

Had to upgrade RAM from 128 MB to 256 MB. That was not so nice. I was somewhat surprised to find that [...]