Notes pertaining to the linux operating system. Click on the links to see useful information such as backing up firefox, installing packages, installing compiz fusion, customizing and configuring Kubuntu.

Adept Manager is Kubuntu’s package manager.

Firefox is the greatest web browser of all time. Here is information on backing up and restoring, among other things.

Wine is a program that allows you to run windows applications. Here is information on installing it.

IPV6 is Internet Protocol 6, the replacement of ipv4. Here is information on how to disable it, which might be needed if you have internet problems.dvd,mp3,windowsmedia,real,quicktime playback

Multimedia codecs allow you to play mp3s, dvds, windows media files, real media, and quicktime files.

Compiz Fusion is the 3d desktop with features like the rotating cube, wobbly windows, and much much more.sudo

Kio-sysinfo puts information together like My Computer does on windows. Shows hard drives, folders, etc.

Groupwise is Novell’s mail client. Here are instructions on how to install it on Kubuntu Gutsy.

Swap is the virtual memory that Kubuntu uses to trick programs that they have continuous working memory available to them. Here are commands to enable/disable/create the swap space.

Remove Strigi Search in case you do not like index searching like myself.

Replace Dolphin with Konqueror if you prefer the original file explorer to the more windows like Dolphin.

File Sharing guide that enables the sharing of folders with Linux and with Windows machines.

K-Menu/KDE Panel Some tips on how to customize the K-Menu and the KDE Panel, which are the equivalent to the start menu and the panel in Windows.

NOTES:

• Delete files without sending them to trash can. Press shift+delete or in a console window type rm (filename)
• For rm you can use sudo rm -rf (filename) to forcefully delete everything (r) and also everything inside folders (f)