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Why you don’t have to defrag Linux like Windows?

One of the question that come out every once a while from new GNU/Linux users is how to defrag Linux? Usually most would be satisfied with the short answer “Linux does not need filesystem defragmentation like Windows”.

For curious users who prefer a rather complete explanation about why GNU/Linux filesystem doesn’t need defragmentation like WIndows are, then this article might provide such answer to you : Why doesn’t Linux need defragmenting?

Hope that answer your questions about Linux (or other Unix-like) filesystem for that matter.
[tags]linux,windows,fat32,ext3,filesystem,defrag,defragmentation[/tags]

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OpenOffice Premium – openoffice 2.0.3 with extra toppings!

Some nice folks have released Openoffice Premium 2.0.3 , OpenOffice suite packaged with extra stuffs into a single binary. The English language binary download is 190MB and the binary is packed with :

  • Clip Art (currently more than 2,800 objects)
  • Templates (number varies by language)
  • Samples (number varies by language)
  • Documentation (if available)
  • Fonts (more than 90 fonts)

Which is handy for those who want to have extra templates and clip-arts for their project.

Depite its name, OpenOffice Premium is available freely (free as in beer and freedom), and the package can be downloaded from OpenOffice Premium Project Website

[tags]openoffice,open office,linux,office,desktop,opensource, open source, free software[/tags]

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Download UML software in Linux

Real programmers don’t do software documentations! They just code! However, there’s a time where you need to document your software project, and UML is probably the most popular tool to document your software design effectively.

But what if you’re developing using GNU/Linux operating system? Which software should you use to draw those UML? Do you need to use a Windows machine just to document your development?

Here’s a list of software that can help you draw UML diagram in GNU Linux :

Hope that helps you in your quest of drawing UML diagram under Linux. If you have any other suggestions, then feel free to add them in the comments box

[tags]uml,draw,software engineering,linux,ubuntu,debian,sdlc,sadm[/tags]

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Install Kubuntu with Ubuntu Disc

You’ve tried Ubuntu and didn’t like the GNOME? You want to install Kubuntu with KDE instead?

I’ve a good news for you! You don’t need a separate Kubuntu Disc to install Kubuntu, instead you can just install Kubuntu right from your default Ubuntu Disc provided that you’ve a fast internet connection.

What you need to do is install the “kubuntu-desktop” package from synaptic or console apt-get :

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

and Ubuntu will take care the rest. To use Kubuntu, you just need to log out from your Ubuntu GNOME desktop, and click the Options to change it to KDE, log-in again, and then you’ll be officially inside Kubuntu.

Have fun trying out this trick!

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Full length Website Screenshot with khtml2png

Today I read that two bloggers has been recommending Webshots , a freeware application to take full length website screenshot in Microsoft Windows and is unavailable to users of other operating system such as GNU/Linux, *BSD and Solaris.

khtml2png is a free software application which can also take full length website screenshot like Webshots does, except it works on unix like platform such as GNU/Linux and flavors of BSD.

The software depends on libkhtml (from kdelibs KDE project) to render website and ‘convert’ from ImageMagick to create the actual screenshot.

Originally the software can only output screenshot in lossless PNG format, but the latest version however is able to support as many output format as ImageMagick support including jpg, gif, png and bmp to suit your needs.

Please refer to khtml2png website for sample website screenshot produced by khtml2png.

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Get Ubuntu Repositories on DVD

Having Ubuntu Repositories on DVD is handy if for some reason you can’t get connected to the internet or your connection slow to download favorite application.

There’s an Indonesian website which offer Ubuntu repositories (main, restricted, universe, dan multiverse) on DVD, which means that you would not have to be connected to the internet in order to download application anymore.

All you need to do is to download the DVD images using jigdo, and find the means to burn those DVD. Then to use the DVD, you only have to enter this line at the terminal :

sudo apt-cdrom add

Which Ubuntu will prompt you to insert the DVD (in no particular order), wait until apt -cdrom finish scanning the repo and repeat this step for each of the DVDs.

Finally you can browse all the application inside the DVD repositories by browsing Synaptic, and install them.

The downloads can be obtained at http://wiki.ubuntu-id.org/DistribusiDvdReposUbuntu . Please refer to the Jigdo tutorial if you don’t know how to use it in order to download the DVD.

Have a nice day.

[tags]ubuntu,linux,debian,jigdo,repository,repositories[/tags]