Linux Mac Crossover

I found an interesting article today about making Linux look like a Mac.  The thing is that I don’t necessarily want to go all the way, but I would like to steal a few things from their side of the world.

Make Your Linux Desktop Look Like A Mac - Mac4Lin Project Documentation

The big thing that caught my eye was the AWM on page 3.   I had trouble following the instructions though.  These instructions worked a little better:

HOWTO: functional eye-candy with Avant-Window-Navigator and Affinity 

Listing Options for Apt-Get

I have learned to get around in yum, but now with Ubuntu, I am having to learn apt-get.

Before with yum, I could do:

sudo yum list | grep -i <some program>

now, I need to do:

apt-cache search <some program>

Resources

apt-get - list of software?

Installing Flash for 64-bit Firefox on Ubuntu

These two pages really helped me:

Howto Install 32 bit Firefox with Flash w/sound and Java for AMD64

TGHC / 64bit browser with java and flash plugins for Ubuntu

The script worked very well for me.  As far as I can tell, everything seems to be working.  I am using Swiftweasel and I am liking it.   I had already installed some extensions such as Google’s toolbar, and I did not have to reinstall them for Swiftweasel.

Using sha1sum to Verify CDs

Verify an iso image

The simple way:

sha1sum Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso

If an sha1sum file was delivered with the iso image, you can use this command.

sha1sum -c SHA1SUM

The -c tells the program to read files out of the SHA1SUM text file and generate sha1sums on all of those files. Then, it compares the generated value to the value in the text file and tells you if it matches.

Verify a CD

Use this after you have burn the iso image to the CD.

sha1sum /dev/hdc

The source that I found says to use the actual device rather than a link (instead of /dev/cdrom).

Using Windows

Versions of md5sum for Windows:

• Links to the exe from here: etree and activestate
• winMd5Sum from Nullriver
• digestIT from Colony Software
• md5summer

You can get sha1sum from here:

• [Announce] sha1sum for MS Windows released
• digestIT from Colony Software
• Links from here: gnupg, rootmode, slavasoft-fsum, slavasoft-hashcalc

Resources

Verify downloaded iso integrity with md5sum or sha1sum

sha1sum(1) - Linux man page

YumEx New Version — Colors

I just updated to the new version of yumex and noticed that they added a color coding scheme to the updates.

Here is what I found the colors mean:

• Red = updating package
• Blue = obsoleting package
• Green = installed package
• Black = uninstalled package

Resources

Changes / New Features for version 1.9.4 (documents colors)

Homepage

on SourceForge

Video Driver

Applies To: Acer Aspire 9300 Laptop

The Laptop has an nVidia GeForce Go 6100 video card.

Manual Install

The driver was downloaded from this link:
nVidia website

The problem with the manual install is that you manually have to reinstall each time you update the kernel. If you update the kernel with yum and you have installed the video driver with yum, yum will install the driver in the new kernel for you.

Using Yum

Make sure to configure yum with freshrpms repository.

You can run the following command to see which packages are available:

yum list | grep nvidia

This is what it gave me:

nvidia-x11-drv.x86_64 1.0.9746-1 freshrpms

To install, run the following:

yum install nvidia-x11-drv