Why Unity? Netbooks vs Tablets
Goal for v5 was to have Leeenux in two flavors, Unity and classic gnome2 with UNE, Unity being reserved for netbooks with Atom CPUs. Even before Unity, I was setting my desktop to be something like it: gnome-do, AWN launcher on the left, Windows7-like snap to grid, etc., but Unity is much more. However, I …. Read More
Which license should you chose?
Software If you are a software developer, than there is no doubt, you should use GPL. There are enough Richard Stallman’s speeches out there, so I do not want to get too much into explaining why putting your software in proprietary license or even worse, patenting, is a bad choice for everyone. BSD is the …. Read More
Which Brands should we buy?
After so many bought gadgets, computers, cameras and technical stuff in general, I came into conclusion about the built quality of the brands. I have also work on maintaining various systems and I am in touch with hardware repairman, who have passed their experiences with various brands. The results are quite unfortunate for the buyers, …. Read More
Useful Linux Commands
Processes Detailed processes: ps aux Kill process: kill [PID] Users and Groups Shows users: less /etc/passwd Creates user with password: useradd [NAME] -p [PASSWORD] Changes password: passwd [USER] Lock account: passwd -l [USER] Unock account: passwd -u [USER] Changes name of account: usermod -l [NEWNAME] [USERNAME] Shows groups: less /etc/group Creates group: groupadd [NAME] Deletes …. Read More
Tutorial: Learn basics of programming with BASIC
These are some of the simple programs I used on my commodore 64 or 286/386 when I was in elementary school. I think that it is a good start for learning programming and move on to something more serious later on. It has some useful programs though, mathematical to calculate all numbers from 1 to …. Read More
Support emails
Intro With Leeenux Linux comes unlimited support through email. Here is the database of some of the support letters and our responses. v10 Installation Support for v10 4G (in Serbian) Q:I have a problem with install the os in asus eee pc 4g, I try it with v8 lxde 2g. when it arrives near the end …. Read More
Set desired CPU frequency
There seams to be a problem with some eee’s and the latest kernel that Ubuntu implements, thus it is inherited by the latest Leeenux. Newer machines do not seam to be affected by this. Tested on eee 4G, the problem is that the CPU frequency cannot be set manually, and since this is the old …. Read More
Firefox Magnet links don’t work
You might click on magnet link in Firefox and get: “Firefox can’t find the file at magnet:?xt=urn:btih:aa4b9b…”. Resolution: Locate file mimeTypes.rdf, it should be in c:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\something.default\. Open it with some text editor, whichever you use. Find the line that contains “magnet”. For deluge it should look like this, for other Torrent clients replace with appropriate …. Read More
Prestashop Tutorial
Prestashop Note: All the code edited here is collected by making the Nero Online Shop (for accessories and fashion items). The whole process is documented in a diary, presented in this blog. Prestashop is not the leading eCommerce CMS out there. WordPress with Woocomerce is used in 45% of online shops. Magento is probably more …. Read More