Myspace: October 2011

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Various system utilities

Parted Magic, a partition manager that can resize, repair, backup, and restore partitions.
SystemRescueCD, a system repair, backup and recovery tool.
Super Grub Disk, a boot utility that can restore and repair overwritten and misconfigured GRUB installs or directly boot various operating systems
Dr.Web Antivirus, F-Secure Rescue CD, and Kaspersky Rescue Disk, which remove malware from Windows installs.
Backtrack, a utility used for network analysis and penetration testing.
Ophcrack, a utility which can recover Windows passwords.
NTPasswd, a utility which can reset Windows passwords and edit the registry.
Gujin, a graphical bootloader that can also be used to boot various operating systems and media.
Smart Boot Manager (SBM), which can boot off CD-ROM and floppy drives on computers with a faulty BIOS.
FreeDOS, which can run BIOS flash and other legacy DOS utilities.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

If you have a computer with rather modest specifications (between 128 MB of RAM to 256 MB of RAM), you may find that Kubuntu’s KDE and Ubuntu’s Gnome are too slow on your computer to be functional. There’s another desktop environment called Xfce that is relatively lightweight, and Xubuntu is the version of Ubuntu that comes with Xfce as its default desktop environment.

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.Xfce is an easy to use and easy-to-configure environment for X11 based on GTK2. A priority is adherence to standards, specifically those defined at freedesktop.org.

Installing on Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
or
$ sudo apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
(The Xfce Goodies Project includes additional software and artwork that are related to the Xfce desktop, but not part of the official release. Please note that when installing the Xfce goodies you will install a lot of extra programs you probably don’t need.)

After the installation, you will need to logout or reboot your machine. When you get to the login screen, select the Options button in the lower left hand corner. You will be prompted to select from one of the available window managers. Select Xfce and then login. The Xfce desktop looks a lot like Gnome, but without all the fancy gadgets.

Installing on Fedora
$ yum groupinstall xfce

After installing Xfce you can use the “Session” menu to choose a Xfce login instead of a GNOME or KDE login.