Install KDE on Ubuntu
If you like KDE besides Gnome on your Ubuntu installation just follow the tutorial How to install KDE on Ubuntu and type sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop in the terminal to install Kubuntu.
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Wireless network connection of a Dell Inspiron 530 with Ubuntu 8.04
Recently I bought an Desktop PC Inspiron 530 from Dell with Ubuntu 7.10 pre-installed to replace the very old Window PC that my parents used. I immediately upgraded the system to Ubuntu 8.04 and installed a subset of the additional software mentioned in my last post. In addition to this, I wanted to use a wireless network connection to avoid cables from the router to the PC (both are in different rooms). Therefore I bought a Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter F5D7050 v4002 uk (USB ID 050d:705c) together with the Dell PC. It was disappointing that the included documentation only explained how to install and use the Network Adapter in a Mircrosoft environment, so that I had to search the Web about how to install wireless network adapters in Ubuntu. I found links such as https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo , http://linuxwiki.de/LinuxWireless or http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN . According to these pages, wireless still isn't always trivial using Linux and theref...
Customizing Ubuntu 8.04 LTE
After installing Ubuntu 8.04 LTE (for the reasons mentioned in my previous post ), I started customizing this machine so that all my periphery devices are supported again and all additional software will be added and configured to my needs. Printer setup First, my printer should work again on my Ubuntu machine. I have bought my SAMSUNG CLP-300 Colour Laser Printer because of its good price/performance ratio and its platform independence (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux support was advertised). I used the closed-source driver from Samsung (current version is CLP-300 Unified Linux Driver ver.2.00.97 ) before. Now, I followed the recommendation on OpenPrinting database of Linux Foundation to give the open source printer driver foo2qpdl a try (following the short installation instruction on that site). Printing a test page and printing from Firefox worked immediately. Strangely, printing from OpenOffice needs some additional work as it didn't work. It is described in the section "S...
Harddisk crash - lessons learned
11 days ago my boot hard disk crashed during some Norton Antivirus scanning in Windows XP. My desktop PC is a Fujitsu-Siemens Computer Scaleo T A64 XP 50 AM2 0 2,0GB bougth in 2006. I had Windows XP installed on the original Sigate 320GByte disk that contained also all my data (as I wanted to use the same files from both Windows and Ubuntu and Windows can't write on the Ubuntu file system but Ubuntu can write on the Windows NFTS format). In addition I had installed a 400 GByte harddisk with a backup partition and my Ubuntu installation. The bios couldn't find the Sigate disk any longer and as this disk contained the boot loader - neither the Windows XP nor my Ubuntu 7.10 did start. An clicking noice confirmed that there was a serios problem with the Sigate disk. What to do? As I have a three-year service contract from Fujitsu-Siemens I first contacted the Fujitsu-Siemens service via the service phone I found under http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com . They aggreed to send somebody...