Linux on my Computers

This is documentation on how I accomplished various configuration in Linux. Feel free to tell me what you think of all this, especially if I say something dumb, describe a poor way of accomplishing something, or anything else. I do not claim to be a Linux expert, I am just documenting what has worked for me.

Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake)

I installed Ubuntu during July of 2006. While I've found many little things that I do not like in Ubuntu, the overall OS is much more refined and basic-user-oriented than any previous linux distribution I have tried. Thus, I'm working with it and documenting my setup along the way. Not all topics have associated documents yet, but I hope to get them up soon:

• install NVIDIA drivers
• configure fonts to Microsoft webcore fonts with hinting and no anti-aliasing
• mount my FAT32 partitions
• install Amarok music player
• install MP3 support for Amarok
• setup Thunderbird to read my email off my fat32 volume, thus sharing this with Windows
• setup VMWare Player to use virtual machine on fat32 volume
• setup a network share within Samba with access restricted to certain users

Fedora Core 4

I installed Fedora Core 4 in 2005, hoping to get back into using linux. I found various things that I did not like in Fedora Core 4 and managed to make my system unstable while trying to get various programs working following directions found online. On the whole, I was not impressed. I installed Debian for a short time after this, but I found Debian much too "manual" for my liking...I prefer an OS that will do many tasks that I consider basic straight out of the box. I wrote the following page while using Fedora Core 4, though:

• Getting Microsoft Fonts (or Other Fonts with Hinting) to Display Correctly Under Linux

Red Hat 7, Red Hat 8

These are old "notes" documents that I created while using several Red Hat 7.x versions and Red Hat version 8. I used these for personal reference in the past. Most were created before 2003 and thus quite possbily do not pertain to newer versions of linux distributions.

• firewire_hard_drive_setup.txt - How I got my firewire hard drive working under Red Hat 7.3 and 8.
  
• fstab_mount_other_drive.txt - Using fstab to mount a second hard drive at startup.
  
• lilo_setup.txt - Dual booting Windows and Linux using the NT boot loader.
  
• linux_install_NVIDIA_drivers.txt - installing drivers for an NVIDIA video card under Linux.
  
• mounting_commands.txt - Quick reference.
  
• samba_network_share_setup.txt - Setting up network shares using Samba.
  

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