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New Laptop / What Is Best Distro?

Posted 12-20-2009 at 01:50 PM by larry51

I have a new HP laptop and would like to know what linux disto is best to run on live cd or install too !!!

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Autotools: Somebody Does Understand!

Posted 12-19-2009 at 09:25 PM by CoderMan

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/...tomake_libtool

So, I just recently switched my FOSS project from a single Makefile to autotools. Sadly, my guide for this journey was the official autotools documentation, and it was a less the pleasant experience. In fact, I got so discouraged I actually posted a poll to determine whether it would be less painful to learn autotools or to shoot myself in the foot.

I just came across the above...

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CentOS 5.4 netinstall

Posted 12-19-2009 at 10:51 AM by anand.arumug
Updated 02-10-2010 at 12:25 PM by anand.arumug (Updated an URL)

Tags centos 5.4, netinstall, newbie

I just recently tried installing CentOS on a old Toshiba laptop (Model: M45-S269) which has a DVD-RW drive but functions only as a CD drive. So the easiest option for me to install CentOS was through the Internet.

Here is what I did:

1) Depending on your PCs processor architecture download the CentOS netinstall.iso file from
CentOS 5.4 ISOs

2) I followed the steps described in the following URL CentOS NetInstall 5.3 written by Chris Gountanis...

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Fighting with xfce 4.6 installation on debian

Posted 12-18-2009 at 05:04 PM by Web31337 (In The Middle Of Nowhere [edK's blog])
Updated 12-19-2009 at 01:42 AM by Web31337

Tags debian, xfce, xfce 4.4, xfce 4.6

I was kinda disappointed i can't properly install xfce 4.6 on debian lenny with aptitude. Also tried backports with issues like here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ys-4.4-775588/
I decided to go the proven (cloacms++) way of building from sources.
So, i fetched all(almost) files from http://mocha.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.6.1/src/
and started building. I removed my xfce 4.4 installation and built libraries...

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xlsx2csv Excel (xlsx) spreadsheetML to CSV converter

Posted 12-18-2009 at 02:45 PM by roybal (Subjectively)

Here's something I wrote to convert xlsx to csv. It works very well for me. I have many large spreadsheets to test with, but any additional testing is appreciated.

http://kirk.webfinish.com/2009/12/xlsx2csv/

/bithead

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