NAMAKU TUX

If you're used to use Ubuntu, you would easily mount your harddisk partitions in file manager by clicking it. But in Debian, you have to enter your password, everytime you mount your partitions in file manager. Not a really big deal, but it would be simpler if you don't have to. Here are very simple steps to make your Debian able mount your harddisk partitions without password: 1. Using your favorite text editor, edit this file: sudo vi /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.policy Find a line  <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>  Replace auth_admin_keep with yes 2. Save the file, and reboot your system. Now, you could easily mount your harddisk partition without password.  

Recently I installed Debian 7.6 Wheezy (6th update) on a laptop HP Sleekbook 14 with a WLAN Adapter Ralink RT3290. Unfortunately, the device couldn't be recognized by the default kernel and so the device didn't work. After searching so many times I didn't get the solution yet, but finally with my own experiment I could make the device work on Debian 7 Wheezy ( Weeeeeee! ) Here are the steps I've done to make Ralink RT3290 WLAN works on Debian Wheezy : 1. Enable wheezy-backports repository and update cache deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main # apt-get update 2. Install latest backported kernel # apt-get install linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.2-686-pae (use synaptic package manager for the easier way) 3. Download the Debian Jessie's firmware-ralink package Link : https://packages.debian.org/jessie/firmware-ralink 4. Extract the package  firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb by right click and Extract Here 5. Go to the extrac...

Bagi pengguna Linux di Indonesia, kendala akses internet adalah penghambat utama bagi laju perkembangan adaptasi Linux untuk penggunaan keseharian. Masalahnya tak lain adalah, bahwa sampai saat ini, satu-satunya cara paling mudah untuk memasang aplikasi-aplikasi dan paket-paket tambahan di sistem operasi Linux adalah dengan terhubung ke internet (tidak seperti di Windows yang bisa mengunduh installernya secara terpisah dan di instal dengan klik next dan next). Dalam dunia Linux, instalasi aplikasi dan paket tambahan dilakukan dengan cara mengunduh paket dari lumbung perangkat lunak secara online (populer disebut dengan repo). Lumbung perangkat lunak atau repo ini adalah sebuah server yang berisi paket-paket installer aplikasi Linux, yang digunakan oleh manajer paket Linux (sama seperti Google Play Android). Cara menginstal aplikasi di Linux ini menjadi kendala, jika di kemudian hari karena satu dan lain hal, kita harus menginstalasi ulang sistem Linux kita secara keseluruhan. ...

To play music, there are many choices now in Linux. But as I've tried those stuffs, from Amarok, gMusicBrowser, Rhythmbox, Banshee to Clementine, I found that the best is XMMS in sound quality. Yes, it's an obsolete app. Even we can call it "an ancient app" from the ancient world. It uses an ancient technology gtk+1.2, but strangely, it has very great sound quality : Clear in the Treble, Soft in the Bass, But, how and where we could get this app and install it onto our current, newer Linux distro ? I know, even the libraries for this app is not available anymore in any current Linux software repository. And so, I share my collection to you HERE . Installation Stay online and connect your apt to your official Linux distro's software repository (Ubuntu,   Debian). Extract the .tar.gz enter to the folder by terminal  Install them manually by terminal :  sudo dpkg -i *.deb If you found a dependency error, just fix it  :  sudo apt-get -f install ...

The main difference between Windows and Linux is in the Software Management. In Windows, we can install any software easily by clicking the installer package and then enter the serial number (if proprietary) and then next next and finished. In Linux, it is little more complicated. In Linux, between one package and one another packages depend each other and then create a technical condition called Dependency Chain. Why is Software Management in Linux more complicated than in Windows? The answer is Linux and its FOSS is an open source project and it is undertaken by so many programmers in the world. One programmer create one package and the other create the other one that depends on the other programmer work. In simple word, Linux and FOSS is a worldwide team work and it is impossible to create a centralized software management and standardization like in Windows, unless the whole Linux community merged and create a mega enterprise and create a new one standard of software mana...

Today, there are so many games that support Linux natively. Even, there are some high quality and high level 3D games now come to Linux world. But, is there any native Soccer (Football) game in Linux? I could say : not much yet! One of the today existed Soccer game in Linux is named Yoda Soccer . A cute and interactive soccer game for Linux :) As usual, as an Ubuntu user, I packed the game into a debian package so I could install it easily in the future with ease. Here is the debian package you can download and install : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72782740/debian/yoda-soccer-0.76_all.deb  

QMMP is a great Winamp Like music player. For me, this is the greatest current living Winamp Like Music Player in Linux (Audacious seems to be more “gtk” interfaced music player than classic winamp). This is based on QT but works smooth and fast enough in gtk based desktops (lxde, xfce, gnome). For you that don't know yet what is QMMP, this is a popular app and installable easily by apt in Ubuntu and or Debian (squeeze, wheezy, sid) : sudo apt-get install qmmp Because of this, I decided to pack some cool Winamp classic skins to be a Debian package to fullfil the lack of additional skins in default QMMP installation. These are the skins : AmpBurger Bang & Olufsen DaizedAmp iTunesLeopard Kenwood-KDC-2019 Rapture s1-1.5d Winamp5-XMMS Winamp Classic And this is the file qmmp-skins-pack-0.1-all.deb you can download and install it to eyecandy your QMMP Player. Happy Linuxing !

Angry Birds Rio is a spin-off of the new-legendary game Angry Birds. This plot is specially taken from popular animation film Rio, an adventure of a pet Blue macaw bird from US in Brazilian jungle. Based on that successful film, there are some game developers created a spin-off for Angry Birds game called Angry Birds Rio. The good news about this is, there is already a flash version of this game so we could play it in Linux desktop easily using flashplayer (standalone player, or by Internet Browser with flashplayer plugin). And just like what I've done before in Angry Animals game, I've packed this game too into Debian package so we could install it with ease. If you have had installed flashplayer standalone, you don't have to download and install it. But, if you haven't it yet, you have to download the flashplayer standalone to play this game. These are the packages : adobe-flashplayer-standalone-linux_10_i386_debian.deb angrybirds-rio_0.1_i386_debian.deb This is a fre...

Angry Birds is a new legendary game. It came first in iOS world and then spread widely into another Operating Systems. If we use Windows, we could get this game easily (there is already a Windows version). For Linux users, we could also install it easily using Wine. The native Linux version is not presented yet so we should be patient for this :) But apparently, there is a game developer Flashninjaclan has developed an Angry Birds clone flash game and could be played easily in any browser and in any operating system, using adobe flashplayer plugin. This game is awesome, but playing it in an internet browser is not cool. So, there is a Zarko Zivanov has made a script to download this game, download an adobe flashplayer standalone, and then create a desktop shortcut. In the end, we will get “a Linux version” of this game and we can play it just like playing another native Linux game. The tutorial about this could be seen here . Anyway, though that script is great, that will be...

There is a very popular multimedia format called Shockwave (with swf file format). This is an awesome format that we could use it to make a lightweight video tutorial or, commonly used to build a lightweight but rich and interactive game called flashgame. To play swf, we need an software called flashplayer. And there are two version of flashplayer : (1) Flashplayer browser plugin that works with Internet Browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome and IE; (2) Flashplayer Standalone. This is a standalone software (with window and menus) to open swf files. The easier way to play swf is by Internet Browser with flashplayer plugin, but that is little less elegant and little more heavy than using Standalone Player. In Linux, there are some Flashplayer Standalone project, includes open source and proprietary project : libflash-swfplayer. This is an obsolete project and its package doesn't exist anymore in Ubuntu repository above Hardy Heron. Gnash. This is popular open source flas...

When I first came into Linux world, the first distro I tried is Kubuntu (I got it from my friend). In that moment, I was so impressed but later little upset by its policy to not includes multimedia codecs as default. Worst, I had no Internet connection and so I was absolutely blind. Because of my eager to explore “another operating system”, I chose to convert all my mp3 music collection into oggs. I happily worked hard to explore KDE 3.5x desktop but not long time later I was bored and rapidly sought another better distro and then I found Mandriva (version 2006 at that moment). With multimedia codecs included as default, and then I immediately thought “This is the one”. Day by day passed, I was enjoying worked with Mandriva Linux but then I found Ubuntu (version 6.06 LTS) and I suddenly I was so amazed by its GNOME desktop. I thought “What is it? It looks so different. It has no Windows taste.. It is awesome...” So my adventure with Ubuntu began and from that moment I have became ...

Because of many reasons, Ubuntu now has became a very popular Linux Desktop Distribution (probably the most popular). As result, Debian package management (dpkg), also has grown very popular as well as Ubuntu. Now, many third party software developer (Adobe, Real Player, Foxit, etc), almost always, provides their software installer in Debian package (with .deb extension), alongside or even instead of RPM and other package managements in Linux. Of course, this is not a sign that in the future, Debian package will be the only package management that will be used in every Linux distribution. Every Linux distribution has its own strength and weakness, so we must realize that all Linux distributions must live and grow bigger together, to pursue the ultimate advantage of the free and open source softwares (FOSS). Now, I want to share a little tip to build a Debian package (.deb) using a basic element of Debian system called dpkg-dev. Dpkg-dev is a basic tool in Debian system to make simp...