HowTo

Revision 28 as of 2007-04-14 21:58:22

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Please make your How-To articles as detailed as possible and include screenshots.

Either leave your article below or email it to : articles@fullcirclemagazine.org


Completed HowTos

/InstallingBanshee - Victor Doman

/DirectoryStructure - "ArsGeek"

/LocalRepositoriesHowto - "ArsGeek"

/InstallingSoftware - Robert Clipsham AKA mrmonday

/ScreenShotHowto - Daniel Lausevic

/InstallingSteam - Brandon Powell

/LinuxPhotograhy - Shay Stephens (not sure if it's exactly a howto, but...)

[http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=83973 Resolution / Refresh Rates Xorg] - heimo


Ideas for How-Tos

Put your ideas for How-Tos here. If you want to reserve an article; put your name next to it, and get started.

  • Installation and setup of MAME in Ubuntu - Compucore
  • Setting up an Ubuntu server - Compucore


  • OpenOffice Calc (How to keep your income and expenses), GnuCash (Some small to medium accounting), OpenOffice Impress (Executive Pressentations, and advanced options), complete integration of an Ipod under Linux (Music, Photos, Videos, Podcasts, Cover-image, contacts), Integration of Evolutions for advanced office use, beautiful graphs with Rplot, among some other programs - Sonny


  • How does recovery mode work?
  • What should I do to back up my system (so I can restore if I change something and break Ubuntu)?
  • Switching from Windows - Finding equivalent software
    • How should I organise things (programs, docs, etc)
    • Advantages of separate home partition
    • What are symlinks? How to create/use them
    • Using workspaces (a new concept for Windows users!)
    • Where's CTRL-Alt-Del?
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • How do I know what versions are installed?
  • Can I still attach my ... webcam/mobile phone/digital camera/printer/fax/etc
  • How do I back up stuff
  • Is SUDO always safe? Can I break Ubuntu using SUDO?
  • Filesharing and printing
  • What's involved in a system upgrade (eg from dapper to edgy)? What
  • should I do before I start?
  • Different flavours of 'buntu - what are the differences?


Scribus

  • Scribus I : Layout Basics - Ronnie
  • Scribus II : Templates - Ronnie
  • Scribus III : Set Colours - Ronnie
  • Scribus IV : Paragraphs - Ronnie
  • Scribus V : Live Linking - Ronnie
  • Scribus VI : Exporting to PDF - Ronnie