Most of the Linux users use pidgin as a universal instant messenger client. Popular distributions such as Ubuntu will install pidgin by default. CenterIM ( aka cim) is a multi protocol text mode instant messaging client similar to pidgin. Let us see how it can be installed on Ubuntu.

Checkinstall is a beautiful program which lets you create your own debs or rpms. This program is available in the Ubuntu universe repository. Using it you can quickly build your own ubuntu packages from source code. You can install it on Ubuntu 9.04 as below.

Beagle is a free desktop search tool which is gaining popularity with several applications. You can search your desktop just as you search with google. It is possible to use beagle as a standalone search tool or integrate with applications such as firefox for easy desktop search. In fact, it is one application that any serious Linux user can not ignore

So in this small tutorial we will try to achieve similar effect using Gimp.This effect is actually a simple mask trick. To get started we will first need to download an image from where we can isolate a colour part from a desaturated background. I have already selected an image for you to get started.

Going from Windows to Linux need not be done all at once. You don't need to throw yourself into the deep end of the pool in order to learn how to swim. For those with a Microsoft habit they want to kick but don't want to go cold turkey, here are some ways to ease into Linux without giving up Windows -- well, not immediately, anyway.

Today I had to set up dhcp server on a machine running Ubuntu 9.04. The machine was supposed to serve 10 other machine running ubuntu/windows xp. Here is the steps I followed.

This tutorial shows how you can install Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a Fedora 11 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system.

A great tool for doing this is 'Phatch', a free and open source platform that will allow editing of images in bulk and easily. The properties that we can change are size, resolution,size limit, transpose images, watermarks, borders, shadows, text ..