Tips for Mandrake Linux

A collection of Linux tips you might find useful.

Asus eee running Mandriva 2008.1 PC Screenshots- Metisse is what makes the eee usable. It allows windows to scale so they fit on the small screen. Here are screenshots of Metisse in action.

Postfix Mailserver Configuration- With Spamassassin, Courier-IMAP and Clam AV - This guide is getting pretty out of date. I really must get around to doing a revision. I still get posts from people who say they find it helpful so I will leave it up.

Accessing remote folders with fish- A better alternative to NFS or Samba for remote file shares.

Printing to Fax from OpenOffice- Setting up OpenOffice to access the KDE pseudo printers.

Using a Video Camera with Mandrake- How I got my Sony camcorder working.

Switching between dialup and Lan- Configuring both dialup and Lan connection.

Copy and Paste in Linux- A basic function that catches so many newbies out.

Finding Files- A fast way of searching for files on the command line or in konqueror.

Using remote MySQL databases with OpenOffice- Lots of people want to use databases with OO

Sound issues in Enemy Territory

Customising HAL for an MP3player

Mandriva 2006 on an AOpen 1556 laptop

Mandriva 2007 on an AOpen 1556 laptop