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One of the most common problems when sharing rich text files (either Word or OpenOffice / LibreOffice) has to ...

Every Debian user knows that creating a virtual "interface" (to be able to access another IP range for example) ...

Elav published an article on touchpad problems in Debian. Well, it turns out that it works well for me as standard, ...

The problem (and the solution) that I bring you next comes from our forum, where the user moku, after…

In my previous post I explained how to install Skippy-XD and Brightside on Arch Linux with lightweight desktop environments (XFCE, LXDE, ...

When we work in light desktop environments (XFCE, LXDE, Openbox) sometimes we miss the ease that the ...

VLC, lord and master of the media player. As the title says, two little tips that I use and that can ...

Hello everyone, I will talk about how to install Antergos Linux to one hundred, well let's get started. 1.- Assuming you have already downloaded ...

This article can be useful to anyone who has a Broadcom BCM4313 card and it does not work with ...

Today I just installed a Laptop like the one I use to a co-worker, but he does not use as ...

A year ago I wrote an article where I showed how to search, select and delete multiple files using Midnight Commander, or ...

Greetings to all. This time I'll show you how to put the finishing touches on Slackware, as well as install additional tools ...

Many times we must know the exact make and model of our laptop, either to download "something" from the site of ...

Choqok version 1.4, the Twitter and Status.Net client that I use in…

The title says it all. Is there a way to create a PDF form with LibreOffice Writer? Yes. In this short video ...

The post that you will read next was sent to me by låzaro, a GUTL user via email. It has been a ...

Hello everyone, this time I want to share with you how to solve the boot problem called "initramfs", I imagine ...

In today's world in which we move, where technology and the Internet have become the bread ...

For a few days, I have been using an old netbook as a multimedia center. I connected it to my TV via HDMI and ...

MAGEIA 3 INSTALLATION AND CUSTOMIZATION GUIDE Installation Download and installation following the instructions on the live dvd of the ...

Hello to all readers  After a failed vacation, I deign to write these lines. It turns out that…

SDDM (Simple Desktop Display Manager) is as its name indicates a Session Manager to access our desktop ...

In my noble task as moderator of this blog (and even before, in Let's Use Linux) I have seen horrors of ...

Greetings, this is my first contribution to this blog, this time I want to share a program that I found very interesting ...

A few moments ago I noticed the update of KDE 4.10.5 in Debian Testing, leaving version 4.8 behind ...

Yesterday, I was making a video to share with you. As you know, I don't have a quality microphone like that ...

Well the posts about changing the User Agent in Chrome abound, but in my post in particular I want to share some ...

I've been using LibreOffice a lot lately, and I've noticed that a lot of my co-workers were "stuck" on ...

Greetings to all. Surely, many will already be enjoying Steam for the GNU / Linux platform. However, many of those who ...

One of the novelties that have caught my attention in the new version of KMail (corresponding to KDE 4.11) ...

So that later they don't say that I like to spend work, yesterday I installed Yaourt to later install Plank, ...

Yesterday, KDE 4.11 hit the Arch Linux stable repositories, and as always, I updated and rebooted ...

Greetings to all. This time, I will show you how to configure the Huawei E173s-6 modem in Debian Wheezy, which I will be ...

We already saw in DesdeLinux the new opensource editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that Adobe has created and has put ...

I recently wanted to format a disk that I had, I wanted to put Debian, for a server and try things. The point was that ...

Are you a user of a lightweight Linux distro and do you use Xcompmgr to have desktop effects (transparencies, shadows, etc.)? Possibly, you suffer ...

I've been getting my main computer ready and I'm so happy with how it works that I want to share it with you….

As I suppose some of you know, KDE comes with Nepomuk, which among other things allows us to search for files or programs ...

Hello everyone. Surely you may already know Whisker Menu because elav already told us about it. As well…

Hello colleagues, good afternoon. A few days ago I purchased a Motorola Razr D1. And these devices, like many others, connect ...

If you are one of those who uses the computer simply to view your emails, surf the internet or edit something ...

This is my first post and I bring you this tutorial on how to install and use this tool called WepCrack, a ...

TLP is an advanced tool that is managed only by the terminal and aims to manage the energy of ...

A couple of days ago, after updating to Kernel 3.10, when I started my brand new ArchLinux after GRUB, I ...

Hello everyone, I have achieved what I thought was impossible: giving Copy an icon and an entry in the menu…

If there is something that I cannot stand, it is working with Office applications. But unfortunately, I have to attend to ...

For those of us who use SSH in our day to day, that is, those who need to access computers or ...

To begin, I will mention the story of how the problem happened and then how to solve it. My computer is a Sony netbook ...

When we delete a file from our hard drive (with the rm command, for example), the information contained in it remains ...

When a product that works and is worthwhile, and that is open source, falls into the hands ...

Pacman is Arch Linux's workhorse. A very powerful, fast package manager and once ...

Conky is an interesting tool that helps us monitor our system (among other things) and although it has been a long, long time ago ...

Well, nothing, I think the title says it all, we already saw how to install the latest version of Choqok in ArchLinux, ...

For some time I have been using a distribution that, at first, seemed too difficult to install, but ...

As many of you know, Twitter changed its API and many applications were affected by it. Those of us who use GNU / Linux, and ...

Have you installed Ubuntu 13.04 from scratch and the resolution that your screen gives you is a poor 800 × 600, or ...

Some time ago I showed you how to protect our folders and their content using Cryptkeeper, an application that we can find ...

I don't think I'm the only one with more than one desktop installed. Not the only one that configures all your desktops from ...

Surely all of you must know Vim, in my opinion the best text editor for GNU / Linux. The first few times I used ...

Many are the times that we have had to repair a system from a LiveCD, and at some point in the process ...

Greetings, so long that I do not collaborate with anything on the blog (more than a comment lost there) it makes me ...

First of all, what is Samba error 255? Well, it is the error that we get when in Ubuntu ...

This article arises from a problem (ironic by the way ...) that I had with Ubuntu 12.04 and all the distros ...

Hello friends!. We continue with the series about Samba and today we will see the smbclient package, which gives us a whole ...

Before starting I want to say that I really like the new Blog Theme and how it is growing. Now…

Dusting off the Let's Use Linux posts, I rediscovered one I'd like to delve into. It is about the existence of ...

As some of you have been able to read in the forum, I had proposed to install my hybrid graphics (ATI / Intel) in some ...

If you are part of the users who normally have a good Internet connection and update directly from the repositories ...

I continue my constant learning with Arch Linux and this type of post will serve as a Memorandum in the future….

In a previous article we saw how to install Qemu-KVM on Debian Wheezy thanks to the collaboration of Fico and in this ...

We already saw how to install Arch Linux and get the system ready, so now it's time to install KDE which is ...

Recently, tiny-sized usb connection wi-fi adapters have come onto the market, no bigger than a bluetooth dongle type ...

I bring you a very quick tip to solve an error that Rsync sometimes presents and that was bothering me ...

The Tumbleweed project offers a continuously updated version of OpenSUSE, with the latest stable versions of software on ...

Many times, especially when messing around, we have found ourselves in trouble of not being able to access the system ...

As a KDE and Twitter user, I almost just received news that has hurt like ...

On certain occasions we want to replace text within a file, for example, change in Document.txt everything that says "my ...

For a while I was looking for how to integrate Pidgin notifications in KDE, and thanks to Gespadas I found the solution ...

Well, I just made another discovery. It turns out that I happened to change the Plasma theme, make some modifications and so on ...

Although we are not on the end of the year, much less, I find this tip particularly interesting. In a…

These days a user at my work installed Kubuntu on his HP Mini 210 and everything worked fine except ...

A few weeks ago I showed you how to improve font smoothing in Debian using Infinality, and ...