Dec 28, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Installing Alfresco Community Edition 3.4.d on CentOS 5.7

Recently I was given the privilege of presenting to Northern Kentucky Linux Users Group on installing Alfresco Community Edition 3.4.d on CentOS 5.7. I have attached the presentation to the post and it can be downloaded from alfresco_presentation. The presentation was created with LibreOffice 3.4 Impress. read more

Dec 23, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Mounting a NAS read / write on Fedora 12 +

Recently upgraded my NAS and had an issue where I could mount the device on Fedora but would only in Read Only mode.  For my purpose I was mounting with a script to my home directory but wanted to add it to a directory called share on my root in read / write mode by adding it to /etc/fstab after figuring out why I could not write to the directory. Part of the solution is to add UID and GID of my id,... read more

Dec 21, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Install GIMP un-stable 2.7.3 to Fedora 15 x64

As a user of great open-source products for graphics and other multimedia work. One of the great tools out there is GIMP which competes with Adobe Photoshop and doesn’t cost an arm and leg. The latest un-stable version 2.7.3 can be installed on Fedora thanks to nphilipp who maintains a repo in fedorapeople. This post will describe how to get and install so you can start using the latest GIMP. Open a... read more

Oct 10, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Alfresco 4.0a Community Edition Released

Exciting today for Alfresco Users. On 9/30/11 Alfresco 4.0a Community Edition was released. Alfresco is the OpenSource answer to Microsoft’s SharePoint. The community version is free as well as a pay for Enterprise Edition. Look for future posts on installing Alfresco on Windows and Linux systems and configuring and using as well. Very exciting times!!! read more

Oct 8, 2011 Posted by newlife007

Installing OCS Inventory Part 3 (Linux Agent)

Welcome to part 3 of the series on Installing OCS Inventory NG. In this part of the series we will cover installing the UNIX Agent on CentOS 6 (RHEL 6.0 based). Note: OCS Inventory NG Agent for Linux can only be installed locally and cannot be deployed using package manager. Now let’s get started and download the agent from here. For Linux / Unix these are the required modules. PERL 5.8 Perl module... read more