In my current task, I had to use Windows not Linux :(, and of course I had to adapt to this and use my favorite software there, here are they:
Browser: Mozilla Firefox + Adblock plus + Mouse Gestures plugins
Mail: Thunderbird + Lightning + Google Calendar Plugin
Office: OpenOffice 2.3
PDF Reader: Foxit (much faster than Adobe PDF Reader)
Subversion Client: Workbench for Windows
IDE: Eclipse for Java EE for Windows
LAN Chat: BORGChat
Virtual CDs: Daemon Tools
To Be Continued…
In order for this to run correctly, you just need the 32-bit libraries required for any 32-bit application, and instead of searching for these libraries – which is a very tiring task in my opinion – you can just download and install a program called Automatix: http://www.getautomatix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installation which eases the task of Adding/Removing 32-bit applications to your computer such as Skype which is only available for the 32-bit Linux platform. If you do this for 1-2 programs, you’ll be having most of the 32-bit libraries you’ll gerenally need for program, I know this seems stupid, but it’s a workaround that WORKS! 😀
Another method is to force Ubuntu to accept installation of 32-bit .deb packages by downloading the .deb file and installing it from the command line by typing: “sudo dpkg –force-architecture -i anyfile.deb”, this doesn’t work with all .deb packages, but works with some such as the Windows Emulator (Wine), Enjoy! 🙂
Adding and removing users to a Subversion repository is quite a straightforward process, just do the following:
You’ll find a folder called “repos” in your filesystem which contains the different repositories you’ve created. You have to access the repository you need a new user’s access to (let’s call it myRepository) and add his/her entry to the “myRepository/conf/passwd” file under [users] in the format “newUsername = newPassword”, save the file and exit.
To do this, you can simply type “sudo gedit /repos/myRepository/conf/passwd” and add your entry, save the file and exit.
I’ve just read about a performance enhancement tip in OpenOffice.org, tried it out, and surprisingly, I found a performance BOOST in its startup. Just open OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc or any other product and click Tools>Options>Java and remove the check from “Use a Java Runtime Environment”, I don’t understand what that did :S, but things are going much faster now, and that’s what I care about for the moment 🙂
One of my teammates; Ahmad Salah from the IFX team has just faced a simple, yet annoying problem; About 2-3 days ago, he wanted to log in to the Subversion repository to access the project files and I gave him my username and password temporarily to use, and yesterday, I added his desired username and password to the repository, but we still couldn’t change the username and password (which are mine :S) so that he logs using his new username and password! He searched and discovered that all these details are found in the /home/hisusername/.subversion/auth/ folder, just delete this folder and everything will be just fine. You’ll be asked for your new username and password which will be saved, enjoy!
Just Some Techie Notes! 