Install, update & configure your new CentOS installation. I wanted to install the Virtualbox Guest Additions and I recommend that you do the same due to the extra drivers and extensions it installs as it will make it easier later on (seamless mode and you don’t have to RIGHT CTRL every time you want to click outside the VM)
To install the Virtualbox Guest Additions do the following:
If you are always accessing network shares from your Linux desktop you might find it easier to have those shares automatically mounted at login.
This can be achieved like so on a Ubuntu installation:
First we’ll add our remote SMB/CIFS share information to the /etc/fstab file:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
And at the end of the bottom of the fstab file add the following:
//YOURSMBCIFSSHAREIP /media/YOURSMBCIFSSHARE smbfs credentials=/home/YOURUSERNAME/.smbcred,gid=users
Simply put your SMB/CIFS share IP address and then the desired name that will appear in /media/ as. Then in the next step we’ll create a credentials folder so you’ll want to put in your username in the path there and ultimately we want to allow all users to access this share, so we add the users group.
Now create a credentials file in your home directory /home/yourusername
nano ~/.smbcred
And add the following in the newly created file:
username=YOURSMBUSERNAME password=YOURSMBPASSWORD
Now you don’t have to create the .smbcred file if authentication is disabled on your share. You can leave the fields blank or remove credentials=/home/YOURUSERNAME/.smbcred.
So you want to take advantage of the new features the new version of Kernel 3.2 has to offer? Fear not, simply copy and paste the below commands and you’ll be good to go!
Some of the main features along with many others of 3.2 are:
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.2-precise/linux-headers-3.2.0-030200_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_all.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.2-precise/linux-headers-3.2.0-030200-generic_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_i386.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.2-precise/linux-image-3.2.0-030200-generic_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.2.0-030200_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_all.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.2.0-030200-generic_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-image-3.2.0-030200-generic_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_i386.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.2-precise/linux-headers-3.2.0-030200_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_all.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.2-precise/linux-headers-3.2.0-030200-generic_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_amd64.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.2-precise/linux-image-3.2.0-030200-generic_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.2.0-030200_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_all.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.2.0-030200-generic_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-image-3.2.0-030200-generic_3.2.0-030200.201201042035_amd64.deb
So you got yourself Xubuntu 11.10 installed and now want to Skype with your USB headset. Great, so you plug in your headset into the USB port, start Skype call a friend (or the test call bot) and BAM – audio out from the speakers and no mic recording in sight! You scratch your head… You dig around the ALSA mixer but nothing, no matter how many “Controls” you select it just wouldn’t happen and this is why ladies and gents Linux is still a basement level 10 paladin player toy OS to brag about on forums.
Following on from my previous rant/workaround in getting your USB headset to work, it is time to save our eyes by configuring “Redshift. As the developer puts it:
Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night. This program is inspired by f.lux (read here for the reason why I started this project).
In my case, simply installing it via “Ubuntu Software Center” didn’t work, why should it? It would be too easy then, so anyway.
In the this tutorial we will be going through deploying a OpenVPN Access Server (AS) from scratch in a VMWare ESXi 4.1 environment. This should be perfect for a home VPN server (due to licence limitations of a maximum of 2 users being connected at the same time)!
Good luck and read on!
Step 1
Open VMWare vSphere Client and go to File > Deploy OVF Template
Following on from my Terminal font post I decided to further tweak the way text is rendered on Linux Mint, especially the way it looks on a laptop LCD screen. After bleeding eyes and a lot of squinting I think I’ve got it set.
I selected the Ubuntu font with a size 10
If you have a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) installation behind a proxy and you would like to use APT-GET and WGET then the below modifications need to be implemented:
Modifying apt.conf:
# sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf
And add these two lines:
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://user:pass@proxy-host:port/"; Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://user:pass@proxy-host:port/";
If a username and password is not required, simply remove them as so:
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy-host:port/"; Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://proxy-host:port/";
Save & exit.
Modiying WGET
Simply run the below command:
# echo "export http_proxy=http://user:pass@proxy-host:port/" | tee -a ~/.bashrc
If there isn’t a username or password:
# echo "export http_proxy=http://proxy-host:port/" | tee -a ~/.bashrc
Done! 
