Install Valgrind on Gentoo Linux

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Valgrind is very powerful suite of software for dynamic analysis of binary programs. Valgrind is available in an ebuild on the Gentoo portage tree, but there is a problem with the build with the standard library. On Gentoo, the standard C library … [Read more...]

Switching to Gentoo Linux

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After having switched to Mint from Ubuntu, I'm on the verge of switching to Gentoo Linux.Gentoo is a powerful operating system base on Linux. This operating system provides extreme configurability and performance. Gentoo is very lightweight on … [Read more...]

Linux Kernel Tip : Do not disable System V IPC for X.Org and Chrome

Yesterday I recompiled my Linux Kernel stripping it again and I found out that X.org was not working very anymore. Some windows were frozen and there was some troubles with the mouse. Another problem was that Google Chrome wouldn't display anything … [Read more...]

Install Cinnamon in Linux Mint – A forked Gnome Shell

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In the last Linux Mint version (12), the developers have introduced a set of extensions to the Gnome Shell, Mint Gnome Shell Extensions (MGSE).But, plugins can't do everything the developers want. So they forked Gnome Shell and started building … [Read more...]

Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) released!

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Linux Mint 12 has just been released!This new version includes a Gnome 3 using a specific extension MGSE (Mint Gnome Sheel Extensions) and a Gnome 2 UI (MATE). You will find also a lot of other improvements.From several months, Linux Mint is … [Read more...]

How to install git-flow on Linux

One week ago, I started using git-flow on eddic. This is a collection of Git extensions to easily follow a branching-model convention for a Git project. I will try to describe this project later on this blog.You can install git-flow using this … [Read more...]

How to install a specific version of GCC on Ubuntu 11.04 (natty)

Sometimes you need to install a specific version of gcc for some reasons, for example when you need to have the same compiler version as the one used by your team.In that, the package manager doesn't help because not every version of gcc is … [Read more...]

Upload files to FTP using Bash

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This morning, I wanted to automatically update a little website from my computer without using Filezilla. So I searched a little bit and found that there is a very useful tool called nftp. To install it, you only have to use apt-get :This … [Read more...]

How to solve scrolling problems in Kile when using Gnome

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From this morning, I was encoutering problems when scrolling in Kile editor using Gnome. When I scrolled, not all the lines were moving and the text was only correct when I clicked on them...After some researches, I found that the solution was … [Read more...]

Tip : Batch resize images on Ubuntu Linux

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After needing to optimize a lot of images at once, this weekend I needed to resize a lot of images to the same size because they were too big.Like every other thing in Linux, there is a really simple tool to automate that. I used imagemagick to … [Read more...]