K3b is a CD/DVD burning software comes by default with KDE when you installed Slackware. It has everything a beginner needs to burn a data, audio, video and ISO image under Linux using the graphical user interface without learning the command line utilities such as cdrecord, cdrdao, and growisofs. This is an example on how to burn ISO image using k3b dvd burner program running in Slackware Linux.

Here is a guide on how to change template in Joomla 1.5. There are several steps that you need to do, including pre-requisites before begin installing the new template. See all examples with step by step instruction below:

Joomla 1.5 change template - Pre-requisites

1. Login as joomla super administrator.
2. Click Help → System info.
3. Open 'Directory Permissions' tab.
4. Make sure all directory permission status is 'Writable'.

This is the 'Directory Permissions' screenshot image example:

Joomla can be quite confusing for a new user. This tutorial will explain Joomla in a simple way so that a new user understands the basic Joomla. This tutorial considers Joomla has been successfully installed and you must have 'super administrator' privilege account.

Joomla basics

For a new user, there are two parts in Joomla that you should understand. The first one is 'Content' and the other one is 'Menus'. You can check them by login into the administrator control panel.

This is a tutorial on how to set up Joomla in Ubuntu. The set up examples based on Linux Ubuntu desktop 8.04. You can use this as a guide to learn Joomla cms. If you are planning to set up a web server and Joomla as a production server, this tutorial also applicable in Ubuntu server as well (some of it where x-window is not required). However, the tutorial does not cover the web server security and other issues. That's different topics and you can find them in their respective category.

If you are ready, here is the list of what we are going to do:

Linux is a fast growing operating system. It is a great server operating system solutions for small businesses and large organisations as well. Nowadays, Linux has become a popular desktop operating system. There are hundreds of software developed for Linux, server and desktop version. Here are some popular Linux software used in desktop environment. These software selections made based on Ubuntu and Slackware Linux. That means they cover both software for gnome and kde x-window. Here are Linux software in their respective categories:

Seamonkey web browser is not an alien for Slackware users while it maybe so for other Linux distributions' users. Actually, Seamonkey is all-in-one Internet application suite, consists of a web browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools developed by Seamonkey project community sponsored by Mozilla Foundation. Seamonkey maybe new but when we start exploring its menu, we can see that it resembles the old netscape navigator which can be found in default installation of many Linux distributions including Redhat Linux.

wxGTK is a port of wxWidgets using the GTK+ library, the one that you need if you plan to install an open source cross-platform GUI library in Linux operating system. Slackware doesn't include wxGTK in its official releases. You have to build the package yourself if you need it in your system. Here is a guide on how to build wxGTK for Slackware Linux and install the package.

Build wxGTK package for Slackware Linux

To build wxGTK package for Slackware Linux, you need to:

chmlib is a library file needed to view Microsoft ITSS or CHM format files. You need to install chmlib first before installing xchm to view chm files in kde. Here is a guide on how to build chmlib for Slackware Linux and install the result package.

Build chmlib package for Slackware Linux

Here are steps needed to build chmlib package for Slackware Linux:

chm is Compiled HTML Help which is not a strange file format nowadays. If you are using Slackware Linux, you can open chm file using Konqueror in KDE. You can open Konqueror by clicking kde Start, choose Internet and click Konqueror - Web Browser. You can navigate to the chm file from here or use Location menu, and Open location to browse for the chm file. See example on how to open chm using Konqueror screenshots below:

Konqueror browser screenshot. You can navigate to the chm file using Konqueror main menu here:

The mcrypt is a Linux tool that allows user to use a wide range of encryption functions in Linux system. It replaces the previous crypt package and crypt command which is a well known command for encrypt and decrypt file. This tutorial is a guide on how to create Slackware package and install mcrypt and libmcrypt package in Slackware Linux. You need to install libmcrypt package before installing mrypt package. Otherwise, you'll get an error of missing mcrypt library.The easiest way to create a Slackware package is to get libmcrypt and mcrypt's slackbuild script from SlackBuild website.