For several last year, Linux has developed many tools to make it like Windows. In the list below, I give you 15 free Linux Tools  so that your Linux can be similar with Windows

Graphics :

• The Gimp

  This Linux tool substitute Adobe Photoshop .Free Picture Editor.

• F – Spot

  Photo management tools.This tool in Linux can substitute ACDSee

• Inkscape

  Corel substitute tools.

• Google Picasa

  Editor and organize digital photo management software.

Office :

• OpenOffice Writer

  MS Word substitute tools

• OpenOffice Calc

  MS Excel substitute tools

• OPenOffice Impress

  MS Powerpoint substitute tools

• Adobe Reader for Linux
• GnuCash

  Double-entry book keeping personal finance system, same with Quicken

• Scribus

  Open source desktop publishing (DTP) application

• Kivio

  Substitute software for Microsoft Visio

Programming :

• KompoZer

  WYSIWYG HTML similar with macromedia Dreamweaver even the feature not many as Dreamweaver yet

• Gambas

  Substitute software for Visual Basic

• Bluefish

  Text editor, can be used for any programming language

• Quanta Plus

  Web development area, including editor WYSIWYG

See Also :

• Jebol (Hack) Password di Linux Redhat 9

• 6 Steps How to Configure MRTG
• Linux Tools download

Before you configure MRTG graph, you have to prepare these kind of tools :
GCC
The GNU C compiler
Perl
Most of MRTG scripts using Perl language. Check your Linux by type perl-v.
gd
It’s a basic graph drawing library, it can create .PNG image
libpng
To produce PNG file you need to install this tool.
zlib
It’s needed to compress your PNG files.
MRTG
Of course you must install MRTG on Centos.MRTG last version is MRTG 2.16.2 version

I try this step using Centos Linux. Assume all above tools are installed on your linux.Example i want to make on Jakarta site, ip address is 192.168.4.2

Step 1
Make new directory
mkdir -p /var/www/html/jakarta/

Step 2
Creating .cfg file contain mrtg configuration. I use public snmp community
cfgmaker –global ‘workDir: /var/www/html/jakarta’ –global “Options[_]: growright ,bits” –ifref=descr –output /etc/mrtg/jakarta.cfg public@192.168.4.2

Step 3
Make indexmaker which display the status of an array mrtg interface status pages.
indexmaker –output=/var/www/html/jakarta/index.html /etc/mrtg/jakarta.cfg

Step 4
Copy your PNG files
cp -av /var/www/mrtg/*.png /var/www/html/jakarta/

Step 5
Run your MRTG
env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/jakarta.cfg

Step 6
Make crontab.
You can edit your cronjob using crontab -e, and add this one.
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/jakarta.cfg – logging /var/log/mrtg.log

FINISH !

you can watch you graphic now.

See Also : 

Make Your Linux Like Windows

Root memang jarang dipakai sehari-hari. Tentunya kita pakai akun user pas ngoprek-ngoprek Linux kita. Benar..kalau kita pakai root, Linux kita jadi gk aman lagi. Tapi suatu hari, Linux kita crash dan perlu untuk masuk akun root tapi karena jarang dipakai kita jadi lupa passwordnya, gimana ya ? Jangan panik dan jangan install ulang Linuxnya dulu. Coba kita jebol password rootnya. Langkah-langkahnya sebagai berikut :

1. Boot ulang computer anda. Saat muncul layar boot (GRUB), gunakan tombol keyboard untuk memilih RedHead, lalu tekan tombol ‘e’ pada keyboard
2. Gunakan panah atas/bawah untuk memilih baris yang diawali kata “kernel” lalu tekan tombol ‘e’ pada keyboard.
3. Kita akan masuk ke prompt grup dan kursor akan terletak di akhir baris kernel.
4. Ketikkan “linux single”, perhatikan antara akhir baris entri kernel dengan “linux single” terdapat spasi.

   Contoh : “kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8ro root=LABEL=/linux single”.

5. Sesudah itu tekan tombol ‘b’ pada keyboard yang akan melakukan booting dengan tambahan opsi single.
6. RedHat akan melakukan booting seperti biasa, namun proses ini akan terhenti pada prompt “#”

   Contoh : sh-2.05b#.

7. Ketikkan perintah “password root” lalu tekan tombol [enter].
8. Muncullah tulisan “Changing password for user root” yang menyatakan akan terjadi penggatian password untuk root.
9. Pada baris “New Password”, ketikkanlah password baru pengganti password yang terlupakan.
10. Akan muncul perintah “Retype new password”.
11. Ketikkan password baru sekali lagi lalu tekan tombol [enter].
12. Muncul kalimat konfirmasi”passwd : all authentication tokens updatedsuccessfully” Artinya Proses penggantian password sudah sukses.
13. Untuk me-restart ketikkan perintah “shutdown –r now”
14. SELESAI! Password lama sudah diganti tanpa perlu perlu meng-install ulang RedHat9.

Kalau anda ingin reset password linux distro lain mungkin perintahnya akan sedikit berbeda, namun pada intinya sama. Perintah-perintah yang saya gunakan menggunakan Linux Redhat 9 dengan boot Loader GRUB.

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