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Create Your Own Operation System: How to Remaster Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Dreamlinux/PCLinuxOS

Updated Oct. 15, 2008
I always make my own OS. The tools I am using to create Live-cd/Install CD are:

Remastersys for Ubuntu 8.04

1. download the Remastersys.

How to input/type Romanized Pali and Sanskrit in Openoffice 3

How to input Romanized Pali and Sanskrit in Openoffice.org?

It works for both Opeonoffice 2.04 and Openoffice.org 3 (tested under Ubuntu 8.04, Oct. 15, 2008)

How to install Linux/Ubuntu from usb flash disk / How to run livecd Linux/Slax from usb flash disk?

Just download unetboothin and use it to load your CD image file to usb flash drive.

Get unetboothin at:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

How to uninstall Grub (fix bootMBR) to restore Windows xp bootmbr?

For old PCs, just use Windows XP install disk to repair it by use fixboot and fixmbr commands.

How to use MS Office 2000 to open and save OpenDocument Format (ODF)

In MS Office 2007, there is an ODF addon, one can download it from it here: http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net

8 Steps to make a Slackware Package

http://www.talug.org/howto/Steps_to_make_Slack_package.html

Step 1
Download the source code of the program.

Step 2
Unarchive the source.
tar zxvf foo-1.0.1.tar.gz

Step 3

Read and Save Office 2007 file format in Linux

Many people are using Office 2007, in order to share files with them I need to use windows. Here are some programs I installed in my Linux desktop (five years old notebook with 256 MB RAM).

Favorite distro

Here are my favorite distro lists:

  • Slax 6
  • Ubuntu 7.04
  • PCLinuxOS 2007

Slax 6 is fast, stable, small in size. The module manager in Slax 6 make uninstall module easily. It will become Slackware 12 once you install it at hard disk. Slackware is my daily based distro.

PCLinuxOS 2007 is better than Ubuntu 7.04

PCLinuxOS 2007 is better than Ubuntu 7.04 in many ways: Appearance (3D), Installation (faster), Control Panel (such as Fonts install).

PCLinuxOS can play DVD, VCD and MP3 once installed, while Ubuntu need a lot of works.

Ubuntu 7.04 is better than PCLinuxOS 2007 in terms of CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) supports.

For Linux New user, PCLinuxOS 2007 is recommended.

Things are changing. Waiting for next Ubuntu release...

Unicode Fonts for inputting Romanized Pali and Sanskrit

In Windows Vista, fonts support Romanized Sanskrit are:

  • Arial
  • Times New Roman
  • Segoe II
  • Courier New
  • Microsoft Sans Serif
  • Tahoma (can find it in Windows Xp Sp2 also)

In Linux, there are many free fonts support Unicode Romanized Sanskrit, such as Gentium, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Serif (used in Slax).

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