Monthly Archive for Dezember, 2008

Brother laser printer on Ubuntu

Published on Dezember 25, 2008 in Verschiedenes. 1 Comment

The Brother laser print are well supported on Ubuntu but unfortunately the drivers are not installed by default. The fastest way to get these printers working on Ubuntu is to install all brother-cups-wrapper-* drivers.

Clean up your Linux system

Published on Dezember 23, 2008 in Verschiedenes. 1 Comment

After some time most system get polluted with unnecessary files. This is holds for Windows as well as for Linux and probably also MacOS.

To clean-up your windows system there is plenty of Shareware available. For Linux there are especially two applications which I’d like to recommend:

  • fdupes – search for duplicate files
  • FSlint – search for duplicate files (and consolidate them with hardlinks), installed packages, invalid names and a lot more