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Decided to take a look at Alfresco - a free Enterprise Content Management (ECM) tool. Installation of the current version is a little trickier than expected, and the documentation is unfortunately not very good yet.

The installation setup and packages are as follows:

When configuring Berkeley db 4.2.52.NC with the –enable-java option (for example, for the opensso build) on a system with gjc installed you will get a cryptic error during configuration that looks like this:

configure: error: No off_t type.

Having recently got the HP nw9440 I naturally installed F7 on it. This laptop works great with F7, particularly when the install is combined with the tips from mjmwired. Most of the features in the laptop work with a normal F7 install, with three exceptions: the built-in card reader, the wireless adapter, and the suspend function.

To get the built-in card reader working, simply add these two lines to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:

modprobe tifm_core
modprobe tifm_sd

For the wireless use the ipw3945 source from sourceforge. The ipw3945 from atrpms does not currently install due to a dependency problem. Note that all you need is the ipw3945 source, the other parts (ipw3945d, ipw3945-ucode, and 80211) can all be retrieved from atrpms.

The OpenOffice Draw program is quite powerful and useful, but the lack of available shapes can make it difficult to quickly put diagrams together. I will be making some shapes I created freely available, starting with these server shapes. The server shapes are useful for making technical diagrams.

You can get the Open Office Draw file with the shapes by clicking here.

If you are ever looking for some amazing eye candy for Linux, try Beryl. On fedora 7 beryl installs easily by issuing a “yum install beryl*”. You can then use Beryl on your favourite window manager (such as kde) by selecting System -> Beryl Manager from your menus.