By Debsuvra Ghosh

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After Microsoft’s Windows & Apple’s Mac, the ever growing community in todays OS market is linux. It is based on UNIX, the oldest stable and significant ‘operating system’. Actually Linux means Linux Is Not UniX, developed by Linus Torvelous and others.

Enough of these history lessons, today linux is a very common name among netizens. Being a growing community as I said before, it is in a state of constant development. Though today’s linux ‘distros’ (actually distributions) are efficient enough for normal users, many people has a common misunderstanding regarding linux in thinking it a geeky OS. But in reality it’s not after all a geeky thing. Of course, when you are thinking better customization in linux, you must have to use the terminal but for normal uses, it does not need to have a computer degree to run linux. Now it is as easy as running Windows or Mac.

Let’s stop myth-busting and now we will getting to the point. I have to mention that though well-developed, linux has some advance options that need to be tweaked to get through. I will discuss those in this thread.

1. Configuring a PPPOE or PPPOA connection in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

There is no direct graphical application to connect to a PPPOE or PPPOA internet connection using GNOME in Ubuntu. So user have to open the terminal and enter “sudo -s” (without quotes) in there. It will ask the root password, enter it. Then type “pppoeconf”, a new window will appear as pictured below..

Then press enter selecting Yes; it will scan for ethernet devices and then prompt you to load the default profile for your ADSL modem. You will have to select these settings by pressing yes and ok when necessery. You will then have to enter your username and password for internet connection. Press enter to save and select whether you want the connection to be started at boot time. Now when the wizard completes, you are ready to go.

If you have selected to manually start a net connection, then you have to start ‘terminal’
and enter your “pon dsl-provider” following ’sudo -s’. The connection will be started.

The most common linux problems on your hp laptops can be solved by calling the troubleshooting team. Refer to your laptop guide for problems or order one if you don’t have one. The online guide will walk you through the installing laptop accessories section with ease. Check the sony laptop history for any changes in the computer before buying a used laptop scrap laptops or refurbished laptops. Refurbished dell laptops might be better than the original. When buying a refurbished digital camera, read the digital camera reviews first.

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