CHAPTER 6: PIDGIN There is no Lync for Linux, but Pidgin supports SIPE (voice and video require system packages update): as super-user, ‘yum install pidgin‘. However, the one that comes with CentOS is quite old and certain components need updating: … Continue reading
CHAPTER 3: JAVA Do not install IcedTea. Many Java-based stuff we’ll use is incompatible with it (either at compile or at run time). Get Java 6 from Oracle’s web site (not Java 7!). You’d better get the whole SDK, if … Continue reading
PREFACE Recently I found myself working for a company which internal network is entirely MS Windows-based. Ironically, the company manufactures software which runs only on UNIX (Linux + a bunch of commercial ones like HP-UX, AIX or Solaris). Since my … Continue reading
