How to install Vulture’s isometric graphics in Ubuntu

Vulture’s is an isometric graphics interface to NetHack and SlashEM.Vulture’s is a fork of the now dead “Falcon’s Eye” project.An isometric graphics interface to NetHack. The interface was called “Falcon’s Eye”, because the viewpoint resembles a “bird’s eye view”.This fork of the original “Falcon’s Eye” is called “Vulture’s Eye”. “Vulture’s Claw” is the same interface, but for Slash’EM.

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Linux partnership addresses forking

The deal between Linux makers Ubuntu and Linspire will help to address fragmentation of the open source operating system, according to an analyst.

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Ubuntu Themes For Firefox

For those of you using some of the default Ubuntu themes (Human, Tango or Industrial) there is a package that will match those same themes for your Firefox browser for a more consistent overall look. I’ve got a screenshot below and how to install. Lets get started!

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How to convert MP3s to OGG Vorbis (and more) in Ubuntu/Debian

Here’s two ways to convert your mp3 ’s (which are in a propriatary format) into .ogg files. Ogg Vorbis is a free and open format. You could use these files in just about any linux media player and in lots of the more grown up players for other operating systems.

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Compiz will be installed by default in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Updates today have made compiz a dependency of ubuntu-desktop, which means it will be installed by default with Ubuntu feisty fawn. Although this doesn't mean it will be enabled by default it's certainly unfortunate for the beryl project who's primary goal for their next release was to be included in Ubuntu.

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Compiz will be installed by default in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Updates today have made compiz a dependency of ubuntu-desktop, which means it will be installed by default with Ubuntu feisty fawn. Although this doesn't mean it will be enabled by default it's certainly unfortunate for the beryl project who's primary goal for their next release was to be included in Ubuntu.

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Ubuntu/Linux Roundup (Best that i've seen)

Hack Attack: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks Ubuntu Tip: How to mount a Windows NTFS partition How to install Photoshop on Ubuntu Install and run Ubuntu without disturbing Windows Compare Linux distros side by side How to install anything in Ubuntu Thirteen things to do after you install Ubuntu Introduction to the Unix command line

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How to Build a Ubuntu File Server and more!

A nice walkthrough on what hardware to choose, how to prepare it, burn the disk, install Ubuntu and use it as a file server. Newbie friendly.

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Detect content format of a disk or disk image Using disktype

The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes.

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Installing Ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” on an Acer Aspire 1690

My laptop is rendered useless by a problem in windows. The First partition is erased and the second is backupped. Vista will be installed on this machine Monday.

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New KDE 4 preview shows progress

On Friday, the KDE Project released the third in a series of development previews for the upcoming KDE 4.0 release. Packages for Kludge are already available for Kubuntu Edgy and openSUSE. The release is not meant for end users, but aimed at programmers who want to assist with KDE 4 development, and porting or developing applications to KDE 4.

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The easy way to install the latest official graphics card drivers on Ubuntu

By default Ubuntu doesn't come with the proprietary Nvidia or ATI drivers. So would have to install the drivers separately which can be a total nightmare. But there is and easy solution, Envy is an automated command line program that will install the latest Nvidia and ATI drivers for Ubuntu Linux automatically.

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Gimmie, a new panel replacement for Gnome, and how to install it in Ubuntu

Curious about gimmie I made a .deb package of gimmie and installed it.

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4th pre-release of Ubuntu's Feisty Fawn released

The latest development milestone release (Herd 4) for the Ubuntu project ’s next release, Feisty Fawn, has been released. This release will become Ubuntu 7.04 on April 19th 2007.

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Remove non-free software on your system Using vrms (Virtual Richard M. Stallman)

The vrms program will analyze the set of currently-installed packages on a Debian GNU/Linux system, and report all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed.

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An Ubuntu community legacy: debian-community.org

Years ago I started as Debian user, but when I tried to help with the project I had a lot of problems: stoppers, not enough help, etc. It was a very bad experience for me.

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Howto: switch from Ubuntu to Kubuntu or Xubuntu or Edubuntu or vice versa (6.10 edgy)

I recently installed Ubuntu6.10 with the Kubuntu6.10 install cd, Why ? I did not feel like downloading the Ubuntu iso while having the Kubuntu cd ready for usage. After a successful install of Kubuntu its easy to revert to Ubuntu .

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Howto: Switching from Sun-Java5 to Sun-Java6 in Ubuntu6.10 (edgy)

Sun-Java6 has arrived in the backport repository of Ubuntu and this howto assumes you have this repository set up.

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Gimpshop On A Ubunutu Based System

The Gimp is an extremely powerful open source image manipulation program for Windows, Linux and Mac OSx. Unfortunately though many people find it very hard to use for the average user. In this article we will apply the Gimpshop modification to Gimp on a Ubuntu (Edgy) based system for improved user friendliness.

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HOWTO: Install Thunderbird Beta 2 on Ubuntu

While Thunderbird 2.0b2 isn ’t exactly the newest thing out and about, it certainly isn’t in the Ubuntu repositories. Getting a little annoyed at Evolution lately, I decided to swap back to Thunderbird. During this process, I decided to lend a helping hand to anyone looking to do the same - or even just update their Thunderbird installation.

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Install the latest Nvidia driver (1.0-9746) with Envy in (K)Ubuntu

So I downloaded the package , installed it and ran “sudo envy” not knowing what to expect. well it blew me right out of my gnome desktop and landed on tty1 ! So here is a howto for Envy to get the latest Nvidia-driver.

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How to install OTRS (Open source Ticket Request System) in Debian

OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries.

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How to Install PPTP GUI (To connect windows VPN) in Ubuntu

PPTP Client is a Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD client for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, PPTP. Allows connection to a PPTP based Virtual Private Network (VPN) as used by employers and some cable and ADSL internet service providers.

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Ubuntu Wants a Bigger Piece of Desktops, Servers

The 2007 road map for the Ubuntu Linux operating system includes continuing its focus on the desktop, paying more attention to the server and garnering additional corporate support.

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Ubuntu 7.04 Alpha 3/4 - Trying out the controls

I finally got some more time this evening to try out various applications with Ubuntu 7.04. But before I get started, I need to clarify a statement I made earlier. Not only are the Ubuntu developers deserving of praise, but so are the Debian developers as well.

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How to use apt-get behind proxy server (Ubuntu/Debian)

If you are a Debian-based GNU/Linux user, then you ’re probably familiar with synaptic and apt-get to install application from software repositories. This post focussed on how to use apt-get/synaptic behind proxy server/firewall which under normal circumstances, you’re unable to use apt-get.

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Hakix v0.4 is released!

Popular program akin to Automatix but for Debian Etch... new release 0.4 announcement and information

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Fedora 6 Vs. Ubuntu 6.10

Get a clear picture which one you should go for and why? As per your needs!!!

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Six advanced-technology open source projects

The open source movement is fertile ground for creating advanced tools and technologies -- all at an appealing price. We've scoured the market to find six open source projects that hold promise for your New Data Center architecture. They offer automated provisioning, intrusion detection, grid storage, network-attached storage

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Excellent list of Ubuntu resources and guides

A must have for all Ubuntu users. Guides on how to install Ubuntu, install Windows and Ubuntu together, how to secure Ubuntu, how to backup and restore Ubuntu and pretty much everything else.

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Open source is key to reaching 500 million Indian children

To support more than 650,000 villages and one half billion youths who need education, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) created a nonprofit organization called Shiksha India in 2001. One of Shiksha's primary initiatives was the creation of a collaborative online Web portal,

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Ubuntu Feisty’s New GDM and Splash

Very nice looking, a huge improvement, What do you think?

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Microsoft fan plans to move all of his PCs to Ubuntu

He says: I am still a Microsoft fan and I think that, as a firm, they create great products. The thing is, I never had as much fun with my PCs (DOS, Win3.1, ME, etc.) as I have had with Linux/Ubuntu.(...)What does it mean for MSFT if guys like me (business users) start switching?

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Install Beagle search tool in Ubuntu Edgy

Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you’re looking for. More technically, Beagle is a Linux desktop-independent service which transparently and unobtrusively indexes your data in real-time.

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Make your own packages for Debian-based systems

For the uninitiated, creating Debian packages is a mysterious process that looks much harder than it really is. To make it a little less mysterious, let's take a look at two methods of building Debian packages: using standard Debian packaging tools and the CheckInstall utility.

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A special report on packaging and installation utilities for Linux users

Linux.com spent a few days covering a wide range of packaging and installation utilities like Autopackage, Klik, GoboLinux's packaging system, InstallJammer, and Zero Install. If you can't find something useful on this list, you aren't really trying.

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Play Half-Life and other Steam games on Linux with Wine

A tutorial describing how to play Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source and other games based on their engines on Linux using the Windows compatability layer Wine.

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Ubuntu on Virtual PC 2007 - No way dude!

Problems prevent users from running Ubuntu on Microsoft's Virtual PC 2007. This is a shame because it would help users try out Linux in a safe, controlled way.

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Community Linux router distro goes Debian

A commercial supplier of open-source routing and firewall software has transitioned its community-supported firewall/router Linux distro to a Debian base. Vyatta Community Edition 2 runs on commodity x86 hardware, includes excellent documentation, and supports numerous enterprise features, such as serial T1/E1 cards, VLANs, RIP, and OSPF.

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WTF...Christian Ubuntu?

Ok, I am a 'somewhat' religious person but isn't this going a little too far?! Who the hell builds an operating system and calls it a christian operating system. Now I understand that Linux is a god like OS :) But come on!

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Ubuntu Ultimate 1.2 Screenshots

I have decided to make another distro I'm calling "Ubuntu Ultimate Edition" it has everything listed in the Christmas Edition plus much more. I have however removed Java, Flash and Acrobat reader due to licensing agreements. Please freat not included in the release is my custom repo which contains all the software and much more.

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HP Profits from supporting Debian Linux

HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to commercial distributions from Novell and Red Hat.

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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, & Xubuntu Benchmarks

With Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu each deploying a different desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, and Xfce respectively), how do each of these distributions compare performance-wise?

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Someone thinks that an Ubuntu based HTPC is a good idea, and told Dell so

This guy logged onto the Dellideastorm.com and told Dell that he thinks an Ubuntu and MythTv based media center is an awesome idea and went so far as to point out some companies that do this already.

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How to Enable SSL version 3 and TLS (Transport Layer Security) version 1 in Apache hosts

If you want to install apache2 with SSL support check here once you have everything ready you need to configure your SSL for good security.

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How to play Wmv9 files on AMD64 Ubuntu

Playing back wmv9 files on AMD64 is tricky. On i386 you can use mplayer with the win32 codecs, or the experimental vc-1 codec. However, using AMD64, things get a bit more difficult. It is possible to use the 32bit mplayer package, but it requires that all the libraries that it depends on are also 32bit.

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adding a second hard drive to an existing debian system

Begin by physically putting the drive into the case and connecting the cables. Be sure that the existing hard drive is set to master and the drive you’re adding is set to slave. Unplug everything before you start, read the instruction manual, follow its directions, and be sure to use an anti-static wrist strap.

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Debian HOW-TO : AIGLX + Beryl

With the upcoming release of Beryl 2.0, the Beryl Project appears stronger then ever.

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Decorate Your Mplayer with Mplayer Skins

Decorate Your Mplayer with Mplayer Skins

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Xfce 4.4: The best lightweight desktop environment

For years, the lightweight Xfce has been a popular desktop environment for Linux distributions running on older hardware. Until recently, however, using Xfce was a little laborious, but with its latest release last month, Xfce is a much more usable desktop environment.

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9 Tips to diagnose remote GNU/Linux server network connectivity issues

Many new admin or Linux users get frustrated when their remote Linux box is not accessible dues to network connectivity. In this article I will try to provide tools and information about how to diagnose network configurations.

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Ubuntu spurns Microsoft's advances

FREE ADVICE IS WORTH EVERY PENNY as someone once famously said. For years, I have been guilty of replacing the word 'advice' with the word 'software' as every attempt I made to get Linux to work properly ended, if not in tears, at least in immoderate language and the dog fleeing the room in terror to avoid low-flying Mandrake CDs.

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Linux Power Lunch? Debian Founder Visits Microsoft!

Ian Murdock, the chief technology officer of the recently formed Linux Foundation (created from the merger of ODL and the Free Standards Group) is set to address a group of Microsoft employees on today, February 20.

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Stable Linux Kernel 2.6.20.1 Released

Greg KH and the -stable team have released the latest 2.6.20 series stable kernel. This bug-fix contains a single patch to fix a free wrong pointer bug in nfs/acl server support.

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Holy smoke! 110 FREE Linux Books online.

Just click and download! Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Networking, Installation, Programming, Hacks.. you name it! Many O'Reilly titles! It's all legal - I think

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How to get started with EncFS in three easy steps

This is a quick and easy tutorial that will teach you how to make use of EncFS in no more than 3 very simple steps.

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Gnome Menu Mockup: Kill the application browser

Recently Miguel de Icaza blogged about version 2 of gnome-main-menu, available from Gnome’s SVN, so I decided to give it a try.

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Beryl on Ubuntu

Video showing off "Beryl" Ubuntu

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Ubuntu Bug Statistics Plots - Status of Ubuntu bugs

This graph by the author of the Ubuntu Blog displays the status of bugs in Ubuntu over the past day, week, 30 days and 180 days! Great for seeing how many new bugs have been reported and how many have been resolved over time!

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Manage your Photo Albums with Picasa in Ubuntu

Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips.

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How-to install ruby on rails 1.2 in ubuntu 6.10(Video)

How-to install ruby on rails 1.2 in ubuntu 6.10

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Fedora and Ubuntu to incorporate Kernel-based virtualization

The latest release of the Linux kernel, 2.6.20, includes integrated virtualization capabilities with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). The KVM kernel module, the development of which was largely sponsored by start-up tech company Qumranet, leverages x86 virtualization extensions included in various Intel and AMD processors. Several distributions, including Ubuntu and Fedora, are already preparing to include the KVM kernel module in upcoming releases.

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Shafetech Launches New Ubuntu Linux Computers

Shafetech just launched a shiny Web 2.0 site, complete with some new Ubuntu Linux computers. The new models include a mid-range media desktop and a 17" laptop.

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HOW-TO: Dreamweaver & Flash 8 Running on Ubuntu!

This HOW-TO covers up the whole process of installing Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 & Macromedia Flash 8 in a Ubuntu box in a few simple steps. Finally I can ditch Windows!

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HOW-TO: Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu - 8 steps!

This HOW-TO covers up the whole process of installing Adobe Photoshop CS2 on a Ubuntu box in a few simple steps. This method has been tested only on Ubuntu, but it should work on any other linux flavor.

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Tweaking Ubuntu

A few steps to twaek ubuntu from a n00b

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HOWTO Install the latest version of Amarok with MTP support

This how-to will help an Ubuntu user (and possibly even Debian users) set up and install the latest version of Amarok with support for iPods, PlaysForSure mp3 players, and more. Check it out.

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Why so many filesystems for Linux? What's the difference?

Different filesystems explained. (ex: ext2,ext3,gfs,jfs,nss)

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Ubuntu: Human Icons for OpenOffice

With the adoption of the Tango-like "Human" icon theme in Ubuntu Dapper, the Industrial icons in OpenOffice began to stick out like a sore thumb.

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Ubuntu Edgy too unstable for servers?

A seemingly minor change in Ubuntu Edgy - making /bin/sh point to dash instead of bash - has caused a lot of breakage. Ubuntu stand by their decision to use the faster dash, which complies with standards but not with existing practice. While a popular desktop, it seems Ubuntu may be losing credibility as a server, judging by the bugreport comments.

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Send and Receive Your Hotmail messages through Evolution

If you want to use you Evolution mail client to send and receive your hotmail messages use the following procedure.

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Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On Linux

This article shows how you can convert a physical Windows system into a VMware virtual machine with VMware Converter. The resulting virtual machine can be run in the free VMware Player and VMware Server. Vmware Converter comes in handy if you want to switch to a Linux desktop, but feel the need to run your old Windows desktop from time to time.

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NVIDIA 1.0-9XXX / 2.0-XXXX Drivers Detailed Overview

Since last month's general availability of Microsoft Windows Vista, NVIDIA has introduced the Forceware 100.XX series. The quality of this driver has been very debatable (some even calling for a class action law suit), but it has added DirectX 10.0 support for Vista Longhorn users.

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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r5 Released

The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename `sarge'). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.

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Re-creating Debian binary packages with dpkg-repack

If you've installed a Debian package upon a machine, but lost the binary archive, then it is difficult to copy that package to another machine. Thankfully is a simple solution for recreating a Debian package from an installed system.

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NZB, PAR and UNRAR all-in-one Using Hellanzb

hellanzb is a Python application designed for *nix environments that retrieves nzb files and fully processes them. The goal being to make getting files from Usenet (e.g.: Giganews Newsgroups) as hands-free as possible. Once fully installed, all thats required is moving an nzb file to the queue directory. The rest; fetching, par-checking, un-raring, etc. is taken care of by hellanzb.

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Ubuntu Customization Kit 1.4

Upgrading the kernel should now be possible. During the building process, you can chose to launch a package manager or a console for fine-grained customization. A check for CD size was added. Trapping signals to unmount filesystems in case of error were added. customize-cd-gui was renamed to uck-gui. Many bugs were fixed.

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Watch out Vista, Ubuntu got back!

One of my first priorities after getting Ubuntu up and running was to make it sexy. Damn sexy. OS X has spoiled me, and I need my eye candy. Unlike the limited skinning options with Windows (Windows Blinds or hacking the uxtheme.dll), you can actually replace the desktop environment, the window manager, file manager and a number of other applications with Linux. Say I don't like the Gnome desktop environment... I can just install another. If you have one, you can install the other and decide which you want to use when you login. Mezzo, for example, disposes of the idea that the desktop is just another folder as well as nested menus, attempting to simplify the experience. I am sticking with Gnome at the moment but am curious to see what the others have to offer. Then there is the window manager.

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Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" 7.04 with Migration Assitant

Migration Assistant - As part of a dual-boot installation, user will be able to import documents and settings from Windows, while converting them into their Ubuntu equivalents.

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Is MEPIS Linux really a Ubuntu derivative?

MEPIS Linux founder Warren Woodford began, a year ago, to migrate MEPIS from Debian to Ubuntu packages, and in July achieved the first Ubuntu-based simplyMEPIS release. In light of the recently announced Linspire/Ubuntu collaboration, DesktopLinux.com asked Woodford to clarify the MEPIS/Ubuntu relationship. His response was quite interesting.

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Since Ubuntu for PPC Macs was axed, what should PowerPC Linux users do?

Ubuntu is a very popular "new dog" to Linux distros but recently dropped their PowerPC support. Yellow Dog Linux was making Linux for PPC Macs, IBM servers, etc. way before it was socially acceptable to run Linux and they still do. With YDL 5.0 coming out at the end of February and Ubuntu ending official support for PPC, now is the time to switch!

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Ubuntu 7.04 Alpha (Herd) 4 Screenshots

Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" 7.04 has two more months before its planned release on April 19th. Herd 4, the fourth alpha release is another milestone on the road to final release. Herd 4 is the first herd release after Feature Freeze, meaning testing is very much needed and each alpha/beta release from now on will require extensive testing to guarantee.

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Samba developers stay put, thank you very much

On February 6, the blog Boycott Novell ran a story suggesting that Novell's Samba development team had resigned en masse to take jobs at rival Red Hat, in protest over Novell's well-publicized patent agreement with Microsoft. That would be big news, a major coup for Red Hat. Closer inspection, however, reveals that it simply didn't happen.

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How to install Gaim 2.0.0beta6 Instant Messanger in Ubuntu Edgy

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks.

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Special Purpose Network Addresses Every System admin need to know

Special Purpose Network Addresses Every System admin need to know

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How to install Exaile (Amarok for GNOME) on Ubuntu

The Tuxfamily.org guy is hosting both stable and SVN versions of Exaile (Amarok for GNOME), and has apt lines for each. Much better than having to manually download new versions.

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Downloading wallpapers the easy way in KDE

KDE has an easy way to download and install wallpapers from KDE-look.org. Here are the steps: Right click on the desktop and choose customize desktop (or whatever the appropriate name is).
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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 4 released

Pre-releases of Feisty are *not* encouraged for anyone needing astable system, or anyone who is not comfortable running intooccasional, even frequent breakage. They are however recommended forUbuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting,and fixing bugs. Installing a milestone and then upgrading throughthe release cycle should leave you with a close approximation of thefinal release.

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Looking Glass on Ubuntu(Video)

Video showing off "Looking Glass" Ubuntu

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Galternatives - Graphical setup tool for Alternatives Configuration in Ubuntu

There are several programs fulfilling the same or similar functions to be installed on a single system at the same time. For example, many systems have several text editors or different web browsers installed,Multimedia players,graphics editors at once.

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How to rip CDs directly to MP3 in Ubuntu

By default, Ubuntu will only let you rip music to Ogg or FLAC. Sometimes having MP3s around is just more convenient (portable players etc.). Here's how to set up a SoundJuicer profile to rip to MP3.

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Feisty Fawn Herd 4 available!

While you aren't allowed to view the documentation yet, you can now go directly to the download page for herd 4. Enjoy!

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Improved ways to suspend and hibernate a laptop under Linux

Last June I wrote about suspending and hibernating laptops under Linux. Since then a few things have changed -- thankfully, for the better -- so it's time to revisit the subject. Also, a few readers have responded offering suggestions for improving the suspend shell script I wrote back then, and I've incorporated these suggestions in a new version;

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My sysadmin toolbox

My working day includes a variety of tasks, and most of them take place on the command line, because that approach enables me to do things in the most efficient way. But you can also waste a lot of time on the command line if you don't know what utilities will give you what you need quickly. Here's an introduction to the most important tools I use

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Debian developers seek new leader

Nominations for the unpaid position of Debian Project Leader (DPL) opened last week. The successful candidate will take over from current incumbent Anthony Towns in April. The DPL is the most powerful person involved in the Debian project, which is an attempt to develop a free operating system. Each DPL serves a 12-month term of office.

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Run Your Own Webradio Station With Icecast2 And Ices2

This tutorial describes how to set up an audio streaming server with Icecast2. In order that Icecast2 can stream audio to listeners we install Ices2. Ices2 is a program that sends audio data to an Icecast2 server to broadcast to clients. Ices2 can either read audio data from disk (Ogg Vorbis files), or sample live audio from a sound card and encode it on the fly. In this article we will let Ices2 read .ogg files from the local hard disk.

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Install Default wish list for Ubuntu

Changes that need to happen. Here are things that need to be installed by default for business and personal.

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Linux Links and You - Symbolic (Soft) and Hard Links Explained

If you ’ve used the command line in Linux at all, you’ve probably heard about links. Symbolic links, soft links, hard links, links, links, links. What the heck are these things anyway? Links are actually pretty simple. In Linux there are two types of links we’ll talk about. Symbolic (or soft) links and Hard links. For beginning to intermediate

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Feisty’s Synaptic is back in the Gnome menus

In case you didn’t know there is a new control center in Feisty. It’s nice looking, it’s functional, it’s somewhat similar to the control panel in MSWindows-land so it’s an easier learning curve for switchers from that other operating system.

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Select Preferred Applications in Ubuntu

If you want to select your preferred applications for Web browser,Mail reader and terminal emulator you can select very easily from gnome preferred application option.

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bsc - graphical file manager with two panels

bsc (BeeSoft Commander) is a graphical file manager (similar to the midnight commander) that displays two directoriesat once for easier copying and moving of files.

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Ubuntu Studio - Let your Creativity Fly

This seems to be the sweetest thing to happen to Ubuntu since... well, Ubuntu. It is a multimedia creation derivative of Ubuntu, aimed at the Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

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Ubuntu and Instant Messaging

Ubuntu Linux may be a very stable operating system, but as yet it could not compete with the other players because of years of neglect on some of the core programs. GAIM is one of them, Kopete being a good alternative, but until Ubuntu is able to provide an IM like Trillian Astra they will be behind the 8-ball with only one shot to play.

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Windows Vista -vs- Ubuntu Edgy Eft: A side by side review

A side by side review/comparison of Windows Vista and Ubuntu Edgy Eft. It even includes pictures so you can compare features yourself. The review covers the interfaces, networking, hardware support, application availability and cost(to own / to operate).

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Ubuntu Decides to Axe PowerPC Version, Cites Lack of Resources

The PowerPC edition of Ubuntu will be reclassified as unofficial. The PowerPC software itself and supporting infrastructure will continue to be available, and supported by a community team. Translation by OSNews.com: Ubuntu PPC can shake hands with the dodo.

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Immature software leads Ubuntu to eschew built-in video bling

The Ubuntu technical board has decided to forgo the inclusion of a compositing window manager and proprietary video drivers in the default installation of the upcoming Ubuntu release. Instead, the technical board plans to incorporate new system configuration components that will allow users to trivially install, enable, and configure compositing support and the requisite video drivers

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Tweaks to Linux Ease Management

Ubuntu has an interesting project called Upstart, which is a replacement for the traditional Unix init system. The goals of Upstart are ambitious: to modernize and streamline the boot process, control user tasks, and manage services. Currently these things are managed with a multitude of different utilities: cron, atd, anacron, init, telinit, udev, acpid, apmd, ifupdown, module-init-tools, inetd, xinetd, update-rc.d, etc.init.d, /etc/rc*d, and gosh knows what-all.

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Filesystem encryption in mixed environments with TrueCrypt

If you want to encrypt your sensitive files so that no one can access them without your personal password or decryption key, you have several options. But if you want a free, cross-platform, open source encryption application, try TrueCrypt.

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Xubuntu offers appealing desktop alternative

Sometime earlier this year my notebook, a low-end IBM R50e, got slow. It used to be reasonably zippy and Ubuntu worked extremely well on it. Then it just became downright sluggish and applications would often take ages to open.

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How To Search For Missing Packages With apt-file On Debian and Ubuntu

This short article describes how you can search for missing packages with apt-file on Debian and Ubuntu systems. apt-file allows you to search for a file name, and it gives back the name(s) of the package(s) containing that file so that you can install the appropriate package.

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How to set up your own local Ubuntu repositories with apt-mirror

If you ’ve got a little bit of bandwidth and a bunch of Ubuntu machines to update, it’s almost a no brainer to set up your own local Ubuntu repositories. I’ve got my own repositories set up and it makes for an incredibly fast install of a new system and updates for existing systems. You'll need 40GB of space, a high speed connection and Ubuntu.

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Future of Debian Weekly News

After I learned that the Debian project is indirectly paying some of its developers $ 6,000 my motivation to work on Debian issues in favour of other things dropped. Suddenly other duties and tasks became more important and hence weren't neglected anymore in favour of Debian work.

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Ubuntu Edgy Upgrade Common Problems With solutions

If you are looking for Ubuntu Edgy Upgrade Common Problems With solutions this is for you

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Debian Linux file and print server: NFS, CUPS, LPR

Setting up a home LAN on Debian sharing directories with Linux clients and your printer to Windows and Linux clients. Of course, web to all. This tutorial is completely "noob-friendly". It requires only reading comprehension and no necessary amount of pre-existing skill. Should you lack confidence, you can find basic information throughout this site. You are NOT a n00b, that designation is not real -- it is simply an insult hurled at you from some faction that considers itself elite because they can read and follow directions. Don't let some smart-ass kid make you think that you cannot use Debian efficiently and productively.

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Debian Weekly News - February 13th, 2007

Welcome to this year's 3rd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. In light of recent attacks on SHA-1, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is preparing for a competition to augment and revise the current Secure Hash Standard. Rick Lehrbaum reported that the installation of Debian etch on an old ThinkPad notebook went pretty well and added a number of screenshots.

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Nvidia, TwinView, and xorg.conf

Getting dual-head monitors going with an nvidia card on Debian is largely a pleasingly straightforward business.Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the contrib and non-free repositories, and run apt-get update.

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screen: a console-base window manager on steroids

GNU Screen is one of my all-time favorite Unix tools. According to the official documentation, Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes.

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Mark Shuttleworth: Accessibility building momentum

I was really pleased to read about an accessibility review of ORCA in a KDE blog post. It ’s a pointer to a bit of study on the integration of ORCA in Gnome and the good news is, it’s really very positive. Thanks to super work on AT-SPI, a11y is starting to shape up on the Linux desktop, and the source of the blog post suggests that BOTH the desktop

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LightZone for Linux delivers commercial quality photo conversion for free

Like many companies, Light Crafts releases its flagship application -- the RAW photo converter LightZone -- for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. But although the Windows and OS X versions of LightZone cost hundreds of dollars, the Linux version is absolutely free. It is a lucky break, too, because LightZone is a powerful tool .

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Mark Shuttleworth: Clarification on Feisty’s proprietary drivers

Jonathan, I ’m afraid you’ve misread the announcement that proprietary video drivers will not be switched on by default in Feisty. This was the result of a long telephone call including the entire TB and CC. During the discussion, we re-affirmed the Ubuntu policy of including proprietary drivers were these are required to enable essential hardware.

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Installing SugarCRM 4.5.1 on Ubuntu 6.06

Lately I’ve installed a couple of Ubuntu servers with SugarCRM the OS edition, so I thought I’d just write down the procedure for others and myself.

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Ubuntu on educational computers

MassMutual Financial Group donated 100 computers to Springfield Technical Community College yesterday for use by students who cannot afford to purchase a computer. They'll be loaded with Ubuntu.

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Install VLC Media Player in Ubuntu

The VLC media player is an open source media player, distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is a highly portable multimedia player that supports many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats.

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Ubuntu Migration Manager

The reality for most potential Ubuntu users is that they've bought their computer with Windows pre-installed or have already installed another Linux distribution. These users have probably already used their existing operating system for a decent period of time and have accumulated documents, email, settings, and other files that can be imported and translated for use in Ubuntu, but the existing Ubuntu graphical installer mercilessly destroys them. If users could install Ubuntu knowing that all of their existing Office documents would be placed in their Documents folder, their email would be imported into Evolution, and their bookmarks imported into Firefox, they would have much more incentive to make the switch, be it from Windows or another Linux distribution.

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Slick animated boot loader for Ubuntu

After switching between OpenSuse 10.2, and Ubuntu Edgy, I noticed an aesthetic feature of OpenSuse that was sorely missed in Ubuntu. The higher res, brightly colored, animated boot loader (gfxboot). Grub looks dated, and terrible with Ubuntu by default. These instructions make a big difference for all those dual booting Ubuntu and XP.

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Ubuntu's Fiesty Fawn herd 3 - what's new and getting beryl running

Here's a look (screenshots) at what's new in Ubuntu's latest alpha release of their Fiesty Fawn. New games, new control center, new disk analyzer and of course, AIGLX built in so beryl is easier than ever!

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How to Set up Network Bonding in Ubuntu 6.10

Network Bonding, otherwise known as port trunking allows you to combine multiple network ports into a single group, effectively aggregating the bandwidth of multiple interfaces into a single connection. For example, you can aggregate two gigabyte ports into a two-gigabyte trunk port.

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GNOME Nautilus with metadata and tags support!

What you see there is a 'metadata tile', which goes and fetches metadata from Tracker about the currently selected file in Nautilus. It is all done asynchronously, so you do not feel a difference while browsing, even when you frantically click folder after folder looking for a file...

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Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty

Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman has announced two Ubuntu Technical Board decisions that will affect the upcoming Feisty Fawn release, due out in April of this year. For the Feisty release, proprietary video drivers are out of the default install, and the PowerPC port of Ubuntu is being downgraded to an unofficial release.

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First looks at Feisty Fawn Ubuntu

Last night I decided to take the plunge and install feisty on my computer. I’d heard that already it was pretty stable, and you know, it was the truth. As soon as the install finished, I set about getting a few items. First off, I installed the low-latency kernel, which has been tweaked and optimised for audio usage. Then I went and got the latest NVidia drivers.

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Ubuntu Gets U.S. Technical Support Provider

"Canonical Ltd., Ubuntu Linux's commercial sponsor, and SpikeSource Inc., a provider of open-source solutions, announced today that SpikeSource will certify its business-ready open source applications for Ubuntu, and deliver support for Ubuntu through its growing channel of solution providers.....

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Anti-Virus False Positive Causes Business to Switch to Ubuntu

"The virus scanner installed at the secretary's machine at the company I worked for fell for a false positive in december last year, ... and our CTO immediately erased the installation. ... This way though, it's running Ubuntu 6.10, and everyone's happy with that. So I find i hard to say that this false positive actually hurt us."

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Hard Drive Failure? Screw it - just run Ubuntu off a CD or DVD

When my Compaq Presario's hard drive failed... I dicked around with it for a few days trying to revive the hard drive.Then, I looked on the bright side... I guess I need to buy a new laptop. (Sweet!)

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Install Netgear WG111v2 USB device on Ubuntu 6.10

This tutorial will explain hoe to install Netgear WG111v2 USB device on Ubuntu 6.10, kernel 2.6.17-10-generic.

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Ubuntu kernel update bug 2.6.17-11 quick fix

The update to the new kernel (2.6.17-11) is reported to break wi-fi and some people are even unable to start the graphic environment. This is a quick solution for the non-geeks till the Ubuntu guys sort this out.

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Cyrus, Virtual Domains, malware-free exim4 debian config

I love exim4 - and i cannot get on with either postfix or sendmail. The level of sophistication that is required these days to set up a trouble-free email server is, i believe, matched only by exim4's sophistication and ease-of-setup

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Subversion on debian like boxes: a quick howto

this post aims to ease your next installations of subversion (cvs killer!!) on Linux (should be usable with different Unix systems). This short how-to will use the xinetd based daemon and not the Apache module... I prefer this kind of installation...It's quick and clean, sufficient for a small system... So this small how-to will use the svnserve binary..

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Ubuntu partners with SpikeSource to offer Certified Applications & Support

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, and SpikeSource, a provider of open source solutions, today announced that SpikeSource will certify its business-ready open source applications for Ubuntu, and deliver support for Ubuntu through its growing channel of solution providers.

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How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync

Back in September I revived my MiniITX box to serve as a backup server. I set up BackupPC, ran it once, it seemed to work, and then ignored it for weeks. When I checked back, it hadn’t run successfully since. Ugh, I want backups to just work!

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Multimedia on your bad-ass Debian Etch Desktop

I dig the fact that within about 1 minutes time (while, before, after) installing my desktop, I can be groovin' on my favorite tunes or catching a funny video online. OK -- I don't watch that many videos, but sometimes the chillen and I will watch some movie previews on apple trailers. We say things like " COOL! and "that was darn cool" is a favorite of my almost-six-year-old. How 'bout you? Got music?

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Samba: How to share files for your LAN without user/password

This tutorial will show how to set samba to allow read-only file sharing for your LAN computers as guest (without be prompted for a password).Because users won't be prompted for a user/password, this tutorial is meant to be installed in a LAN where all host are to be trusted.

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A Desktop Linux Comparison: Ubuntu versus SUSE

This is a comprehensive, side-by-side comparison of the popular Ubuntu and SUSE distributions of Linux. It focuses on key areas of each, including the installer, package management systems, package availability, security focus, wireless support, portability, and so much more.

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Gentoo versus Debian: A Comparison of Power Linux Distributions

This is a comprehensive, side-by-side comparison of the popular Debian and Gentoo distributions of Linux. It focuses on key areas of each, including the installer, package management systems, package availability, security focus, wireless support, portability, and so much more.

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Make Yahoo Mail beta work with Ubuntu

A lot of friends had been asking me as to how my Yahoo Mail Beta would work on Ubuntu Linux or for that matter any place else, so I am writing about it here. We start from the basics of the problem to solve it.

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Iptables: How-to Share your internet connection

iptables is a command line tool which allow system administrators to configure Linux packet filtering ruleset.

Using iptables, you are able to tweak packet filtering, Network Address Translation (NAT) and packet mangling which in the end are going to allow you to secure your server, share your Internet connection and log unwanted traffic.

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links2 - a cross platform console based web browser which also renders images

Recently, while I was browsing a website in Firefox, I found that it took forever to load the concerned web page. Blame it on my internet connection or on the condition of the web server hosting the web page, I was literally fed up with the wait and closed the window with disgust. It was during this time that I wondered whether it will make my browsing experience a bit more pleasant if I switched to a console web browser such as lynx.

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Ubuntu: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mark Dowd discovered that the netfilter iptables module did not correctly handle fragmented IPv6 packets. By sending specially crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to bypass firewall rules.

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Request Tracker(RT) ticketing system for your Support Group

RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently managetasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users.

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Debian Project Leader Elections 2007: Second call for nominations

We are one week into the nomination period for candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader. According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project leader elections should begin "nine weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately."

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Network-Attached Storage With FreeNAS

This tutorial shows how you can set up a network-attached storage server with FreeNAS. FreeNAS is based on the FreeBSD operating system and supports CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, local user authentication, and software RAID (0, 1, 5). It comes with a powerful web interface and uses very little space on the hard drive - about 32MB.

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Installing Debian Sarge on a thumb drive

It's horribly simple. Download the "businesscard" ISO, choose "manual package selection" when prompted for system type. And if just fucking works. I was amazed when I tired it. It also may be useful to remove any Mass Storage devices before attempting the install. Yields ~300MB console system. I mean, just wow. That's freaking impressive.

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New menu applet and application manager for the GNOME desktop

Ubuntu System Panel is a simple, slick alternative to SLED menu (made for ubuntu). There is also a Launchpad entry for it.

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Fixing software suspend / hibernate with uswsusp in Ubuntu Feisty (and Edgy)

After upgrading to Feisty, my new favorite feature suspend-to-disk (aka hibernate) was broken badly; basically, the resume would never be found, so it’d act as if it had a corrupted swap partition and unmounted disks. A lot of people share my grief, suspend is a notoriously tricky thing to nail down because of bad drivers, companies who won’t cooperate with kernel developers, and the fact that software suspend itself is tricky business.

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Ubuntu 6.10(Edgy Eft) Review

Ubuntu 6.10 is the latest Linux offering from Mark Shuttleworth’s Canonical company. Though based on Debian, Ubuntu has garnered quite an adoring and sizeable following since its inception only a few years ago, and quite rightly, too; Ubuntu has software management tools and an elegant interface that rivals Windows (and perhaps even Mac OS X). It is so easy to use it almost takes the thrill and intellectual challenge out of using Linux! Dubbed Edgy Eft (what’s with the cute alliterative pet names?!), this distribution continues along with Ubuntu’s tradition of stability and ease of use.

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Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu

As many of you know, I work almost exclusively on Linux. From concept to design, and finally to development it’s all Linux. It has it’s advantages, and the only real problem with developing on Linux has been that WINE only works with Photoshop 7 and earlier. (Sorry purists, I just can’t use the gimp all the time)

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Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha 3 [Feisty herd 3] review and screenshots

Downloading the iso was a little difficult to find the right download links. But then I checked out distrowatch who had a link to the iso directly. Ten hours later, it was done. I didn’t see anything different after booting from the cd. It gave the same old options, and there was no kernel trace output or anything, just that the bar filled up while the cd booted up and unpacked the squashfs filesystem, and booted up the livecd.

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Ubuntu Linux File Associations

After trying different Music/Media Players in Ubuntu Linux, I decided that my favorite one is Amarok. It has a lot of good functional features for music fanatics like me (over 7000 MP3s) that need good collection management. Its Collection/Library works similar to Winamp’s Media Library, although some improvements can be made to it (that’s another post).

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Monitoring Servers and Clients using Munin in Ubuntu

“Munin” means “memory”.Munin the tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort. Using Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, and quite possibly applications as well. It makes it easy to determine “what’s different today” when a performance problem crops up. It makes it easy to see how you’re doing capacity wise on all limited resources.

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Playing with the Latest Ubuntu Linux

Decided to throw Feisty Fawn, codename for the latest Ubuntu onto the second hard drive on my main windows box today, just to shake things up.

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A list of commands put together for my new to *buntu Friends

APP INSTALLATION
apt-cache search “program”
sudo apt-get install “program”
sudo apt-get -f install ?.....will fix an install

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TrueCrypt in Ubuntu and Fedora GNU/Linux

I’ve been using TrueCrypt to encrypt financial and personal documents in Windows for a while now and it has worked just fine for the way I want to use it. I’m doing file-based encryption where you mount a single file as a virtual volume that appears as a normal drive in Windows. I knew there was a GNU/Linux version, so it seemed like a logical choice to use for the same purposes in the free world.

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Digg.com slow as snot to render in Firefox and Swiftfox on Ubuntu

I've recently converted my main machine to Linux Ubuntu (Edgy) and love the OS. Themed 'er up really perdy-like, got Samba to work with my XP laptop...everything smooth. Then I go to Digg and want to tear out my eyes and shove them in me bum to see if I swallowed the reason why this webpage is torturously slow and might poop out the answer later.

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OpenSSL gets hard-fought revalidation

After a long and arduous journey that included a suspended validation last year, the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) has announced that OpenSSL has regained its FIPS 140-2 validation and is now available for download. The validation process, which normally lasts a few months, took an astounding five years to complete, and those involved with the projects say they are already devising ways to avoid such long delays in future validations.

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Is Debian dead?

Linspire's decision to switch from a Debian base to Ubuntu is the reason behind the provocative headline. (This cute little guy lives at Ubuntux, an Ubuntu community site.)

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Installing backup-manager with the s3 upload method on Debian/Ubuntu

Installing backup-manager with the s3 upload method on Debian/Ubuntu tips

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Dual Booting Vista With Ubuntu Already Installed

Well looks like a distro switch is in the cards for my notebook. The decision came down my way as I discovered Ubuntu is apparently, useless with captive portals. You know, those hotel/book store login pages to access the provided wifi. Whatever ever reason Ubuntu Edgy fell on its face here and what is even more comical, the complete lack of response from their forums after three different attempts to seek an answer.

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Bastardize the Ubuntu Linux logo

Look at some funny variations of the Ubuntu Linux logo. With new ones popping up all the time.

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Ubuntu embraces proprietary software(?)

Mark Shuttleworth has developed an exceptional Linux distribution, Ubuntu. Mark spends much of his time, however, deriding Red Hat, his biggest Linux competitor, for waxing proprietary.

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Debugging Debian System Freezes

"Sometimes your Debian box hangs, and for a strange reason, there is no debugging information printed on your screen. What options do you have?"

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Howto: Installing Ubuntu to an external USB drive

Thru painful experience and sleepless nights, I finally figure out how to install Ubuntu or any kind of Lux distro to an external USB drive.The key idea is to modify the mini ramdisk to start USB support module during the boot sequence.

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Recycle That Old PC With Ubuntu Linux

I almost never use new hardware. I can ’t afford it. Every computer component I have was given to me for free, as it was either unwanted or was (in the case of my main desktop) a really nice gift. Accordingly, I am often trying to get the most out of old hardware.

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Feisty Fawn - Gnome 2.18 - Beryl Svn - VmWare

It's amazing how far this project has come so quickly - check this out video

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Flash Player 9 on Ubuntu x86_64 using nspluginwrapper

Are you 64bit Ubuntu users tired of missing out on all the You-Tube videos? Well, this little guide will get you going with Flash Player 9 in about 10 minutes.

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Converting a Server from Centos (Fedora, Red Hat) to Ubuntu

I recently helped a friend of mine, who had virtually no knowledge of servers and networking, build a server and get it up and running in his office. He chose to install Ubuntu. I had run several versions of Linux servers (after I did away with Windows Server 2000 about 3 years ago) of the Centos (Red Hat) variety. Centos Linux is basically Red Hat Linux with all the Red Hat trademarks stripped out.

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Ubuntu to get Linspire's CNR One click install

CNR.com will be the most extensive resource available anywhere for desktop Linux software. Search from tens of thousands of Linux software products, packages and libraries by title, popularity, similar software, category, author, or function, and then install the software with just one click of your mouse.

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Set up surround sound in Ubuntu using ALSA

a quick tutorial on setting up surround sound in Ubuntu using ALSA and a 6 line configuration file.

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Linspire to be based on Ubuntu

Yesterday, Linspire and Canonical issued a joint announcement that Linspire would begin to base its distributions on Ubuntu rather than Debian, and that Ubuntu users would be able to use CNR to install proprietary applications and drivers, starting with the Fiesty Fawn release.

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Running a home IMAP server on Ubuntu

I tend to work from several locations, and I like having access to my mail folders from everywhere. Some of my mail comes from POP accounts, but I also have access to an IMAP server. For a while, I used to store “active” conversations on the IMAP server, and periodically archive them in the mbox folders at home to stay within my alloted mail quota. This meant that if I wanted to look at an older message, I basically had to ssh to my home box and dig it out.

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Save space in Ubuntu with compressed file systems

When installing a modern Linux distribution on older computers, one problem you may face is the lack of disk space. I ran into this last week, while helping a friend install Ubuntu on an antique laptop with a 2G hard drive. The obvious starting point is to begin with a minimalist installation — Ubuntu Alternate CD (my choice), Arch Linux, or a few others. The good news is that your system doesn’t have to stay minimalistic if you know how to tailor the distribution.

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Making PDFs with free software

Portable Document Format (PDF) files have become somewhat of a de-facto standard for representing fixed layout 2D documents, and their use and versatility have grown over the past decade. Recently, Adobe announced that it intends to release the PDF 1.7 specification for publication by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). As demand increases for this format, many are wondering, what tools can be used to create PDFs with free software?
Fortunately, there are a variety of free software that is available to author PDF files. I'll specifically highlight two packages that are easier to use and require less configuration. While the advantages of the uniform presentation are usually advantageous, I feel that the emphasis should be on the content, not the container.

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Firewire problems on Debian sarge

Last week I had to move (and therefore reboot) a machine running Debian sarge (stable) which has a couple of FireWire drives attached to it. Last time I did this it all came up beautifully of its own accord; sadly not this time. The logs showed the nodes being recognised by the ieee1394 module, but not actually being mounted.

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Running Debian on your Linksys WRT54G* … sort of

I’m the happy owner of a Linksys WRT54GL. OpenWRT is nice, but … well. Debian is just nicer. And I couldn’t resist the idea of running Debian on this little MIPS system. Since there’s clearly not enough space available on the Linksys, I decided to install etch in a chroot, that I would mount using NFS.

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Winamp Presets for your XMMS Music Player

If you want to setup Winamp Presets for your XMMS Music Player here is simple tip.

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Install KDE Desktop in Debian Etch

KDE is a powerful Free Software graphical desktop environment for Linux and Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system.

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Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 3 Screenshots

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 3 is now available for download. New in this third alpha release of 7.04 Feisty Fawn is GNOME 2.17.90 and numerous other updated packages. For Ubuntu fanatics this is certainly worth trying out.

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In a Vista World, I'm Dreaming of Gubuntu

The blogosphere has been singing both positive and negative tunes about Microsoft's latest offering in its long line of operating systems. Vista has been the talk of the town as of late, but there are still some of us who envision a world where more than one platform can thrive in the OS marketplace.

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Eight reasons to use Ubuntu

A list of eight reasons to use Ubuntu Linux

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New sexy volume control in upcoming Gnome, Ubuntu

The upcoming Gnome 2.18 (and hence the upcoming Ubuntu which always includes the latest Gnome) features a new way of displaying the volume control when the X server supports the Composite extension, otherwise it falls back to the traditional GTK widget.

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Ubuntucilin

Is you're PC feeling sick? Some Ubuntucillin should fix it right up!

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Car rental agency migrates to Ubuntu

Aging Linux and Unix systems have prompted car rental company Thrifty Inc. to modernize its server platforms and direct investment towards more innovative applications. In doing so, we looked at Solutions First, and one of its recommendations was to move away from Red Hat to Ubuntu Linux, which we did.

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Ubuntu? Not for me, thanks

I have strong reservations about Ubuntu, its motives and the way it is shaping up. The deal its parent company, Canonical, has just struck with commercial Linux company Linspire (formerly Lindows) to use commercial software from the Click and Run warehouse owned by Linspire is just the latest indication that, with Ubuntu, all is not as it seems.

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Beryl — Wall Plugin

Hey guys, changing the format of TWiB up this week a bit. I get bored enumerating bug fixes and new features, so instead I have a video to show. This is the new wall plugin that racarr has been working on, it is really quite fantastic. It allows users to do a traditional plane style viewport layout, but also to zoom back out and re-organize their windows in a birds eye view. You can also switch desktops in this manner by right clicking on the appropriate viewport. In the near future animations are going to be added to switching viewports without using expo mode. Without further delay, the video

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Installing Beryl with Avant on an Intel chip in Ubuntu

Here’s a soup to nuts guide on getting beryl with aiglx up and running on your computer if you have an Intel i915 on board graphics chip. Once you ’ve got Beryl installed we’ll add the Avant window navigator as well. Currently I’ve done this on both my Lenovo x60s and on a Lenovo S52. This guide designed for beginner to intermediate users

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How to select and generate locales on Ubuntu

For those of you who are used to running “dpkg-reconfigure locales” on Debian to select and generate locales you may be a bit disappointed at the seemingly broken way it is done under Ubuntu.

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Debian HOW-TO : QEMU virtual machine

Virtual machines applications are rapidly gaining in popularity. Xen, VMware and VirtualBox are all interesting solutions. However there is one that often gets overlook : QEMU. This tutorial will help you install and configure QEMU, so that you can easily run any other OS inside Debian.

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MythTV Installation Guide for Debian

This was the first time that I used the Debian Installer to install linux. I am impressed, it was able to find all of my hardware and configure it all appropriately. I am pleased to see this since this has always been a downfall of debian distro. I am going to record the events so that if anyone else can use this information it is available. I am also going to try and record the installation process for installing Mythtv for debian.

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Enhance security with file encryption tools

System-wide security solutions such as SELinux, AppArmor, Bastille and grsecurity can, in most cases, make your Linux desktop more than reasonably secure. But there are still cases where file or directory encryption is necessary. Here are some tools that can help you when you need to move files outside of your home computer, carry personal data around with you on a pendrive, or send email messages containing sensitive information.

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Questions needed for Mark Shuttleworth

Departing with tradition I'm only going to have a single guest on this show; as you've probably guessed from the title of this post that guest is Mark Shuttleworth. The rest of the format stays the same, however, i.e. Mark answering YOUR questions! For anyone who doesn't know, Mark is the founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, founded the company Thawte which he later sold to VeriSign and has also travelled to space and spent time on the International Space Station!

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Canonical and Linspire Announce Technology Partnership

Canonical Ltd, the lead sponsor of the popular Ubuntu operating system, and Linspire, Inc. the
developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name, today announced plans for a technology partnership that integrates core competencies from each company into the other's open source Linux offerings.

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5 Steps to a New Ubuntu Installation

I wanted to outline the few steps I use on a new installation. Your usage might vary a bit, but I realise this is something that new users might be interested in.

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Installing Ubuntu or Kubuntu on a Single/Multi-Boot RAID System

This guide describes how to install Ubuntu or Kubuntu 6.06.1 LTS ("Dapper Drake") on a single or a multi -boot RAID system. It is meant as a variation of Ubuntu Wiki FakeRAID HowTo document, but digested and with minimum commentary. Its goal is to allow new Ubuntu users to complete an entire installation inside of 30 minutes.

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Ubuntu Christian Edition 2.1 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu CE v2.1 (Edgy)! The main focus of this release was to enhance the dansguardian GUI. There have been many user requests for a more polished dansguardian GUI with the ability to easily disable the filtering. With this release we have accomplished just that.

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Network traffic analyzers for Ubuntu System

If you want to know more about Network traffic analyzers for Ubuntu System with clear installation and configuration. Darkstat is a network statistics gatherer.Effectively, it’s a packet sniffer which runs as a background process on acable/DSL router, gathers all sorts of useless but interesting statistics,and serves them over HTTP.

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Installing Ubuntu 6.10 on old computers low on Ram

had been using Linux on my thinkpad for over 2 years now , it isnt a piece of marvel just a modest configuration Pentium M 1.4 GHz , 256 MB Ram and a 40 GB HDD with a slow cdrom drive(hey my original DVD drive got damaged had to use the cheap stuff from market),i had used all sort of Linux distributions from from Fedora Core's to Kubuntu to Linspire to OpenSuse none of the distribution gave me any sort of problem during installation or running . However Ubuntu Linux 6.10 installation and Live CD mode really provided a lot of headaches to me , i had installed Ubuntu 6.06 earlier which installed and ran in Live CD mode quiet flawlessly but on running the latest Ubuntu Distro i was shell shocked the Live CD took more than 10 minutes to just load on my PC not to mention on clicking the install button there was a further 10 - 15 minutes coffee break for me . Now these times may seem absurd to you but it's true coupled with low ram , slow cd drive and apparently Ubuntu not using my swap drive made this a hellish experience .

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Three methods to transfer a mysql database

At some point as a webmaster you may have to change the hosting for a website and If you have to transfer a mysql database from a server to another you have a various options. Not all of them can be used on any servers and each has it’s advantages and disadvantages.

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Ubuntu on PowerPC ... kind of a bust

Ubuntu ran great on my iBook G4, which shipped with OS X 10.3, by the way, and for which I really don' t need Linux to save it. It was the smoothest boot of a live-CD Linux yet, on Mac or PC, but for a laptop designed from the ground up for OS X, and which runs quite well on it, the use of Ubuntu is strictly a geek curiousity.

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Debian 4.0 (Etch) release may slip to March

The release of the upcoming version of Debian may slip to March, according to one of the two release managers for the Linux distribution.

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Automatic Codec installation in Ubuntu Feisty

The upcoming Ubuntu Feisty will have a new feature that will make the installation of multimedia codecs very easy, especially for novice users.

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10 reasons to love and hate your Ubuntu Linux box

A guy who moved permanently to Linux after using windows for many years records 10 things he hates and 10 things he loves in Ubuntu Linux.

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5 Unique Tips for New Ubuntu Users

Renewed interest in alterntives to Microsoft coupled with big headlines for Ubuntu means many new users are examining Ubuntu when they evaluate (or re-evaluate) the state of Linux. This being said, I have 5 Tips for New Ubuntu Users that you won't hear anywhere else.

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Install Beryl on Ubuntu Feisty with AIGLX for Nvidia

This weekend was my Feisty testing weekend (see my previous post on the recent release of Herd 3). Everything seems to be working well enough so far and I ’m impressed with a few of the new features. I’ll very likely be upgrading all of my machines upon final release.

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How to manage source packages on Ubuntu

Sometimes you want the latest version of a particular program, but you find out that it isn't available from the Ubuntu repositories just yet, and most probably it won't be included until the next version of Ubuntu is released. So what to do? You can use the older version that is included in the repositories or build the latest version from source.

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Run Existing Windows Installation on Ubuntu with Vmware Player

Running existing Windows installation on Ubuntu is piece of cake. What you need is Vmware player and 10 minutes of spare time.

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Debian as the research library of Free Software

I’ve had a quite interesting discussion with Lars Risan in the comments to my recent blog post on Launchpad about Lars’ paper on the role of technical infrastructure in Free Software development, and I think Lars does well to describe the central tension within these

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Making DVDs with DeVeDe in Ubuntu Linux

DeVeDe is a great way to create DVDs quickly and easily. You won't be able to make fancy menus, but sometimes you want to just pop in a DVD and have it play.

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