How to fix lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) Error

If you are getting the following error when you try to install any packages use the following tip to fix this

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Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs) in Ubuntu Dapper Drake,Edgy Eft,Feisty Fawn

MPlayer is a movie and animation player that supports a wide range of codecs and file formats, including MPEG 1/2/4,DivX 3/4/5, Windows Media 7/8/9, RealAudio/Video up to 9, Quicktime 5/6, and Vivo 1/2. It has many MX/SSE (2)/3Dnow(Ex) optimized native audio and video codecs, but allows using XAnim’s and RealPlayer’s binary codec plugins, and Win32 codec DLLs. It has basic VCD/DVD playback functionality, including DVD subtitles, but supports many text-based subtitle formats too. For video output, nearly every existing interface is supported. It’s also able to convert any supported files to raw/divx/mpeg4 AVI (pcm/mp3 audio), and even video grabbing from V4L devices.

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How to Set-up a gameport,gamepad or joystick in Ubuntu

If you want gameport,gamepad or joystick to work in Ubuntu you need to follow this procedure

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Building DVD Images Of Ubuntu Repositories

This howto offers a simple way of creating DVD images of Debian or Ubuntu http/ftp repositories. Ubuntu doesn't offer DVDs ready to download with its main, universe, multiverse and/or restricted repositories. With the contents of this howto you can do it yourself.

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What ubuntu really stands for

Read the first result on this list of essential linux apps.

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Debian Windows installer 0.3.0 Released

Today the developers announced that win32-loader 0.3.0 has been released

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How to Set-up a gameport,gamepad or joystick in Ubuntu

If you want gameport,gamepad or joystick to work in Ubuntu you need to follow this procedure

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How to Fix broken Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Ubuntu Development team released ubuntu feisty fawn beta on 23rd March 2007 some of them started upgrading their edgy to feisty .If your feisty broken here is the procedure to fix that.

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Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor in Ubuntu

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

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Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta Preview

The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.04 Beta and it comes packed with a whole host of excellent new features including the released GNOME 2.18, the 2.6.20 kernel and much more.

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Automatically unmount cifs (Common Internet File System) partitions

CIFS, which stands for Common Internet File System, is a network protocol for sharing files, printers, serial ports, and other communications between computers. CIFS is based on the widely-used SMB, Server Message Block, protocol.

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Manage Your Personal accounts with Eqonomize!

Eqonomize! is a personal accounting software, with focus on efficiency and ease of use for the small household economy. Eqonomize! provides a complete solution, with bookkeeping by double entry and support for scheduled recurring transactions, security investments, and budgeting. It gives a clear overview of past and present transactions, and development of incomes and expenses, with descriptive tables and charts, as well as an approximation of future account values.

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Debian Testing (Debian Etch) MySQL Cluster and Heartbeat HOWTO

Short 'how-to' guide which shows how to setup MySQL Cluster and Heartbeat on a set of machines, with Modifications for Debian Testing. Needs some work, but has some good info.

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Ten tips for new Ubuntu users

Ubuntu has become the most popular Linux distribution for new Linux users. It's easy to install, easy to use, and usually "just works." But moving to a different operating system can be confusing, no matter how well-designed it is. Here's a list of tips that might save you some time while you're getting used to Ubuntu.

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Debian etch on Dell Precision M65 laptop

Debian etch RC2 was just released and I decided to do a clean re-install on my laptop and write this page about the experience. The machine is a fairly standard modern laptop

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Widows NTFS Partitions Read/write support made easy in Ubuntu Feisty

This program allow you to easily configure all of your NTFS devices to allow write support via a friendly gui. For that use, it will configure them to use the open source ntfs-3g driver. You'll also be able to easily disable this feature.

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Bandwidth Monitoring Tools For Linux

Bandwidth in computer networking refers to the data rate supported by a network connection or interface. One most commonly expresses bandwidth in terms of bits per second (bps). The term comes from the field of electrical engineering, where bandwidth represents the total distance or range between the highest and lowest signals on the communication channel (band).

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Disk ARchive using dar and kdar(dar Frontend)

Dar is a shell command that makes backup of a directory tree and files. Its features include splitting archives over several files, CDs, ZIPs, or floppies, compression, full or differential backups, strong encryption, proper saving and restoration of hard links and extended attributes, remote backup using pipes and external command (such as ssh), and rearrangement of the “slices” of an existing archive. It can now run commands between slices, encrypt archives, and quickly retrieve individual files from differential and full backups. Dar also has external GUI like kdar for Linux,thanks to the well documented API.

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Automatically unmount cifs (Common Internet File System) partitions

CIFS, which stands for Common Internet File System, is a network protocol for sharing files, printers, serial ports, and other communications between computers. CIFS is based on the widely-used SMB, Server Message Block, protocol.

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Debian Installer etch RC2 Screenshots

Looks the etch release is inching closer to us, and here is the RC2 screenshot tour.

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Configuring Dynamic DNS & DHCP on Debian Stable

For the average home computer user there is no need to install a complex package such as the Internet Software Consortium's BIND DNS or DHCP server, since there are far simpler lower resource tools to use, for example dnsmasq. For those who you wish to learn how to use ISC's BIND and DHCP, for example as a learning exercise

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Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn Beta Delayed a Day

Ubuntu's newest distro, fiesty fawn, whose beta was to be released today, march 22, has been delayed for at least a day because of kernal issues.

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Ubuntu vs. Debian - Brotherly Love Icon Battle

Mabye Debian's jealous because Ubuntu can just get chicks better.

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New Sleek Usplash Proposal for Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

Here is New Sleek Usplash Proposal for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.It is mainly composed of the ubuntu logo and the very nice forum coffee beans,which fill up during boot/shutdown.

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Realtime Apache monitoring with apachetop

Apache top is a curses-based realtime utility to display information from a running copy of Apache.It is modelled after the standard ‘top’ utility, and displays information such as the requests pers second, bytes per second and the most popular URLs displayed.It must be run from a machine running Apache, as it works by processing the logfiles found in /var/log/apache.

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Ubuntu Media Players OverView

I want to give the list of media players available for ubuntu users with installation instructions.

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Dell, Linux... and Mark Shuttleworth

A few weeks back Dell invited ideas from the world at large about what it should put on sale - in other words, what did the so-called "community" want?

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Ian Murdock: Debian "missing a big opportunity"

Ian Murdock founded Debian GNU/Linux nearly fifteen years ago, and today it provides the foundations for many well-known distros such as Ubuntu and Knoppix. LXF caught up with Ian, who currently chairs the Linux Standards base, and asked him about Debian politics, leadership and the rise of Ubuntu.

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An introduction to the XMMS2 package

Over the past few years I've used the venerable XMMS application for playing back all my audio content. After reading recently that this project has been mothballed, seeing no future updates, I decided to try the successor project XMMS2. Here's how I got on.

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Screencasting with Linux

Many times a simple screencast showing how to do something by using a series of screenshots in sequence in a video can explain what paragraph after paragraph of words cannot. Linux and a few open source applications make the job of creating such screencasts easy.

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Overclocking ATI Radeon cards in Linux

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Upgrade Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) to Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)

Ubuntu 7.04 is the current development version of the Ubuntu operating system. It is to be released in April 19th 2007.The common name given to this release from the time of its early development was “Feisty Fawn”.

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About Ubuntu Bundles

Meta-packages" enable Debian/Ubuntu users to install bundles of software easily. They're similar in spirit to VMWare Appliances. Installing a meta-package is equivalent to installing all of its dependencies individually, but easier.

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Running Windows 3.11 On Ubuntu

Article describes how author managed to install Windows 3.11 Under Ubuntu/Linux using dosbox with lots of screenshots to relive old days of running windows 3.11 .With ScreenCast showing installation of Windows 3.11 under dosbox

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Transfer Files & Settings From Windows To Ubuntu Linux, EASILY

The Migration Assistant found in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn makes it incredibly easy to transfer your files and even settings over to Linux - it does all the backing up and transferring without any user interaction. This week Ubuntu developers finally got everything fixed so now this utility actually works.

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Ubuntu and Linux Suggestions

The Ubuntu distribution has been making great strides in providing a serious alternative to Windows. The article describes one user's experience with the distribution, as well as recommendations that will lead to further acceptance.

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Special Characters made easier in Ubuntu

If you are using Ubuntu Dapper Drake, you could press CTRL+SHIFT and then the unicode for special characters so you didn’t have to copy and paste them from the Character palette every time you wanted to use them.

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Disable Synaptics Touchpad While Typing in Ubuntu

For many of us, our laptop touchpads get in the way of our typing quite often and can actually cause us to highlight or minimize things we didn’t intend. So, this will help to alleviate that by making a small delay in the response of the touchpad after typing.

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Ubuntu.com Gets a Redesign

Ubuntu.com released a new website design today.

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How-to: Installing Ubuntu Linux on a usb pendrive

This tutorial will show how-to install Ubuntu on a usb stick. Even though this tutorial uses Ubuntu as its base distribution, you could virtually use any type of Linux liveCD distribution.

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The Visual History of Ubuntu

While Debian has been around for over a decade, Gentoo for five years, and Mandriva/Mandrake for nearly nine years, in less than three years of existence Ubuntu has received the most attention and generated the greatest amount of publicity in the Linux limelight. Why is that? In this article we will be taking a look back at all of the Ubuntu releases to date and exploring how this Linux distribution has evolved so quickly over its short lifespan.

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Ubuntu Live: The first official gathering of Ubuntu users and Developers

This summer, at OSCON (the Open-Source convention), there will be a large gathering of Ubuntu Linux developers, fans, and the Linux-curious. Dates, details, and registration form available now at the newly renovated Ubuntu official website.

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Canonical Ltd Launches Global Partner Programme for Ubuntu

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced its newly created Partner Programme to drive awareness and adoption of business-ready, Open Source server platforms, and desktop solutions. The Programme aims to help Canonical Partners using Ubuntu as a major element in their solutions, and to deepen Canonical's relationships.

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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn: Desktop Linux Matured

I spent all the last week with Ubuntu's upcoming version, Feisty Fawn beta, and so I wrote down my experience with it. While there are some bugs still left in the system, overall Ubuntu proved to be a much better alternative to XP than Vista. It has a sane UI, and lots of new conveniences. Click for the preview and some screenshots.

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Housekeeping Utilities for Debian package management

For all the efficiency and continued evolution of Debian's APT tools, some gaps in package management functionality remain. One of the largest ones is that, when a package is removed, any other packages that depend on it are not removed. The result is a growing number of orphans on the system -- that is, packages that serve no purpose .

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Display system Information Using Phpsysinfo

phpSysInfo is a customizable PHP script that parses various files in /proc and displays them. It will display information about system facts like Uptime, CPU, Memory, SCSI, IDE, PCI, Ethernet, Floppy, and Video. It now has full internationalization support along with customizable templates.

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Ubuntu 5.10 reaches end-of-life

Ubuntu announced the release of 5.10 almost 18 months ago, on October 13th. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 5.10 will reach end of life on Friday April 13th 2007. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 5.10.

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Pharmacy system using Ubuntu to fight AIDS

Written in Java and released under the GPL, iDART (intelligent Dispensing of Antiretroviral Treatment) is a pharmacy system designed for use at antiretroviral (ARV) pharmacies in the public health sector. Initially distributed only as software, it was generally implemented on machines using Windows. Due to issues of reliability and security, Cell-Life have created iDART-in-a-box, which is a complete system running on Ubuntu Linux.

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BioUbuntu: Ubuntu-based distro for biologists

BioUbuntu 0.1 based on Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) is a live GNU/Linux CD with 30 bioinformatics packages covering pairwise alignment, multiple alignment, phylogeny and other mounting upto 582 MB. It is a customized Ubuntu live distribution which aims to introduce Linux to the biology/bio-informatics community, with the power and ease of Ubuntu.

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Ubuntu 7.04 Alpha 5 CD Image Release

The new alpha version of Ubuntu 7.04 is now releases and currently needs community support for testers. The post is specific to three particular area to focus on 1. Reliability, 2. Turnaround Time and 3. Depth and Quality of testing.

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Howto Mount 2nd Generation Ipod in Ubuntu

Martin Jürgens at Launchpad wrote and put together the .deb files which will fix the problem with HAL not recognizing the device correctly. There are 7 .deb files, they may be found and downloaded from here (Although there are other files in this directory, all you need are the .deb files )

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Package Management with Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu

This is simple and very detailed Package Management with Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu with screenshots

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Shuttleworth on pre-installing Linux

There’s been a tremendous level of interest in the fact that pre-installed Linux is the #1 rated suggestion on Dell ’s IdeaStorm. On the face of it, there is little question that Linux pre-installation is popular with customers. Why, then, is it so difficult to buy a PC in the US or Europe that has Linux on the hard drive?"

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Envy - Easy installation of graphic-card drivers in Ubuntu

Envy is a tool for installing graphic-card drivers for both ATI and nVidia cards in Ubuntu in a really simple way. Let all Ubuntu-users know!

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The new Debian etch release schedule

You might not remember who the release team is, but we still want to inform you about the final leg of the etch release cycle. Our original schedule did not work out due to problems with the kernel and the slower than expected reduction of release critical bugs.

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KDE 4 to be Released in October

Hereby we, the Release Team, present a draft KDE 4.0 Release roadmap which has been discussed on our mailinglist the past few weeks. It's an optimistic schedule that aims to release in late October, based on 3 Beta's and 2 release candidates

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Ubuntu's Easy Business Server

The goal of Ubuntu's Easy Business Server is to provide a simple and clean web interface so that small business owners can easily setup an Ubuntu-powered server with little or no Linux/server administration experience

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How-To: Cheap Ubuntu Media Server

A cool tutorial on how to setup a linux media server on an old computer. Access your files from any computer on the network .

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Make a VCD from an AVI Using Avidemux and K3b

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

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Network File System (NFS) Server and Client Configuration in Debian

NFS was developed at a time when we weren’t able to share our drives like we are able to today - in the Windows environment. It offers the ability to share the hard disk space of a big server with many smaller clients. Again, this is a client/server environment. While this seems like a standard service to offer, it was not always like this. In the past, clients and servers were unable to share their disk space.

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Media Players Available for Ubuntu Linux

This is list of Media Players Available for Ubuntu Linux with installation instructions and screenshots this includes Mplayer,songbird,amarok,listen,beep media player,banshee, Rhythmbox, xmms,quod libet,VLC Media Player,Exaile. Very Useful list for all Users and admins

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Hakix Version 0.5 is released

The new version of Hakix (installer for Debian Etch akin to Automatix), version 0.5, has been released, and features a heap of new additions such as Azureus and Swiftfox.

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Ubuntuforums.org Statistics

The forums administrator, ubuntu-geek, has released impressive numbers related to the official Ubuntu forums: Would be very interesting to know what diggs user base looks like.

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How to enable accelerated 3D (Direct3D) in Ubuntu with VMware 5

If you've got VMWare Workstation 5, you can now enjoy some of the elements of accelerated 3D! Here's how to enable it for your virtual Windows 2000 or Windows XP machines.

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Favorite Apps in Ubuntu

A couple of friends have asked me what apps I'm running in Ubuntu since I posted Nine Months in Linux, no more Windows, so here comes a list of the stuff I'm running now and what else I have tested in each category.

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Sharing emails between Ubuntu and Windows using Thunderbird

I ’ve recently installed Ubuntu in addition to Windows XP, and I had this problem regarding the email storage. My favorite email client, Mozilla Thunderbird, works on both Linux and Windows, so why not share the emails between the two operating systems? When you receive/send email on whatever OS, you should be able to see it on the other OS too!

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Primary school goes Ubuntu

Recently we managed to fund the purchase of 16 new computers in my wife ’s primary school. The old hardware were Pentium III 500 MHz boxes running Windows 98. When I connected the computer room to the DSL router (Linksys WRT54G running DD-WRT), they were all crying for security updates.

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Candidates for Debian Project Leader sound off

Once again, the Debian project is gearing up to elect a new project leader, with voting set to begin late this month. As we did last year, we asked the DPL candidates to sound off on some of the issues that will face the Debian Project in the next year.

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Automatix gets hacked. Entire web site was deleted.

On March 7, 2007 the Linux resource website GetAutomatix.com was attacked by a malicious individual who used a PHP vulnerability in the forum to delete the entire website.

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The Road to KDE 4: Amarok 2 Development is Underway

This week we'll take a brief look at some of the many features that are making their way into Amarok 2, which is the development branch for Amarok in KDE 4.The features discussed are all in progress features which have reached varying stages of completion. Read on for information about Amarok's engines (including Phonon), UI changes.

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Freespire (Now based on Ubuntu ) 2.0 Alpha 1 Screenshots

With the switch to an Ubuntu base, development of Freespire 2.0 has restarted. The first alpha release of Freespire 2.0 is now available for download and we had decided to check it out for ourselves. Freespire 2.0 Alpha 1 utilizes the Linux 2.6.20 kernel, X.Org 7.2, KDE 3.5.6, and all of the other latest packages.

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HOW-TO: Install Macromedia Dreamweaver on Ubuntu w/ pics!

HOW-TO: Install Macromedia Dreamweaver on Ubuntu w/ pics!

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Installing The Aptana AJAX Development Environment On Ubuntu

This tutorial shows how to install the Aptana IDE on an Ubuntu Edgy Eft system. The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.

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Enable sound in Ubuntu Edgy

In case you were not aware (as I was not), mono sound is disabled by default. I found a few sites on how to fix it but they all seemed to involve some terminal nonsense. This one did not and I am please to say it worked.

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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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Last.fm + Ubuntu

When I’m coding I MUST listen to music. It helps me tune out and concentrate.

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Exploring the Debian Installer

Anyone who can install their own operating system can generally install Debian Etch with little or no trouble. If you've never installed Debian before, it's fairly easy to walk through the default installation without realizing you have options.

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How to prettify the Firefox widgets on (Ubuntu) Linux

One thing about Firefox that always bothered me was the look of the default widgets. Fortunately there is an easy way to exchange them, and that is by following this little How to.

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Ubuntu Linux History Explained

Ubuntu Linux History Explained every ubuntu user and admin need to know

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Stable kernel 2.6.20.2 released

The second stable update to the 2.6.20 kernel is out. "It contains a metric buttload of bugfixes and security updates, so all 2.6.20 users are recommended to upgrade." They are not joking: there's about 100 patches in this update.

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Freespire floats first Ubuntu-based alpha

After the recent switch to the Ubuntu code base, Freespire announced that it has restarted its development process with the first alpha release of Freespire 2.0, Alpha1U (1.2.42).

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Fun with Ubuntu -- Top Ten Next Release Names, Part 1

The Ubuntu people enjoy giving their releases funny animal names. There have been "warty warthog", "hoary hedgehog", "breezy badger", "dapper drake", "edgy eft", and the coming "feisty fawn". Well, with nothing better to blog about this week, I've decided to provide my suggestions for names.

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Ubuntu CE: Linux for Human Beings Not Good Enough?

Does a line ever get drawn to limit why we need more Linux distributions? If there is, it must not be drawn on religion

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Desktop Search Engine with Doodle

Doodle is a tool to quickly search the documents on a computer. Doodle builds an index using meta-data contained in the documents and allows fast searches on the resulting database. Doodle uses libextractor to support obtaining meta-data from various file-formats. The database used by doodle is a suffix tree, resulting in fast lookups.

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Securly Clear Free Hard Drive Space with Disk Scrub Utility

Scrub iteratively writes patterns on files or disk devices to make retrieving the data more difficult. Scrub operates in one of three modes

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HP sees huge Linux desktop deals. Ubuntu where are you ?

After rumors about Dell computers with Linux there is a new buzz: HP and Linux. Why do we not hear anything from Ubuntu

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Setting Up A DNS Server On Ubuntu Edgy Eft With MyDNS AND MyDNSConfig

This guide shows how to create your own DNS server on Ubuntu Edgy Eft with MyDNS and the MyDNSConfig control panel. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend. The advantage is that MyDNS simply reads the records from the database and doesn't have to be restarted/reloaded when DNS records are modified

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Hands on: Linux disaster recovery

The time you come to realise just how dependent you have become on your computer is when things go terribly wrong. Your partitions won ’t mount, your files seem corrupt or, worst of all, your entire hard drive seems to have become unreadable.

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Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) + Ruby 1.8.5 + Gem 0.9.2 + Rails 1.2.2

Ruby 1.8.5 will be an apt-get affair soon on Ubuntu 6.10, but for now it's a little more convulted. Here's the steps I had to go through to get it working -- the end justifies the means.

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Useful Ubuntu Keyboard Shortcuts

Learn to move around quicker and get things done faster. Check out these shortcuts!

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Installing ubuntu linux on sparc system

An alternative to Solaris.

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How to Easy Install Commonly Used Restricted Packages in Ubuntu Feisty

Ubuntu Feisty will be out in April, and one of the pains of Ubuntu is the absence of some essential (propriety) packages. Feisty has a solution

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Howto Convert a SlySoft CloneCD backup to an ISO image in Ubuntu

Have backups made by CloneCD? No clue how to convert them to ISO images in Ubuntu ? Here is how

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In favor of the new Gnome control center

In my preview of Ubuntu 7.04 I argumented strongly in favor of the new Gnome control center. But comments on that preview suggested that most of the Ubuntu users dislike it. Instead, they favor the well known menu structure of the preferences and administration menus.

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Updating Ubuntu for Daylight Savings Time (DST) Changes

This year marks the start of the new Daylight Savings Time standards set in place by congress. Everyone seems to be scrambling around to get every PC, router, switch, phone, and any other piece of hardware that keeps time updated.

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Network PDF Printer via Samba in UBUNTU

You can create a Network Print Queue via Samba so that a user without Adobe Acrobat Professional installed and print to the queue and create a PDF file that is automatically stored in their HOME Directory.

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sshguard: Protection for OpenSSH

Are you concerned about brute force dictionary attacks on SSH? Given the popularity of these attacks, you should be. sshguard is a new tool to help protect against such attacks. Although it is still in beta stage, it appears to work well.

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10 Linux Console Apps You Should Be Using

As the title says, a list of 10 applications you can use instead of your Desktop Linux or Windows app to do the job alot faster and easier

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Proprietary drivers in Ubuntu Feisty: not by default but easy to activate

As of today, the Ubuntu development branch includes a tool called "Proprietary Drivers manager" that makes it easy for users to activate proprietary drivers. Together with the graphical frontends to Beryl and Compiz this will make the activation and experience of the 3D desktop very pleasant

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How To Install Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) On Ubuntu

This guide shows how to install the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) on Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) and 6.06 (Dapper Drake) server systems. Zimbra is a full-featured, open source collaboration suite - email, group calendaring, contacts, and web document management and authoring. It has a feature-rich AJAX web interface.

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Ubuntu Basics; Mouse Magic with Nautilus

Gnome is known for its simplicity, so here is some Nautilus mouse-magic simplicity for you.

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Open letter to Mark Shuttleworth

I saw you speak in 2004 in Gothenburg Sweden at the EuroPython conference, you gave the keynote (excellent speech) and told the audience about your upcoming project. It was a linux distribution that would be focused on the desktop and come with commercial support, two things you saw as being necessary to linux success

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How To Import your mails from Evolution to Thunderbird

Thunderbird, like many other email clients, uses the mbox format to archive the emails.It’s curious that Thundebird has not a function that let you import or export files in this format and this lack is sometimes a problem when you want to move the accounts from a pc to another one or when you want to migrate (for example) from Mozilla to Thunderbird.Anyway this kind of import can be made very easily copying the mbox file into the directory “Local Folders” (it is inside the profile directory) with Thunderbird close; restarting the program, the mbox file will be visibile as subfolder of Local Folders.To export, you must just copy the email files that are inside the account’s folder.This method can give some troubles, above all for people not very expert with Thunderbird, because the profile’s files are into a hidden directory, whose path changes with the operative systems or also with personal needs.

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Inside Second Life's Data Centers

Second Life runs on 2,000 Intel and AMD servers in two co-location facilities in San Francisco and Dallas. The company has a commitment to open source, with servers running Debian Linux and the MySQL database

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30 Days with Ubuntu

Hardocp.com spend 30 days using nothing but Ubuntu Linux to find out if this is truly a viable alternative for the consumer. 10 pages of review!

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Enabling GNOME Desktop Icons in Ubuntu

By default, Ubuntu has no desktop icons. You can change that to include things like Computer and the Home Folder.

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Ubuntu + Beryl: Next gen graphics on low end hardware

This is an awesome video showing Beryl on Ubuntu.

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Manage your software packages offline with APTonCD

Most Ubuntu users will value package management as one of the top features of their OS. Installing and updating software with APT/dpkg and their respective graphical user interfaces (i.e. Synaptic, Update manager and gdebi) is a breeze once you are accustomed to it.

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Wubi - An unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users

Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a few clicks. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application.

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Pain of the LVM and Fix

I have started to use LVM(2) and converted my system on lvm2 devices. I have noticed that I need to use initrd in order to boot up because all of my partitions were using lvm except /boot. I had 2 versions of debian-netsint on CD. I could boot up with them and with some debian kernel (2.6.8-2)installed from deb, but not the kernel I have complied (2.6.20). I got a kernel panic: missing root device and init: dev/console was missing.

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Scan to PDF using gscan2pdf in Ubuntu

A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. gscan2pdf should work on almost any Linux/BSD machine.

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Grab Windows Internet Radio Stream in ubuntu

Turns out streamripper doesn't work for us Ubuntu users, so this page has an alternative way by using mplayer.

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Ubuntu Mouse Pad

For Christmas my mother and father in law gave me a kit to make my own mouse pads. I decided to use it like this

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Ubuntu Live - Conference

Being ran in Portland, Oregon, on July 22-24th. Ubuntu Live is the official, trusted event for the Ubuntu community, welcoming all the different segments within the Ubuntu ecosystem--experts, long-time users, established companies, and newcomers alike in a passionate, energizing environment.

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GNU/Linux (Ubuntu) experience!

This post is about experience in using various GNU/Linux distributions and about telling nice things about Ubuntu Linux distribution.

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Numlock activate at startup in login screen

It is very annoying that the numlock is not activated at startup in the login screen GDM, especially when using a password that contains numbers.

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E17 — Desktop Enlightenment

The performance of desktop computers increases year by year. This gives the programmers great opportunities to further improve the desktop experience of the users. However, what should you do when you have an old computer that is not capable of running the latest and hottest software? How can you benefit from the great software that is X.org when you can’t run a desktop that takes advantage of its best features? No need for upgrading your PC, when you can have a usable alternative with the current one. Let me introduce you Enlightenment E17 — the window manager with minimal hardware requirements that may amaze you.

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What you should know about switching to Ubuntu from Windows

Are you ready to take the plunge? It can be hard to decide, particularly if you’re a longtime Windows user. The Windows camp makes the idea seem absurd, and the Ubuntu camp is full of people talking about things you’ve never heard of. Each one thinks they’ve got the answer to all of your problems. Here’s a truthful look at some of the issues you will be faced with if you decide to switch. I’ll also discuss some of the great points of switching as well.

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Monitoring Network Performance on Debian Systems Using ntop

Quite often as a network admin you will want to know how bandwidth is being used to and from your servers. Learn how to setup on your server so you know exactly what is comming in and what is going out.

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Learn Bash Shell Scripting in 10 seconds

First let me clarify that this is not going to be a detailed study of shell scripting, but as the name of the post indicates, it will be a quick reference to the syntax used in scripting for the bash shell. So if you are expecting the former, then you should buy yourself a good book on shell scripting

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Remoting into a Windows Machine using Ubuntu Linux

If you're like and have to use a Windows box at work, but prefer running a Linux machine at home, or even want to know how to easily remote into a Windows box from Linux, here's a nice guide that shows you how to do it.

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Install Claws mail (Mail Client) in Ubuntu

Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+.The appearance and interface are designed to befamiliar to new users coming from other popular email clients, as well as experienced users.

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Ubuntu to actively support Nouveau, an open source NVIDIA graphic driver

Finding open source solutions for proprietary drivers is one of the important ways to force hardware companies to open source their drivers and to keep Linux modern and competitive.

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GDM Basics for Ubuntu and Xubuntu: Theming and Auto-login

A Simple howto for (X)Ubuntu users who don't know how to auto-login into their desktop environment and/or not know how to theme GDM.

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Why console apps still rock

I know there’s a portion of Ubuntu (and other distro) users who resent six virtual consoles running at a time, in addition to the X desktop in a default Ubuntu setup. I would agree that six is probably overkill, but removing them completely would be nuts.

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Pimp My Boot Process

A few weeks ago I tried to improve the visual appearance of my boot process using usplash and a matching grub splash theme.It took me quite a while to create my first very own usplash theme and it was a rather complicated affair (Thanks to Petter Reinholdtsen for his patch which lead to my first working prototype). Since creating usplash themes is rather tricky and not really suitable for the average user I decided to switch to splashy. Splashy has many advantages above usplash like a very easy way to create themes, support of high resolution images and many themes already available in Debian.

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Make your Ubuntu desktop look slick with some new GTK Engines

If you are like me, one reason you switched to Linux is for customization. In the past I ran Gentoo where every bleeding edge package was available to me. So I was always trying out new and cool GTK engines as they came out. But on Ubuntu, you don't get that luxury all the time. So, I will show you how to get two of the latest engines available, Murrine and Candido, on your spiffy Ubuntu machine.

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Install Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 in Ubuntu

Oracle Application Server 10g offers a comprehensive solution for developing, integrating, and deploying your enterprise’s applications, portals, and Web services. Based on a powerful and scalable J2EE server, Oracle Application Server 10g provides complete business integration and business intelligence suites, and best-of-breed portal software. As the only platform designed for grid computing as well as full lifecycle support for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Oracle Application Server gives you unmatched scalability, availability, manageability, and security.

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sharing folders between systems with NFS

First off, let me say that there are other ways to achieve this same type of goal, but I’ve found NFS to be the easiest way to go, and is reliable enough for a home user who doesn’t have a long list of demands for the system.

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How to set up a Samba server for Active Directory authentication

Tested with Windows 2003 Server SP1 and an HA Cluster made with Ubuntu Dapper 6.06...works very well.

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working beryl in feisty with ati (fglrx)!

How to get BERYL working in Ubuntu Feisty (temp. fix until ATI's fglrx drivers allow composite)

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Microsoft Windows ousted at California school district

By all appearances, the migration from Microsoft Windows to Novell SUSE Linux on the server and the desktop at the Windsor Unified School District in Northern California has been almost as pain-free as any IT professional could hope for. By this summer, all 5,000 students and 250 teachers will be working off of a Linux-based thin clients

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How to log into Ubuntu using your SSH key

This page shows you how to configure your Ubuntu system to log you in using your SSH key instead of the Unix password. Saves you from having to enter your keyfile password when connecting to remote systems as well. Cool! (Written for Dapper but works for Edgy and Feisty too)

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PLAYING CLASSIC GAMES UNDER UBUNTU

Do you still remember good old dos games or NES or SNES games Alley Cat and Mario and Contra and other classic games we used to play , these games were simple compared to todays games but were very entertaining nonetheless . Here in this article i describe how to play these games on Ubuntu as well as link to some of the popular old games i liked.

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"I Want To Duel Boot Debian and XP" - The Debian Chronicles

With the gift of a new computer the help of a friend I recently decided to move from running OpenSuSE to duel booting Windows and Debian. Thus begins my adventure in Debian.

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From Arch to Ubuntu

I've been an Arch user for roughly 3 years. I'm pretty much familiar with it all - The way it boots, its configuration and its package management. I've also heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu, and wanted to try it for a long time. So, two weeks ago, I took the plunge. These are my findings."

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Apache Tips:Hide Apache Information & PHP software version

By default, Apache will send version and modules information (e.g., mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl) in every HTTP header.

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How to Export your Mails from Evolution to Thunderbird

If you want to Export your Mails from Evolution to Thunderbird here is the simple procedure to follow

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Kubuntu Feisty is a huge improvement over Kubuntu Edgy

I've been beta-testing Kubuntu Feisty for about a month now, and it's amazing. It's already a huge improvement over Edgy. Everything is so intuitive and easy to use; Feisty is going to kick ass

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My Ubuntu Story (Converting from MS's XP to Ubuntu)

So I finally took the dive and moved from Windows XP to Ubuntu. After my entire life growing up using MS products (DOS -> 3.1 -> 95 -> 98 -> XP), I figured it was time for a change.

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How to get rid of having to type sudo all the time in Ubuntu

Sudo this, sudo that, for every command that requires root permissions, is boring and a strain on your precious rsi sensitive hands.

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Where can I get programs for Ubuntu that are similar to my Windows apps?

In migrating to Linux from Windows, a common question is "Where can I get a program for Linux that is similar to XYZ program on Windows?" Fear not! Listed below are programs that could be considered roughly equivalent to certain popular Windows applications. Not just for Ubuntu, either.

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Configuration Automation & Centralized Management With Puppet on Ubuntu

Puppet is a configuration automation tool that allows you to centralize management of the various *nix flavors running on your network. Puppet supports central management of the important aspects of your systems, such as: files, packages, users, services, cron, mounts, etc. This guide shows how to install Puppet (server & client) on Ubuntu.

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Install and run Ubuntu without disturbing Windows

Want to take Linux for a spin? Forget partitions, dual-boot setups and live CDs: The new Ubuntu Windows installer lets you run the Linux distro while keeping the rest of your system intact. In other words, it's like a live CD without the CD. Just run the installer, which in turn downloads a disk image of Ubuntu

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Upgrade Ubuntu EDGY to Xorg7.2 and Mesa 6.5.2 in an easy way!

This HOWTO contains a new repository to update your edgy to Xorg 7.2 and Mesa3d 6.5.2 to get the better from your video system in your Ubuntu Box. This is suggested mostly for AiGLX users (Intel and ATi first of all). All has been done preserving both upgrade (to feisty) and downgrade (to edgy standard) possibilities without breaking your box!

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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 5 released

Feisty Fawn, the name of the latest development branch of Ubuntu, extends the new infrastructure that landed in Edgy Eft and branches out in new directions. Feature developments in the Feisty Fawn release include improvements to hardware support on laptops, desktops, and high-end servers and aggressive adoption of emerging desktop technologies.

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