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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu 8.04 Alpha 3 Downloads
2008-01-25 16:51:00 The latest alphas of Ubuntu , Kubuntu , Xubuntu and Edubuntu are available for download. Alpha 3 is the third in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Hardy development cycle. The Ubuntu Promise Ubuntu will always be free of charge, including enterprise releases and security updates. Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from ... More About: Downloads
KDE 4.0 Released
2008-01-25 16:51:00 KDE 4.0 is now available. I’ve been looking forward to this release for a long time and cant wait to finally try it out. The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE ... More About: Released
How To: Install KDE 4.0 on Kunbuntu 7.10
2008-01-25 16:51:00 If you’re anything like me and cant wait to try out the new KDE 4.0 on Kubuntu then wait no longer. The official Kubuntu site has instructions on how to install KDE 4.0 on Kubuntu 7.10 The KDE 4 series has begun with the release of 4.0. It is the start of something amazing. If you ...
Wine Doors - Windows Application Management For The Desktop
2008-01-25 16:50:00 The other day I was having a conversation with a colleague about Linux and how sensible it would be to start using Ubuntu rather than the DRM Ridden Windows . My coworker said she would love to start using Ubuntu full time but there are a number of Windows applications that she just can’t do ... More About: Desktop , Wine , Management , Application
How To: Share Your Thunderbird and Firefox Data Between Ubuntu and Windows
2008-01-25 16:50:00 Expert Lancer has a great tutorial on how to share your Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird data between Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows . Dual booting Windows and Ubuntu and still need to share the same settings and data from Firefox and Thunderbird between your two favorite OSes? It?s much easier than you think. First you?ll need a place ... More About: Data
Ubuntu Ultimate 1.4 CD Edition
2008-01-25 16:50:00 Ubuntu Software has released Ubuntu Ultimate 1.4 CD Edition . codename: Gnarly Gnome. The people have spoke & I have listened. People were getting tired of downloading gigs of info each time I released an “Ultimate” release, and some people don’t have DVD burners. Welcome aboard Ubuntu Ultimate CD Edition codename: Gnarly Gnome. ... More About: Ubuntu
Ubuntu Receives Readers Choice Award for Best Linux Distribution
2008-01-25 16:50:00 And the winner of the Readers Choice Award for Best Linux Distribution is… *Opens envelope slowly* Ubuntu Canonical, Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced that it won Enterprise Open Source Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Award for the “Best Linux Distribution,” voted on by members of the open source community. The award ...
101 Ubuntu Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
2008-01-25 16:50:00 blog.lxpages.com has put together an exhaustive list of Ubuntu related links. In total there are 101 Ubuntu Tips , Tricks and Tutorials that help new users become familiar with the operating system. My two favourites are Ten tips for new Ubuntu users and How to Configure an $80 File Server in 45 Minutes. Lxpages also has great article on ...
Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Beginners
2008-01-25 16:50:00 Howtoforge has an excellent tutorial on installing LAMP on Ubuntu . The tutorial is aimed towards beginners or as the site likes to call them “Newbies”. In this guide I will show you how to install a LAMP system. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The guide is intended to help those who have very ... More About: Lamp
What?s Common to Ubuntu and CircuitCity?s Firedog?
2008-01-25 16:42:00 Ans: A guy in a pic…. Trivial, I know, and not too original either, since I got it from LiveJournal, but I couldn’t resist posting this addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fubuntulinuxhelp.com%2Fwhat% 25e2%2580%2599s-common-to-ubuntu-and-circ uitcity%25e2%2580%2599s-firedog-2%2F'; addthis_title = 'What%E2%80%99s+Common +to+Ubuntu +and+Circ uitCity%E2%80%99s+Firedog%3F'; addthis_pub = 'ubuntulinuxhelp';
I ran into that video-posting librarian again
2008-01-25 16:42:00 You guys must remember Jessamyn, the librarian who posted a video about installing Ubuntu at, where else, the library. Well, by some strange coincidence, which cannot be explained rationally, I ran into her again on the tubes. I followed the user profile link at this comment on Ask MetaFilter to end up at her profile page. ... More About: Video , Librarian
SSH Menu - Save and Open SSH Connections from the Panel
2008-01-25 16:42:00 I was looking for a replacement for SecureCRT in Ubuntu. Something that would let me save all my SSH connections and make it possible to open a connection with the least effort. As is often the case, I found something better than SecureCRT - a panel applet for GNOME that gives me a drop-down list of ... More About: Open , Panel , Menu , Save , Connections
Ubuntu?s Audience Defined
2008-01-25 16:42:00 I read the impressive growth and traffic details for WordPress.com at Matt’s Blog. WordPress has always been very dear to me, and it makes me happy to note that the WordPress team grows from strength to strength, without compromising on values, and while keeping things open, almost entirely so. However, the stat freak in me ... More About: Ubuntu , Defined , Audience
Alright you drooling idiots!
2008-01-25 16:41:00 Jem Matzan thinks we technical writers treat you as stupid drooling idiots. Do I? I can honestly say I don’t. I write for the competent computer user who has switched to Ubuntu. Anything that 90-95% of the people who formerly used Windows or Macs, and are competent enough to help others won’t be published here. Guaranteed. ... More About: Idiots , Alright
Preserve Threaded View in Thunderbird
2008-01-25 16:41:00 Via Chris Ilias’ Blog comes this gem of a tip. If you use Mozilla Thunderbird , and love the threaded view, but hate losing the threaded view whenever you click on “Sender” or “Date” to sort the messages, then this is the tip for you. This helps you keep the threaded view regardless of how you sort ... More About: View , Hunde
Typing Break and WorkRave: Keep RSI at Bay
2008-01-25 16:41:00 I woke up on Thursday with a left arm more painful than a 100 episodes of Wheel of Fortune. I had almost pulled an all-nighter the night before to finish reviewing/correcting a paper. I went to the doctor, fearing the worst. My left wrist was aching, and no change of position or angle would suppress ... More About: Break , Typing
End of a Love Affair with Acer
2008-01-25 16:41:00 I was in love with Acer laptops. I bought my first one, an Acer Travelmate 290 LMi in my second year of grad school. I did pay ~ $1200 for it, but it was awesome, right until the moment there were errors with the hard disk controllers about 3 years later. When I sold it ... More About: Love , Affair
300+ Easily Installed Free Fonts for Ubuntu
2008-01-25 16:41:00 Ubuntu offers a lot of fonts, in addition to the defaults installed, and the MicroSoft msttcorefonts package, in its repositories. All these fonts mentioned here are provided as packages, which can easily installed using command line tools like apt-get or using Synaptic. These fonts will come in handy for designing flyers, or for designing headers ... More About: Ubuntu , Free , Fonts
Thoughts that make me go hmmm!
2008-01-25 16:41:00 This thought just struck me: the GNOME “save file” icon is still an image of a floppy (or it is at least in Gnumeric). How many people still remember what a floppy looks like? Should the save icon be replaced by something else (a picture of a cd/usb drive)? Or should floppy discs be “icon”ized forever? Somehow, ... More About: Thoughts , Make
I ran into that video-posting librarian again
2008-01-25 16:41:00 You guys must remember Jessamyn, the librarian who posted a video about installing Ubuntu at, where else, the library. Well, by some strange coincidence, which cannot be explained rationally, I ran into her again on the tubes. I followed the user profile link at this comment on Ask MetaFilter to end up at her profile page. ... More About: Video , Librarian
Using ?tee? to write to files and the terminal
2008-01-25 16:41:00 The utility “tee” is very useful for plumbing on the command line. Curiously enough, it gets its name from the T-splitter used in plumbing, shown below: Say you want to run a command, and be able to see the output and errors on the screen, and be able to save them to a file. That’s where ... More About: Terminal , Write , Files
Bring Jorge?s Blog Back, Please.
2008-01-25 16:41:00 So Jorge Castro is now a Canonical employee! Jorge, I for one, would love to see your mug again on Planet Ubuntu. I would love to see whiprush.org up and about again. Jorge’s disappearance from the interwebs was followed by pleas for his return, about 9 months ago (you can find his last post here if ... More About: Blog , Back
End of a Love Affair with Acer
2008-01-25 16:41:00 I was in love with Acer laptops. I bought my first one, an Acer Travelmate 290 LMi in my second year of grad school. I did pay ~ $1200 for it, but it was awesome, right until the moment there were errors with the hard disk controllers about 3 years later. When I sold it ... More About: Love , Affair
Bring Jorge?s Blog Back, Please.
2008-01-25 16:41:00 So Jorge Castro is now a Canonical employee! Jorge, I for one, would love to see your mug again on Planet Ubuntu. I would love to see whiprush.org up and about again. Jorge’s disappearance from the interwebs was followed by pleas for his return, about 9 months ago (you can find his last post here if ... More About: Blog , Back
Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS Released
2008-01-25 09:03:00 The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS, the second maintenance release of “Dapper Drake”. This release includes updated Server installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures. About Ubuntu ———— Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and servers, with a fast and easy install and regular releases. A ... More About: Released
Shell Shortcuts
2008-01-25 09:03:00 I was tearing away this morning configuring something in the shell. My wife peaks over my shoulder and says “How do you do that?!” I have a nice laugh and there was born an idea for my next post. This post outlines some basic shell shortcuts. note: these use the default ... More About: Shell , Shortcuts
Can You Reproduce My Bugs?
2008-01-25 09:03:00 I have 2 bugs which I have not reported because I need to gather more information and find someone who can reproduce them before I do. Since I can’t tell you how to reproduce them, that’s hard. So, I’m asking that if anyone has these bugs, can they please comment here or send ... More About: Bugs
"You Know Linux? Marry Me!" Doesn?t Fly
2008-01-25 09:03:00 Three times so far, I’ve had that aimed at me. There was also the time when a man much more than twice my age asked me to dinner after a brief computer-related conversation in a book store (note that I was jailbait). It gets old, and it gets old fast. I’ve heard ... More About: Linux , Marry Me , Marry
Keep Up On Release Dates, Conferences, and Other Important Events in FOSS
2008-01-25 09:03:00 I’ve added a new link on the left. It’s in the “Other Links” section as “FOSS Calendar.” It’s a Google calendar, feel free to subscribe yourself to it. I’m putting release dates (Fedora 8, Ubuntu 7.10, OOo 2.3…), conferences (UDS Boston, for example), and other “holidays” (ex: Software Freedom Day) on it, ... More About: Events , Dates , Conferences , Release
OSX Leopard compared to current Linux features
More articles from this author:2008-01-25 09:03:00 We always compare our OS to Windows, right? Not many people compare it to OS X very often, but the Linux Action Show podcast did. Clips can be found here. I’ve compared the Address Book program and concluded that there is no nicer address book than the one in OS X. ... More About: Features , Current , Leopard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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