[125008160010] |Howto install chromium using simple Script [125008160020] |We have already discussed how to install chromium in ubuntu .One of reader Jeff Rader used our instruction to create a simple script so that it will be usefull for users [125008160030] |First you need to open a new file chromium.sh [125008160040] |gksudo gedit chromium.sh [125008160050] |add the following script [125008160060] |Save and exit the file [125008160070] |OR [125008160080] |Simply download chromium.sh script [125008160090] |Now change the permissions [125008160100] |chmod 755 chromium.sh [125008160110] |Run the script [125008160120] |sudo sh chromium.sh [125008170010] |How to disable password prompts in Ubuntu [125008170020] |This tutorial will explain How to disable password prompts in Ubuntu [125008170030] |Note:- Disabling password prompts might be a security risk [125008170040] |Open the terminal window from Applications --> accessories --> terminal, run the command: [125008170050] |sudo visudo [125008170060] |Find the line that says [125008170070] |%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL [125008170080] |and change it to [125008170090] |%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL [125008170100] |Save and exit the file [125008180010] |Download Nice Mouse Themes [125008180020] |Download these nice mouse themes for your ubuntu desktop [125008180030] |Here is very nice mouse themes download and install [125008180040] |JadeDreams - X11 Mouse Theme [125008180050] |Download JadeDreams from here [125008180060] |E-Cube - X11 Mouse Theme [125008180070] |Download from here [125008180080] |ChromeSpinel KDE4+Gnome - X11 Mouse Theme [125008180090] |Download from here [125008180100] |Harmony KDE4+Gnome - X11 Mouse Theme [125008180110] |Download from here [125008180120] |WhiteTube - X11 Mouse Theme [125008180130] |Download from here [125008180140] |Arkanus - X11 Mouse Theme [125008180150] |Download from here [125008180160] |FlyOS - X11 Mouse Theme [125008180170] |Download from here [125008180180] |ComixCursors - X11 Mouse Theme [125008180190] |Download from here [125008180200] |Eclipse - X11 Mouse Theme [125008180210] |Download from here [125008180220] |GT3 - X11 Mouse Theme [125008180230] |Download from here [125008190010] |How to Downgrade Gnome Display Manager 2.28 to 2.20 in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) [125008190020] |IMHO the new gdm 2.28 shipped by default with Ubuntu 9.10 is really just work in progress. [125008190030] |It’s fine for what it currently supports, but it does not support the range of functionality that gdm 2.20 does. [125008190040] |Perhaps the biggest issue is Multiseat X. Multiseat X is one of the best things about Linux. [125008190050] |You can have several independent workstations all on the same computers, each with their own X Server. [125008190060] |Apart from anything else, this can reduce a group of users’ carbon footprint by needing fewer computers and should be something that Ubuntu is shouting about and not hiding in some “legacy package” with all its negative implications. [125008190070] |Not only that, the gdm-2.20 package shipped with Ubuntu 9.10 is broken! [125008190080] |Check the bug from here [125008190090] |Note:- This procedure might break you system so use at your own risk [125008190100] |Procedure to Follow [125008190110] |1. Login in to your ubuntu 9.10 system [125008190120] |2. Open up a command line console (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and enter the following command [125008190130] |sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop [125008190140] |This will stop gdm, GUI and drop you back into a command line console. [125008190150] |A necessary step for downgrading. [125008190160] |3. Login to the command line console and enter the following command [125008190170] |sudo apt-get install gdm-2.20 [125008190180] |This will do the necessary work of removing gdm 2.28 and replacing it with 2.20. [125008190190] |When prompted to select the default display manager, select “gdm-2.20″. [125008190200] |4. Now you have to fix the broken gdm.conf. [125008190210] |Enter [125008190220] |cd /etc/gdm [125008190230] |sudo sed ‘s|X11R6/||’ gdm.conf >/tmp/gdm.conf [125008190240] |sudo mv /tmp/gdm.conf . [125008190250] |Note:- the period character at the end of the line - you really do need it [125008190260] |This will edit out the offending entries and replace the broken gdm.conf [125008190270] |5 Start your gdm using the following command [125008190280] |sudo gdm [125008190290] |or [125008190300] |startx [125008190310] |Thanks to Twhyman [125008200010] |Ubuntu One Music Store: A Real Business? [125008200020] |During the Ubuntu 9.10 launch a few weeks ago, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth hinted that Ubuntu may ultimately gain music and entertainment store capabilities — similar to offerings from Apple (iTunes) and Amazon.com. [125008200030] |Fast forward to the present, and Canonical appears to be preparing the Ubuntu One Music Store. [125008200040] |Here’s why. [125008200050] |On the one hand, WorksWithU focuses mainly on Ubuntu in business. [125008200060] |But we certainly won’t ignore the consumer market — especially when Canonical’s consumer efforts could potentially help to fund the rest of the company. [125008200070] |Although details are still sketchy, the Ubuntu One Music Store appears to be part of Ubuntu 10.04 (code-named Lucid Lynx). [125008200080] |According to Launchpad: [125008200090] |“The Lucid music store project aims to deliver the ability to purchase music from within a desktop music player.” [125008200100] |Where will the music come from? [125008200110] |A new online music store? [125008200120] |Or some existing store? [125008200130] |Read Full Story [125008210010] |How to install adobe flash player 10.1 final in Ubuntu 10.04/9.10/9.04 [125008210020] |This is a developer prerelease version of the Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 software for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. [125008210030] |It is being made available for developers to test their content to ensure new features function as expected, existing content plays back correctly, and there are no compatibility issues. [125008210040] |Consumers can try the release of Flash Player 10.1 to preview hardware acceleration of video on supported Windows PCs and x86-based netbooks. [125008210050] |You can check the release notes from here [125008210060] |If you want to install adobe flash player 10.1 in Ubuntu follow these steps [125008210070] |edit /etc/apt/sources.list file [125008210080] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list [125008210090] |For ubuntu 10.04 users add the following line [125008210100] |http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner [125008210110] |For ubuntu 9.10 users add the following line [125008210120] |http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu karmic partner [125008210130] |For ubuntu 9.04 users add the following line [125008210140] |http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner [125008210150] |Install adobe flash player 10.1 [125008210160] |sudo apt-get update [125008210170] |sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin [125008220010] |Install minitube in ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) [125008220020] |Minitube is a native YouTube client. [125008220030] |With it you can watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream. [125008220040] |Minitube does not require the Flash Player. [125008220050] |Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to create a new TV-like experience. [125008220060] |Current version is 0.8, released on November 16, 2009. [125008220070] |Here are the main changes: [125008220080] |* HD video support [125008220090] |* Volume level and mute is restored accross sessions [125008220100] |* No icons in menus on Linux [125008220110] |* Croatian, Latvian, Galician, Hungarian and French translations [125008220120] |Install minitube in ubuntu 9.10 [125008220130] |Open terminal enter the following command and press enter [125008220140] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neversfelde/ppa [125008220150] |Now you need to update the source list [125008220160] |sudo apt-get update [125008220170] |Install minitube using the following command [125008220180] |sudo apt-get install minitube [125008220190] |Screenshot [125008230010] |Google Chrome OS and Canonical [125008230020] |Congratulations to Google on the open sourcing of Google Chrome OS [125008230030] |When Chrome OS was announced in June we saw this as a positive development, bringing choice to the consumer. [125008230040] |We considered how open source development is as much about co-operation as it is about competition. [125008230050] |Google have made it clear that they are keen to develop Chrome OS openly and we have had the pleasure of hosting a number of the Google team at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas over the last few days where we have been able to see that openness in action. [125008230060] |In the interest of transparency, we should declare that Canonical is contributing engineering to Google under contract. [125008230070] |In our discussions, Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson made it clear that they want , wherever feasible, to build on existing components and tools from the open source community without unnecessary re-invention. [125008230080] |This clear focus should benefit a wide variety of existing projects and we welcome it. [125008230090] |On the consumer side, people will ask about the positioning of Chrome OS and Ubuntu. [125008230100] |While the two operating systems share some core components, Google Chrome OS will provide a very different experience to Ubuntu. [125008230110] |Ubuntu will continue to be a general purpose OS running both web and native applications such as OpenOffice and will not require specialised hardware. [125008230120] |So 2010 looks set to be a very exciting year. [125008230130] |In addition to delivering Ubuntu experiences with both existing and new OEM partners, we will be working with Google on Chrome OS based devices. [125008230140] |Source from Here [125008240010] |Planned Changes to Next Ubuntu Version 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) [125008240020] |Currently the following list of changes everyone is expecting Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) New Application : PiTiVi [125008240030] |PiTiVi is a non-linear audio/video editor for GNU/Linux using the GStreamer multimedia framework. [125008240040] |PiTiVi has been chosen for two reasons: [125008240050] |* It has a simple interface [125008240060] |* The company funding PiTiVi, Collabora, are “pushing for it to be included” in Ubuntu [125008240070] |Application Replacement : F-Spot [125008240080] |There are suggestions that F-Spot will be replaced with gThumb or Shotwell.Also gThumb is not suggested replacement for F-spot but and for Eye of Gnome (default image viewer) because gThumb is faster and better.Shotwell is also suggested replacement for F-spot because it is lighter and faster version of it. [125008240090] |Planning to remove default application : GIMP [125008240100] |On UDS-L they decided that Gimp will be removed from default installation of next coming Ubuntu 10.04. [125008240110] |Default Backup Tool [125008240120] |There are 2 tool that can become default backup tool, Deja Dup and Back In Time [125008240130] |Ubuntu Music Store Coming In Lucid [125008240140] |The Lucid music store project aims to deliver the ability to purchase music from within a desktop music player. [125008240150] |Do you like these changes and what would you like to see on next ubuntu version [125008250010] |Shotwell - Open source photo organizer [125008250020] |Shotwell is an open source photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. [125008250030] |Features [125008250040] |•import photos from any digital camera supported by gPhoto •automatically organize events containing photos taken at the same time •non-destructive editing allows altering photos without ruining originals or using disk space for each copy •one-click auto-enhancement •rotate, mirror, and crop photos •reduce red-eye and adjust the exposure, saturation, tint, and temperature of your photos •export photos as they are or by specifying dimensions and JPEG quality to reduce size •edit any photo, even if it’s not imported to the Shotwell library [125008250050] |Install Shotwell in Ubuntu [125008250060] |For Ubuntu 9.10 users [125008250070] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa [125008250080] |For Ubuntu 9.04 Users [125008250090] |Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file [125008250100] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list [125008250110] |Add the following lines [125008250120] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/yorba/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/yorba/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main [125008250130] |Save and exit the file [125008250140] |Add GPG key [125008250150] |sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E549B1AC [125008250160] |Update source list [125008250170] |sudo apt-get update [125008250180] |Install shotwell [125008250190] |sudo apt-get install shotwell [125008250200] |Using Shotwell [125008250210] |Open shotwell from Applications--->Graphics--->Shotwell [125008250220] |Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen [125008250230] |You can open your photo and do adjustments [125008250240] |Enhanced image [125008250250] |Shotwell Version details [125008260010] |Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) Artwork (Proposed) [125008260020] |Ubuntu Sun [125008260030] |As some people like dark themes and some people like bright themes, why not combine them into one set of matching themes with different shades? [125008260040] |This is an idea for a Metacity theme that is based on the idea of having the sun shine into your windows. [125008260050] |Could there be a better leitmotiv for the window design of a lucid release? [125008260060] |The theme could be combined with any GTK theme if they are modified to have flat menu and tool bars. [125008260070] |Concept [125008260080] |The user can choose between three different moods of the theme, representing different positions of the sun and thus different levels of brightness: Dawn, Day and Dusk. [125008260090] |Source From Here [125008270010] |Download Humanity Ubuntu Start Menu Logo [125008270020] |Download Humanity Ubuntu Start Menu Logo [125008270030] |1. First Download Humanity Ubuntu Start Menu Logo [125008270040] |2. Copy “start-here.svg” to “/usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/24″ --- [Dont forget to backup the old "start-here.svg" in case you don't want this new logo anyways] [125008270050] |3. Hit ALT + F2, enter “sudo killall gnome-panel” [125008270060] |Download Humanity Ubuntu Start Menu Logo from here [125008280010] |Howto setup Juniper Network Connect VPN on Ubuntu 9.10 [125008280020] |Problem [125008280030] |You may not connect to your company private VPN via Juniper Network Connect. [125008280040] |After You click on the [start] button of the Network Connect prompt on the Juniper Network VPN screen, You got the error message saying “JRE is disabled or not installed”. [125008280050] |Solution [125008280060] |1. Install Sun Java runtime [125008280070] |2. Create a root password and give it to the Juniper setup program when it asks for it. [125008280080] |You only need to do this on the first connect. [125008280090] |Then ignore such request thereafter. [125008280100] |3. Restart the browser and start the Network Connect again. [125008280110] |It should work. [125008280120] |1.Install Sun Java runtime [125008280130] |We have already discussed howto install JRE in ubuntu 9.10 [125008280140] |2. Create a root password, by issuing the following command. [125008280150] |You will be asked for your sudo password and then the new root password, as follows: [125008280160] |sudo passwd root [sudo] password for : Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully [125008280170] |3. Now run Firefox and open your Juniper Private Network page, locate the Network Connect section and click the [start] button. [125008280180] |Then the followings happen: [125008280190] |- The Java console opens. [125008280200] |- The installINC.sh window opens. [125008280210] |When this window then asks for the root/su password, give it the root password that you created earlier. [125008280220] |It asks something like this: [125008280230] |Please enter root/su password: [125008280240] |- Now, close the Java console. [125008280250] |You do not need it anymore. [125008280260] |- Also, close the installINC.sh window, if it does not close by itself. [125008280270] |Now, the Network Connect windows opens. [125008280280] |You can minimize it. [125008280290] |But do not close it. [125008280300] |You need to keep it open so that you can access your private network. [125008280310] |4. Now you can ssh to your private network and starting working. [125008280320] |ssh [125008280330] |5. After you are tired of working, log out of your private network and click on the [SignOut] button on the Network Connect window to close it. [125008280340] |Credit goes here [125008290010] |Next Version of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Mockup [125008290020] |Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.It provided many usefull desktop and system options that the default desktop environment isn’t provided.At present, It is only designed for Ubuntu GNOME Desktop, and often follows the newest Ubuntu distribution. [125008290030] |Upcoming version of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Mockup was revealed.This looks really awesome [125008290040] |Although the UI will be changed when the Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 (See the early look of 0.5 ), but we’re planning to do a major change when the 0.6 version. [125008290050] |The designer of UTCOM has done a mockup of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6, and here’s some new concept. [125008290060] |First let’s see the mockup of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 [125008290070] |How about the new design? [125008290080] |There will a new toolbar to switch between main category of functions, and the sub-functions will locate at the right-sidebar. [125008290090] |Why design like this? [125008290100] |Because the Ubuntu Tweak will support plugin management (The “My Apps” in pictures). [125008290110] |As the development going on, I found that there’s always a lot of features need to be development, why not design a plugin-system to let other developers to develop various kinds of features? [125008290120] |So I can focus on the core part, and make Ubuntu Tweak more and more powerful and flexible. [125008290130] |That’s the point of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6. [125008290140] |As you see, there’s “Sign in” in the interface, it means Ubuntu Tweak will have full-featured network ability. [125008290150] |It is still under discuss. [125008290160] |And the Welcome page will be replaced by some of the status of your system, you can get the overview of your Ubuntu! [125008290170] |Source From here [125008300010] |tmpreaper - Cleans up files in directories based on their age [125008300020] |This package provides a program that can be used to clean out temporary-file directories. [125008300030] |It recursively searches the directory, refusing to chdir() across symlinks, and removes files that haven’t been accessed in a user-specified amount of time. [125008300040] |You can specify a set of files to protect from deletion with a shell pattern. [125008300050] |It will not remove files owned by the process EUID that have the `w’ bit clear, unless you ask it to, much like `rm -f’. `tmpreaper’ will not remove symlinks, sockets, fifos, or special files unless given a command line option enabling it to. [125008300060] |WARNING: Please do not run `tmpreaper’ on `/’. [125008300070] |There are no protections against this written into the program, as that would prevent it from functioning the way you’d expect it to in a `chroot’ environment. [125008300080] |Install tmpreaper in Ubuntu [125008300090] |sudo apt-get install tmpreaper [125008300100] |or click on the link [125008300110] |apt://tmpreaper [125008300120] |After you install the package, you need to manually edit /etc/tmpreaper.conf and remove or comment the SHOWWARNING=true line to actually active it. [125008300130] |Also review the settings in that file. [125008300140] |Note that /tmp and other directories are still cleaned at boot-time by the default /etc/init.d/*-bootclean.sh scripts. [125008300150] |If you want more options use man tmpreaper from your terminal [125008310010] |Nice Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Wallpapers [125008310020] |This is the list of ubuntu 9.10 wallpapers [125008310030] |Ubuntu Sky [125008310040] |Download from here [125008310050] |Karmic Koala Evolution [125008310060] |Download from here [125008310070] |karmic rusty2 [125008310080] |Download from here [125008310090] |Ubuntu Brown Leather [125008310100] |Download from here [125008310110] |Ubuntu Black Leather [125008310120] |Download from here [125008310130] |Ubuntu glass and water [125008310140] |Download from here [125008310150] |Ubuntu Flourish [125008310160] |Download from here [125008310170] |Ubuntu_Swirl colors [125008310180] |Download from here [125008310190] |rusty lights [125008310200] |Download from here [125008310210] |aurora human aqua [125008310220] |Download from here [125008320010] |Opera 10.10 Released today [125008320020] |Opera released today Opera 10.10 with more nice features and this tutorial will explain howto install opera 10.10 in ubuntu [125008320030] |Opera 10.10 main Features [125008320040] |Opera Unite [125008320050] |Use applications to share content with others in a quick and easy way. [125008320060] |Opera Turbo [125008320070] |Boost your speed with our powerful servers to compress Web pages, so you get them faster. [125008320080] |Visual tabs [125008320090] |Drag the handle underneath the tabs to reveal thumbnails of your open Web pages. [125008320100] |Customizable Speed Dial [125008320110] |Get easy access to your favorite sites every time you open a new tab. [125008320120] |Choose the layout and the background you prefer. [125008320130] |Opera Link [125008320140] |Synchronize your Speed Dial, bookmarks, notes and other useful data. [125008320150] |You can check Opera 10.10 features from here [125008320160] |Install Opera 10.10 in Ubuntu [125008320170] |First you need to download .deb package from here [125008320180] |Once you have .deb package install using the following command [125008320190] |sudo dpkg -i opera_10.10.4742.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb [125008330010] |Google Chrome OS. Or, how KDE and GNOME managed to shoot each other dead [125008330020] |A lot of people at the moment are immensely intrigued by Google Chrome OS. [125008330030] |I won’t hide that I am one of them. [125008330040] |Google promises a much needed shift in the way small computers work. [125008330050] |Problems like software updates, backups, installation, maintenance, viruses, have plagued the world for too long: a shift is way overdue. [125008330060] |To me, however, the change about to happen shows us what many people have refused to believe for a long time: KDE and GNOME shot each other dead. [125008330070] |I write this knowing full well that I am going to make a lot of people angry. [125008330080] |This might be the first time a writer receives very angry responses from both camps — KDE and GNOME’s users might actually (finally?) join arms and fight just to show everybody how wrong I am! [125008330090] |So, let’s go back a little bit — not much: just a year or so. [125008330100] |You are Google and you want to provide the operating system for the next generation of users, the ones who didn’t start with Excel and Word, but with Facebook and Flickr. [125008330110] |The obvious choice is GNU/Linux for the kernel — Google knows it well, helps improving it, and obviously likes it. [125008330120] |Then, the next question: what desktop environment would you feed those new users? [125008330130] |KDE? [125008330140] |GNOME? [125008330150] |Both? [125008330160] |What about programs looking different? [125008330170] |What about the broken audio system? [125008330180] |(Pulseaudio anybody?) [125008330190] |The question was a tough one. [125008330200] |The answer was simple and painful: neither of them. [125008330210] |Painful, because I am intimately sure (although I can’t prove it) that if GNU/Linux had one set of desktop libraries, one desktop environment, one set of standard for playing audio and so on, we would have those libraries in Google Chrome OS. [125008330220] |Read Full Story [125008340010] |Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Has 100 Paper Cuts Again [125008340020] |Started during the Ubuntu 9.10 development cycle was an Ubuntu project to address paper cuts in Ubuntu, or rather small usability bugs in Ubuntu and the Linux desktop that are often only minor impairments or annoyances, but these easy-to-fix issues have never been heavily targeted for correction. [125008340030] |These “paper cuts” are often spotted by new Linux users but frequently go unnoticed to those that have been using the Linux desktop for a while and are accustomed to its shortcomings. [125008340040] |Most of the 100 paper cuts targeted for Ubuntu 9.10 were addressed (the official count seems to be at 76), but this project is going to live on with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. [125008340050] |Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will have ten rounds to fix 100 (or more) paper cuts in time for the Lucid Lynx before it is released in April. [125008340060] |Each of these paper cut healing rounds are themed from “Kibosh on Karmic” to “Paper Jam: Sound &Video” to “Paper Jam: Compiz Settings.” [125008340070] |Three of the ten rounds are focused on addressing the outstanding paper cuts from Ubuntu 9.10. [125008340080] |Many of the paper cuts for the later rounds of bug fixing though have yet to be singled out. [125008340090] |If all goes according to plan, 100 paper cuts will be healed by the end of February. [125008340100] |The Launchpad area tracking the 100 paper cuts for Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” is available from this page. [125008340110] |Source from here [125008350010] |WinFF - GUI for the command line video converter FFMPEG [125008350020] |WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. [125008350030] |It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. [125008350040] |WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. [125008350050] |You can for example convert mpeg’s, flv’s, and mov’s, all into avi’s all at once. [125008350060] |WinFF is available for Windows 95, 98 , ME, NT, XP, VISTA, and Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat based GNU/Linux distributions. [125008350070] |WinFF is available in Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese Traditional, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish. [125008350080] |WinFF is open source and cross platform written in Free Pascal and Lazarus. [125008350090] |WinFF is published under the GNU public license. [125008350100] |WinFF is published without any warranty or suitability for any purpose. [125008350110] |WinFF Features [125008350120] |•Easy to use interface. •Fast (Winff does not hinder FFmpeg in anyway). •High quality output. •Converts multiple different files all to the same format at once. •Convert video to audio. •Convert between audio formats. •No external codecs needed. •Includes a variety of preset conversion settings for common formats and devices. •Preset conversions can be created to encode to any format FFmpeg supports. •Easy access to common conversion options such as bitrate, frame size, frame rate. •Specify additional command line parameters for advanced users (options button). •Easily change FFmpeg versions. •Supports FFmpeg’s multi threading for dual core processors •Multilingual, available in over 10 languages [125008350130] |Install Winff in Ubuntu [125008350140] |sudo apt-get install winff [125008350150] |Or click on the following link [125008350160] |apt://winff [125008350170] |Using WinFF [125008350180] |You can open winff from Applications--->Sound &Video--->WinFF [125008350190] |Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen [125008350200] |1. The File List 2. [125008350210] |Add/Remove Videos 3. [125008350220] |Output Details 4. [125008350230] |Play Video 5. [125008350240] |Start Converting 6. [125008350250] |Additional Options 7. [125008350260] |Menus [125008350270] |More screenshots [125008360010] |Download xSplash themes for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)/9.04 (Jaunty) [125008360020] |This is list of nice xSplash themes for Ubuntu 9.10 [125008360030] |transformer 2 xsplash for karmic [125008360040] |Download from here [125008360050] |GRUB2 splashimage [125008360060] |Download from here [125008360070] |Xsplash - Crunchy Branch [125008360080] |Download from here [125008360090] |Heliocentric - Usplash Karmic &Jaunty [125008360100] |Download from here [125008360110] |Crunchy Branch-Usplash Karmic &Jaunty [125008360120] |Download from here [125008360130] |SimplyLine for Karmic &Jaunty &Intrepid [125008360140] |Download from here [125008360150] |Xsplash-Quicksand [125008360160] |Download from here [125008360170] |néon-spash [125008360180] |Download from here [125008360190] |usplash theme ubuntu Miss-Ellen [125008360200] |Download from here [125008360210] |Ubuntu-Colors [125008360220] |Download from here [125008360230] |Ubuntu Rock [125008360240] |Download from here [125008360250] |Jaunty GRUB Splash [125008360260] |Download from here [125008370010] |Giving up the GIMP is a sign of Ubuntu’s mainstream maturity [125008370020] |During a planning session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit last week, a decision emerged to remove the GIMP from the default Ubuntu installation. [125008370030] |Although this decision has generated a bit of controversy, it’s a sign of Ubuntu’s growing maturity as a mainstream platform for regular users. [125008370040] |As a participant who attended the session in person, I want to shed some light on how and why the decision was made. [125008370050] |Canonical hosted its biannual Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) last week in Dallas, Texas. [125008370060] |I was one of many open source software developers who attended the event and participated in the collaborative process of planning Ubuntu 10.04, the next version of the popular Linux distribution. [125008370070] |An important part of the 10.04 roadmap that emerged during UDS is a tentative plan to remove the GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Tool, from the default Ubuntu installation. [125008370080] |Although this decision is viewed by some as controversial, the reasoning behind it is valid. [125008370090] |The removal of a niche professional graphics editing tool reflects Ubuntu’s growing maturity as a mainstream platform for regular users. [125008370100] |How UDS works [125008370110] |Ubuntu adheres to a six-month development cycle that follows the GNOME release schedule. [125008370120] |At the start of each cycle, Canonical hosts a developer summit that brings together its own team, a multitude of community contributors, and upstream developers from prominent open-source software projects. [125008370130] |The event primarily consists of planning sessions that address specific features or technical issues. [125008370140] |Proposed changes to the platform are described in “blueprint” pages on the Launchpad development site. [125008370150] |During each session, participants flesh out the blueprint and take notes in a shared document that is written with Gobby, a collaborative text editor. [125008370160] |Remote participants who are not in the actual room can still be involved in the process by accessing the Gobby document, connecting to an IRC channel for the session, and listening to a live audio stream of the discussion. [125008370170] |To understand how many Ubuntu development decisions are made at UDS, it’s important to recognize that the process is extremely inclusive and transparent. [125008370180] |The event is open to everyone who wants to be involved. [125008370190] |The decision to remove the GIMP was made during a morning session last Wednesday called “Application selection in the default install.” [125008370200] |The session itself was videotaped, so you can actually watch the discussion for yourself. [125008370210] |I was there in person, along with a few upstream GNOME developers and many members of the Ubuntu community. [125008370220] |There were also several people who took part in the discussion remotely through the IRC channel. [125008370230] |Read Full Story [125008380010] |Major Preferences menu changes in Pidgin 2.6.4 [125008380020] |This note is from Pidgin Developer [125008380030] |Recently I’ve been frustrated by the fact that we have a number of tickets open on Pidgin’s Trac that deal with inadequacies in the preferences window. [125008380040] |The biggest complaint is that in a number of configurations, the preferences window is too tall to fit on a screen. [125008380050] |This has only recently become a problem with the advent of the so-called “netbook” with their nearly microscopic screens . [125008380060] |Pidgin 2.6.4 New Preferences menu screenshots [125008380070] |Source from here [125008390010] |Canonical Drops Support for LPIA on Ubuntu 10.04 [125008390020] |Canonical announced that the LPIA (Low-Power Intel Architecture) architecture would no longer be supported. [125008390030] |Canonical drops support for LPIA because users are not interested in LPIA.The developers decided to retire it. [125008390040] |“During a discussion at the Lucid Lynx Ubuntu Developer Summit on the future of the architecture, all participants agreed that retiring the architecture would be a net benefit to Ubuntu. [125008390050] |Several participants volunteered to investigate the performance and power consumption of lpia vs. i386, with the intention of bringing these improvements forward in future releases.” - Steve Kowalik said in the official announcement. [125008390060] |Canonical added support for LPIA a couple of years ago and it was used by the Ubuntu Mobile project, for the recent Intel mobile CPUs with support for this lower-power architecture. [125008390070] |The LPIA or Low-Power Intel Architecture is similar to the IA32 (also known as i386 or x86) architecture, but with dissimilar compile-time optimizations. [125008390080] |However, Steve Kowalik added that the Intel CPUs would work very well with IA32: “Recent announcements by Intel indicate that processors supported by the lpia architecture are expected to remain compatible with the IA32 instruction set, so there is a reduced expectation of the need to retain a separate architecture to address future requirements. [125008390090] |As of 9.10, lpia and i386 share the kernel configuration, reducing most of the benefits potentially available in previous Ubuntu releases.” [125008390100] |Support for the LPIA architecture will be provided on the Ubuntu 9.10 until April 2011.LPIA users will be unable to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04. [125008390110] |Check Official announcement from here [125008400010] |How to setup NetworkManager work with pppoe connection on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) [125008400020] |When Ubuntu 9.10 releases, pppoe connection via NetworkManager is impossible because some bug in it so to fix this we will install network manager from daily network manager trunk ppa. [125008400030] |Install network manager from Daily trunk PPA [125008400040] |First you need to edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file [125008400050] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list [125008400060] |Addd the following two lines [125008400070] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/trunk/ubuntu karmic main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/trunk/ubuntu karmic main [125008400080] |Save and exit the file [125008400090] |Update the source list [125008400100] |sudo apt-get update [125008400110] |Install network manager [125008400120] |sudo apt-get install network-manager [125008400130] |Configure pppoe [125008400140] |Disable your previous “pppoe on boot” setting which is configured by pppoeconf. [125008400150] |Edit /etc/ppp/pppoe_on_boot file [125008400160] |gksudo gedit /etc/ppp/pppoe_on_boot [125008400170] |change [125008400180] |exec pppd call dsl-provider [125008400190] |to [125008400200] |#exec pppd call dsl-provider [125008400210] |Now you need to rename /etc/network/interfaces to backup file. [125008400220] |NetworkManager will only handle connections which haven’t declared in interfaces. [125008400230] |$cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.back [125008400240] |Also edit /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system.policy , find out the line contains “System policy prevents modification of system settings”, and below it there is a “auth_admin_keep“, change it to “yes“. [125008400250] |This will enable you to edit a system wide connection. [125008400260] |If you consider this will do harm to your security, then revert the change once you have set up your connection correctly. [125008400270] |Finally reboot your system [125008400280] |Source from here [125008410010] |molly-guard - protects machines from accidental shutdowns/reboots [125008410020] |molly-guard installs a shell script that overrides the existing shutdown/reboot/halt/poweroff commands and first runs a set of scripts, which all have to exit successfully, before molly-guard invokes the real command. [125008410030] |One of the scripts checks for existing SSH sessions. [125008410040] |If any of the four commands are called interactively over an SSH session, the shell script prompts you to enter the name of the host you wish to shut down. [125008410050] |This should adequately prevent you from accidental shutdowns and reboots. [125008410060] |This shell script passes through the commands to the respective binaries in /sbin and should thus not get in the way if called non-interactively, or locally. [125008410070] |The tool is basically a replacement for halt, reboot and shutdown to prevent such accidents. [125008410080] |Install molly-guard in ubuntu [125008410090] |sudo apt-get install molly-guard [125008410100] |or click on the following link [125008410110] |apt://molly-guard [125008410120] |Now that it’s installed, try it out (on a non production box). [125008410130] |Here you can see it save me from rebooting the box Ubuntu-test [125008410140] |Ubuntu-test:~$ sudo reboot W: molly-guard: SSH session detected! [125008410150] |Please type in hostname of the machine to reboot: ruchi Good thing I asked; I won’t reboot Ubuntu-test …W: aborting reboot due to 30-query-hostname exiting with code 1. [125008410160] |Ubuntu-Test:~$ [125008410170] |By default you’re only protected on sessions that look like SSH sessions (have $SSH_CONNECTION set). [125008410180] |If, like us, you use alot of virtual machines and RILOE cards, edit /etc/molly-guard/rc and uncomment ALWAYS_QUERY_HOSTNAME=true. [125008410190] |Now you should be prompted for any interactive session. [125008420010] |TouchFreeze - Tray icon that disables your touchpad while typing [125008420020] |TouchFreeze docks in your system tray (KDE/Gnome) and disables button click events while typing.It’s similar to ksynaptics if you know that but more simple. touchfreeze is a program that disables your touchpad when you are typing. [125008420030] |This prevents unintended click and scroll events when part of your hand touches the touchpad while you are typing. [125008420040] |After you stop typing, there is a certain delay before your touchpad is enabled again. [125008420050] |You can set the value of the delay by moving the slider in touchfreeze’s window. touchfreeze’s window appears when clicking on its dock icon. [125008420060] |touchfreeze only disables click and scroll events coming from your touchpad. [125008420070] |It does not disable cursor movement, neither any events coming from your mouse. [125008420080] |Differences: [125008420090] |
  • no configuration of the touch pad
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  • ksynaptics ranks high on powertop
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  • no additional dependencies but Qt4
    • [125008420120] |Install Touchfreeze in Ubuntu [125008420130] |sudo apt-get install touchfreeze [125008420140] |Or click on the following link to install [125008420150] |apt://touchfreeze [125008430010] |UbuntuSun - Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) Proposed Artwork (Updated) [125008430020] |We have already posted about ubuntusun whic is proposed ubuntu 10.4 artwork and now we have updated artwork from the author plippo.Thanks to the author for his nice artwork. [125008430030] |Updated Mockup Screens [125008430040] |For more details check here [125008440010] |Download Gnome Metacity Theme (New Wave - Chronos) [125008440020] |New Wave - Chronos is a theme with a script to change the title bar according to time. [125008440030] |Procedure to follow [125008440040] |New Wave - Chronos.tar.gz like a normal theme. [125008440050] |New Wave - Chronos.sh add this script to “Startup Applications” [125008440060] |Download New Wave - Chronos from here [125008440070] |Screenshot [125008450010] |Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Release Schedule [125008450020] |Ubuntu team is already planning for 10.04 LTS, which will see the light of day in April 2010 [125008450030] |Ubuntu 10.04 (codename Lucid Lynx) LTS will be released Next year on April 29th. [125008450040] |Ubuntu 10.04 Release schedule [125008450050] |Visual timeline for ubuntu 10.04 schedule [125008450060] |Source from here [125008460010] |Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) boot experience changing from using usplash to plymouth [125008460020] |This specification details the foundation team plans for the technology for the Lucid Lynx boot experience, changing from using usplash to plymouth to provide the graphical splash screen while waiting for the boot to complete. [125008460030] |The “look” and “theme” components are not covered here. [125008460040] |Release Note [125008460050] |Ubuntu 10.04 has switched from using usplash to Plymouth for the boot splash screen, providing a flicker-free experience on Intel, NVIDIA and ATI hardware. [125008460060] |Rationale [125008460070] |The current boot experience is still jarring, with obvious flickers and transitions between the separate phases. [125008460080] |These flickers are caused by three types of change: [125008460090] |* Mode switches where the actual resolution and/or colour-depth of the panel or monitor is changed [125008460100] |* Changing the console from text to graphics mode (or vice-versa), which inherently incurs a mode switch [125008460110] |* Switching the active Virtual Terminal (VT), which inherently incurs a console mode change [125008460120] |There are techniques which permit these to be eliminated as much as possible, building on the kernel mode setting GPU drivers added to the kernel in Ubuntu 9.04. [125008460130] |While usplash can render to the framebuffer provided by those drivers, plymouth is far more developed and capable and gives us the wanted experience out of the box. [125008460140] |Assumptions [125008460150] |The release note assumes that we will have KMS drivers for the Intel, NVIDIA and ATI hardware ranges, however karmic only released with support for Intel. [125008460160] |Fedora 12 released with additional support for NVIDIA and ATI, so it seams reasonable that we will have that for the next release. [125008460170] |This is a kernel team decision, however. [125008460180] |The fallback case for non-KMS described below assumes that the Design team remain happy with the “reduced look and feel” for those systems. [125008460190] |Implementation [125008460200] |X server [125008460210] |When using a Kernel Mode Setting driver, the X server has no current need to perform a mode switch if the kernel driver is already loaded; however it does clear the screen to black because it is called with the “-br” (black root) option. [125008460220] |A patch exists that adds a new “-nr” (no root) option to the X server. [125008460230] |If supported by the driver, this places the contents of the framebuffer in the X root window, giving a seamless transition until some other X client clears or paints to the root window. [125008460240] |Patches are also required to each driver to support that option. [125008460250] |Display Manager [125008460260] |The X server needs to be called with the new option, and this is called by the display manager. [125008460270] |We already have a patch for gdm to identify the first server (the one forced onto vt7), and have written a patch to adjust the options of that server to use “-nr” instead of “-br”. [125008460280] |Plymouth packaging [125008460290] |Plymouth packages (as used by our OEM team) will be updated to the current version, and uploaded replacing the usplash package. [125008460300] |We will use an Upstart job to manage Plymouth, and it will be started once the kernel DRM or framebuffer driver is added to the system and stopped when the display manager is started, or the boot sequence otherwise completes. [125008460310] |Splash retention is handled by passing the --retain-splash option in case of that event. [125008460320] |Plymouth will render to VT7, the same VT that X will use; it will perform this VT switch itself on startup, meaning that X need not. [125008460330] |If Plymouth is not started, boot messages would appear on VT1 as they used to before X is started and invokes the VT switch. [125008460340] |Full Story [125008470010] |VirtualBox 3.1 adds live migration and branched snapshots [125008470020] |The latest version of VirtualBox delivers some compelling new features, including support for live migration and branched snapshots. [125008470030] |Migration capabilities reflect VirtualBox’s potential for ascending into the enterprise arena. [125008470040] |Sun’s VirtualBox got a big boost on Monday with the release of version 3.1. [125008470050] |It introduced a number of significant new features, including support for live migration and vastly improved snapshot capabilities. [125008470060] |The open source virtualization tool is improving at a rapid pace. [125008470070] |VirtualBox was created by Innotek, a German software company that was acquired last year by Sun. [125008470080] |Although VirtualBox is primarily intended for conventional desktop virtualization scenarios, its developers are adding enterprise features that reflect a growing potential for viability in the server space. [125008470090] |The newly-added support for live migration—called “Teleportation” in the VirtualBox documentation—is an impressive example of this trend in the program’s development. [125008470100] |Live migration allows users to move virtualized guest environments from one physical computer to another while the guest environment is still running. [125008470110] |Although this has somewhat limited value for desktop virtualization, it’s a critical feature in data centers where administrators want to be able to seamlessly move workloads between their servers in order to maximize utilization of their hardware resources while minimizing the disruption to ongoing operations. [125008470120] |Live migration is already available in enterprise-centric virtualization solutions and some open source alternatives, including the Linux kernel’s KVM virtualization framework. [125008470130] |The feature will make VirtualBox more competitive in a number of markets where it was previously not viable for adoption. [125008470140] |The implementation is still a bit rough, however, and it will need a lot more polish and integration in the user interface before it will deliver VirtualBox’s signature ease of use. [125008470150] |Teleportation can only be invoked from the command line in VirtualBox 3.1. [125008470160] |It also requires the user to manually set up identical VM configurations on the physical computers where the feature will be used. [125008470170] |The disk image file for the virtualized environment that you want to teleport will have to be on a shared storage medium that is accessible on both computers. [125008470180] |The documentation warns that moving a guest environment between computers with Intel and AMD CPUs is likely to result in failure. [125008470190] |Full Story [125008470200] |Check complete Virtualbox Change Log from here [125008480010] |Adobe Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux coming soon(8th Dec 2009) [125008480020] |
  • Furthering Adobe’s commitment to the Linux community and as part of ongoing efforts to ensure the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player, an alpha refresh of 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux operating systems was released on December 8, 2009 and is available for download. [125008480030] |This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux distributions and removes the need for 32-bit emulation. [125008480040] |Learn more by reading the 64-bit Flash Player 10 FAQ.
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  • Release versions of Flash Player 10 for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux are now available from the Flash Player Download Center.
    • [125008480060] |Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named “Astro,” introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. [125008480070] |These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level. [125008480080] |This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content. [125008480090] |Once you’ve installed the Flash Player 10 prerelease, you can view interactive demos. [125008480100] |You can also help make Flash Player better by visiting all of your favorite sites, making sure they work the same or better than with the current player. [125008480110] |

    Key New Features

    [125008480120] |3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while retaining full interactivity. [125008480130] |Fast, lightweight, and native 3D effects make motion that was previously reserved for expert users available to everyone. [125008480140] |Complex effects are simple with APIs that extend what you already know. [125008480150] |Custom Filters and Effects - Create and share your own portable filters, blend modes, and fills using Adobe Pixel Bender™, the same technology used for many After Effects CS3 filters. [125008480160] |Shaders in Flash Player are about 1KB and can be scripted and animated at runtime. [125008480170] |Advanced Text Layout - A new, highly flexible text layout engine, co-existing with TextField, enables innovation in creating new text controls by providing low-level access to text offering right-to-left and vertical text layout, plus support for typographic elements like ligatures. [125008480180] |Enhanced Drawing API - Runtime drawing is easier and more powerful with re-styleable properties, 3D APIs, and a new way of drawing sophisticated shapes without having to code them line by line. [125008480190] |Visual Performance Improvements – Applications and videos will run smoother and faster with expanded use of hardware acceleration. [125008480200] |By moving several visual processing tasks to the video card, the CPU is free to do more. [125008480210] |Enhanced Sound APIs – Work with loaded MP3 audio at a lower level in Flash Player 10. [125008480220] |The new APIs will let you do application-level audio mixing through ActionScript and even audio filtering with Adobe Pixel Bender. [125008480230] |Full Story [125008490010] |Ubuntu Tip : Reinstall Ubuntu automatically [125008490020] |There is a very simple command that reinstalls all the distribution packages and reconfigures them automatically. [125008490030] |This is particularly helpful when you have done a partial upgrade and eventually have broken the system dependencies tree. [125008490040] |sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a [125008490050] |since this command would take a lot of time to process (~1 hour) depending on your hardware in case you have a minor dependency problem you can fix it via [125008490060] |sudo apt-get install -f [125008490070] |Source [125008500010] |Web Developer - Firefox Add-on [125008500020] |The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. [125008500030] |It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. [125008500040] |Download Web Developer firefox add-on from here [125008500050] |Screenshot [125008510010] |How to Remove (Hide) Users list at login Screen in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) [125008510020] |One of the new features in Ubuntu 9.10 is it show the currently available users list at login screen if you want to hide this just follow one of the following method [125008510030] |Method 1 [125008510040] |Open the terminal and enter the following comamnd [125008510050] |sudo gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type Boolean --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list True [125008510060] |Method 2 [125008510070] |1. Logout of your current session and return to the GDM [125008510080] |2. Switch to the tty command line prompt using Ctrl-Alt-F1 [125008510090] |3. Login using your normal login/password [125008510100] |4. at the command line prompt type: export DISPLAY=:0.0 [125008510110] |5. then type: sudo -u gdm gconf-editor [125008510120] |6. Switch back to the gdm screen using ALT-F7 [125008510130] |7. Then navigate to /apps/gdm/simple-greeter and tick disable user list [125008510140] |8. Restart gdm [125008510150] |sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart [125008520010] |Ubun-student - Learn Ubuntu enhancement tricks [125008520020] |Ubun-student is an enhancement/configuration application. [125008520030] |Its developers think that it is better to allow users to learn how to operate, than the mere provision of functionality, for Ubun-student. [125008520040] |Therefore it aims at telling users Ubuntu enhancement tricks. [125008520050] |After you launch it, a “Tip of the day” dialog appears, which contains 29 tricks about GConf keys and 9 tricks about Bash commands, such as how to clean-up Nautilus thumbnail cache, how to reclaim d-cache memory. [125008520060] |There are also some tricks in tool-tip text. [125008520070] |This application also provides following functionality. [125008520080] |* Display information about BIOS, motherboard, CPU and battery. [125008520090] |* Change some GConf setting, such as hide desktop content, increase desktop font size. [125008520100] |* Configure Nautilus context menu. [125008520110] |* Install/remove some applications which are not provided in the official Ubuntu apt repository. [125008520120] |* Find the fastest apt repository mirror. [125008520130] |* Enable/disable some third party repositories, such as Google, WINE and Dropbox. [125008520140] |Recently the developers released a new version. [125008520150] |It is worthy to be used. [125008520160] |How to install: [125008520170] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubun-student sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubun-student [125008520180] |All the details are here. [125008530010] |How to install Dawn of Ubuntu wallpapers in Ubuntu 9.10(karmic) [125008530020] |Day of Ubuntu gradually changes over time with a fading transition, continually providing a unique view that perfectly reflects the time of day! [125008530030] |Install Day of ubuntu wallpapers in ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) [125008530040] |Procedure to follow [125008530050] |Open your terminal and type the following commands [125008530060] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dylanmccall/ppa [125008530070] |Update the source list [125008530080] |sudo apt-get update [125008530090] |sudo apt-get install day-of-ubuntu-wallpaper [125008530100] |Day of ubuntu wallpapers [125008530110] |Source [125008540010] |Lernid - A desktop application to participate in an online learning event [125008540020] |Lernid is a little program to make connecting to Ubuntu learning events simple. [125008540030] |Lernid is still very much in development, and still needs lots of work before it is ready for our next event. [125008540040] |Install Lernid in Karmic [125008540050] |If you want to install ubuntu 9.10 run the following commands from the terminal [125008540060] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonobacon [125008540070] |sudo apt-get update [125008540080] |sudo apt-get install lernid [125008540090] |Screenshot [125008540100] |Source [125008550010] |Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Alpha 1 is coming on 10th December 2009 [125008550020] |Next Thursday, December 10th, Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 is going to be released. [125008550030] |If you are planning to help with the testing, start syncing your Lucid images today, to avoid network bottlenecks and last minute hurries. [125008550040] |To sync your images, you can use the rsync URLS at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com, or use Steves Beattie’s script that do all the work for you. [125008550050] |Source [125008560010] |New Application Stack in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) [125008560020] |Ubuntu 10.04, which will appear next April 2010 as Canonical’s long-anticipated third LTS (Long Term Support) release, will feature substantial changes in the lineup of applications installed by default. [125008560030] |Here’s a look at the biggest ones, with some thoughts. [125008560040] |Judging by the controversy over the replacement of Pidgin with Empathy, many Ubuntu users do not take kindly to decisions to modify the application stack in a default installation. [125008560050] |Even when the change arguably does not compromise important features and despite the fact that 35,000 applications are always just an “apt-get install” away–for those who have the bandwidth, at least–change tends to spawn a lot of ire. [125008560060] |That’s why the revisions in the works for Ubuntu 10.04, listed below, are likely to be a topic of passionate debate. [125008560070] |Goodbye, GIMP [125008560080] |One of the biggest changes planned is the removal of the GIMP image editor from the default install, on the grounds that it takes up a lot of space and provides functionality that the average user doesn’t need. [125008560090] |Personally, I won’t miss the GIMP much. [125008560100] |It’s an extremely powerful tool for those interested in heavy-duty image manipulation. [125008560110] |But most people, whose editing needs center around getting the red eye out of their photos, have little need for it. [125008560120] |Moreover, it’s one of the more unfortunately named applications of the free-software world that Ubuntu would do well to disassociate itself from. [125008560130] |Farewell, F-Spot [125008560140] |Update: although there had initially been discussion of removing F-Spot for Lucid, the developers ultimately decided to keep it. [125008560150] |Thanks to Darcy for pointing this out in comments below. [125008560160] |The F-Spot photo manager is also slated for removal, which is long overdue, in my opinion. [125008560170] |Written in Mono, the application isn’t doing anything to help resolve the legal and philosophical dilemmas plaguing the Ubuntu community. [125008560180] |It also has a habit of failing to detect my camera, and organizes photo collections in a way that makes them difficult to export to other applications or folders. [125008560190] |In addition, like GIMP, F-Spot suffers from a poor name. [125008560200] |Beyond not making sense to most people, “F-Spot” is just one letter away from another kind of spot that we can’t discuss on a family-friendly blog. [125008560210] |With all these downsides, the replacement of F-Spot by a more functional, better named, Mono-free application like gThumb will be a welcome change. [125008560220] |Full Story [125008570010] |New Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Proposed art work [125008570020] |Opklaar [125008570030] |Opklaar is African for clear, the general idea behind this design is to be clear, clean and crisp. [125008570040] |In addition I have included Ubuntu’s recurring brownn style whilst upholding the clear look. [125008570050] |Concept [125008570060] |I feel when this concept is made, the ‘Still Life Brushed ‘icon theme from gnome.org will fit it beautifully. [125008570070] |Please note that this project is undergoing, the current design is of a poor standard, I have made it quickly to show how I will build on my idea. [125008570080] |Wasp [125008570090] |Wasp is a suite of GTK, Metacity, Xfwm and GDM themes. [125008570100] |It includes: [125008570110] |* Wasp (GTK, Metacity, Xfwm) [125008570120] |* Wasp-Alt (GTK, Metacity, Xfwm) [125008570130] |* Wasp-Hard (GTK, Metacity, Xfwm) [125008570140] |* OpenOffice.org patch [125008570150] |* Stylish addon for Firefox [125008570160] |* Wasp for GDM [125008570170] |Why Wasp is different [125008570180] |* Wasp is the first theme (as far as i know) that has a script to take care of OpenOffice.org apps. [125008570190] |* Wasp takes care of most used apps with adhoc configurations: no strange behaviour like dark toolbar where it shouldn’t be, no redundant borders, no compromise on general setting just because of a strange behaviour in one app. [125008570200] |* Wasp is not all dark or all light: it is simply dark where it looks good, and light where it looks good. [125008570210] |* Don’t like orange/brown colors? just use GNOME Appearance and choose whatever colors you want Wasp is totally recolorable. [125008570220] |Wasp-Alt [125008570230] |In Wasp-Alt theme, I put all configurations that I don’t like but most people want and all configurations that make less trouble and are more compatible. [125008570240] |For now, Wasp-Alt differ for scrollbars, Nautilus and Gnome-Terminal configurations. [125008570250] |Wasp-Hard [125008570260] |Wasp-Hard is a darker version of Wasp, it is suited for everyone and in particular for globalmenu users. [125008570270] |Source [125008580010] |New Ubuntu 10.10 CD boot menu (Proposed) [125008580020] |Redesign the Menue of the CD to something looking smoother and better for new Users idea from brainstorm [125008590010] |Enable/Disable write support for windows NTFS partition with simple click [125008590020] |If you are using Windows and ubuntu as dual boot and if you want to access your windows partition you need to follow this procedure.This tutorial will explain how to access your windows partition in simple way. [125008590030] |ntfs-config program allow you to easily configure all of your NTFS devices to allow write support via a friendly gui. [125008590040] |For that use, it will configure them to use the open source ntfs-3g driver. [125008590050] |You’ll also be able to easily disable this feature. [125008590060] |Note:- If you are using laster ubuntu versions this driver was included in default installation [125008590070] |Install ntfs-config in Ubuntu [125008590080] |Now You can install ntfs-config from Ubuntu repositories [125008590090] |sudo apt-get install ntfs-config [125008590100] |This will install all the required packages for ntfs-config including ntfs-3g [125008590110] |or if you are using ubuntu 9.10 click the following link from your firefox [125008590120] |apt://ntfs-config [125008590130] |Using Ntfs-Config [125008590140] |Once installed open this application System--->Administration--->NTFS Configuration Tool if you don’t see there try from Applications--->System Tools--->NTFS Configuration Tool [125008590150] |Now it will prompt for password enter password and click ok [125008590160] |It will show the available NTFS partitions as follows in this example /dev/sda2,/dev/sda3 are available NTFS partitions [125008590170] |You need to select the partitions you want to configure,add the name of the mount point and click on apply.In this example i have ticked the check box next to /dev/sda3 and click under mount enter the name you want to use i have entered as OS and click on apply. [125008590180] |Select the NTFS Write support which is suitable for you i.e internal or external.In this example i have tick the check box next to Enable write support for internal device because i am using dualboot with windows vista.If you are using external hard drive select external option and click on ok [125008590190] |Once it finished you should see the mount point on your desktop as follows [125008590200] |You can see the windows vista mount point files as follows [125008590210] |If you want to unmount you should be root to unmount and then right click on mount point select Unmount Volume [125008600010] |Tip:How to mount,unmount and format floppy disk in Ubuntu [125008600020] |This tutorial will explain how to mount and format floppy disks in Ubuntu Mount Floppy disk in ubuntu [125008600030] |If you want to mount MS-DOS formatted floppy run the following commands from terminal [125008600040] |mkdir /mnt/floppy [125008600050] |sudo mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy [125008600060] |Options [125008600070] |-t option tells the system to look for a msdos filesystem [125008600080] |The /dev/fd0 is your floppy drive ( This may be different for you check /dev folder to confirm) [125008600090] |/mnt/floppy is the point where you want to mount the device to [125008600100] |Unmount floppy disk [125008600110] |If you want to unmount floppy use the following command (This is very important after copying your data) [125008600120] |sudo umount /dev/fd0 [125008600130] |Format floppy disk [125008600140] |Format your floppy drive with windows compatible disk [125008600150] |sudo mformat -f 1440 A: [125008600160] |The 1440 is the number of bytes, and the A: specifies the floppy drive. [125008610010] |Google Chrome(Beta) Released For Linux and Ubuntu Installation instructions [125008610020] |Google Chrome (beta) has been released for the Mac and Linux operating systems. [125008610030] |Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. [125008610040] |Download Google chrome for Ubuntu users from here [125008610050] |Install Google chrome Beta in ubuntu [125008610060] |First you need to download google chrome beta .deb from here [125008610070] |Now you should be having google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb package install this package using the following command [125008610080] |sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb [125008620010] |How to Configure compiz Fusion in Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic) [125008620020] |Compiz is a compositing window manager that uses 3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. [125008620030] |It provides various new graphical effects and features on any desktop environment, including Gnome and KDE. [125008620040] |Compiz Fusion is a collection of plugins and a configuration system for the Compiz compositing window manager. [125008620050] |It was created from the remerging of Beryl into Compiz. [125008620060] |Compiz truely and honestly redefines user desktop experience and desktop/window management. [125008620070] |Pre-Requisites [125008620080] |In order to make life easy, let us go through a few pre-flight checks to ensure all is well once we enable Compiz/Desktop Effects and start using it. [125008620090] |The Pre-requisites include [125008620100] |Proper drivers installed for your Intel,ATI or nVidia or Intel Graphics card. [125008620110] |If you are using ATI,Nvidia Display cards you can install drivers from System--->Administration--->Hardware Drivers to detect the graphic card and to install associated drivers. [125008620120] |Install CCSM on Ubuntu [125008620130] |After installing graphics card drivers you need to install compiz fusion using the following comamnd [125008620140] |sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-plugins emerald [125008620150] |Configure Compiz Fusion [125008620160] |Now you need to enable Visual effects for this go to System--->Preferences--->Appearance [125008620170] |Once it opens click on Visual Effects select Extra option and click on close [125008620180] |Now go to System--->Preferences--->CompizConfig Settings Manager [125008620190] |Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen here you need to select and configure required options for example Tick Desktop Cube,Cube Rotation,wobbly windows,ring switcher fire effect etc as you prefer. [125008620200] |Desktop Cube Rotation [125008620210] |If you want to enable desktop cube rotation you need to make sure you have selected Desktop Cube,Cube Rotation options in the above step,Now you need to select Cube Reflection and Deformation [125008620220] |Now you need to double click on Cube Reflection and Deformation option to configure in the below screen clickn on deformation tab select Cylinder or sphere click on Back tab and close [125008620230] |Some Compiz Fusion Screenshots [125008620240] |Check Compiz Keyboard Shortcuts from here [125008630010] |Web-based centralized console for tripwire [125008630020] |

    Introduction

    [125008630030] |If you use tripwire, you may have to review and accept changes on a daily basis. [125008630040] |Logging into multiple servers to accept the changes is troublesome. [125008630050] |Enter CentralWire: a open source web-based centralized console to review and accept changes detected by tripwire. [125008630060] |

    Features

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  • It lists all your servers and their statuses (has changes, no changes or no report) on a single web page.
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  • You can review the changes.
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  • You can accept the changes for one server or for all the servers listed in one step.
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  • It integrates with LDAP for authentication.
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    Installation

    [125008630120] |Follow the instruction at http://centralwire.sourceforge.net. [125008630130] |

    Using it

    [125008630140] |It is easy to use. [125008630150] |Once logging in, you start to create servers. [125008630160] |For each server, you specify the hostname, the ssh public key and etc. [125008630170] |Once the servers are created, CentralWire will download its latest tripwire report once every 24 hours in the background. [125008630180] |If the report contains changes, you can review the report and accept the changes right here in CentralWire. [125008630190] |A step by step tutorial is available at http://centralwire.sourceforge.net/using.html. [125008640010] |Adobe Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux Released and Ubuntu installation Instructions [125008640020] |This is a prerelease version of the Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software 64-bit Linux platforms. [125008640030] |It is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure new features function as expected, existing content plays back correctly, and there are no compatibility issues. [125008640040] |You can download flash 64-bit version from here [125008640050] |Installation Procedure [125008640060] |Full Credit goes to here [125008640070] |1. Download the new flash from here. [125008640080] |2. Right click on the .tar.gz archive and choose ‘extract here.’ [125008640090] |3. Open up a new terminal window and type ‘locate libflashplayer.so’ [125008640100] |4. The results should show that there are two locations where flash resides, but this may differ for other people: [125008640110] |/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so [125008640120] |/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so [125008640130] |5. In the same terminal, type ’sudo nautilus /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer’ [125008640140] |6. Copy and paste the new libflashplayer.so file from the location you extracted it into and overwrite the old one. [125008640150] |Now inside Nautilus, navigate to any other locations that came up in the “locate” command – so for me it was the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory. [125008640160] |Copy and paste once again. [125008640170] |Just be careful while you’re in Nautilus as root, as you have full access to all files and folders – so don’t overwrite/delete anything you shouldn’t! [125008640180] |7. That’s it, all done. [125008640190] |You can verify it’s working by opening up Firefox and typing ‘about:plugins’ in the address bar. Visit YouTube and any other flash sites to check that it does indeed work, and you should hopefully notice a marked improvement in performance. [125008650010] |GNOME 3: The Future of the Linux Desktop Revealed [125008650020] |For many Linux desktop users, GNOME is their home. [125008650030] |But it’s a home that’s in the process of a major renovation.In a session at the FUDcon Fedora Linux user and developer conference this week, contributors showed off some preliminary work for GNOME 3, the next major evolution of the GNOME platform. [125008650040] |With GNOME 3, developers will be introducing a number of new concepts and technologies to the Linux desktop, including more advanced 3D as well as more tightly integrated messaging system.”We have a real opportunity with GNOME 3,” Red Hat staffer and GNOME contributor Jon McCann told the FUDcon audience. [125008650050] |“We said up front that we’re going to do a new GNOME, clean the slate, re-evaluate what it is we’re trying to do, what a desktop is, what a personal computer is and what it should be offering.” [125008650060] |The current GNOME desktop is the 2.28 release, which debuted at the end of September.McCann said that GNOME developers today have far more technology to tap into that simply wasn’t available when design began on the GNOME 2.x platform 10 years ago. [125008650070] |He added that in his view, GNOME 2.x isn’t really suited for the large class of users that he’d like to bring into the GNOME user community. [125008650080] |“In GNOME 3, most of the user interface level stuff is JavaScript that is built on top of clutter toolkit,” McCann said. [125008650090] |“This is really awesome and something people have wanted for a long time to be able to have a rapid prototyping methodology, and to also use the standard GNOME libraries like Gtk.” [125008650100] |Clutter is an open source framework for application development, with the underlying complexity abstracted so that an intricate UI can be built with a minimum of code. [125008650110] |Clutter is also being integrated by Intel as part of its Moblin Linux operating system. [125008650120] |Red Hat staffer Colin Walters said that a number of items don’t work well in the current GNOME 2.x user interface. [125008650130] |According to Walters, search and the ability to find applications easily are not optimized in GNOME 2.x. Additionally, he said the mechanism to find recent documents is also less than ideal. [125008650140] |Full Story [125008660010] |Ubuntu Tip : How to Fix crackling noise on HDA audio cards in Ubuntu 9.10 [125008660020] |If you are getting crackling noise on HDA audio cards in Ubuntu 9.10.If yes,it is very easy to fix this issue all you have to do is remove the new power-save option in the new audio drivers. [125008660030] |Procedure to follow [125008660040] |Open terminal and enter the following comamnd [125008660050] |gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf [125008660060] |This will prompt for password [125008660070] |Now you have to delete last two lines where you see power-save option [125008660080] |Save and exit the file. [125008660090] |If you want you can take backup of the above file before doing any changes [125008660100] |Credit goes here [125008670010] |How to Silence Sony Vaio laptop fan Using Vaiofand [125008670020] |Vaiofand is a Linux system daemon to tame the noisy fans of Sony Vaio laptops. [125008670030] |These fans are permanently regulated by BIOS and thus do not allow for standard software management. [125008670040] |Moreover, they are usually spinning at considerably higher rate than necessary and so generate excessive noise. [125008670050] |Vaiofand monitors the system temperature and maintains the fan speed at user defined rate by constantly overruling the settings made by BIOS. [125008670060] |Vaiofand can also make further adjustments to the fan speed when the temperature reaches user defined thresholds. [125008670070] |Vaiofand features [125008670080] |* Fully configurable through /etc/vaiofand.conf (temperature thresholds, desired fan speed, frequency of checks) [125008670090] |* Temperature being monitored at all times and fan automatically set to full speed if temperature approaches critical levels to prevent system damage [125008670100] |* Handling temperatures in degrees Celsius, Fahrenheit or even in Kelvins (hardcore physicists supported) [125008670110] |* Ability to run in suspended mode and save unnecessary CPU interrupts when temperature gets low enough for BIOS to slow down the fan by itself [125008670120] |* Full-fledged Unix daemon architecture, robust signal handlers, running in chrooted environment and with dropped privileges [125008670130] |* Running with slightly elevated priority to achieve more consistent cooling results [125008670140] |* Fast, efficient code in C [125008670150] |* Simple installation, including init scripts for major Linux distributions [125008670160] |* On-the-fly reconfiguration capability [125008670170] |* Debugging mode with logging into syslog to facilitate users’ tuning [125008670180] |Supported hardware [125008670190] |Vaiofand needs the files /dev/sonypi and /sys/devices/platform/sony-laptop/fanspeed to be present in your system. [125008670200] |These files may be missing in some of the newest Vaio series. [125008670210] |Kernel support for these lines is a bit lacking. [125008670220] |Unfortunately vaiofand has absolutely no means of controlling the fan without the necessary support in the kernel. [125008670230] |For list of supported hardware and further information see the official website from here [125008670240] |Install Vaiofand in Ubuntu [125008670250] |For Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Users [125008670260] |Open the terminal and enter the following command [125008670270] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vaiofand/ppa [125008670280] |For Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) users [125008670290] |Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file [125008670300] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list [125008670310] |Add the following lines [125008670320] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/vaiofand/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/vaiofand/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main [125008670330] |Save and exit the file [125008670340] |For Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) users [125008670350] |Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file [125008670360] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list [125008670370] |Add the following lines [125008670380] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/vaiofand/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/vaiofand/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main [125008670390] |Save and exit the file [125008670400] |For Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) users [125008670410] |Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file [125008670420] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list [125008670430] |Add the following lines [125008670440] |deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/vaiofand/ppa/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/vaiofand/ppa/ubuntu hardy main [125008670450] |Save and exit the file [125008670460] |For Ubuntu 9.04,8.10 and 8.04 users need to add the gpg key using the following command [125008670470] |sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys DAB23635 [125008670480] |Update the source list [125008670490] |sudo apt-get update [125008670500] |Install vaiofand [125008670510] |sudo apt-get install vaiofand [125008670520] |If you want to configure edit /etc/vaiofand.conf file (temperature thresholds, desired fan speed, frequency of checks) [125008680010] |Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) LTS Alpha 1 Available For Download [125008680020] |The next version of ubuntu(i.e Ubuntu 10.04) is already under heavy development and the alpha 1 version is ready for download. [125008680030] |Ubuntu 10.04 comprises of Linux Kernel 2.6.32 GNOME Desktop Environment 2.29.3 [125008680040] |Download ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 1 from here [125008680050] |Note:- This is still in alpha version so not recommended to install on your machines [125008690010] |How to fix the Ubuntu GPG Error BADSIG [125008690020] |If you are seeing Ubuntu GPG Error BADSIG use the one of the following methods to fix [125008690030] |Error Message [125008690040] |W: GPG error: http://archive.canonical.com intrepid Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key [125008690050] |Method 1 [125008690060] |Try to run the following comamnds from terminal [125008690070] |$ sudo -i [125008690080] |# apt-get clean [125008690090] |# cd /var/lib/apt [125008690100] |# mv lists lists.old [125008690110] |# mkdir -p lists/partial [125008690120] |# apt-get clean [125008690130] |# apt-get update [125008690140] |Method 2 [125008690150] |Try to run the following comamnds from terminal [125008690160] |sudo aptitude -o Acquire::http::No-Cache=True -o Acquire::BrokenProxy=true update [125008690170] |sudo apt-get update [125008690180] |Credit goes here [125008700010] |How to install Avant Window Navigator (AWN) in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) [125008700020] |Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. [125008700030] |It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list. [125008700040] |Prerequisites [125008700050] |You need to make sure that your X installation has the “Composite” extension enabled.In this tutorial we have already discussed how to enable compiz fusion in Ubuntu 9.10 [125008700060] |Install awn in Ubuntu 9.10 [125008700070] |Open the “Software Sources” configuration dialog, located in System ? [125008700080] |Administration ? [125008700090] |Software Sources. [125008700100] |Click on the “Updates” tab and enable the “Recommended Updates” for your distribution. [125008700110] |For example, if you’re running Karmic (9.10), then you would enable “Recommended Updates (karmic-updates)”. [125008700120] |Click on the “Other Software” tab.Click on the “Add” button [125008700130] |In the dialog box that opens up, enter “ppa:awn-testing/ppa” (without the quotes) and click on Add Source [125008700140] |Once added you should see similar to the following screen here click on Close the Software Sources dialog. [125008700150] |You will be prompted to reload your software sources. [125008700160] |Select “Reload”. [125008700170] |Now you can install awn packages using terminal [125008700180] |sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk awn-settings-trunk [125008700190] |or [125008700200] |Open the “Synaptic Package Manager”, located in System ? [125008700210] |Administration ? [125008700220] |Synaptic Package Manager search above two packages and mark for installation [125008700230] |Using AWN [125008700240] |You can now start AWN from Applications->Accessories->Avant Window Navigator [125008700250] |Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen [125008700260] |Configuring AWN [125008700270] |You can open AWN settings from System--->Preferences--->AWN Settings [125008700280] |AWN Preferences screen [125008700290] |AWN Task Manager screen [125008700300] |AWN Applets screen [125008700310] |AWN Themes screen [125008700320] |AWN Advanced screen [125008700330] |AWN in Action [125008700340] |AWN Themes [125008700350] |You can download AWN Themes from here [125008700360] |AWN Plugins [125008700370] |You can download AWN plugins from here [125008700380] |AWN Applets [125008700390] |You can download AWN applets from here [125008710010] |30 reasons why Ubuntu is here to stay [125008710020] |I’ve been using Ubuntu since version 5.04, in 2006. [125008710030] |Since then it has only gotten better. [125008710040] |Here is why I think Ubuntu excels in many points. [125008710050] |

    1 – Free

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    2 – It’s HUGE

    [125008710070] |Its clearly the most used linux distro. [125008710080] |According to Wikipedia, Ubuntu passed 100 million users in April 2009 and many vendors started selling computers with Ubuntu pre-installed: [125008710090] |A number of vendors offer computers with Ubuntu pre-installed, including Dell, Tesco, OP3, Gliese IT, System76, and the South African company Bravium Computers. [125008710100] |- Wikipedia [125008710110] |

    3 – Many resources

    [125008710120] |It is very easy to find help for Ubuntu. [125008710130] |A quick search in Amazon listed 800+ books about Ubuntu. [125008710140] |There’s an official wiki with loads of FAQs, guides and manuals all organized in a practical and reachable way. [125008710150] |If that still haven’t solved your issues there is the “official” forum with over 7.5 million posts. [125008710160] |

    4 – Stable

    [125008710170] |Blue screen of death? [125008710180] |Memory dump ? [125008710190] |Frozen screen? [125008710200] |Unacceptable memory leaks? [125008710210] |Need to reboot it once in a while? [125008710220] |Ubuntu has nothing to do with that son. [125008710230] |I’ve seen reports of up-times as far as 2 years and the system kept smooth. [125008710240] |

    5 – Secure

    [125008710250] |Open source is more secure than closed source applications for many reasons. [125008710260] |More people can detect and fix bugs on open-source software than in closed-source. [125008710270] |Even the Whitehouse and the US Departament of Defense have realized that. [125008710280] |Also Linux protects system critical resources without annoying the user. [125008710290] |

    6 – Commercial support

    [125008710300] |Ubuntu was born with enterprise mentality and thus is has very good commercial support around the world. [125008710310] |Be it for desktop or servers, you can get it at Caonical’s paid support and from its partners. [125008710320] |

    7 – Faster

    [125008710330] |Doesn’t need to be reinstalled every now and then to keep running smooth since there is no registry. [125008710340] |There’s no DLL hell and no viruses. [125008710350] |It also uses less hardware resources. [125008710360] |Ironically like I said bellow on the Wine topic, some Windows games ran faster on Ubuntu for me. [125008710370] |You can see a very good benchmark between Ubuntu and Windows on tuxradar.com’s article. [125008710380] |

    8 – Disk space

    [125008710390] |Ubuntu vs Windows comparing disk space usage. [125008710400] |Altough Ubuntu uses way less disk space, it has more hardware support and comes with Office installed. [125008710410] |Image source: tuxradar.com. [125008710420] |

    9 – No registry

    [125008710430] |With Ubuntu you don’t get that geek registry which is a big exposure of the system, a mess of system and user software configurations mixed forming a SPOF. [125008710440] |

    10 – Office for $679.95 Free!

    [125008710450] |It comes with the free OpenOffice suite which can also open and save in Microsoft Office format. [125008710460] |Full Story