The Arsgeek weblog does an excellent job demonstrating how to add users to your Ubuntu system using a point and click method:
Adding new users to your Ubuntu install is a great way to get your friends and relatives into Linux. They’ll each be able to create a separate Ubuntu experience for themselves by customizing the […]
“I’d love to work with Microsoft.” Those are the unexpected and surpising words uttered by Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu founder and Canonical head honcho. Shuttleworth opened up to Duncan McLeod about the deal with Dell and a range of other topics included the Microsoft patent deal with Novell.
Duncan McLeod spoke to software billionaire […]
The Friendly Linux weblog beat me to the punch and wrote up an extremely detailed review about installing Ubuntu onto a Macbook. It seems that the author had as easy a time as I did:
When I got my MacBook almost a year ago, I instantly fell in love in OS X - it’s Unix, […]
I recently tried to install one my favorite HTML editors, Nvu, from the Ubuntu repositories and realized that it had been removed. If you’re unfamiliar with Nvu, it is a visual web authoring system similar to Dreamweaver. Unfortunately, using “apt-get install nvu” will leave you high and dry. In previous versions of […]
A new user gives his impression after two months of use with Ubuntu. For all the new Linux users out there this is an interesting read since you may share some of the same sentiments as the author. Personally, I love reading articles like this because it makes me think back to the […]
Ars Technica does an excellent job announcing the 7th version of the popular Linux distribution from Red Hat.
his is the first Fedora release to incorporate and unify both the Core and Extra platform components, thus obviating the need for the traditional inclusion of the word “Core” in the distribution’s name. This is also […]
Arsgeek has a nice tutorial that explains how to shutdown and restart your computer from the terminal. This is should x ever crash or if you find yourself without a GUI. It’s pretty simple stuff, but useful if you’ve never seen it before.
sudo reboot
sudo shutdown -h now (shutdown immediately)
sudo shutdown -h +1 […]
Ever since Dell started selling computers preloaded with Ubuntu last week, I’ve been anxiously waiting for a review. Someone published an extremely detailed review in the Ubuntu Forums. It’s got lots of interesting info about the process, the install, and the support. Here’s the intro…
First impression:
Opening the box I was immediately met […]
The Psycho Cats weblog has written a tidy script that streamlines the entire installation of Songbird. I was having a difficult time finding a .deb version of Songbird, and since I was feeling too lazy to compile the application myself, the script Psycho Cats put together came in very nicely. The script does […]
I was pleasantly surprised about how easy it was to get Beryl up and running on Ubuntu 7.04 on my G1 Intel Macbook. The process literally takes less than two minutes. I will also include in this tutorial how to get the the resolution changed to 1280×800 and how to get “right-click” functionality.
After […]
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