As an Ubuntu user on a Macbook, my lack of a right-click button has been a pretty big annoyance. For those of you who didn’t realize, by default Ubuntu forces the F12 key to emulate the right-click button. Unfortunately, when I first installed Ubuntu on my Macbook (obviously I don’t have a right-click […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Ubuntu Blog walks you through the installation process for over 300 free fonts available in the Ubuntu repositories. The Ubuntu Blog does an excellent job bringing to light many fonts that are completely unknown to myself and most of the community as a whole. This is an extremely easy and quick way […]
Arsgeek has an excellent tutorial that demonstrates how to create and print to a PDF printer in Ubuntu. Basically, this process lets you create PDFs out of any file, in any program. The process only takes five steps.
Ever wanted to print a document of just about any sort to a virtual printer […]
Eric D. Schabell released a group of classes he teaches on Linux for free under the GFDL. The classes are totally web-based and are fantastic. The following is the complete listing of the classes offered:
Linux First Steps
Day 1 - Linux history and installation.
Day 2 - Linux basics.
Day 3 - Linux customization.
Day 4 - […]
Beryl, Compiz, and Mac OS-esque docks have been gaining popularity very quickly recently. The Kiba Dock (formerly Akamaru) leverages the Beryl and Compiz libraries to create some very impressive results that shame Vista Aero and OS X Aqua. Pimp Your Linux does an awesome job reviewing Kiba and showing some of the extremely […]
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