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May 1st, 2008

What’s your Ubuntu 8.04 experience like?

Just curious. What’s it like for you?
Was it hell? Did you need much tweaking? Were there times that you had to reinstall or you had to reconfigure something?
Drop by and let us know here on New Linux User.;)
Edit: Sorry I had a typo! :( It’s Ubuntu 8.04 indeed. Thanks for the comments.
Tags: ubuntu, user […]

By Clair -- 7 comments

April 30th, 2008

Review: Hackett and Bankwell Issue #1

I was lucky to have received my copy of Hackett and Bankwell Issue 1 this week. (Thanks so much to Intarcorp who sent me a copy!) I saw that there’s a huge penguin on the cover. Yay! Hooray for penguins! :D It’s an interesting way to study using Linux especially Ubuntu.
Things I liked about […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

April 25th, 2008

Ubuntu Linux on the Nokia 800

Last year there were news about Nokia 770 and Debian Linux. A while ago I read about Ubuntu coming to Nokia 800. From the article, Ubuntu is already running on an SD card. :D Sounds exciting. It’s just that the Nokia 800 will probably be a high-end consumer device here in the […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

April 24th, 2008

Ubuntu Hardy Heron is out!

And yes, the servers will be hammered by requests of people wanting to download the ISOs.
So use the mirrors, ok? :D
If you need a cheatsheet on the commands you might need, you could check out yesterday’s post and if you want to think about how you should partition and mount your Windows partition if you’re […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

April 12th, 2008

Want to overclock your Asus EEE?

Overclock your Asus EEE
Lilliputing has a tip for all you Asus EEE fans and users out there.
If you’re running Xandros, you can check out EeeControl. The latest version of the Ubuntu Script Pack should have you covered if you’ve installed Ubuntu. And for Windows users, there’s Eeectl.
But there’s a warning that you might […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

March 28th, 2008

Get rid of the Broadcom blues~!

I saw this tip from one of the blogs on Planet Ubuntu:

* Create file /etc/init.d/ndiswrapper
o gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/ndiswrapper
* Add the text below, save and close
o #! […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

March 26th, 2008

Ubuntu 6.10 exits, Enter Ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu 6.10’s almost at the end of its support period, coming this April 25, 2008. For those of you are wondering how to upgrade, check out the Feisty Upgrades page. However, the upcoming release is in beta already. Details are on the Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Release page. As it is still in […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

March 21st, 2008

Share your ideas on Ubuntu Brainstorm

Ubuntu users have an outlet for their ideas on Ubuntu Brainstorm. If you’ve been thinking about a feature that would help you and fellow new Linux users, you could pitch in your ideas and even receive comments and votes on it.
The guidelines for submitting an idea:
Just register, click ‘Submit idea’ and enter a title […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

February 23rd, 2008

My restored system set-up

I own a Lenovo C3000 N100. It’s not that new and I’ve been dual-booting Windows XP Home (it came with that) and Ubuntu Linux since I got it. Over time, I’ve installed Windows apps which I couldn’t uninstall and for some reason or another, my directory containing the shared files of all users […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

March 21st, 2006

Explanation: What’s the ROOT Password in K/Ubuntu?

K/Ubuntu (meaning Ubuntu and Kubuntu) force the use of sudo rather than allowing users to switch to the root account proper.
In order to run a command that would normally require root privileges, use sudo commandname instead of su.
Since I appear to be able to run any command on my Kubuntu system using sudo, I’m […]

By Jon -- 6 comments

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