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Ubuntu Netbook Edition Review

Posted Thu, 2010-09-23 13:15 by gg234

I got a very good conditioned asus eeepc 701 and the first distro of choice after chatting on freenode channel #eeepc was ubuntu netbook edition or une for short (10.04 Lucid). I took the advice and installed away via the instructions from the webpage but there was a glitch.. I ended up having to mount the usb and having to rename the file isolinux.cfg inside of the isolinux directory to syslinux.cfg as well as renaming the folder isolinux to syslinux.

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Syncing your BlackBerry on Ubuntu

Posted Mon, 2010-09-20 11:18 by gg234

Barry is an Open Source application that will provide synchronization, backup, restore and program management for BlackBerry ™ devices. Barry is primarily developed on Linux, but is intended as a cross platform library and application set, targeting Linux, BSD, 32/64bit, and big/little endian systems.

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Steadyflow - New download manager for ubuntu and installation instructions included

Posted Fri, 2010-09-17 23:37 by gg234

Steadyflow is new download manager with the following features

* A basic GNOME download manager, supporting all URL protocols known by GIO/GVFS. This includes, among others, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and SMB.

* Pausing, resuming, and restarting downloads upon application restart.

* An application indicator, or a notification area icon for platforms without Ayatana libraries.

* An instant search/filter box.

* Ability to add downloads via the command line and D-Bus, for browser extension writers.

* Notification bubbles upon starting and finishing downloads (can be disabled).

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How to install Adobe flash 10.2 (Preview) in Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) Using PPA

Posted Thu, 2010-09-16 18:46 by gg234

Finally adobe released adobe flash preview version for 64-bit systems you can install this in ubuntu 10.10 using PPA

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Install VLMC in ubuntu 10.04 using PPA

Posted Tue, 2010-09-14 08:46 by gg234

VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation based on libVLC and running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!.It is a free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2.

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Howto install gimp 2.6.10 in ubuntu 10.04(Lucid)

Posted Mon, 2010-09-13 10:57 by gg234

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.

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MirrorBrain - Download Redirector and generates Metalinks, Torrents and crypto-hashes

Posted Thu, 2010-09-09 16:30 by gg234

MirrorBrain is an open source framework to run a content delivery network using mirror servers. It solves a challenge that many popular open source projects face - a flood of download requests, often magnitudes more than a single site could practically handle.

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How to fix fglrx error after upgrading to 2.6.35 kernel in Ubuntu lucid

Posted Wed, 2010-09-08 11:36 by gg234

This tutorial will explain How to fix fglrx error after upgrading to 2.6.35 kernel in Ubuntu lucid

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Linux Server Monitoring with Bijk

Posted Mon, 2010-09-06 13:17 by gg234

How you can monitor your server and performs usage? With Bijk you get online 30 graphs about Load, CPU, memory,traffic, Apache, PostreSQL and others with Alerts. Bijk can be used on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat and with Cloud providers.

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Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Beta Screenshots Gallery

Posted Mon, 2010-09-06 13:16 by gg234

The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Maverick Meerkat Beta is the beta release of Ubuntu 10.10, bringing with it new features for the next version of Ubuntu.This Screenshots Gallery includes installation process,Desktop,applications

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Step By Step Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) LAMP Server Setup

Posted Mon, 2010-08-30 08:35 by gg234

In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache,MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.The LAMP option means you don’t have to install and integrate each of the four separate LAMP components.

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How to install Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.6 beta in ubuntu 10.04/9.10

Posted Fri, 2010-08-27 08:15 by gg234

Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.It provides many useful desktop and system ptions that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide.With its help, you will enjoy with the experience of Ubuntu!

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How to install Mint Style Gnome Menu in Ubuntu

Posted Fri, 2010-08-20 13:26 by gg234

For those of you who ave ever tried Linux Mint, a distro which is run off the back of Ubuntu, you will have oticed that it has it’s own special and somewhat unique gnome menu to select your applications to run, folders to browse etc

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Torrent Search - Torrent searching application for the Gnome desktop environment

Posted Wed, 2010-08-18 10:27 by gg234

Torrent Search is a torrent searching application for the Gnome desktop environment. It looks for torrent files on different websites, and allows the user
to filter the results, making it very easy to find the torrent you want.

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Creating a VPN in Minutes Using Remobo

Posted Wed, 2010-08-11 12:02 by gg234

Remobo is a free software which can be used to replace the paid versions of existing difficult to use VPN setups as it can create a VPN instantly and securely. It lets you login easily and add users to your buddy list, and create a secure network for you. In private chat messaging, the file sharing client helps share information within the buddy list as well. Remobo lets you control your computer and access files securely while away from the system.

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