An alternative OS with Google Apps and other Web 2.0 apps for the masses. Mac-like desktop with a series of program icons “docked” across the bottom. The icons are bookmarks to popular and useful Web 2.0 services from Google and other vendors. There are icons for Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and YouTube, for [...]
Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavour of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional. It is an official derivative of the Ubuntu open source operating system and comes with applications such as Ardour2, Wired, Hydrogen, Blender, Inkscape, Pitivi, and many more, as well as a beautiful dark theme.
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Oxygen Office Professional (formely know as OpenOffice.org Premium) is a free and open source enhancement of official OpenOffice.org plus some Extras for you to use. OxygenOffice Professional the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a [...]
This site has a wonderful collection of tutorials and random other pages that will help Ubuntu users.
Just BeginningIntroductionPlan PartitionsDownload and Burn UbuntuBurn ISO from MacInstall Desktop CD UbuntuInstall Alternate CD UbuntuModest SpecsWhere’s the Terminal?Install SoftwareExtra RepositoriesFile PermissionsSecurity in Ubuntu
Next StepsMount WindowsInstall FlashInstall New FirefoxInstall SwiftfoxInstall ThunderbirdUse Wine
Beyond the Basicsaptitude v. apt-getUpgrade to DapperUpgrade to EdgyInstall Flash [...]
Having problems installing something on your new Ubuntu operating system? “Where’s the EXE?”, “Where do I need to extract this to?”, “How do I run it?”, “Where did it go?” - have you been thinking questions like these? Don’t worry, installing software, themes and other things on Ubuntu is actually very easy! This guide [...]
NoMachine NX NoMachine NX is a Terminal Server and Remote Access solution based on a comprising set of enterprise class open source technologies. Thanks to the outstanding compression, session resilience and resource management developed on top of the X-Window system, and the integration with the powerful audio, printing and resource sharing capabilities of the Unix [...]
Q: How to install GNOME on Ubuntu Server?A: Just to make sure run sudo apt-get update Then runsudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktopsudo apt-get install gdmsudo /etc/init.d/gdm startsudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorgGdm is what handles your x system starting automatically instead of entering start x at the command line each time you boot. The reconfigure runs the xserver setup [...]
Feather Linux is a Linux distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive and takes up under 128Mb of space. It is a Knoppix remaster (based on Debian), and tries to include software which most people would use every day on their desktop.
Feather Linux can run from a CD or a [...]
Login as root in ubuntu
sudo -s
Other basic command
sudo su : Super User rights from within the terminalsudo : super user run this commandls : list directory contentsls -lis : list directory content is list viewcd : change directorycd /dirname : jump change a directoryapt-get install : gets app from web and installs [NOTE from dannyboy: [...]
This HowTo is for those who complain that the ubuntu boot-up speed is pretty slow, but not willing to install any alternative tools to speed up. The way I use here is not the ultimate solution by any means, but it does make differences and it does work. Everything done below is by tuning [...]
Distributions that ship GNOME as their Default Desktophttp://www.gnome.org/~davyd/footware.shtmlhttp://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhathttp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/RHEL5-Beta1/client/i386/
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