Based on Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu concentrates on usability, regular releases, ease of installation, and freedom from legal restrictions. Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd., a private company founded by South African entrepreneur Mark...
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Based on Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu concentrates on usability, regular releases, ease of installation, and freedom from legal restrictions. Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd., a private company founded by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth.
Time Vault is a GNOME-based Linux-equivalent to Time Machine from Apple. Like many backup utilities, it creates incremental backups of files that can be restored at a later date. Its snapshots are copies of a directory at a certain point in time. Snapshots use very little space for the files that haven't changed since the last snapshot was made. This is because instead of backing up the entire unchanged file, snapshots use hard links that point to the existing backup of the unchanged file... Read Full Story
With yesterday's announcement of the 4.1.0 release of KDE, my willpower did not allow me to go another day without giving KDE4 another shot. For a bit of history, I have been using Gnome for several years. In the past 3 months or so I began using KDE 3.5.9 long enough that I began to enjoy it and realize that it is a nice desktop environment as well. At this point I really have no favorite between the two and like different things about both of them.
When the first releases of KDE 4... Read Full Story
I originally wrote this guide as a sort of Ubuntu / Fedora guide. .... 11) To run the game, change to your COD4 folder under your .wine folder and run wine ... Read Full Story
You’ve just installed Ubuntu. You’re feeling good about yourself, but then you ask yourself, “Now what?” You’ve got this big brown screen in front of you and you may not even have a clue what to do next. Well if this describes you, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s a list of what I [...]
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The first Long Term Support updated image for Ubuntu 8.04 has been released. This release contains all the security and bug fixes in the two months since it was released, including Firefox 3 final. If you tried 8.04 and had an issue with a bug, you may want to give it another try. read more | digg story Read Full Story
Have you ever heard of Mark Shuttleworth ? I hadn't either until I saw the following video on Youtube. Mark Shuttleworth is the founder of Canonical LTD . the corporate sponsor of Ubuntu Linux . Shuttleworth got rich during the big dot com boom in the late 90's when he founded Thawte , the SSL certificate company, which he later sold to Verisign . Later, he took his millions and started Canonical, and the rise against Bill Gates. The below video features him talking about the Ubuntu project... Read Full Story
So what if Ubuntu is a fast operating system?... There is always room for some more tweaking... and I am talking here about some aspects that are NOT useful for the end-users (yes YOU, the regular Ubuntu user). The hacks presented in this guide will greatly improve the overall performance of your Ubuntu 8.04 Linux OS. Read more... Blogged with the Flock Browser Read Full Story
This article shows how you can install the Zimbra Desktop email client on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) desktop. HowTo... Blogged with the Flock Browser Read Full Story
