I was talking with someone yesterday who is hacking a WordPress theme together. If you work with web sites, being able to run a site locally allows testing, experimentation, developing new themes and even just checking that a software update isn’t going to break your site.

September 2nd, 2010 by cj2003

Before you can run Squeak 4.1 on your Ubuntu System you must have a recent Squeak VM installed. In Squeak on Ubuntu reloaded I described a way how to easily achieve that.

September 2nd, 2010 by cj2003

The program avr-size is part of the AVR-GCC toolchain used to develop programs for that line of microprocessors. The program tells you how much space the code will take up on the chip, important information if you’re trying to cram a program into a small program memory.

September 2nd, 2010 by cj2003

Ubuntu has done a lot to popularize sudo by enforcing its use in place of encouraging users to use su to switch to the root account to install software and perform other administrative tasks. But there’s much more to sudo that users and admins should know.

September 2nd, 2010 by cj2003

One of the most significant changes is the Software Center, which provides a simple, user-friendly way to find and install your choice of thousands of free, open source apps. While there are many ways to install apps in Ubuntu 10.04, the easiest way is to click Applications from the top-left panel and select Ubuntu Software [...]

September 2nd, 2010 by cj2003

Ubuntu Stack Exchange is a community driven Q&A site for both Ubuntu users and developers, currently in public beta. The idea is simple: you post a question and wait for the answers;

September 1st, 2010 by cj2003

Ubuntu is one such great version of Linux which has been improved a lot since its made public, some days back I was playing around the option in Ubuntu 10.04 on my desktop machine, suddenly I right clicked on the top panel shown in Ubuntu and selected Delete This Panel.

September 1st, 2010 by cj2003

If you are social on the web and want to organize all your accounts in one client under Ubuntu Linux 10.04 aka Lucid Lynx… then this tutorial is for you. Gwibber, a social client that comes standard with Lucid lets you manage your Twitter, Flickr, Facebook microblogging accounts and more, all in one place right [...]

September 1st, 2010 by cj2003

Ubuntu developer, Dave Walker, shares more insight into the development of Ubunutu 10.10. This month, the Ubuntu platform sprint rally goes under the spotlight…

August 31st, 2010 by cj2003

An Ubuntu Live CD has many useful purposes and is handy when installed on a USB flash drive. UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on both Windows and Linux.

August 31st, 2010 by cj2003

Fortunately, in my desperate scouring to work out an easy method of doing this, I have found some tools to make the job easier. And that’s what this article is all about, getting slapd up and running on a Ubuntu machine so you too can have LDAP running.

August 31st, 2010 by cj2003

Rather than drag through the complete installation procedure, I will give a summary of the results first. However, as there have been some comments recently about “everyone says installing Linux is easy, but then it sounds difficult”, I will include the installation procedure at the end. It really is very, very easy.

August 31st, 2010 by cj2003

Think you all knew this already, the c-korn/vlc ppa has been removed by the author himself. You can’t live without PPAs in Ubuntu especially for most downloaded apps like VLC. Guys at LFFL have made a dedicated PPA for VLC. I just gave it a try and it worked awesome.

August 31st, 2010 by cj2003

For this article, we’ll show you how to build a single Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X, Windows 7 (64-bit), and Ubuntu 10.04. You’ll also need a Windows 7 DVD, a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD, and a blank CD or DVD for the Ubuntu install. Soon, you’ll be able to run Apple’s [...]

August 31st, 2010 by cj2003

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 208 for the week of August 22nd – August 28th, 2010.

August 31st, 2010 by cj2003

This scenario depicts backup of desktop (assuming that IP address is 192.168.0.100) data to a backup server. My desktop runs on Ubuntu 10.04 and backup server runs on Debian Squeeze.

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

There’s lots of info spread around on how to install various older versions of Ubuntu under various older versions of Virtual PC, but I didn’t find any referring to the newish Ubuntu 10.4 and VPC on Win 7.

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

The svelt, modular Linux kernel has breathed new life into many aging PCs, and Canonical has been working on a netbook-specific interface for Ubuntu for some time. They have multitouch support, now, too, so couldn’t they pretty quickly roll out a wonderful Ubuntu-powered tablet?

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

I must confess that having eulogised Ubuntu 10.04, I consequently found it challenging to identify anything I didn’t like about it. But ‘like’ is such a relative term and, as we all know, no operating system is perfect. So after much reflection, I did come up with 10 things to address in one of the [...]

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

Remastersys is a tool which can be used to create a custom live Ubuntu / Debian CD. But it’s not like the other such tools we’ve already covered as it can be used to clone your current installation which you can then use to either share it with your friends or create your own Ubuntu [...]

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

The first page which you can use is the Ubuntu wiki page – UsingDevelopmentReleases. It has tonnes of info and links that you can use during your development time. The first thing you’ll need is an environment to develop in. A place where whatever crap you end up doing isn’t going to damage your happy [...]

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

Canonical planned on introducing Btrfs support in the upcoming Ubuntu release, i.e. Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. They even said that it might be the default filesystem in Maverick. According to a recent update in the Ubuntu Btrfs Support blueprints, Btrfs will not make it to Maverick.

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

There are times when you may not want ubuntu to make a loud sound just in case your computer is common room and you don’t want to disturb others or you may not want to hear the booting sound in ubuntu while booting it.

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

Although it won’t help Linux run Windows-specific software applications, this easy hack produces an Ubuntu desktop that looks and feels a lot like Windows 7. It’s particularly suitable for reviving older PCs or laptops on which the main activities will be web-browsing, email, document writing, and streaming music and videos from Pandora, YouTube, and elsewhere [...]

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

When Canonical broke the news recently that Ubuntu 10.10 will include uTouch 1.0, a multitouch and gesture stack, it caused a flurry of excitement about the Linux release’s potential for use in tablets.

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

As you probably know, the c-korn/vlc PPA has been removed so Ubuntu users must search for a new PPA to upgrade to the latest VLC versions (currently 1.1.4).

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

Full Circle Magazine – Issue #40 ‘I’m going through changes’ – Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our thirty-nineth issue.

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

Epidermis combines wallpaper, GTK, metacity, icon, splash, usplash, cursor, grub and Xsplash themes in one GUI program for the GNOME desktop.

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

Ubuntu is far and wide the most popular Linux distrobution, although Mint certainly has its advantages for beginners, such as the menu organization. Ubuntu Forums member KdotJ shows us how to add Mint’s GNOME menu to your Ubuntu desktop.

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003

Ubuntu Software Center is something we all overlooked for long. Even while writing tutorials about installing different applications in this blog, I prefer to provide command line instructions only. But a lot of Ubuntu users are new comers and Software Center means a lot to them.

August 30th, 2010 by cj2003