Usually when you install Ubuntu, it will ask you for your username and assign a hostname to you, such as damien@damien-laptop. This is also what you will see in your terminal. If you don’t like the hostname shown in the terminal, or for some reason that you want to change the hostname, here’re the exact [...]

January 28th, 2012 by cj2003

Tired of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop environment? Try Cinnamon, the latest desktop environment from Linux Mint. Cinnamon offers a more traditional, GNOME 2-like layout, but it’s based on the modern GNOME Shell — and you can install it on Ubuntu.

January 28th, 2012 by cj2003

Full Circle Issue #57 – Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our fifty-seventh issue.

January 28th, 2012 by cj2003

David Mandala of Canonical talked last week at Linux.Conf.Au 2012 about the history of Ubuntu Linux supporting the ARM architecture, what’s coming up for Ubuntu ARM in the 12.04 LTS release, and even what’s expected from Ubuntu on ARM as far out as 2015.

January 28th, 2012 by cj2003

The Ubuntu development team has announced that the Ubuntu Developer Week for the 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” cycle will take place from 31 January to 2 February 2012. Over the course of the three days, contributors and members of the Ubuntu community will present various online workshops including tutorials and hands-on sessions focused on Ubuntu development.

January 28th, 2012 by cj2003

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 249 for the week January 16 – 22, 2012.

January 26th, 2012 by cj2003

Say hello to the Head-Up Display, or HUD, which will ultimately replace menus in Unity applications. Here’s what we hope you’ll see in 12.04 when you invoke the HUD from any standard Ubuntu app that supports the global menu:

January 26th, 2012 by cj2003

Today we will see how to make an incredible and surprising combination of a low-performance PCs and a nice TV or projector. Our goal is to turn that old PC into a fantastic Media Center, which will give you many possibilities. From the view of Film and/or video, to listen to music (excellent if you [...]

January 26th, 2012 by cj2003

Think Unity means you need to find another Linux distribution? Try one of these tools first. If you’re still not happy, then you can start looking around for a new desktop or a new distribution.

January 26th, 2012 by cj2003

With Ubuntu 12.04 scheduled for release in April 2012, the Ubuntu developers have released a test version of Unity 5.0, the newest version of Ubuntu’s desktop interface.

January 26th, 2012 by cj2003

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines [...]

January 23rd, 2012 by cj2003

If you’re using MySQL replication, then you’re probably counting on it for some fairly important need. Monitoring via Nagios is generally considered a best practice. This article assumes you’ve already got your Nagios server setup and your intention is to add a Ubuntu 10.04 NRPE client

January 22nd, 2012 by cj2003

The Unity desktop environment that was recently made default in Ubuntu Linux has been nothing if not controversial, as has the alternative GNOME 3. Fortunately, thanks to the customizability that has long been a hallmark of open source software in general and Linux in particular, you can modify both of these desktops so that they [...]

January 22nd, 2012 by cj2003

In this month’s print edition of PC World, reader David Crickmer mentions he’d like to see a series about getting started in Linux. Since this blog largely revolves around the portly penguin, I thought I’d give it a go …And I have chosen Ubuntu for the guide

January 22nd, 2012 by cj2003

A LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT 2.0 recently arrived at our house. Of course it only comes with proprietary support for Windows/Mac, so I set out to see what FOSS support for the hardware I could find.

January 22nd, 2012 by cj2003

We recently published a how to about how to install Unity 5.0 in Ubuntu 12.04. But now even the Ubuntu 11.10 users can install and test Unity 5.0, thanks to the power of PPA. You just need to remember that Unity 5.0 is not stable yet and it might break certain things.

January 18th, 2012 by cj2003

There is no doubt that Canonical is looking at the ARM based hardware for its tablets. But Microsoft seemed to have nipped Ubuntu’s Tablet in the bud. The company tweaked its Windows Hardware Certification Requirements to effectively ban most alternative operating systems on ARM-based devices that ship with Windows 8.

January 18th, 2012 by cj2003

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 248 for the week January 9 – 15, 2012.

January 18th, 2012 by cj2003

Emerald Window Decorator is not available in the Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot repositories so to make it easier to install, I’ve uploaded the latest stable Emerald version (0.9.5) to the main WebUpd8 PPA.

January 16th, 2012 by cj2003

Ubuntu TV can already be compiled – instructions available on the Ubuntu wiki, and using those instructions, you can run it without installing it, which is actually the best way to do it (since it doesn’t replace Unity 2D), but if you don’t like to compile stuff, you can use a test PPA I’ve created [...]

January 14th, 2012 by cj2003

Are you a cutting edge Ubuntu user that’s been using Precise Pangolin since it was made available December 1? If you are, you’ll want to try out the just-released Unity 5.0. It’s an absolute test version, and you won’t want to install it on your production machine, but if you’re running 12.04 we’ll assume you’re [...]

January 14th, 2012 by cj2003

The new interface introduced with the latest version of Ubuntu has had a mixed response. MyUnity offers an easy way to change some of the visual settings. This can make the Launcher and Unity in general easier to use as well as that satisfaction in having it set up exactly as you want

January 14th, 2012 by cj2003

Documentation that describes how to compile and install the components from source code can be found on a page in the official Ubuntu wiki. We installed the Ubuntu TV environment on a conventional desktop computer in order to conduct hands-on testing. We also took a close look at the code to see how the new [...]

January 14th, 2012 by cj2003

“The strategy is to move Ubuntu beyond the PC space where we traditionally have been working,” Peter Goodall, Product Manager for Product Strategy at Canonical told InternetNews.com. “So we’re adapting Ubuntu to multiple devices.”

January 14th, 2012 by cj2003

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 11.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible [...]

January 14th, 2012 by cj2003

The Ubuntu Technical Board has approved three separate proposals which will see Long Term Support (LTS) editions of the KDE-based Kubuntu, Xfce-based Xubuntu and education-oriented Edubuntu appear alongside Ubuntu 12.04 LTS when it is released in April

January 11th, 2012 by cj2003

The Ubuntu developers have now decided to switch older versions of Ubuntu, specifically the 10.04 LTS and 10.10 releases, to current releases of Firefox. The new policy will come into place on 17 January when users of those two editions will see their Firefox updated to the current version.

January 11th, 2012 by cj2003

One of my focus for this cycle is to get Ubuntu’s support for complex networking working in a predictable way. The idea was to review exactly what’s happening at boot time, get a list of possible scenario that are used on servers in corporate environment and make sure these always work.

January 10th, 2012 by cj2003

Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth promised that Ubuntu would come to TVs eventually, but we never expected it would arrive so quickly. A concept preview is here at CES for convention goers to get their eyeballs on and we’ll be swinging through the company’s booth to get some hands-on.

January 10th, 2012 by cj2003

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 247 for the week December 19, 2011 – January 8, 2012.

January 10th, 2012 by cj2003