To keep your system in optimum shape, you need to be able to monitor it closely. Ubuntu provides a wealth of utilities designed to give you as little or as much feedback as you want. In this sample chapter, Paul and Andrew Hudson look at some of the basic monitoring tools and cover some tactics [...]

However, my main PC at home utilizes a 64-bit version of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, and Virtualbox didn't support 64-bit OSes — until this month. Now that I've tried it, I'm happy to report it works just as well as its 32-bit sibling.
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Other than a few minor annoyances, everything else worked fine [...]

Full Circle – the Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud toannounce our second issue.
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Full Circle – the Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud toannounce our second issue.
It contains : * Kubuntu install step-by-step * How-To : Install Ubuntu on Intel Mac Mini, Virtual Private Networking, Learning Scribus part 2 [...]

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or compilation are needed.
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Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and [...]

Even if you?re not as passionate about new operating systems as I am, if you?re at all a Linux fan you should be excited about the latest Ubuntu release. Why? Because it?s going to fix one of the four major issues keeping Linux off desktops.
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So what the heck are those things? BulletProofX [...]

Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10 has just been released for testing. And we have screenshots too.
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Pre-releases of Gutsy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers [...]

The Base Edition of NGO-in-a-box is a collection of essentialtools for running a small-to-medium sized NGO [Non-GovernmentalOrganization].
From their web site: http://base.ngoinabox.org/
The Base Edition of NGO-in-a-box is a collection of essentialtools for running a small-to-medium sized NGO [Non-GovernmentalOrganization -- KJC]. You can use this toolkit to set up andcoordinate your office, organise and manage projects, collaborateonline [...]

Dell isn't resting on its recent consumer Linux PC laurels. The computing giant has added a new laptop — the Inspiron 1420 Notebook — to its Ubuntu Linux 7.04 offering
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The new Inspiron 1420N is powered by a 1.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 processor. This chip set also comes with a [...]

Many of the recent torrent site downloads of the new version of Ubuntu 7.04 have been loaded with well hidden trojan horses.
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Many are reporting to have found keyloggers and auto ad loaders buried within the new operating system. The totally free of charge operating system as been reported to ask for a [...]

I?ve always said that for Linux to have a chance on the desktop it must be turned into Windows. I know how that might sound to most, but that statement is completely true.
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The majority of the desktop user-base want their hand held and told that everything is okay. And Linux slaps them [...]

So I think it?s a good idea to write this down somewhere for the next time I have to do the same bloody thing over again on any new servers.
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I had to constantly refer to the different sources since there wasn?t a complete page which had everything I needed for my particular [...]

In this issue we cover Dell's live thread about Ubuntu, Jordan Mantha joining the Ubuntu Core Team, planned features for Gutsy, the release of Launchpad 1.1.6 and much more.
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 46 for the week June17th – June 23rd, 2007. In this issue we cover Dell's live threadabout Ubuntu, Jordan Mantha [...]

After a few days of testing, I'm a [Ubuntu-Dell] skeptic no more. And I'm not alone. Dell insiders tell me that the Ubuntu PCs, introduced in late May, are selling well — though they decline to share exact sales figures with me.
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Dell's initial success with Ubuntu apparently has caught Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) [...]

Chicago Sun-times tries Ubuntu and sees it as perfect for a 2nd PC and that you can run it alongside Windows if you want
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So with Ubuntu, for example, getting your display running at full resolution merely requires that from the menu bar, you click on System >Administration >Synaptic Package Manager. Then search [...]

We?ve seen this Ubuntu installer for Windows before, but now it has new features and a new name: Wubi Beta. It uses no confusing lingo, and even lets you choose a variety of options that similar applications don?t offer.
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Now you?re probably thinking to yourself “why not just use a LiveCD if someone wants [...]

Ubuntu for Non-Geeks is a pain-free, project-based, get-things-done guidebook. It even says so right on the cover.
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The book consists of 18 chapters, The first three chapters introduce the reader to some basic Linux concepts and walk them through installing and first starting up Ubuntu, including a look at the live CD [...]

Let me put it simply: If you have any experience using Mac OS or Windows, you?ll master Ubuntu in a matter of minutes.
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I showed her OpenOffice and Firefox. She was surfing the web and typing away on our Ubuntu PC in a matter of minutes. Fast forward two days. She probably doesn?t remember [...]

That said, his box now sports Ubuntu, and he provides a step by step description of how he installed version 6.06 on his decTOP.
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For a while, AMD was offering a $185 Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) designed to, “bring Internet access to 50 percent of the world's population by 2015″.

The focus will be the packages samba, php5, openssh, mysql, apache2, postfix, and openldap2.3.
Time for some bug chasing
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The list of specific bugs will be finalized shortly before the start of the 27th to ensure that all the bugs on it still need attention. Our goal is to deal with all of the bugs on [...]

Now that I have truly upgraded to Ubuntu, I want to be able to access my machine remotely. This blog post describes two methods.
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First things first. You must make sure you can access your computer through the Internet. If you don?t have a static IP address, this means you must subscribe [...]

As you probably know, CGI is not scalable and we needed to scale in PHP4 and PHP5 since we needed to server millions of hits in both configurations.
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1. Run Apache 2. Use mod_php for both PHP versions. 3. Run eAccelerator with both PHP versions. [...]

Ubuntu is a great distro, but it still needs some slight tweaking to get it just right. I?m going to show you how to use Automatix2 to get your OS perfected.
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3. Install Swiftfox and Plugins
Swiftfox is an optimized version of Firefox that is tuned to your specific processor. The web is chock full [...]

After all, you?ve successfully networked your computers together and even shared files with all your home computers, so why not the Internet?
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Well if you have a small home network of computers all connected and have tried to open up a browser, you?ve probably found out that things aren?t quite as straight forward [...]

This how to will show you how to install a Skype client in Ubuntu & Debian base operating system.
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Skype is perhaps the most popular client to make calls from your computer to any phone lines in the world. With SkypeIn subscription, you can even get an international phone number for everybody to call you, a [...]

Now that the Vista to Ubuntu switch is complete and I have had some time to use Ubuntu in a productive environment? I can say that I love Ubunutu
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Everything was not all smooth sailing, especially when it came to setting up my two monitors, both on Ubuntu and on VMware. But after setting [...]

This article at The inquirer shows lightweight Windows and Linux for low-end machines with DSL and Xubuntu and several other distributions.
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Xubuntu is an official variant of Ubuntu based around the Xfce desktop and GTK+ applications instead of the standard Ubuntu's GNOME desktop and apps. It's not vastly slimmer than vanilla Ubuntu – you [...]

The other day it was pointed out to me that a ?flaw? was that if ubuntu was booted into recovery mode that the user was then given root access without the need of a password.
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One of the greatest features that Linux has to offer, is the ability to customize your version so that [...]

Ubuntu was being offered as a free download on the Windows Marketplace. How could such a thing happen?
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The Windows Marketplace indexes several popular download sites for software, and CNet is one of those sites. Someone had actually submitted Ubuntu to CNet as an application that runs on all versions of Windows, [...]

I?ve finally had a chance to run my Ubuntu PC from Dell. I can see why the systems aren?t quite ready for all users.
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Advanced users who are tired of spyware and bloatware will surely welcome Ubuntu. I?m not saying Ubuntu is more secure than Windows. But it certainly isn?t a big target [...]

I want to show you how to install Xoops on Ubuntu. I used the Ubuntu 6.10 Server Edition, but it will probably work on other systems as well.
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Xoops is a modern Content-Management-System which can be extended with a variety of modules. Further information about Xoops can be read on the official Website.