This is a fairly useful trick for older machines using Ubuntu, when your network connection might be weak, or when you have a lot of software to install and don’t want to wait on an old CDROM.
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After looking into what Fedora has done , I think it is clear which distribution is really working hard to attract new users.
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Not Interested Fedora in the Past, Could This Be Changing in the Future? I was never that swept up with past releases of Fedora. There was nothing compelling [...]

My iPod (Mini, 3rd-Generation, 4G Green) died last week — used it every day for the four years i've owned it, so it's had a fairly good run. So, I upgraded to a new, shiny iPod Nano.
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This is part one of a series about MythTV and using Ubuntu as a HTPC. In this article we’ll explain the easiest (or hardest, to some people) step of the process of installing MythTV on Ubuntu Gutsy.
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There are two dominant software projects that provide Linux with a graphical user interface, but only one of them will get long-term support in Ubuntu's next version of the open-source operating system. GNOME, the default user interface for Ubuntu, will receive the support, but KDE won't.
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The reason, according to Canonical, which sponsors [...]

This how to uses Ubuntu 7.10 Server install. But for proof of concept this worked fine. I used an Old Dell GX100 Optiplex with 256 MB of RAM (I don't think I need any more that 128 [maybe even 64MB], but this is what was in the box when I pulled it out of the [...]

My 71 year-old father has agreed to try Ubuntu on his home PC. He has used Windows for years, but after his XP system became so infected with viruses and other malware that I needed to wipe his system, he's willing to try Linux.
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None of this is particularly difficult for a [...]

Ubuntu-Women is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu-Linux, a Debian based free and open-source GNU/Linux software.
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An EC funded study (2006) summarized in the Flosspols report, indicates that about 1.5% of FLOSS community members were female, compared with 28% in proprietary [...]

The Economist makes three technology predictions for 2008, two of which concern web surfing and the third of which concerns everyone, whether they surf the web or not.
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That's largely the doing of Gutsy Gibbon, the code-name for the Ubuntu 7.10 from Canonical….Ubuntu (and its siblings Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu) has smoothed most [...]

I will dedicate most of this post to talk about it’s compability with Linux. I installed the first alpha of Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and I got all of the major features working without a sinch
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Now a quick overview of how compatible this computer is with the GNU/Linux operating system, or more specific with [...]

Full Circle – The Independent Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud toannounce the release of issue eight.
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Full Circle – The Independent Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud toannounce the release of issue eight.
It contains:* Mythbuntu – Step-by-step Install* How-To : Install Wubi, Get a Christmas Desktop, Multi Boot Linux and Learning Scribus Pt.8.* Review of [...]

If you want to have fun with ubuntu terminal this is for you!
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I recently inherited my brothers old laptop, since he didn’t need it no more. It’s a Celeron 2.0 Ghz machine with only 192 megabytes of RAM, since 64 megabytes of the actual 256 megs goes to the radeon graphics-card.
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Debian is really nice on all kinds of systems, and I actually can run [...]

I have to admit that I played and finished Half-Life 2 on a Windows PC, a few years ago (in late 2004) when I hadn’t even heard about Ubuntu, and I simply loved it. Now I want to finish Episode One and Two, on Ubuntu! Without any further introduction, here's what you need to get [...]

Recently I got to read more and more stories about Linux in general (at least that what it was insinuated by the name of the article) where term “Linux” is quite replaced by Ubuntu
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I've told already before, I fear that if the trend goes on (and at the moment I [...]

mt-daapd is a DAAP server that works with most POSIX compatible operating systems. It allows you to share your music collection over the local network using the same protocol iTunes uses, so real iTunes users may peruse your music.
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Moreover, if your music is in more esoteric formats like FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, [...]

Coming from Gentoo, I thought installing anything on Ubuntu would be a breeze. Especially something with so much Internet-hype as Ruby on Rails.
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The news that Dell has now released Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on its boxes has been tempered somewhat by a potential storm of controversy caused by a couple of software packages that come bundled with the Dell Linux PCs. The two bundled packages happen to be proprietary software. Is this going to be a problem?
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Dell has announced, Dec. 19, that it will be releasing PCs with Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) as part of its Dell Consumer Linux lineup along with the ability to legally play DVDs
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Ms. Camden continued, “Possibly in the 'more importantly' category, we are now pre-installing DVD movie playback all Ubuntu [...]

This is an in depth article about how the two Operating systems compare. I personally have not used Leopard but I have tried it out on a demo computer at the store.
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So does Leopard eat up Ubuntu? Or does Ubuntu trounce Leopard? It depends on your needs. [...]

I really liked this InformationWeek article with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu. I liked it in part because I think Mark is an exceptional person. But I also liked it for its insight into why Ubuntu has done so well.
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In my case, the wireless network cards not recognized by Ubuntu were manufactured by LinkSys. So after searching Google I discovered that many wireless cards do not have Linux drivers. The good news is I found an application called Ndiswrapper which allows you to run windows wireless card drivers on Ubuntu.
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This tutorial will show the steps to follow in order to customize an Ubuntu Live CD to your need by removing some component and adding some others.
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During this tutorial, we are going to remaster our Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 Live CD with the following spec:
remove non english language pack Update the softwares [...]

I then booted into Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. Ubuntu 7.10 recognized the external hard drive, but when I tried to access the files, I got a message similar to 'cannot access the drive or you do not have permission to access the folder'.
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Still, despite the lack of access control, both of these options look like easy ways to access your Linux drives in Windows. I had no problems mounting my Ubuntu partition in Windows XP using Linux Reader.
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Phoronix are publishing their first — very initial — benchmarks of Ubuntu 8.04 using the 12-19-2007 daily build and comparing these results to Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. These tests are focused upon OpenGL gaming, encoding, disk, and memory performance.
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So far the performance looks to be roughly the same between the 2.6.22-based Ubuntu [...]

The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. Hardy Heron Alpha 2 is the second alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features.
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This document describes how to set up, configure and use Timevault on Ubuntu 7.10. The resulting system provides a powerful backup system for desktop usage.
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TimeVault is a simple front-end for making snapshots of a set of directories. Snapshots are a copy of a directory structure or file at a certain point in [...]

If you can’t wait for the repository, then these steps are the ones that worked for me. Thanks to Ubuntu-Tutorials.com for leading me in the right direction.
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The intent of this article then is to help stout-hearted users willing to take the plunge and try out Linux to get the most out of it – for example, to play DVDs, or to connect to the Internet, or simply to put a Trashcan on your desktop, all of which, believe it or not, [...]