Ubuntu has launched a new community feedback site, dubbed Brainstorm, where users can post ideas and suggest improvements they'd like to see in the popular Linux distribution.
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Your ideas for Ubuntu interest us. Please post your ideas and vote for the ones you like!

Wallpapoz is an easy to use wallpaper changer application for GNOME. If you love to collect wallpapers, and like your desktop to change wallpaper at regular interval, then Wallpapoz is right for you.
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Ubuntu has an excellent security tool called sudo that allows the administrator to delegate control of certain commands to certain users. But to use it you must type the sudo word before any command, and validate (and confirm) it with your system account password.
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Full Circle – the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community are proud to announce the release of our tenth issue.
Full Circle Magazine – Issue #10
Full Circle – the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community are proud toannounce the release of our tenth issue.
This month:* Linux Mint Install.* How-To : Compile from Source, Install [...]

For the past weeks, I have been researching and testing out the possibility of dual-booting Mac OSX Leopard alongside my Ubuntu Gutsy on my laptop.
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My laptop has been through many rounds of partitioning, formatting, installing using various OSx86 version before I finally get Mac Leopard to work perfectly, alongside with Ubuntu Gutsy [...]

f you’re like me, your Ubuntu machine is on a network that is dominated by Windows machines. Fortunately, Ubuntu comes with some very easy and quick tweaks to help you get along nicely with your Windows counter parts.
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This tutorial explains how you can install the Firebird database server (version 2.0.3) on an Ubuntu 7.10 server.
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Today, in this post, I am going to dig deeper into runlevels, as well as manipulating services in specific runlevels. I’m going to show you why you want to do this, as well as how.
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Ok, in my last post, I talked about what a runlevel is and what it does to your [...]

After a six-month beta period, Canonical Ltd. is adding management muscle to Ubuntu Linux servers and desktops in the form of its Landscape systems management tool.
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Early next month, Canonical will officially release the Landscape suite, enabling IT managers to install, monitor, upgrade and manage servers and/or desktops with a single click. Adding users, [...]

Ubuntu is the favourite distribution of Linux for use on both desktops and servers, according to a poll of Australian open source enthusiasts.
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The survey showed that Ubuntu came top, followed by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and then SUSE.
Jeff Waugh said it wasn't difficult to see why Ubuntu was so popular: “They have [...]

In keeping in step with my new found love of StarCraft, I wanted to play it on my laptop. One problem… my laptop doesn’t run on windows or mac, its powered by Ubuntu!
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I love running Ubuntu, and I have never found a reason why I would need windows on my laptop. Ubuntu [...]

I bought Acer 320U scanner long time back. I didn't use it for sometime. I thought I would start using it since my Dell All-in-one A962 printer/scanner didn't work with Ubuntu.
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Let’s try to make sense out of the KVM virtual machine and this recent choice by Ubuntu. This choice is surprising to those of us who have been watching the Xen virtualization package become the darling of Virtual Machine world.
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So what does this choice mean to Ubuntu users? KVM is a bet [...]

Spend a lot of time building a non-brown theme whenever you install Ubuntu? There’s a little-known theme called Blubuntu easily installable from the Ubuntu repositories that can switch every aspect of your desktop to blue.
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Backerupper is a simple GUI utility program to make scheduled backups of specified directories over a network. It is not intended for full system backup, but just to make archive copies of a user’s personal data.
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Jono Bacon: I am pleased to announce that the February 2008 Ubuntu community report is out! As well as a range of general Ubuntu team reports, this report is pumped with a stack of LoCo Team reports too!
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Installer TeamSeveral bugs were fixed in Ubiquity.
A new timezone widget [...]

I followed the instructions mentioned in this NetBeans Wiki to install NB 6.0 on my ubuntu. But I feel some more information can be added to this wiki.
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Although Ubuntu comes with excellent packages that help you alter the default settings and customize the distro for yourself, tweaking a few settings however requires you to go deeper into the system.
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Plus if you do something wrong, you’re probably going to end up making a mess of your Ubuntu installation. That’s where a [...]

The folks behind the open source community-developed operating system Ubuntu are alll excited about Ubuntu Mobile. They view this as a technology that can turn Mobile Internet Devices (their CAPS) into a “new class of computers.”
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Press release – System76 Inc., introduces the first available line of certified, pre-installed servers featuring Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition — delivering a new choice in quality server platforms.
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Certification of System76 servers is an official endorsement by the Ubuntu project, backed by a validation and testing process conducted by Canonical to ensure [...]

So, I’ve been shopping for a new laptop for a few months. I’ve got an old Thinkpad T23 that is showing it’s age — both in terms of performance and functionality.
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Exasperated, I called Lenovo per the instructions on their website — as apparently you can’t order a laptop with SuSE pre-loaded [...]

Over the weekend a client phoned me as she was interested in the Knowledge Tree Document Management System. She runs a small business that provides document creation services for clients in the US and Canada, and needed an effective solution to manage her (electronic) documents.
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We will need a few components:
Base server install that [...]

ArsTechnica: We tested alpha 5 to get a first look at the new features in action and to see how it compares to alpha 4, which we reviewed earlier this month.
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One of the most significant new features added in alpha 5 is support for Wubi, a new installation mechanism that makes it [...]

In their second interview with Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, ITPro discuss issues of interoperability and the learning curve associated with switching to Linux
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“It came from a request that we put a kiosk into a local science center,” says Shuttleworth. “The guys at my Foundation created the kiosk and [...]

“Install inside Windows” is a much friendlier option than restart your computer to try it out and installing a program
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(FYI this feature makes use of Wubi, a program that lets you install Ubuntu automatically from Windows without partitioning.) While you will never get 100 out of 100 people to install it, with [...]

Today, in response to numerous requests on the Ubuntu listserv, Shuttleworth made a public appearance to provide free software fans and curious onlookers with a glimpse into the future of Ubuntu development.
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9.04 – Jovial Jackal9.10 – Kissy Kipunji10.04 – Loyal Lemur10.10 – Modest Mouse * (litigation pending)11.04 – Nifty Nematode11.10 – Open-minded Ostrich12.04 [...]

Preload is an “adaptive readahead daemon” that runs in the background of your system, and observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time.
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After a little more googling, I found a page for the Ubuntu Laptop Testing Team. This resource is incredible because it provides Make and Models of laptops and then tells you which Ubuntu releases have been tested on them, and the results.
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I’ve been in the market for some time, looking for a [...]

Due to the fact that gOSleans heavy on on-line applications built on Web 2.0 and AJAX technology it also does not use much hard disk space for applications, the whole system fits comfortably in less than 2 GB of hard disk space.
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As I post this, I am on my laptop running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) and connecting the Internet via AIS EDGE wireless internet with my Nokia N70 mobile phone.
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For people that have my exact setup (Ubuntu Gutsy, Nokia N70 (connected via the USB cable packaged with the [...]