I mentioned last week that I had loaded Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) on my older “test” laptop, a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110. This hardly seemed like a “fair test” to me, because it is a laptop
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Ubuntu has Open Office installed, so I transferred a few of my MS Office [...]

Sometimes we have no clue of how to use our freedom, really. Or even worse, we use it to actually limit it. You don’t believe me?
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Ubuntu Muslim Edition is a set of packages that customizes the Ubuntu distro by installing islamic software (prayer times, Quran study tool, web content filtering tool etc.) and [...]

If Ubuntu 8.04 is the server of choice of so many and if Ubuntu wants so desperately to move into the server market then you would expect Ubuntu to have server quality options easily available on the Ubuntu install.
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If you want to create RAID on Ubuntu you will need to install RAID [...]

Full Circle – the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community are proud to announce the release of our thirteenth issue.
Full Circle Magazine – Issue #13
Full Circle – the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community are proud to announce the release of our thirteenth issue.
This month:
* Flavor of the Month [...]

The strict freedom-ware requirement excludes a great deal of software, including proprietary drivers for wireless and video cards, leaving most users with a less functional — albeit less tainted — derivative of Ubuntu 8.04.
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gNewSense removes more than 100 pieces of proprietary code and firmware from the Ubuntu kernel, including support for ATI and [...]

Ubuntu, arguably the most popular Linux distribution today, came out with its 8.04 release last month, dubbed Hardy Heron. That's passé now; here’s the low down on what the future holds this October with Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex.
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Two key design goals were announced from the beginning. Firstly, the user interaction model will be [...]

If you want to experiment a simple application with both mod_rewrite enabled or disabled, you can setup two virtual host with these different settings to take place.
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Step 1: setup a virtual domain
open /etc/hosts and add a virtual domain with a specific local IP. In this file it contains ip and domain name [...]

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but no one has ever thought about how much an animation could be worth If you really want to examine it yourself, you can try to work with screencasts.
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Personally for recording purposes I use recordmydesktop, which is very comfortable in use, [...]

Whether you are trying Ubuntu for the first time or you are a long-time Ubuntu power user, you will find below a list of the best Ubuntu resources on the Web.
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You name it: websites, forums, wikis, blogs and podcasts. There are many Linux resources out there, but in this post, I only included [...]

One of my daily tech drivers is my 4G Asus eeePC 701. I use it for quite a bit of my web surfing, chatting, email checking, web research and writing. It’s perfect to curl up with in my favorite living room chair or carry along with me to a coffee shop.
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I wanted [...]

So, a few days ago I felt like playing Super Mario Bros, and since my Snes console is messed up, I decided to find an emulator for my ubuntu system.
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The Community Council has recently implemented some changes tocommunity governance processes which it believes reflect a significantimprovement in one area of community governance: applications forUbuntu membership.
The Community Council has recently implemented some changes tocommunity governance processes which it believes reflect a significantimprovement in one area of community governance: applications forUbuntu membership.
The Ubuntu project is rapidly [...]

So it's only natural that the cost-conscious, nonprofit $24 million company would turn to open source software to run the heart of its operations, from capturing and storing archaeological data to running routine business functions — even its telephone system.
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“We have a strategic commitment to the idea that data should be open, shareable [...]

This is the first in a series of posts outlining the feature, methods and ideas surrounding the tool: Ubuntu-VM-Builder.
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ubuntu-vm-builder provides a method to quickly create a clean testing environment, a way to automate the virtual machine installation process, and for software developers, the ability to integrate the creation of a virtual machine [...]

Backing up your Ubuntu system from the command line may sound like a daunting task and many beginners may shy away from such a thing but they need not to.
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Ubuntu offers several different ways to backup and restore your operating system. There are backup methods that take snapshots of your directories, [...]

Ubuntu Linux — you have to love it. After using windows since windows 95 (over 10 years), and trying various flavors of Linux, Ubuntu was the one that brought me back from the dark side. It’s all about open source, no EULAs, and freedom — “Free as in Freedom“.
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As you probably know, [...]

Parastal CSIR, South Africa’s national science and technology research organisation, is readying to switch most of its more than 2300 staff to using Ubuntu Linux as their default desktop.
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The RFI is to find solutions to allow users to continue using Windows-based applications when there is no suitable open source alternative. “Certain staff [...]

On this page we are comparing between two popular Operating Systems in the market today. Mac and Ubuntu are vendors for two of the most widely spreading Desktop and Laptop OSs today
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Other OSs Comparisons can be reached from the menu in the left side. In this comparison, we will focus on the [...]

In our first article of this series we took a look at Fedora 9 Beta, the second article we spoke about openSUSE, and the third in the series was about Mandriva. This article is about Ubuntu 8.04
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Just an idea, why not make a release by Canonical loaded with these proprietary drivers? Then, it [...]

“Our business model is entirely based on services around our software. Because Canonical plays such a key role in Ubuntu, even though it doesn't monopolise access to it, we're a preferred partner for Ubuntu.”
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But, this doesn’t mean there isn’t an opportunity here for solution providers and system builders. But first they have to contemplate Ubuntu being a viable alternative to Microsoft’s family of Windows products.
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The story is a little different when it comes to the various desktop editions of Ubuntu, desktop users and those supporting them [...]

My Sony Vaio T27 is about 3 years old. It is not quite up to specs with the current lineup of machines. However for the last 2 years I have being able to improve it's performance greatly by installing Ubuntu Linux.
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So a few friends of mine have all suffered from the Windows XP SP3 update plague that has rendered some machines in need of a complete re-install and some just acting as if they have been infected by some form of PC-West-Nile.
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And this is supposed to be the [...]

In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Developer Summit, Intrepid Ibex, Ubuntu Live canceled, new Ubuntu Membership Approval Boards to meet, new Ubuntu Contributing Developers, a new Launchpadpodcast, and much, much more!
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #92 for the week May18th – May 24th, 2008. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Developer SummitIntrepid Ibex, [...]

Here's the big post with media reviews. So far reviews from Linux Format, ITWire, Channelweb, ZDNet, eWeek, Lifehacker, PC Advisor, Linuxinsider, Datamation, Application Development Trends. Screenshots at Debianadmin, Ars Technica, Linux.com, TribuneNB and LinuxDynasty
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So, what does this release actually mean? Well as an LTS release it means that it [...]

This tutorial describes how to set up a TeamSpeak server on an Ubuntu Server system. Teamspeak has the ability to make more than one server by setting different ports for each server.
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In a Guardian interview, Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu dropped the intriguing news that there is a Netbook Remix version of Ubuntu in the pipeline. Update: Also on OLPCNews
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There is a subculture among the Download Squad bloggers (and you thought you couldn't get any further sub-anything) of ultraportable computer users. We love the little [...]

So what if Ubuntu is a fast operating system? The hacks presented in this guide will greatly improve the overall performance of your Ubuntu 8.04 Linux OS.
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Tweak One – Boot profile
It is a very good idea to do this tweak when you first install Ubuntu, but you can also do it anytime after [...]

This tutorial describes how to install a Lexmark Z55 printer on Hardy Heron.
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By default the wrong driver is installed for the Z55 which causes the printer to squeal and fail to print. A driver is available from the Lexmark website for Linux rpm distributions.

This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to search for and play YouTube videos from directly inside of the Ubuntu Totem Media Player.
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Also included are the steps required to watch the higher quality H264 videos that YouTube now includes.