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So, as we are taking an extended vacation, there won’t be any updates on Ubuntu-news.net for the next three weeks – I’ll be enjoying a trip to USA with my family. We wish you a merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

The mostly unpublicized FOSScamp always meets the weekend before. The FOSScamp un-conference has no program, no invited speakers, and costs nothing. Like some sort of geek Woodstock but smaller, the Ubuntu hip just show up.
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On Friday morning, December 5, participants started arriving at the ost recent FOSScamp, held at the Google campus in Mountain [...]

Late last month we shared that Plymouth may replace USplash in Ubuntu and that this matter was to be discussed further at the Jaunty UDS. With the Ubuntu Developer Summit now over, there are a few items to note from their Plymouth discussion.
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Plymouth will not become the default boot screen in Ubuntu 9.04, [...]

In Intrepid Ibex 08.10 there is delightful tabbed browsing, a simple ctrl+T opens up a new tab and you can drag and drop files between tabs. Simple but oh so delightful.
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Dell's Inspiron Mini 12 was already blurring the lines between netbooks and traditional laptop when it was shipping with Vista and Vista only, but it looks like Dell is intent on breaking down the walls between the two categories, with it now offering both Ubuntu and Windows XP on the, er… system.
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I just setup my machine at home with Ubuntu 8.10 which was so easy think I saved hours off the time it would normally take with Windows. So much is already installed and ready to go and with apt it’s super quick to download and install extra things things like MySQL, PHP, Apache, Java etc
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Or perhaps, if this is a company Ubuntu server, maybe something a little more customized for your company? Changing the message is really quite simple. Just run the following from the terminal….
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We are using a slightly different Atom-based system this time and we are comparing the performance on Ubuntu 8.10, Fedora 10, Mandriva 2008, and OpenSuSE 11.1.
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What we gathered from these tests conducted on the Intel Atom desktop was that Ubuntu 8.10 was generally the fastest distribution. OpenSuSE 11.1 RC1 on the other hand [...]

We’ve gone over it for several months, though the answer was right in front of us: It’s an Easy (operating system for a) PC – Ubuntu Eee will be rebranded as Easy Peasy.
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Some loves the new name while some think it sounds childish. That’s why we have to make a really good looking and [...]

This slideshow shows you how to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix On Acer Aspire One
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There is a common belief that if someone switches to a desktop Linux distribution such as Ubuntu, then security concerns generally take care of themselves. Unfortunately, reality has a different take on this.
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One of the most commonly argued issues is whether or not desktop Linux really needs to utilize virus protection. My take [...]

In this tutorial we're going to virtualize Ubuntu 8.04.1 on Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 x64 using Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.2.
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To prepare for this tutorial you should download the necessary resources:
Ubuntu 8.04.1 Desktop CD (available here) Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.2 (available here – choose the package appropriate for your platform) This tutorial was [...]

One of the keepers of the Ubuntu software respositories (called MOTUs, or Masters of the Universe) has proposed a mainstream inclusion of Wine with Ubuntu.
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The proposed inclusion of Wine certainly makes sense for Ubuntu, largely considered the mainstream Windows alternative of choice (next to OS X). It also means that users [...]

I was challenged by Zarek to try SimCity4 on Ubuntu 8.10 because I was “complaining” about Ubuntu performance. This will be the second time I have done this, but the first time I will have blogged about it. Here’s what happened…
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…Grabbed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 8.10 Ghosted Vista install out to [...]

The last two days I have been playing around with XMonad, a tiling window manager for X, written in my favourite language Haskell. I now have a setup that is to my liking.
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This requires XMonad 0.8 or above. This version is in Ubuntu Intrepid. Ubuntu Hardy ships with an old version, so there you [...]

Do you Ubuntuers (Ubuntu users) too? Want to install Skype? Looking for the tutorial installing Skype in easy way? If you answer yes, then try adding Medibuntu repositories rather than downloading Skype package from their official sites.
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Have some spare CPU cycles to burn? Using a utility called XWinWrap you can use screensavers, videos, and other applications as your desktop wallpaper.
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One drawback is that you will not be able to use desktop icons with XWinWrap due to a limitation in Nautilus. Compiz desktop effects are not required, but a fairly [...]

Using Ubuntu’s Terminal, you can quickly pull up a calendar of any month or year (past, present, or future).
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I hear that Ubuntu “Just Works”, but I haven't yet had a machine yet where install went without a hitch and everything worked as satisfactory as it would have with an XP install. Not just one machine, but a half a dozen of them, from old Celeron 333mhz to modern core duo desktop machines.
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In this issue we cover: 4,000 people attend Ubuntu-fr Release Party, Ubuntu Developer Summit: Jaunty, Hall of Fame: Albero Milone, Interview with (huats), Leader of the Ubuntu-fr Team, MOTU, New York team Asterisk demonstration, Software Freedom Day Nicaragua, Launchpad Drupal modules, Launchpad in twitter and identi.ca, Launchpad off-line Dec. 17th, OpenSolaris tackles Ubuntu dominance, and [...]

As I further evaluated Ubuntu Intrepid for adoption as my primary production system, I found that it didn’t properly recognize my USB Epson Stylus CX7800 All-in-One as a scanner. Bummer.
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Being the dutiful fellow that I am, I went right to the forums to find a solution. While the problem seems to be [...]

In my office network I have a Linux server that is always on: with WOL I can login into this, launch a very simple command to activate my desktop and then login into it to do what I need.
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When I finish I can also turn it off again: it will remain available to [...]

The BASH shell includes many features designed to optimize the user experience. The most important of these is the command history. BASH remembers every command you enter (even the ones that don’t work!) and stores them as a list on your hard disk.
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On my Ubuntu test system, BASH remembers 1000 commands. You can [...]

Yesterday, I installed Skype for Linux in Ubuntu. It was very easy. I just had to download a .deb package file and double-click it. I was prompted my password (my account is in sudoers file) and voilà. Some people might say this is okay, but I think this is WRONG!
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However, GNU/Linux is based in [...]

Jeremy Allison's contributions to the free software world are legion, and yet the project he's best known for continues to be Samba, the open implementation of some of Microsoft's most important networking protocols.
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System76 continued its long-term Linux commitment today by launching the Gazelle Ultra (pictured) — an Ubuntu laptop with some pretty slick hardware specs and a biometric fingerprint reader for security
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EnvyNG (Earlier Envy) is a driver installation script developed by Alberto Milone for Nvidia/Ati graphic cards. It is available only for Ubuntu and Debian systems.
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EnvyNG comes handy in installing drivers for Nvidia/Ati graphic cards, when the user does not want to manually do it or is unaware of manual installation. This tool is [...]

For easy Ubuntu installation click on next links according to your Ubuntu version: Its already packed .deb file, download it and double click on downloaded file to install.
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The new version of Songbird 1.0.0 has released a few days ago, with many bugfixes and improvements. Songbird team has many advanced goals (improvements, new [...]

I finally built FF 2.0.0.18 on Ubuntu 8.04 – the Hardy Heron. I knew it would not be a piece of cake building FF 2.0.0.x on Ubuntu 8.x. The problem started with getting the build requirements (i.e. apt dependent packages).
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I knew from the outset that I was going to get tons of build [...]