After upgrade from Ubuntu hardy to intrepid last year, i had nearly every day problems playing embedded flash on websites. I hate it, but it was not my first priority to solve and a Firefox restart solved it every time.

I recently wanted to install Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex under Windows 7 (using Wubi) but I quickly got to an end. Well, in Windows 7 you can not install Ubuntu via Wubi the way you do in Windows XP or Vista.

I’ve found in the past while working with gentoo that I can replace the GUI login provided by kdm, gdm, etc. with qingy which uses framebuffer video support to provide a nice splash screen without the overhead of a full-blown GUI.

Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, has joined the ARM Connected Community, the industry’s largest ecosystem for ARM technology-based products and services.

One of the problems we were running into in our home was the distribution of media files, specifically music. My desktop has a nice 300+ Gigs of hdd space on it, so it’s fairly easy for me to host all of the music on separate partitions

Own a Nokia device? Use Ubuntu and love the community? Aside from producing great phones and devices which use open source software, Nokia also has been good about “connecting people” in various ways. I thought it would be fun to try a simple experiment which connects Ubuntu users with Nokia devices.

Nautilus-image-converter gives you pretty much the same functionality as the Windows Image Resizer PowerToy.

My search did not have to go far after discovering a couple articles and speed tests that still had BlueCurve theme engine as the fastest and by far the most elegant considering the speed increase.

Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth said his company’s annual revenue is approaching US$30 million — the figure he says it needs to be self-sustaining. Should Microsoft worry? Indeed, good question! LinuxInsider couldn’t resist taking a small poll of our own.

Ubuntu uses as default Gnome and Kubuntu uses KDE. If we are to keep the facts straight we need to also take into consideration the versions. Ubuntu OS taken into consideration is 8.10 called (Intrepid Ibex).

Mark Shuttleworth is not your average IT manager. A few weeks ago, he posted a question on an Ubuntu list. Not an order. Not a policy decision. A question: “Should we think about…?” he asked. Collaboration, community and teamwork are part of his personal style.

If you don’t want to spend money on bandwidth and you wish to have the latest ubuntu, then follow these steps..

A month ago we compared Intel’s graphics performance between Ubuntu 8.10 and the latest Ubuntu 9.04 daily snapshot at the time. However, with many new graphics packages having been released since then, we have carried out some additional tests this morning to look at where the Intel Linux graphics performance stands today.

If you have a fresh Ubuntu install you might notice that not all your ext3 partitions are mounted at start-up. This guide will show you what are the steps for resolving this.

Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) 1.5 was released last December. While not a 64 bit app yet, it is very easy to get the AIR 1.5 working on Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 version.

There are several different types of installation files for Ubuntu, and few of them are as easy to install as the EXE installation files found on Windows.

Press release: “Focuses on core competencies and background knowledge needed to be an expert Ubuntu user;
Readable, accessible, and easy to understand—even if you’ve never used Linux before”

Now we’ll continue by configuring our router for connections over the Internet. Additionally, we’ll see how to encrypt the connections and how to remote into the native display. Let’s get started!

Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!
This week’s HugDay target is *drum roll please* compiz!
* 150 New bugs need a hug
* 106 Incomplete bugs need a status check
* 131 Confirmed bugs need a review

Hello everybody, here’s a quick summary of UDW3: Day 1: We kicked it all off with a two hour session called Getting Started. For
the first time we had the session in English, Finnish, French, German,
Italian and Spanish. We felt it was important to help non-English
speakers into the project.

I had to reinstall my Ubuntu Intrepid last week. This post is a note to myself to save me some time googling some not-so-intuitive configuration next time I happen to install Ubuntu.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #126 for the week January
18th – January 24th, 2009. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS
released, Ubuntu Developer Week, Ubuntu Classroom upcoming sessions, Developer application process changes, Technical Board run-off results, Ubuntu Developer News: issue #1, Ubuntu on Italian TV, Japanese LoCo holds “Offline Meeting Tokyo,” Nordic [...]

In the methodical tradition of engineering, I’d like to evaluate Ubuntu’s performance as a Windows substitute by examining how it functions for every “core” task, plus the auxiliary ones that, while not strictly necessary, are pretty common.

If you choose a standalone window manager (WM), you can cut out the first and third layers in this stack. A window manager tends to incorporate all desktop functionality into a single executable that doesn’t have additional programs such as file managers.

Ubuntu+Wine: I just asked myself, if CCleaner is such a powerful tool in Windows, cleaning your Internet Cache, Cookies, Internet History, removing temporary and unnecessary log files and more, then why can’t it do the same with the browsers and applications I run on Wine in my Ubuntu desktop – Ubuntu 8.04

Most Ubuntu users also have Windows installed on their computer.In such cases you can Reset or Change the passwords of Windows User Accounts from Ubuntu/Ubuntu Live CD using the chntpw tool.

When they hear about Linux, most of the people are running away because they heard that horror story which says that installing software in Linux is a nightmare. This is not true!

I got SwissCenter up and running on my fit-PC Slim, which is now running Ubuntu 8.10 Server.

Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is a free and open source add-on package for Linux that allows many people to simultaneously use the same computer. This mini-HOWTO will guide you though the installation and configuration procedure for deploy LTSP on Ubuntu Intrepid.

The problem with those nice Avery label templates that you get from their site is that they’re designed to be used with MS Word. Using Ubuntu, I opened this template in Open Office, thinking it would work just fine. My labels ended up printing a little bit askew, and I only had about 40 usable [...]