It has always been possible to install and use KDE applications in Gnome, or vice versa, as long as the supporting libraries are there (and generally apt handles that for you). But getting them to look right is another story.

Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community
are proud to announce the release of our thirtieth issue.

In the following tutorial, we explain how we installed Ubuntu 9.10 to a Flash Drive from the running Live CD. This Ubuntu USB Flash Drive creation process is accomplished using the built in USB Disk Creator (produced by the Ubuntu team).

The download mirrors for this release have started to include .zsync files. zsync is similar to rsync, but it puts the load on the client vs the server, and it allows you to update your existing images in a fraction of the time it would take to re-download the full image.

The Mini-Course will help you set up a secure Ubuntu 9.10 Server using Postifx, Dovecot and Thunderbird with TLS and SMTP AUTH.

Yesterday the new Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 9.04 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 9.10.

During any conversation pertaining to computers, you will inevitably be asked a question to the effect of “Are you a Windows user or a Mac user?”

Yesterday I downloaded both the desktop x86 & Netbook Remix ISO’s from the NZ mirror and pretty quickly burnt out the NBR CD and installed it onto the work Asus eee 901.

The popular Ubuntu Linux distribution has received criticism from an unexpected corner and its ASUS Eee netbook users are likely to be left with an unworkable system when Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala hits the Internet later this month.

This tutorial explains how to install and use Back In Time on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories.

Hot on the heals of the final release of the Karmic Koala, we’ve put together a video montage of 64-bit versions of Microsoft’s Vista and Windows 7 operating systems booting alongside Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10. Watch all four at once and see which one wins!

I understand how for many people operating systems are akin to religions, but there are huge advantages to being OS-agnostic. One advantage is that you can pick and choose the right OS for the job.

It’s been a long time since the developers made so many changes in Ubuntu: With Karmic Koala, they have unleashed a whole host of innovations on Ubuntu users.

One aspect of 9.10 that I was most interested in was the new Ubuntu Software Center. I have always been a big fan of apt-get and Synaptic, so I was curious as to how Ubuntu could possibly improve on either of these tools

Stating that Windows XP is less secure, or simply old, makes many who can’t afford to switch to a Mac, or don’t want to make a move to Windows 7, think about the possible switch to Ubuntu.

This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, [...]

The web server (I just built it yesterday, actually, to run the Joomla! CMS to which I’m porting our distinctly unfriendly district website) was running 9.04. The netbook was running a beta of 9.10. Both cheerfully told me this morning that an upgrade to Version 9.10 was available.

There’s much more fun to be had in what comes after installing the OS on your machine: now you get to set it up with all the best software it didn’t already come with!

Once the release finally happens today, Ubuntu will have some new siblings. One of them will be Kubuntu Netbook Edition.

You’ve installed Ubuntu 9.10, now what? Here are my top 10 tips for getting a fresh install feeling your own…

Grub Legacy is not present in Karmic. People who upgrade from earlier versions may have the option of keeping Grub Legacy or upgrade to Grub2.

You can with success use .torrent files for downloading the final version of Ubuntu 9.10. This way you can download the latest image without affecting the main server or any of the mirrors.

In the latest, shiniest, bestest, release of Ubuntu to date, and it really is a cracking release, the desktop version of Karmic Koala (version 9.10) contains two Mono dependent applications in the default install along with the Mono VM and associated libraries etc.

For the testing in this article we pulled out an aging laptop and ran a set of tests across Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 9.04, and the latest Ubuntu 9.10 snapshot.

Centrify Corporation, today announced that its Centrify Suite supports Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, which includes an open source cloud computing environment that will be easily integrated with Microsoft Active Directory through the Centrify Suite for identity, access and privilege management.

And I don’t just mean for geeks. I mean a real, viable alternative to Windows for many users despite the apparent quality of both Windows 7 and Server 2008.

“I am delighted that Windows 7 is out,” Shuttleworth said. “Now that Windows 7 is out, we can compete head to head.” With no hint of sarcasm at all, Shuttleworth said that Windows 7 was a “credible release, even on netbooks”

The open source operating system for both desktops and servers touches down around the same time as Windows 7. Code writers gave special attention to the core server product and kernel in this latest edition. They also asked the user community to list minor annoyances they had with the previous version so they could be [...]

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server editions, Ubuntu 9.10 Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon’s EC2, and Ubuntu Netbook Remix, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

I need to build and install kernels all the time, and usually just update grub menu manually. But now with grub 2 in Ubuntu 9.10 they have wrapped the grub menu in grub-mkconfig. Why?