In this post, I’ll show you how to set up secure ftp (SFTP) access to your Ubuntu server. (Instructions for Debian are very similar: leave out the sudo part and follow these steps as root:)

Full Circle Magazine – Issue #31 – Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our thirty-first issue.

I recently got a new Eee PC and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 Karmic Koala (which is going to be renamed to Ubuntu Netbook Edition starting with Lucid)

Tint2 – It’s the bar below, it can replace gnome-panel if you would like to replace it. I like both so I have both on my desktop.

There are various ways to upload to Imageshack in Ubuntu – not least of which is the official Imageshack uploader available for Ubuntu! I’ve covered that before, so I’ll look at a few other alternatives available to users….

Why use Amazon’s EC2 or Google’s cloud computing services when you can set up your own private cloud with a few open source tools?

There’s a provocatively titled article by Robert Strohmeyer over at PC World that professes “The Future of Linux is Google”. It waxes prophetically about how Google will eventually dominate all that is Linux and Open Source, and that “it’s time for the Linux world to rally”.

If you install Ubuntu on a machine that came with Windows pre-installed you have the choice of preserving Windows and chose each time you boot which operating system to run.

Hopefully this gets you all the information you need to get your Cisco VPN client working on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10!

When I’d read the arstechnica page, I could see the sense in it and immediately agreed with it, but later when I read the Linux Today page I could see what she was getting at and agreed with that too.

As you may already know, next Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx (10.04) is an LTS release. For testers this means one important thing: upgrades should be smooth from either Ubuntu 9.10 or latest Ubuntu LTS release

According to the network experts, that by disabling IPv6 impact on internet connection speed. Following as examples of how to disable IPv6 in Ubuntu.

It’s Thanks Giving day here in the USA and what better day than to ask a question about consumerism: Is the direction of Ubuntu gearing it’s self for simple consumer grade computing?

Two days ago, on November 24th, Canonical announced through Steve Kowalik that the LPIA architecture would no longer be supported, starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) operating system.

As all my dear groupies probably have noticed, I started working on getting Ubuntu One a KDE frontend.

Today, I installed Karmic on my desktop/server at work (aka orange). It was running Debian Lenny, but with the purchase of 2 24″ monitors and my subsequent failure to quickly configure them properly, I decided to jump ship to Karmic

Bryce Harrington is agonizing over the nontrivial task of delivering a working X server for Ubuntu. On the Ubuntu desktop mailing list he speaks of a flood of bug reports and appeals to improving the situation.

We teamed up with Guvnr.com to create the Ubuntu Karmic Koala Bible – a guide that’s both great for Linux initiates, and invariably useful for Linux intermediates.

Unp is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files in easy way. It support several compressors and archiver programs, chooses the right one(s) automatically and extracts one or more files using a single command. It supports rar, zip, tar.gz, deb, tar.gz2, rpm etc..

If Ubuntu is the most popular distribution, it is also the most hated. Last year, a survey on the Linux Hater’s blog listed Ubuntu as “the most hated community distro.”

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit, which took place last week, it was announced that the next release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.04, will no longer carry the GIMP in its default installation.

During a planning session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit last week, a decision emerged to remove the GIMP from the default Ubuntu installation. Although this decision has generated a bit of controversy, it’s a sign of Ubuntu’s growing maturity as a mainstream platform for regular users.

This time around as work continues on Ubuntu 10.04, developers hope to have addressed all confirmed Paper Cuts with that release before it goes live.

Although the GUFW GUI may seem deceptively simple, the graphical front end is both easy to use and capable of performing the most common firewall configuration options. The graphical tool is a perfect place to start if you find ufw and iptables overwhelming.

Today we had a second meeting with the authorities of the Ministry of Education (MINED) and the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in order to clarify some aspects of the project and draft a preliminary plan of action.

It was with some trepidation that I plugged in an external monitor into my laptop today to test how Ubuntu 9.10 handles external displays.

The Nouveau driver, the X.Org project designed to provide a open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux with 2D/3D/Video acceleration that’s developed by cleanly reverse-engineering NVIDIA’s binary driver, is about to get promoted in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Hey Windows fans, would you like to take Linux for a spin to see what everyone’s buzzing about? It’s easy to do in just five easy steps.

Among the people Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s partnering with to build Chrome OS, there’s now a very familiar name: Canonical, the folks behind Ubuntu. In their words: “Canonical is contributing engineering to Google under contract” (for Chrome OS).

At the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit, there were three sessions held to discuss the future of the Ubuntu Women project.