Ubuntu announced its 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) release almost 3 years ago, on April 29, 2010. As with the earlier LTS releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 3 years on the desktop. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop will reach end of life [...]

The MK802 is a tiny PC that looks like a USB thumb drive. While it ships with Google Android 4.0, it’s actually pretty easy to convince it to run an alternate operating system. In fact, if you have a properly prepared microSD card, all you need to do is insert the memory card, turn on [...]

12.04 Precise Pangolin is the latest long-term support (LTS) release of the Linux-based operating system, and it is indeed a work of precision. Under the hood, bug fixing and performance improvements were the focus of the past six months. On the surface, Ubuntu has also undergone a major facelift since April 2010 when the last [...]

While recent testing has shown how Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM/Xen/VirtualBox virtualization compares between Intel’s Sandy Bridge and AMD’s Bulldozer platforms, in this article is a different look at the KVM virtualization performance of the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating system. In this review is a look at the KVM virtualization performance of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS [...]

I created my own 10.04 Ubuntu image from this blog… burningbroccoli.se and am now running it as shown on my Epic 4G (chrooted) and then logging into the X terminal via connectbot and androidVNC

A quick update for Ubuntu users: LibreOffice 3.5.0 is now available in its official PPA for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and 10.04 Lucid Lynx users.

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, the fourth maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 10.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, alternate installation CDs and DVDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

If you’re using MySQL replication, then you’re probably counting on it for some fairly important need. Monitoring via Nagios is generally considered a best practice. This article assumes you’ve already got your Nagios server setup and your intention is to add a Ubuntu 10.04 NRPE client

The Ubuntu developers have now decided to switch older versions of Ubuntu, specifically the 10.04 LTS and 10.10 releases, to current releases of Firefox. The new policy will come into place on 17 January when users of those two editions will see their Firefox updated to the current version.

I was trying to get a fully automated network install of Ubuntu 10.04 working with a static ip address that gets set up in the preseed file. My entire preseed was working but the static ip address was not.

Canonical is distributing two new kernels – 2.6.32-35 and 2.6.38-12 – for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS via the Ubuntu repositories. Kernel 2.6.32, the kernel used when Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was first released in April 2010, remains the default kernel.

Ubuntu announced the 10.04 Netbook Edition and Ubuntu for ARM products 18 months ago, on April 29, 2010. At that time, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months for these specific products.

This week I upgraded the main installation of Python on my Ubuntu 10.04 machines to version 2.7. Here’s a short documentation of this process.

As I say above, I’ve made my peace with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and as the months have passed I’ve grown to like it. Compared to my main OS, Debian Squeeze, it’s dead easy to get multimedia working in Ubuntu.

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS, the third maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 10.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, alternate installation CDs and DVDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

In this tutorial you will learn how to install Oracle Database 10g Express in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). The express edition is free and any beginning developer can practice using Oracle on their Linux computer without needing a license. Emphasis will be placed on the installation of Oracle on a Debian Linux x86 [...]

I’ve lately preferred the Debian flavor of Linux, but up until now that had been something of a problem because Debian and Ubuntu did not include the higher-quality php5-gd library, which meant that you either had to compile your own PHP, pull from an alternative source host, or cope with substandard image resizing with limited [...]

This How-To document guides you through installing ASSP (Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy) on an Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) Server or Debian 5.0 in the simplest way possible. It *may* work on later versions but I have no way of knowing how these instructions will work for you.

Almost 40 vulnerabilities have been discovered in the kernel of Linux Ubuntu 10.04, also known as Lucid Lynx, which is a long-term support version of the operating system.

This tutorial shows how to set up Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.4) server with the Nagios Monitoring System. Nagios is a powerful, highly configurable monitoring and alarming system, which can monitor a wide variety of systems (network, server, daemons, applications). Monitoring could be done for instance for availability or utilization.

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, the second maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 10.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, alternate installation CDs and DVDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

This tutorial explains how to install OpenPublish on an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server. Open Publish is an open source platform designed specifically for the online news industry.

I was using Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my EeePC at last year’s FOSDEM, dual-booting with Mac OS X. Since Ubuntu 10.04 it’s been renamed Ubuntu Netbook Edition, so time for a reinstall and new road test.

This guide explains how to set up native ZFS on Ubuntu / Linux. It was tested with Linux 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux on Ubuntu 10.10 but should also work on Ubuntu 10.04.

This guide shows you how to install Django with Apache and mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 10.04

There seem to be a lot of XMPP servers out there, but two especially popular ones are the Java-based Openfire and the Erlang-based ejabberd. ejabberd has a lot going for it and is used in a number of high-profile settings (most notably, as the basis of Facebook’s Chat service).

VLC 1.1.5 is the latest and fifth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. Latest VLC comes with a number of important bug fixes and other security related improvements. Here is how you install latest VLC 1.1.5 in Ubuntu Maverick, Lucid using PPA.

This tutorial is targeted at netbook users, that want to streamline and tweak their Linux. Though it’s perfectly suitable for other people, provided they have the necessary knowledge. It has been tested on and meant mainly for the new Ubuntu 10.04 release on an ASUS eeePC 1005PE

Do you want to customize your own musics as Ubuntu log-in and log-out sounds? Actually the thing’s easy, you just need to convert your musics to ogg format and have the super user privilege to open the file browser.

Over the past year I have developed quite a fondness for Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook edition. Most of my laptops dual-boot it and my wife runs it full time on her little IBM Thinkpad X40. The Netbook edition works great on the 12” or smaller monitors.