This is an updated tutorial on how to install Camfrog Server on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). When I first saw that Camfrog Server was released I was excited until I realized it was only for RedHat AS/ES 4.x 5.x, CentOS 4.x 5.x, Fedora 6.x 7.x 8.x operating systems. Then I realized you can convert rpm [...]

Ubuntu Linux 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat” reached the end of its life on Tuesday, meaning that it will no longer receive support or updates.

This note is just to confirm that the support period for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) formally ends on April 10, 2012 and Ubuntu Security Notices no longer includes information or updated packages for Ubuntu 10.10.

Recently iLab acquired 18 new computers to expand our lab. To prepare them for use at iLab I installed a fresh copy of Unbuntu 10.10 on them, but the WiFi drivers didn’t work

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.

Ubuntu Linux is the single most popular desktop distribution of Linux. And now Canonical has released Version 11.04. It’s a long-term-support version in that Canonical is promising support for the next three years, making it well worth the upgrade. Here’s how to do it.

Following on from our last video, today’s video is the second installment in our Guest Operating System Installation series which focuses on the creation and installation process for various different operating systems inside of VMware Workstation virtual machines.

This is an updated tutorial on how to install Camfrog Server on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). When I first saw that Camfrog Server was released I was excited until I realized it was only for RedHat AS/ES 4.x 5.x, CentOS 4.x 5.x, Fedora 6.x 7.x 8.x operating systems.

Many folks choose to remain on Ubuntu 10.0 and not upgrade to 11.04. A lot of us wait for bugs to shake out before moving to a new OS release. So if you need to freshly install Ubuntu 10.10, here’s how.

The Ubuntu Manual Team has recently completed and made available for download their comprehensive 158 page guide on the Ubuntu 10.10 release.

This howto will guide you to set up a LinOTP standalone one time password authentication backend on your Linux machine. This enables you to add two factor authentication with one time passwords to your desktop login.

In this short guide I will show you how you can install the new Mozilla Firefox 4.0 browser (released March 22, 2011) on an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop. Fortunately, there’s a Launchpad PPA repository that has Firefox 4.0 .deb packages, so we can easily install it through Ubuntu’s package manager.

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 10.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users.

However, the screen brightness controls did not work. Some online research suggested adding acpi_osi=Linux to the kernel boot parameters and I also found a tip in the thinkpad-acpi driver documentation for how to force-enable it (over the native Linux ACPI driver).

This step-by-step tutorial was created for the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system and it will teach you how to change the looks of your Linux desktop into an eye-candy, practical, simple and modern one.

This is the easiest setup of a file server in ubuntu 10.10 that you will find (smb for windows compatibility). There are tons of other posts and web pages on this, but IMHO most newbies will hate them: they’re long, complex, and full of terminal commands and file edits. This guide has NO editing of [...]

Recently I have had to do some video tutorials. I tried recording these tutorials with Ubuntu’s default Cheese Webcam Booth, but unfortunately the combination of my Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, Ubuntu 10.10, and Cheese didn’t want to record video in any usable FPS.

Stacks, a cool file browsing way from Docky has been integrated into Docky by Ricotz and available from the PPA(supports Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick and 11.04 Natty)

After months of reviewing the process and going through applications, the ARB approved its first application, Stefano Rivera’s suspended-sentence.

That is the purpose of this tutorial. To show how to dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 where the Windows Boot Manager is responsible for dual-booting both Operating systems.

KDE SC 4.6 was released today, brining polish to existing functionality as well as some cool new features and bug fixes. Probably the biggest change in KDE SC 4.6 is the redesign of the Activities system.

The VideoLAN Project has released a new version of its very popular media player – VLC. The new release, VLC 1.1.6, is an incremental update from the previous version and has a few new features.

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.

Ubuntu 10.10, aka Maverick Meerkat, is a special release. It helps greatly that Canonical decided to release it on the 10/10/10 last year, doing its best to maximise a marketing opportunity, but is it “the perfect 10″ as the Ubuntu home page would have us believe?

Whenever you start computer, GRUB presents a menu for user input or automatically transfers control to an operating system kernel. By default the menu background is black but you can change it. This feature is coming from forbear version but the Splash Image capability of GRUB2 is vastly enhanced.

There are lots of ways you can improve your Ubuntu installation and make it better and more personalized. To help you with that, here are just a few tips and tricks that will help you get more out of your new Ubuntu 10.10 operating system…

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on Ubuntu 10.10. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.

Yesterday, we told you that a 2D version of Unity will be available for computers which does not have hardware capable of 3D acceleration. Today a PPA containing the packages for Unity 2D has been created for early adopters to test it. The package itself is called Unity-Qt and the PPA contains packages for both [...]

These instructions are for Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat”. They may also work with Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” or previous releases, but I had no time to do the appropriate testing.

One thing admire about Macbooks is their Multitouch enabled Touchpads which allows for advanced gestures like pinch to zoom, double tapping to right click, Two finger scroll etc. I recently bought a new laptop which did not ship with the traditional laptop touchpad but with something called a clickpad.