After some really fantastic help & support from potyl I got Gtk3::WebKit to pass it’s installation tests on Ubuntu 12.04 (precise, LTS).

For those that may be currently running Ubuntu 12.04.2 as the latest Ubuntu Linux Long-Term Support release but are considering upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 for better performance, here are benchmarks comparing the two Ubuntu Linux releases when tested on an Apple MacBook Pro and Lenovo ThinkPad. Overall, there’s a few areas where the new Ubuntu [...]

The Ubuntu developers at Canonical have released the second support release for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin”. The update adds the ability to boot the Long Term Support (LTS) version on systems that are using UEFI firmware and have Secure Boot enabled. This means that there are now two versions of Ubuntu, 12.04 LTS and [...]

I’ve recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS). The main advantage of a LTS distribution is that once you clean it up, it stays like that for two years.

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.

Like I was telling you a while back, Gvfs has been updated in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, bringing a new MTP backend which allows users to access Android 4.0 devices which do not support the USB Mass Storage protocol, along with many other changes. Since it’s unlikely for the latest Gvfs (1.15.2) to be backported [...]

Today we are going to talk about setting up your desktop environment for multiple monitors. This article assumes you are running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 12.10, however, the process should work equally well back to version 10.04 LTS unless otherwise noted.

This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Jeos based server as a spamfilter in Gateway mode. In the end, you will have a SpamSnake Gateway which will relay clean emails to your MTA. You will also be able to view your incoming queue, train your SpamSnake and carry out a few more advanced [...]

This is a guide for people who want to have their own domain name, and run their own mailserver using Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. Following this guide will likely take around 60 minutes, including installing Ubuntu Server onto your machine. I installed the 32bit version on an AMD Sempron 3000+, and at the end of [...]

Ubuntu 12.10 and 12.04 use the PAE Linux Kernel by default for 32bit ISOs and while you could use the mini ISO to install Ubuntu 12.04 on computers that don’t support PAE, that’s not possible in Ubuntu 12.10.

For kicking off a new week of Linux benchmarks, here are some results of a high-end Intel Extreme Edition workstation when comparing the bare metal host and KVM virtualization performance between Ubuntu 12.10 and the earlier Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS release and then the RHEL-based CentOS 6.3.

Ubuntu 12.10 will be officially released Oct 18, 2012. For many current Ubuntu users, this is a must-have release. Not only will it improve the already outstanding Unity interface, it will also bring to the table a more efficient kernel and many more under the hood improvements.

When Ubuntu 12.10 “Quantal Quetzal” is officially released there will be more Ubuntu 12.10 performance figures to publish beyond what’s already been benchmarked. In this article are a preview of some Intel performance figures comparing an updated Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS installation to Ubuntu 12.10 with its near-final packages as of this week.

Running either 12.04 or 12.10 beta 2, I have so far not experienced any freezing, and there have been no lines on the screen. The only issue I have experienced on both systems, is the same thing I experience on my Gateway machine powered by an Intel Quad core processor: At a screen resolution of [...]

This tutorial explains how to use the GeoIP module with nginx on Ubuntu 12.04 to find out where your visitors come from. The GeoIP module sets multiple variables like $geoip_country_name, $geoip_country_code, $geoip_city, etc. that you can use in your PHP scripts or directly in your nginx configuration, for example to serve content in different languages [...]

This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on Ubuntu 12.04. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline three solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, [...]

Ubuntu 12.04 has been given its first point release update since the business-focused Linux distribution was launched in April, adding further ARM server support and an OpenStack cloud computing repository in addition to numerous security updates and fixes.

To install Apache Maven 3.0.4 on Ubuntu 12.04, take the following steps:

Officially, August 23rd will see the first update, Ubuntu 12.04.1, to the operating system. Actually, the Ubuntu update is running a bit late. In any case, here’s what you can expect from it. First, there are no major changes. This is not a Windows style Service Patch (SP) update or Patch Tuesday release. Security patches [...]

This module allows you to create and edit the scripts that are run at bootup and shutdown time, called actions by the module. It can be found under the System category in Webmin, and when you enter it the main page will display a list of all available actions, whether they are started at boot [...]

The Ubuntu team is very pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (Long-Term Support) for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products. The Ubuntu LTS flavors are also being released today.

The one and only reason for doing so (I was generally happy with 11.04) was that Ubuntu had become increasingly sluggish. My assumption was that by upgrading I wouldn’t only be gaining from the inevitable performance enhancements that new releases of any product provide, but that in the process of upgrading many corrupted files would [...]

Ubuntu 12.10 is less than two months away from release. One feature in particular stands out as an overwhelming favorite to launch Ubuntu into new reaches of user-friendliness. The future of Ubuntu is all about web-integration.

Humble Bundle for Android 3 comes with the following games: Fieldrunners, BIT.TRIP BEAT, SpaceChem, Uplink and Spirits. Not to mention that each game includes a breathtaking soundtrack available in FLAC and MP3 formats. Once again, Canonical partnered with the Humble Bundle initiative to deliver these amazing games to their Ubuntu users, downloadable via the Ubuntu [...]

Since Ubuntu Precise Pangolin (12.04) these privacy setting have been integrated out of the box as a feature in the System Settings menu. It’s called Activity Log Manager (previously Zeitgeist Global Privacy), a GUI frontend to partially control Zeitgeist. It’s what powers Ubuntu’s Dash in the Unity desktop. Here’s how to use it to control [...]

Unity, love it or hate it, it’s here to stay. I recently gave it a try and had to just stick with it and in this following blog post, I’m going to argue why Ubuntu 12.04 is the best desktop experience that the floss community has to offer!

Drupal also possible to install it on a Ubuntu Server 12.04. Currently, the Latest version of Drupal (drupal 7) is available in Official Ubuntu Software repository. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to install drupal 7 on ubuntu server 12.04

I’ve been playing around with different ways of implementing FTP lately–that is, whether to use Windows, Linux, or just some sort of storage device with built-in FTP capabilities. As mentioned before, I’ll be going through setting up a Linux Ubuntu 12.04 server, with a second hard drive, as a VMware VM. I chose vsftpd as [...]

As most Ubuntu users will know, Ubuntu 12.04 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release. As an LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), released on 26 April 2012, is scheduled to receive updates and support, for both the desktop and server versions, until October 2017. What many Ubuntu users may not know is that Ubuntu 12.04 [...]

This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an Ubuntu 12.04 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.