I have just now, a couple hours ago, started to install the “Ubuntu Netbook Remix edition”. To do this I used a USB 2.0 HDD, because I currently do not posses empty CD/DVD.

But most of the latest software releases are available as PPAs (Personal package archives) in Launchpad. Using those personal repositories you can install the latest releases of any software in your Ubuntu. Let me show you the general method to do that.

There isn’t much work to installing Ubuntu on your desktop or server. It should take just over a few hours to get everything you need together and installed.

I went ahead and just did a quick screenshot walk through of installing Ubuntu 9.10, and some possible points of interest for anyone that may need help understanding the steps.

In this guide, I will show you how to create a very light Ubuntu install, but retain adequate functionality. My install uses a mere 60 MB of RAM (on login) and less than 1 GB of disk space

There is a very simple command that reinstalls all the distribution packages and reconfigures them automatically. This is particularly helpful when you have done a partial upgrade and eventually have broken the system dependencies tree.

You may be afraid to make the jump to Ubuntu Linux, thinking it may be too daunting to install it by yourself or perhaps you have never even done an operating system installation all by yourself but have a machine spare after your last replacement pc or upgrade arrived and want to dabble with Ubuntu.

However, with Ubuntu, and Linux in general, said method of obtaining software just doesn’t happen. Software for Ubuntu is obtained in a different, and easier, manner.

Another week, another round of tinkering and messing around with Linux doodads. The Ubuntu Koala text installer has a years-old bug, and Fedora 11 LiveCD has a showstopping installer bug. Never a dull moment in computer-land!

This is an attempt at making a “howto” based on my personal experience installing Ubuntu “Karmic Koala” 9.10 in its LPIA port (optimized for Atom processors). Remember, the normal Ubuntu desktop ISOs and the “Ubuntu netbook remix” ISOs are not tuned for the LPIA architecture

We’ve created the following tutorial to teach Linux newcomers how to install the Ubuntu 9.10 operating system on their personal computer. Therefore, it is addressed to people who have just heard about Ubuntu, those who have never installed Ubuntu before and want to test it, but don’t know how.

It looks and feels a lot like Windows (more or less), but, being very lightweight, it runs very quickly, and – especially if you mainly use the computer to browse the web – it’s a really great way of giving an older machine a new lease of life.

The process to download and burn-in your own CD version of Ubuntu is free and simple, provided that you have a connection to the Internet, and your computer system has a CD burner. Below are the steps involved in the downloading and the burning of the install image onto a CD.

In the first two parts of this series we focused a great deal on the hardware. Once you have all that figured out you must make some decisions regarding what software to install.

This is Ubuntu installation guide is available to anyone for free. Once students have completed the course they should be able to install the Ubuntu Linux distribution and have a good understanding of the options on each step of the install.

I had a hard drive failure on my home Windows XP Pro DELL system last week. I decided this morning at about 4AM to rebuild the system as a dual boot with Ubuntu 9.04 on the second partition

A 10 minute video going into a little more detail about the partitioning step of the Ubuntu Installer.

Anyone that might be nervous about having to install Ubuntu Server really shouldn’t be! It is much easier than you might think, in fact it will probably surprise you how easy it really easy.

Netbook manufacturers tend to favour Windows XP, Microsoft’s older, cheaper and less resource-hogging OS. But you may find that Linux, which this runs perfectly well on just 512MB of RAM, is a better alternative.

I’ve dabbled in Ubuntu before. Several times, in fact. I never stuck with it for very long, however. One thing or another always soured me on the whole OS, and it was quickly replaced with the Windows OS of choice at the time.

Programs like Debian and Ubuntu’s Synaptic, Fedora’s yum or openSUSE’s YaST makes installing programs little more than a matter of point and click. Still, some people have trouble, so Ubuntu is reviving a dusty, old project, AppCenter so that anyone can install Linux programs.

The other day I was bored. What does one do when bored? Well, generally it’s a good idea to install some variant of Linux. Why? Because Linux is supposed to be hard to install.

In this beginner article, Ben Mackie provides step-by-step instructions for installing Ubuntu Linux through VirtualBox on an Intel Mac running either Tiger or Leopard. Hopefully this article will encourage even the most cautious Mac users to enjoy the benefits of a Mac with Linux.

Having worked with Geeks for the past 4 years I have slowly become a geek myself and just before Christmas I decided I would install Ubuntu so that I could see if Linux was for me.

This short guide covers dual booting, Wubi and virtualization – Installing within Windows: Wubi is Windows software that installs Ubuntu within a series of virtual hard disk files contained in the Windows filesystem.

Adding the Linux operating system without deleting Windows, so that both are available as bootable options, allows experimenting with Linux without going completely cold turkey. This process is commonly known as dual-booting.

So I pulled the 120GB SATA drive out of my HP dv9205ca and loaded Ubuntu 9.04 on the T60… I Just needed access to web anyway and I knew that 9.04 would pick up the Wi-Fi easily enough.

Googling “eeepc linux install” quickly leads me to forum.eeeuser.com and thence to installing Ubuntu, which I seem to remember is claimed to be the most idiot-proof flavour of Linux.

After reading dozens of articles about the wonders of Ubuntu and hearing some of my workmates constantly praising it, I was so curious to test it for myself that I couldn’t help it: I’ve downloaded the latest version of this popular Linux distro from their official website and I’m just about to install it

Today I was called out to help a young mother who got a Dell Mini 12 refurbished some months ago, which had come with Ubuntu on it. This machine only had one problem, she couldn’t remember the password.