Have you switched to Ubuntu 9.10 from Windows, and want to move or transfer Google Chrome browser profile and settings like History, Bookmarks, Passwords, Cookies, Cache to your Ubuntu OS?

A New Zealand high school running entirely on open source software has slashed its server requirements by a factor of almost 50, despite a government deal mandating the use of Microsoft software in all schools.

According to Paul, Ubuntu is at the core of all of this, running on all of the rendering nodes, and 90% of the desktops at Weta Digital. He notes that his farm (he calls it a “render wall”) is in fact an Ubuntu Server farm, and not RHEL as he has seen reported in the [...]

After long time I’m posting this. In this time, I got a fantastic experience of switching myself from ubuntu to debian. Reasons? may be silly but here they are…

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.

In theory, all you have to do is go to the Windows address book, click File, select Export, and save it as a csv (comma separated values) file. Any email program should be able to import it, so it’s worth trying with your version of Evolution Mail.

The Ministry of Education have plans for developing an Ubuntu-based educational distribution aimed at public and private elementary and secondary schools in Nicaragua.

The institution has been using Information and Technology infrastructures for the past 15 years, but the challenge has been software licensing. This was however, resolved by the Introduction of Open Source software, i.e. Ubuntu 8.04. Parliament is using both the Server (4 Servers) and Desktop (100 Desktops and 2 Laptop computers).

Most businesses would simply not migrate to an OS where if they have any problem, they are asked to consult an informal forum. Ubuntu has made great strides in winning a lot of both Windows and Mac OS users. But most of these users are those that like to try new things no matter the [...]

My move to Ubuntu as my main desktop OS has failed. I still use Ubuntu at work as my main desktop OS, but for my home system, I am now back on Mac OS X.

Here’s a switcher story of a different color: from the Mac, to Linux. It’s one thing to talk about operating systems and free software in theory, or to hear from died-in-the-wool advocates of their platform of choice

Getting Linux on a computer without dumping Windows right off the bat is the first step. The next is to become proficient with the apps you’ll use in Linux. Fortunately, the learning curve is small, and there’s a variety to choose from. You also may need to share data between the two platforms, and that [...]

Going from Windows to Linux need not be done all at once. You don’t need to throw yourself into the deep end of the pool in order to learn how to swim. For those with a Microsoft habit they want to kick but don’t want to go cold turkey, here are some ways to ease [...]

Ubuntu is the leader in the Linux environment and it’s slowly making its way into the mainstream. But is it ready to tackle the enterprise? While there is no chance of Ubuntu overtaking Microsoft Windows’ dominant market share or even making a dent compared to Apple’s Mac OS X, this open-source operating system can make [...]

This case study tells the story about a customer of mine, Wanda, who happens to be in her 70s. Like most computer users she used a Windows based computer. In her case, it was a system put together by her grandson in 2002 or 2003 and has a 1.8ghz processor, 256mb of RAM and the [...]

Ever cold-migrated a Ubuntu VM or de-registered it, then re-registered it on another host? You’ll know that what happens is that Ubuntu immediately loses network access because the underlying MAC has changed.

The Ubuntu Field Manual is a work in progress. Based on more than 10
years of Linux desktop support, the manual gives you all the basics for
setting up an optimized Ubuntu desktop system.

My Mum’s Dell laptop is 3 months old. When Windows update tried to install service pack 1, it died horribly.

A new global survey was published yesterday by IBM entitled Linux Desktop Easier to Deploy Than Expected. This announcement follows another one on the same day entitled Gruppo Amadori to Roll out Linux-based Desktops with IBM Software to Cut Costs.

After planning for weeks to take my main production laptop from OpenBSD 4.4 to 4.5, I sweated through the upgrade only to lose what was perfect X compatibility and pull the “kill switch,” which in this case was transferring everything in my freshly rsync’d backup to my identical Toshiba Satellite 1100-S101 laptop running Ubuntu 8.04 [...]

To my dad, a computer is primarily a magical eBay machine. Like many in the older generation, he loves online auctions. He knows practically nothing about how computers or operating systems work. He just has no interest.

When you start having more time than money, Linux starts to look a lot better. If you aren’t willing to invest that time up front, you can’t get past the hump of migration

I have decided after much deliberation that I am no longer going to withstand Microsoft Window’s buggy software.

I’m thinking about getting a US keyboard as this will be closer to the OSX keyboard thus making it less annoying for me to having to think where double-quotes and tilde are, as for now at least I’m probably going to continue using OSX at work until I can get to a good point to [...]

The French Gendarmerie’s gradual migration to a complete open source desktop and web applications has saved millions of euro, says Lieutenant-Colonel Xavier Guimard. “This year the IT budget will be reduced by 70 percent. This will not affect our IT systems.”

This article describes how to install and update software in Ubuntu 8.04. Although the advice generally applies to Linux, there may be variations for other Linux versions.

The project was launched under the initiative taken by the ENIS to migrate its computing equipment to a free solutions. Our LoCo was contacted by the ENIS administration to contribute to this project by providing presentations on ubuntu and free software and support them for migration.

Once the approval was in place, the project kicked off with purchase of about 200 workstations installed with Ubuntu 8.10 across more than 60 office sites for field operations officers. The demographic of the officers was an average age of 35, having with very little or no knowledge of computers earlier

..when my colleague Neil McAllister, author of InfoWorld’s Fatal Exception blog, made the case for desktop Linux, I snorted, “Give me a break! Desktop Linux is nowhere.” He challenged me to try it myself. He had a point: It had been a decade since I fired up any desktop Linux distro. So I accepted his [...]

Last night, I spent a few hours migrating this production server from Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” to Debian 5.0 “Lenny”. Many have asked me online and in person why I would make the switch, especially being a heavy Ubuntu advocate.