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Windows software comes in .exe files, which you are expected to get from the
web or from a store. Ubuntu software comes in packages, which
are installed and updated through a centralised system, like a more
powerful version of Windows Update and Add/Remove Programs. See the software
installation guide for instructions on how to install new programs.
Application packages will usually appear in the Applicationsmenu,
configuration tools will usually appear in the Preferences or Administration&n
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The Windows-based Ubuntu Installer
(Wubi) allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu from within Microsoft
Windows. It lets a Microsoft Windows user try Ubuntu without risking
any data loss due to disk formatting or partitioning. Wubi requires Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows
7. NOTE: Hibernation is not
supported when installing Ubuntu via Wubi.
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HOW TO INSTALL:
I'm gonna assume we're installing on a fresh install, so most of you
(specially if you already have experience installing eyecandy) might
already have some steps covered, like getting Trevino's repository, for
example. But to help those who might not have it installed, I'm gonna
cover all the steps.
STEP 1:
First, we'll be adding Trevino's repositories, which is where we're getting
our Fusion copy from. You can also find a lot of other eyecandy
software from them, like Avant Window Nav. and Affinity. Anyway, first
we go to System->Administration->Software sources and select the
"Third-party sources" tab. You're gonna get a listbox and a button that
says "add" below it. Click there and paste the following:
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With
the tagline "Let there be light” the all new Amarok 2.1 release seems
to be another step closer to make the popular music player the world’s
best. The new version not only seems to fill in
most of the features that went missing in the 2.0 version from the 1.x
series but has many additional features as well. New FeaturesThe most noticeable feature would be its new look
with the appealing blue color.
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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
Overview
With Ubuntu 10.04
(Lucid Lynx) so far our first impressions aren't good. 10.04 booted to
the "Install" prompt from a LiveCD in 4 minutes and 23 seconds, compared
to a solid 40 seconds on Debian Squeeze ("testing" repository) from a
LiveCD on the same machine, and Debian's LiveCD isn't even the "normal"
way of installing Debian.
During the boot X changed resolutions 7
times, before hanging for 10 seconds before allowing the "Try Ubuntu"
button to be clicked. After clicking the "Try Ubuntu" button X had to
change resolution again (even though it changed resolutions now 8 times
and flickered the screen, the resolution stayed at 1024x768) and it hung
again for 20 seconds as it loaded the desktop.
Once fully
booted, the background is nice (not the nicest) and the colors are okay;
it felt like the Firefox icon popped out to much, the only colors you
see on the
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Since KDE 4.3 has been released, various reviews have appeared
on the web. The DOT had a look at some of them. Polishlinux once
again offers an extensive review with many screenshots showing what is new in
KDE 4.3. According to Korneliusz Jarzębski,"Finally the day has come, when the
curiosity about the KDE4.3 development branch took the better of me.".
The
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Ubuntu can
undoubtedly be considered one of the most newbie-friendly Linux
distributions out there. Yet, there still are some hidden functions and
settings that will improve your experience. Though you don't need a
third-party program to unlock them, it will save you a lot of time to
have an application that centralizes most of them.
And what is
that application? Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.6, of course. The easiest way to get
it is by downloading the small, 1 MB .deb package and installing it with
a double click. Once that's out of the way, you will find the Ubuntu
Tweak entry in the Applications --> System Tools menu.
When
you first open Ubuntu Tweak, a welcome screen will offer you a quick
preview of the program's capabilities. At the bottom there are four
buttons: About, Donate, Quit and Preferences. The first three are
self-explanatory, while Preferences will let you cus
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idgin is an instant message (online chat) client that
works with many different protocols simultaneously, which eliminates the
need to run multiple proprietary clients. What this means in
practical terms is that a Pidgin user can seamlessly exchange instant messages with
others who use the AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, or Apple chat clients (as
well as many others). Proprietary instant messaging systems are
materially invested in their own protocols and clients. This tends to
discourage interoperability with alternative systems. Multiprotocol
instan
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This
weekend, I decided to check out GNOME Do’s latest 0.8 release with the
new Docky task bar. As someone who has managed to avoid all the launcher
hype bestowed on programs such as Launch Box, Quicksilver and Ubiquity,
I have to admit that in the beginning, I was more than a little bit
skeptical about GNOME Do. How useful can this program really be? I mean,
all it does is allow you to use keyboard shortcuts for common tasks. I
can use the themouse for
that. Right? Wrong. After using GNOME Do for only a few days, it has
quickly risen to the top of my must-have applications list. Installation in Ubuntu started out pretty
straight forward and similar to most other applications
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The
popular photo organizer Google Picasa has
been updated to build 70.71 recently. The latest version of Picasa can
be downloaded directly from the official homepage for Linux or Microsoft
Windows XP or Windows Vista.
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It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca,
Facebook, Flickr, Digg, and RSS, with support for more services
being added all the time. Gwibber allows
you to post updates, read updates, reblog, retweet, send
personal messages and view public timelines – all from your
desktop! No need to open your browser! Gwibber
also uses Jaunty’s notification system to display new messages,
so you don’t even need to have the main window open to keep
up-to-date! ![scr
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Ubuntu Software Center (previously
called Ubuntu Software Store, originally codenamed AppCenter)
is a computer programfor browsing,
installing and removing software. Based upon theGNOME application, gnome-app-install, which is similar in
function and appearance, it serves as a GTK+
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The final version of OpenOffice 3 is out , and if you're looking
to save yourself plenty of money, download it instead of buying
Microsoft Office --- you could save yourself hundreds of dollars, and
not lose out on many features. I put the Windows version through its paces, and am about to
download the Linux version as well. The suite has six full-blown
applications: the Writer word processor, Calc spreadsheet, Impress
presentations program, Base database program, Math equation editor, and
Draw graphics pro
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Step by step: Hacking
an iPhone 3GS with Ubuntu
Bad news for anyone with an
iPhone 3GS: even if you have the latest OS, even if you have a PIN
number, even if it isn't jailbroken - it can be hacked by anyone using a
computer running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. I wouldn't ordinarily reveal
exactly how to hack an iPhone within a news story such as this, but what
the heck, here's all the gory detail revealed, step by step. *
Step 1 - Take a powered down iPhone 3GS and connect it to your computer
running a fully up to date version of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.
* Step 2 -
See Step 1. Seriously, that really is all it takes according to
security blogger Bernd Marienfeldt who reckons that the way Ubuntu
Lucid Lynx handles the iPhone means that a ton of data is accessible,
even if that iPhone is PIN protected and running the very latest version
of the OS. How much data exactly? Well how about all your Google safe
browsing databases, game content, music, photos and videos,
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I've Installed Linux,
Now What?
Time to enter the Wayback
(WABAC) Machine to an experience I had with a new Linux user and compare
it to today's more tech savvy audience. The year was 1997 and I had
settled in for the evening with my favorite beverage and a bit of
channel flipping, when I received a telephone call from a guy who'd
installed Linux on his computer. He didn't know what else to do from
there, except call someone who did know what to do, me. The conversation
began with him saying, "I've installed Linux, now what?" I was in
business for myself, at the time, as a computer consultant. I, along
with two of my friends, installed networks, repaired computers, setup
servers and desktops and did end user support. Evening calls
were standard fare for me at the time and so I answered the ringing
without hesitation. This one time, I wish I had ignored it. But, why
should I have felt that way when Linux, then and now, is my favorite
computer topic? I
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About Ubuntu 10.04 :
It’s almost that time again – time to start chatting up the next
release coming out of the Ubuntu-verse. I know, I know…it seems the
tires of 9.10 were just kicked. They were. Ubuntu 9.10 was well
received, but now something bigger and better is coming around the
corner. But what should be expected of Ubuntu? How can they one-up
themselves, after the hat-trick they pulled with 9.10? Well, I have
taken a peek under the hood of Lucid Lynx and I really liked what I saw.
As you may know, Ubuntu has a very regular release schedule.
Some say this prolific schedule gets in the way of users growing
accustomed to the distribution. The minute a release gains a modicum of
familiarity, Ubuntu releases another, better version. On the other hand,
Ubuntu offers what is called a Long Term Support version. LTS releases
happen every two years and enjoys support for 3 years. So instead of
jumping on every r
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About GIMP
Introduction to GIMP
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a
freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image
composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be
used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching
program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image
renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and
extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions
to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows
everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation
procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed
under X11 on UNIX p
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1. K3bNot many can argue
against this one. K3b is the
most popular burning application for Linux, and although it uses KDE3
libraries, many GNOME users prefer it too over native GTK burners.
K3b 1.0.5 running in Debian Lenny
The
version I'm going to talk about is 1.0.5 for KDE3, but K3b 2.0 for KDE4
is in the works, and the second alpha was made availa
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RecordMyDesktop
is a command-line tool which allows to record your entire Linux desktop
and save it as a Theora Ogg video. It has GTK and Qt frontends too, and
in Ubuntu gtk-recordmydesktop
is available in the repositories. To install recordmydesktop in Ubuntu,
just type in the GNOME Terminal:
sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop
And
if you want the GTK frontend, use:
sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop
The
simplest way to record your desktop is to run the command recordmydesktop without any parameters
inside a terminal, then do whatever you wanted to do, and when you feel
the screencast is over, type Ctrl+C in the terminal
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Pitivi
ideo editing software for Linux
is, to put it nicely, quirky.
Some editors only work with specific file formats, some work nicely for
basic video editing but can be wildly temperamental on seemingly
identical machines, and some are powerful to the point of overkill for
the average user. PiTiVi is a non-linear video editor based on the GStreamer
multimedia framework. After hearing some positive comments, and seeing
development efforts really
picking up on the project, I decided to take it for a spin. It is
very much in development, but not in the traditional sense. It
feels very stable, and the interface isn't confusing or a hindrance. It
is, at the moment, very basic when it comes to functionality.
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About the manual
Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 is a
comprehensive beginners guide for the Ubuntu operating system. It is
written under an open source license and is free for you to download,
read, modify and share.
The manual will help you become familiar with everyday
tasks such as surfing the web, listening to music and scanning
documents. With an emphasis on easy to follow instructions, it is
suitable for all levels of experience.
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Evolution – The Default Email Client for Ubuntu
Just
as I’ve spent a lot of time at this humble WordPress address finding
the perfect PIM
2.0 client, my previous blog had a fair amount of space devoted to
traditional offline email clients. I’ve got email archives dating back
some thirteen years, and I’ve moved them between various apps on OS
X and Windows
before finally settling on Thunderbird.
The original plan for
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Thunderbird 2
Mozilla's already
impressive e-mail client has
improved with version 2. In fact, this free open-source e-mail
application raises the bar enough that I can safely say I prefer it over
Outlook Express. Thunderbird 2 includes new and very useful features
but keeps its interface clean (some might say austere) and fairly
intuitive. As with its predecessor, this version lets you aggregate your
online mail clients locally and has the potential to attract millions
of new users—but to keep new users who aren't tech-savvy, the
application will need a decent quick-start guide or wizard. Without it,
this fine software will remain a niche product valued by power users but
few others.
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Empathy
The GNOME project has released a
major upgrade of its desktop environment
that adds an instant messaging (IM) client. GNOME 2.24 also features a
new task manager, screen resolution tools, and enhanced conferencing
support, and spins off a new GNOME
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There have been a number of reports regarding
blank screens at
startup pre and post installation on the new Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid”
release. It seems there are some incompatibilities with some video drivers,
particularly (not
surprising) some ATI and
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It’s the question thousands of users will surely ask when Canonical
debuts Ubuntu 9.10 in October: "Will Ubuntu 9.10 work on my PC?”
Canonical has developed testing software to help you determine if your
system will fully support the new Ubuntu. Here are the details.
During the Atlanta Linux Fest
held Sept. 19, Canonical and Ubuntu volunteers used a USB thumb drive —
equipped with diagnostics software — to help attendees determine if
Ubuntu 9.10 can fully run on their systems.
Here’s how it works:
First, I used the Canonical USB thumb drive
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Google Chrome review.
Seeing how I haven't installed
any beta software lately (yeah
right), I figured I jump in with everyone else on the net and see what's
up with Google's new entry in the browser market. If you haven't heard
about Chrome yet, then just do a
Google
Search on it and you'll have plenty to read for the foreseeable
future. The install was small 468k so the download was fast and the
install took about 15 seconds so in well under a minute I went from
"click" to "play". Not too shabby. So, if you too are interested in
giving a new browser a shot, here are a few cool features that stick out
One box for everything Web search. Web
history. Address bar. Suggestions a
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Beginner's Guide to Python
New to programming? Python is free, and easy to learn
if you know where to start! This guide will help you to get started
quickly.
New to Python?
Read BeginnersGuide/Overview
for a short explanation of what Python is.
Getting Python
Next, install the Python
interpreter on your computer.
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Ubuntu NBR
What is that and where'd the
taskbar go? That's Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Netbook Edition, a free operating system designed for small-screen
netbooks. Why'd anyone ever want it? Let's find out!
That's the "home screen". Basically, it's the single place that all
of your applications and sites go-and the section shown above is your
"favorites" section. You can add any program developed for Ubuntu (and a
lot not developed for Ubuntu) or any site to that screen.
That bar on the left side is the "categories" of programs-we have
accessories, games, graphics programs, Internet programs, Office
programs, Sound & Video programs, Wine (a special program for
Linux), and settings.
However, let's say you aren't happy with the default software
installed in Ubuntu, you want more. How do you handle that? just click
on Ubuntu Software center-by default, it's in the Favorites section.
From that window you can search for new software t
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Geany
As an amateur programmer and web
developer (I did say amateur)
I’m always looking to find a good IDE that matches my workflow and that allows me to
do what I want as quickly and with the least effort possible. Out of all
the free IDEs I have tried in both Windows and Linux, none of them even
come close to matching Geany’s
pure awesomeness!
While it undoubtably has the worst looking icon ever, you can clearly
see that the IDE is not overly complex or messy.
There are three
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C++ vs Java vs Python vs Ruby : a first impression
Executive Summary
I am a language agnostic journeyman programmer. I am not a fan of a
particular language (I almost said 'fanboy') but
thats a bit inflammatory). I just want to write useful programs
and have fun doing it. I know C++ and Java pretty well. I did some
beginner work in Python and Ruby. I then
came up with the following conclusions. But before you flame, read the
whole article.
Go right to the
side-by-side comparison
- C++ vs Java
Java garbage collection is the big
productivity gain
Java is significantly slower than C++
C++ is
(much) harder to code correctly than any of the others - Java vs
Python/Ruby
Python/Ruby interpreted execution and
dynamic typing are big productivity gains over Java.
Python/Ruby are
slower than Java
Python/Ruby
programs need less extraneous scaffolding (cleaner
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