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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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