The daily builds of the new Ubuntu 14.04 are out and they are very good as well. I have installed this over my buggy and useless 13.10 installation and this is working out very well. There are no bugs and everything so far is working a treat. The Unity desktop without the ATI drivers installed … Read more
This theme for Gnome or MATE desktops will theme your GTK applications to look like the old CDE desktop: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/GTK2-notif2?content=18886. Get this one if you want a classic look for your desktop. Download this theme here: https://dl.opendesktop.org/api/files/download/id/1460763624/18886-GTK2-notif2.tar.gz.
How you can install the Ubuntu Unity desktop on your Linux Mint 15 system. use this command to install the Lightdm login manager; the Unity desktop and other assorted paraphernalia that goes with it. I just did this today with Mint and this worked. You need the ubuntu-desktop package installed to make use of this … Read more
The Ubuntu 13.10 distribution is buggy beyond belief. I was trying to use a chroot to attempt to fix my Ubuntu 13.10 and I am having countless problems with the whole process. The chroot works very well with the Gentoo Linux distribution; why is 13.10 Ubuntu so bad? They hype this distribution as the next … Read more
With the demise of the Ubuntu distribution as a viable desktop alternative to Windows; I am thinking that this is a good chance for those of us who want a proper desktop environment to change over to the Linux Mint distro instead. That offers the Gnome 2.32.2 fork MATE and there are codecs already in … Read more
Ubuntu 13.10 is a buggy and hopeless mess. Why it sucks so much. I have been trying out the Ubuntu 13.10 distribution on my PC and I have been experiencing so many bugs it is not funny. The Network Manager program is not working and there are so many error pop-ups on the desktop with … Read more
System 76 have released a new touch screen laptop that runs the free Ubuntu Linux distribution. Base pricing begins at US$899.00 for the machine with an Intel Core i5 CPU clocked at 1.5 GHZ. There is 4 Gigabytes of DDR3 RAM installed and Intel HD 4400 Graphics along with a 500 Gigabyte 5400 RPM HDD. … Read more
This posting on Ask Ubuntu has a great tutorial explaining how you can transform your Ubuntu installation and make it look like Windows 7. http://askubuntu.com/questions/50581/is-there-an-ubuntu-theme-available-to-make-it-look-like-windows-7. This is a great idea. You can fool people into thinking that you are running an operating system from Redmond WA and not Linux. Here is a Windows 8 cursor … Read more
How to setup Ubuntu 13.10 with a proper desktop environment. I just installed Ubuntu 13.10 and I had to update the package repositories. This is essential to install software. homer@deusvult:~/Documents$ sudo apt-get updatehomer@deusvult:~/Documents$ sudo apt-get update After this I could install the initial set of packages to setup my system. homer@deusvult:~/Documents$ sudo apt-get install me-tv … Read more
This Linux command will copy the text file given, “myfile.txt” and send it to the sprunge.us website. This allows you to share a text file with others without too much fuss. curl -F ‘sprunge=<myfile.txt’ http://sprunge.uscurl -F ‘sprunge=<myfile.txt’ http://sprunge.us You may also install the PastebinCL utility on Fedora 19, this allows you to upload text to … Read more
The French Police are switching 72,000 desktop computers from Windows to Linux. This will result in considerable cost savings over the existing Windows computers that would require constant maintenance for anti-malware and virus protection. Linux on the other hand requires less maintenance and is more reliable. Once the user gets the hang of the different … Read more
How to upgrade Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10. Follow this video to find out. The Ubuntu 13.10 Linux distribution allows the user to upgrade from a previous installation of Ubuntu instead of re-installing it all over again. This is a much needed feature in Ubuntu and this is very welcome.
http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/glacier_national_park_dual_monitor-other.jpg. Glacier National Park dual screen wallpaper. A beautiful wallpaper with lovely lighting. Green lighting road wallpaper image: http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/green_nature_dual_monitor-other.jpg. This is a road wallpaper with shafts of light coming down to the road through the trees. A wallpaper that is rather like the Bliss wallpaper for Windows XP: http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/pure_nature_dual_monitor-other.jpg. This is a pretty green grass … Read more
The bash shell uses backslash characters to escape out spaces in a long string that would otherwise be interpreted as separate parameters. This enables you to use the cp or rm commands against files with spaces in their filenames. Take this example: cp my\ awesome\ extra\ cool\ file.txt myfile.txt this command will copy a file … Read more
To clear the RAM cache in Linux, use this simple command as root. Clear PageCache, dentries and inodes. root@jason-desktop:~# sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_cachesroot@jason-desktop:~# sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches This is a very useful command for clearing the RAM cache if a process has been eating away at your memory and you need to clear … Read more
Valve have announced that they are working on a new operating system specifically for their new Steambox gaming machine. This will be based on the Linux kernel; but with new components that will create a new OS for gaming. Will this make Windows obsolete? I wonder. It would be good if Valve would re-make the … Read more
How to add a user to the sudoers file to allow them to use the sudo command. The /etc/sudoers file contains definitions of all the users that are allowed to use superuser privileges on Linux to perform various tasks as an administrator. This is how to add a user to this file to allow them … Read more
This computer from System 76 is an absolute beast. System 76 ship Linux powered computers for those of us that want to play Linux games and do 3D modelling with Blender. This computer can ship with these specs for the base model: Quad-core Intel Core i7-4820K @ 3.70Ghz 8GB DDR3 RAM (1866 MHz) 1GB nVidia … Read more
Setting up Ubuntu 13.10 on a laptop. I have recently replaced the Debian 7.1 hard drive in my laptop with a new hard drive and I installed Ubuntu 13.10. After the installation; I was able to run sudo apt-get update and then I installed a nice new terminal and all of the extra codecs with … Read more