By Eli, on April 13th, 2010
Well, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is almost upon us, due for release at the end of this month. This will be the first Long Term Support release since April of 2008’s Hardy Heron.
I’ll be upgrading at some point by doing a fresh install. What are your plans? Are you planning to upgrade? Will you upgrade through [...]
By Eli, on January 17th, 2010
So, do you have a lot of comic books that you want to keep track of? GNOME Comics Organizer can help. This is a little application designed for the purpose of cataloging your comic books.
To get it you must first enable the Universe repositories. Here’s how you can do that. Now that that’s done, you [...]
By Eli, on December 19th, 2009
Google Chrome Beta is now available for linux. You can go here and download the .deb file for 32 or 64 bit systems. Select the version you’d like to download, and then you can simply click on Open from the box that comes up to download and install the package. It can then be found [...]
By Eli, on December 17th, 2008
A new version of Ubuntu is released every 6 months, and it’s very easy to upgrade. All you have to do is click a button or two in your update manager and there you have it. You’ve just gone from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10! Is this something that you should be doing?? You could [...]
By Eli, on December 7th, 2008
In Ubuntu you can have the appointments in your calender appear in your desktop calender/clock. If you’ve just come over from years of Microsoft Windows use, Evolution is the linux equivalent of Outlook. Ubuntu works with the Evolution mail client to give you quick access to your appointments and tasks right on the desktop, [...]
By Eli, on December 3rd, 2008
APTonCD is a very cool application that will backup the packages (software) on your system to a CD or DVD. This will not backup any personal, user created files. This is very handy for example, if you’re re-installing Ubuntu for whatever reason, but you don’t want to have to re-install every single peice of software [...]
By Eli, on November 14th, 2008
So, I buy these Avery return address labels, take them home and download the template from their website. The problem with those nice Avery label templates that you get from their site is that they’re designed to be used with MS Word. Using Ubuntu, I opened this template in Open Office, thinking it would work [...]
By Eli, on May 17th, 2008
If you use Ubuntu you’ve probably noticed that there are a few other versions of it out there. The main difference between Ubuntu and the other version is the desktop environment. That is, user interface, how the desktop looks & behaves, how the menus look, how it manages the file system, etc. [...]
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