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Virtualbox Walkthrough: Ubuntu 10.04
This walkthrough takes you through creating a virtual machine on Virtualbox and installing Ubuntu 10.04 on it. This is a fairly thorough walkthrough, but by [ continue reading... ]
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Visually Seeing Your Boot Speed With Bootchart Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
By ben.kevan on Apr 29, 2010 in Software Installation
Have you ever wanted to know what your computer did while it booted? Are you new to linux, and want to understand what actually went [ continue reading... ]
Things to do after installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid
Previously (in 2008) I wrote about “Things to do after installing openSUSE 11.0“. Well I felt like it was time to start this up again, [ continue reading... ]
Using sudo without a password
One of the most noticeable features of ubuntu is the common use of sudo in order to perform ‘root’ level tasks. By default the ‘root’ [ continue reading... ]
Packages Installed with apt-get kubuntu-desktop
In my journey to give GNOME and Ubuntu an honesty try, I found myself installing kubuntu desktop, with sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop After a few [ continue reading... ]
Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner Ubuntu vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-921-1 April 09, 2010 firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9.1 vulnerabilities CVE-2010-0173, CVE-2010-0174, CVE-2010-0175, CVE-2010-0176, CVE-2010-0177, CVE-2010-0178, CVE-2010-0179, CVE-2010-0181, CVE-2010-0182 =========================================================== A security issue affects the [ continue reading... ]
ATI Catalyst™ 10.1 Driver – Ubuntu 9.10 Support
AMD has announced the release of the ATI Catalyst driver. Here are some notes from the release notes: I am actually quite disappointed with ATI’s [ continue reading... ]
Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS Released
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, the fourth maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 8.04 LTS release. This release includes [ continue reading... ]
Burn a ISO image to CD via Command Line Linux – openSUSE Ubuntu Fedora
Recently an associate of mine asked me to burn him a CD since his computer was “out of service”. I put in the CD and [ continue reading... ]
Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Walk Through – VirtualBox
By ben.kevan on Dec 12, 2009 in Ubuntu & Kubuntu
I went ahead and just did a quick screenshot walk through of installing Ubuntu 9.10, and some possible points of interest for anyone that may [ continue reading... ]
VirtualBox 3.1 What’s New Webinar
Sun Microsystem is holding a webinar for the latest release of VirtualBox 3.1 titled, What’s New in 3.1. Slated for the Webinar is: Teleportation Speedups [ continue reading... ]
Chrome Beta for Linux 4.0.249.30 on openSUSE
By ben.kevan on Dec 09, 2009 in Fedora & RedHat, Linux Mint, Ubuntu & Kubuntu, Web Browsers, openSUSE & SUSE
I forgot my laptop at home today, so I was unable to install Chrome while I was at work. (yes, that’s an embarrassing story). But [ continue reading... ]
Ubuntu to Remove GIMP – Will more follow?
By ben.kevan on Dec 03, 2009 in Fedora & RedHat, GNOME & KDE, Linux Mint, PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu & Kubuntu, openSUSE & SUSE
arstechnica.com recently discussed Ubuntu’s decision to remove GIMP (a GNU Image Manipulation Program that is popular among the Linux world) on the next release of [ continue reading... ]
Ubuntu “New Wave” theme caused 100% CPU with Lotus Notes (Eclipse)
Just thought I’d let you guys know of an interesting issue I ran across. I have an Ubuntu test box here at work that I [ continue reading... ]
Speed up your Linux Boot and normal use ( openSUSE )
In a world where faster (in most sense) is better, people are always looking for ways to increase the efficency of their computers. While i’ve [ continue reading... ]
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