We got into a little freelancing groove at LinuxWorld this year. Rikki Kite, Managing Editor, asked for a little help with video tech for interviews. TechMonkey (from Alternageek) and I lent a hand and they got some great clips. Linux Pro Editor in Chief, Joe Casad, sat down with the community managers from Ubuntu, Fedora, [...]
I disliked Ubuntu Gutsy when it was released and I have to say I dislike Hardy as well. When I recently rebuilt my main machine, I installed Hardy hoping to give Ubuntu another chance. I used to be a huge Ubuntu fan unfortunately, the fandom stops with Feisty. Bonus to Hardy, that annoying tracker does [...]
This tutorial shows you how you can make a bootable flash drive using the Ubuntu linux ISO. All you need is a flash drive that is 1 gigabyte in size or larger.
Another reason I love HowToForge, you can learn how to do just about anything from the folks that contribute there. I have not tested this howto, so if you try it and get it to work let me know. This guide explains how you can install Apple’s Safari browser on Ubuntu 7.10. As there is [...]
The latest version of gOS (stands for goodOS not Google OS) was released via BitTorrent a few weeks ago from thinkgos.com. The mirrors for direct FTP and http download are mostly available but the virtual appliance download link is offline (at the time of this post).gOS is the linux distribution that powers the popular EEEPC [...]
Yes indeed, free Ubuntu stickers. Nothing new but for those of you who don’t know, you can get free Ubuntu stickers one of two ways: Visit System76.com and send them a SASE and they will send you free Ubuntu stickers Order a free Ubuntu disk from the ShipIt service and it will arrive with a [...]
Show of hands as to who will grab it right away? Anyone already using it? My favorite features: NTFS write support Encrypted harddisk support GUIfied X configuration Server side- preconfigured options including mail server, file server, print server and database server (in addition to the previous choices of LAMP or DNS server) <img id=”countdownimage” src=”http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/dist/710countdown_default.png” [...]
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