I don’t know if all of you out there have been following the technology scene lately, but there is a holy trinity of operating system releases going on. Apple released the most recent version of OSX, 10.6, code named Snow Leopard in late August. Microsoft is set to release Windows 7, following the still born [...]
Unlike the author of the original article, I AM a fan of Ubuntu and Linux, and I found the post pretty interesting. One small but great part of the Linux world is GUI (theme) customization. Overall customization is huge, but theming is often overlooked as nice but not necessary.
I happen to love the dark themes [...]
If you head over to the Canonical blog at http://blog.canonical.com/?p=110, you can read about a recent survey by Redmonk analyst group that illustrates the extent to which Ubuntu server has penetrated the enterprise server market. Although to most of us Ubuntu users out there, it is no surprise that Ubuntu server is all over the [...]
I had the damnedest time finding how to reinstall the sound drivers in Ubuntu, or Linux for that matter. Coming from the “Windows World” terms like ALSA have no meaning to me.
The following instructions at www.linlap.com are short, easy, and worked:
Ubuntu include a set of recently released drivers in an easy to install package. [...]
Netbooks using the latest ARM processors and capable of running a full working day on a single charge are set to hit the market in the middle of next year. They will use a specially optimised version of Ubuntu Linux, and will come with the Microsoft-compatible OpenOffice.org suite. Simon Hickman, Arm’s regional mobile computing manager, [...]
For those that watched the post-game show on ESPN for the Celtics-Pistons game 6 today, you probably heard Paul Pierce lead some chants at the press conference. I was surprised to hear them say 1-2-3 Ubuntu. According to one of the commentators, Doc Rivers got ‘Ubuntu’ from a book by Desmond Tutu. [...]
This post is for those that have a Dell Optiplex GX620 with the ATI Radeon X600 graphics card and molex dual monitor splitter. If you want to have true dual monitor use instead of the mirrored screen setup that Ubuntu 7.10 defaults to, make sure that the proprietary ATI driver is installed and enabled [...]
Wow! It never ceases to amaze me where Ubuntu pops up in the world. Here in the United States we have a huge bias toward (or against in some circles) Microsoft. Outside of the United States, however, open-source software is taking off at phenomenal speeds, and Ubuntu seems to be leading the [...]
