Posted by: Anurag Panda on: May 17, 2008
When I say “sudo rm **” I do mean a specific command which is used to delete folders in a *nix system. If you have visited Ubuntu Forums in the recent months, you would have seen lots of signatures of many users and moderators to anyone to not to use this command unless you are [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: May 15, 2008
In April Canonical released Ubuntu 8.04 LTS more popularly known as Hardy Heron. It was the eighth Ubuntu version to be released so far but more importantly it is an LTS release which means that it would be supported 3 years for the desktop and five years for the servers.
The word LTS or “Long Term [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: May 13, 2008
CNR or Click and Run is a free one-click software delivery service designed to standardize the process and eliminate the complexity of finding, installing and managing Linux software for the most popular desktop Linux distributions according to the Linspire folks.
Though installation of software in Linux distributions like Ubuntu have never been easier, however installing paid [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: May 12, 2008
Google, the world leaders for search engine also have their own Desktop Search Applications. Creditably Google have also made a native version of this famous desktop search for Linux and binaries for installing it in Ubuntu are easily available.
Google Desktop can be easily installed by download and using their .DEB installer. And installing it is [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: May 12, 2008
UPDATE: This is no longer required in Intrepid Ibex (8.10), since Intrepid uses PolicyKit to assign root access limited to scaling of CPU Frequency by default, so you don’t have to do this in Intrepid. The Intrepid method is WAY more secure and indeed better.
Energy Saving and Energy Efficiency are the key words in technology [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: May 2, 2008
Few of us like to play standalone flash based games or some of us have to view flash based programs bundled either from some CD distributor or with a Magazine CD. Some of them run very well in vanilla installation of WINE but few of them need other Windows components and cannot run well under [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: May 1, 2008
To get straight to Business, all Ubuntu or Kubuntu versions at least till Gutsy do not run in Live environment. So usually ATi users have had to use the Alternate CD to install Ubuntu in their rig. However it is indeed possible to use the Live CD to run Ubuntu on an ATi based machine, [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: May 1, 2008
Nothing is perfect. Nor is Ubuntu which has set of major as well as minor flaws which do to a certain extent give problem. Minors problems sometimes give us great headaches and sometimes we are too ashamed of asking for help for those problems. Here I have selected few such problems and laid their solutions.
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Posted by: Anurag Panda on: May 1, 2008
In my previous post I discussed the method and pitfalls for installation of software in Windows and Mac. In this post I will analyze installation procedures in Linux particularly Ubuntu.
In Ubuntu there are many methods of installing software, and each of them are intuitive and repulsive in their own manner and I will discuss them [...]
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