Ubuntu Team has unveiled a brand new graphical interface called “Unity” for netbook edition with verion 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. Here is the first look at this shiny new, extremely clean and beefy, user friendly graphical interface shell.
This is a screenshot gallery of Ubuntu 10.10 code named Maverick Meerkat Netbook Edition Installation Process. Included is a slideshow of new features which include new sound menu, shotwell photo manager.
Good news is, Ubuntu can still play your favorite proprietary media formats provided you install additional software such as vlc, gxine, mplayer etc. To achieve this, you’ll need to install ubuntu-restricted-extras and add Medibuntu repository and install the necessary packages. Initcron Labs has automated these steps with the shell script and made your life easy .
Autoinstall script to setup nginx, php5, php5-fpm and configure it to get started within minutes. Nginx is a lightweight web server which has a very small memory footprint and consumes lesser resources as compared to apache, cherokee, lighttpd. It also serves requests faster. The script is been created for and tested on ubuntu 10.10 lucid lynx.
This howto explains steps to make Ubuntu 10.4 LTS codenamed “Lucid Lynx” detect, configure and install Huawei EC1262 usb modem used by Reliance Netconenct Broadband+. This should also apply to various other similar devices used by Tata Photon, Alcatel, Vodaphone etc. 3G connections.
Solution:
Install
usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data
Two ways to do it,
Automatic from [...]
Ubuntu Studio is a tailor made multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu aimed at audio/video, graphic editors, both enthusiasts and professionals. One could setup a decent studio, and connect midi devices, synthesizers, audio/video recording devices, additional sound cards and installing ubuntu studio on the system. Look and feel of ubuntu studio is very attractive. Folks [...]
In this article I am going to provide you a simple and quick way to setup reliance data card on ubuntu hardy heron. Most of the tasks could be done with the script that I am attaching here.
1. Plugin Data Card
Are you tired of waiting till your favorite yououtube video stream is being buffered to avoid jitters? Are you looking for an application to save youtube videos offline and watch them at your convenience
later? Do you want to save multiple parts of a video and watch it as a whole in [...]
The much awaited version of ubuntu, named ‘Hardy Heron’ (ubuntu 8.04) is officially been launched today. “You’ll never go back” is what canonical says on their official website http://www.ubuntu.com . Ubuntu releases LTS (Long Term Support) every two years and provides 3 years and 5 years of support respectively for desktop and server editions. Last [...]
Here is a procedure to create PDF files, convert from any format (html, text, doc ….) to PDF format.
This simple procedure involves adding PDF printer. I have tried it on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
From the menu, go to System —> Administration —> Printing Click on New Printner, let it search and come up [...]
Playing around with the filesystem partitions is a very risky job and needs great care, or else one could loose important data on the system. There are a variety of partition editors that come with your linux distribution. I will enumerate a few of them here. You could use one of them depending on your [...]
I just removed my system tray from the gnome top panel in Ubuntu. I did right click on the panel, and selected add to panel option. I tried searching for System Tray / Task Bar / Launch Bar without any success. Finally searched through some docs and found out that they actually call it ” [...]
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