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Create your own customized Ubuntu Live CD

Here on Ghacks I have mentioned a few tools that allow you to create various types of Linux CDs. Most of these tools allow you to create Live CDs that are either images of your current working distribution or tools to create a Live CD with special packages. But none of these tools, so far, [...]

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Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced

Installing KDE 4.3.2 on Ubuntu

KDE is not a desktop that should be overlooked. Not only did it completely redefine itself upon the launch of 4.x, it has added features that have made it unique in the land of desktops. But because KDE completely re-invented itself at version 4 it’s almost as if you have to consider this a completely [...]

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Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

Let Munin monitor your servers and network

If you are looking for an easy to install, configure, and use systems monitor, look no further. The Munin is a network/systems monitor that presents all its data is easy to read graphs. Munin is setup as a server/client (or node) which makes this system very flexible. Munin also offers an extensive plugins library that [...]

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Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Tutorials Basic, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 30th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

With Ubuntu 9.10 Arrives Wubi 9.10

The Ubuntu development team has just released a new version of their Linux distribution to the public. Ubunutu 9.10 follows the usual bi-annual release cycle. It introduces updates all over the board including a “a redesigned, faster boot and login experience, a revamped audio framework and improved 3G broadband connectivity”. A Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu [...]

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Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

What makes Ubuntu so user friendly?

Of all the Linux distributions, the consensus is beginning to become clear that Ubuntu is, hands down, the most user friendly of the Linux distributions. Naturally there are people that claim other distributions like PCLinuxOS, and Linux Mint are even more user-friendly than Ubuntu. But what exactly makes a Linux distribution user-friendly?
I have been using Linux [...]

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Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, ask the readers

Install and use Ubuntu One

Recently I previewed the up and coming release of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala (”Ubuntu Karmic Koala Preview“.) In that article I covered some of the new features in the upcoming release. Once of those features is the new Ubuntu One. Ubuntu One is much like the familar DropBox that people of nearly all platforms enjoy. Ubuntu [...]

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Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Networks, Online Services, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

Ubuntu Karmic Koala preview

If you’ve been following the Ubuntu release cycle you know that the .10 release is forth coming. Slated to hit the bandwidth October 29th, 2009, 9.10 promises to have quite a number of new features that should please even the most discerning of Linux users.
But what can you expect and how should it run? In [...]

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