Over the last few years most of my video cards have had NVidia chipsets. And with these chipsets, open source drivers are iffy at times. Because of that I have often employed the use of proprietary drivers. It used to be a challenge to get these to work. Many times you had to recompile a [...]

Tags: drivers, Linux, proprietary driver, ubuntu
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

If you have users that log into a server, or a desktop (for whatever reason) you might want to take advantage of the Linux Message Of The Day file. This file resides in the /etc directory and, when a user logs in, the contents of that file are displayed every time a user logs into [...]

Tags: Linux, log in message, message of the day, motd, ubuntu, ubuntu server
Categories: Advice, Linux, Polls, The Web, Tutorials Advanced, Windows

Tomboy is one of those applications that, once you start using, will quickly become one of the tools you are dependent upon. It allows you to keep your notes both organized and quickly accessible. But don’t think Tomboy is just a place where you jot down quick reminders. Although it does make for simple jotting, [...]

Tags: GNOME, Linux, notes, tomboy, ubuntu
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Tutorials Basic, software

If you’re interested in Linux then most likely you have taken a look at Ubuntu. And if you have taken a look at Ubuntu then you know there are a lot of derivatives out there that specialize in one cross section of society or another. But which one is right for you? That is where [...]

Tags: edubuntu, eeebuntu, gobuntu, kubuntu, Linux, ubuntu, ubuntu derivatives, ubuntu server, ubuntu studio
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, software

There are quite a few possibilities to take the Linux distribution Ubuntu for a test drive. It can be run from Live CDs, run in a virtual machine or installed on a free partition on the computer system even from within Windows (using Wubi). Portable Ubuntu adds another possibility to these choices by offering to [...]

Tags: Linux, linux distribution, operating system, portable ubuntu, sourceforge, ubuntu, wubi
Categories: Linux, Operating Systems

So you’ve just installed Ubuntu and you’re ready to tackle all those great administrative tasks you’ve heard about with Linux. You’ve even been briefly tempted to try the old rm -rf / command just to see if it’s really true that it will wipe away your entire computer as you watch it happen. Only problem [...]

Tags: administration, Linux, privileges, root, sudo, ubuntu
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, software

If you have a need for a server OS that is robust, reliable, and as flexible as any other server available, then Ubuntu 8.10 should be in serious consideration. There is only one drawback to this server – no GUI. Oh sure you could install a GUI (you’d be doing it from the command line [...]

Tags: dns, Linux, network administration, static ip address, ubuntu
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software