A long wait for Linux users finally gets over as Ubuntu finally releases its 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS version. Earlier, the beta version of Ubuntu was announced at the Atlanta Linux Fest in September 2009. The latest version features the latest GNOME desktop environment with a number of cool features worth checking out. The removal of HAL from boot process has made it faster to boot.... 

Many of us are not so well versed users of linux. Some dont even know how to compile a software tarball. The rest do not know what to do with rpm packages. Well, for those who dont know, here is something that wont need you to know. Today, i am going to share a debian package with you, which can create .deb files from any redhat rpm or a slackware tarball or an LSB. This helps us to install... 

Ubuntu provides an excellent package manager graphical frontend with the synaptics package manager. But, it still lacks something. That is accelerated downloads. So, today, i will share with you how I accelerate my package downloads in Ubuntu. For this, you will need any command line download accelerator. A download acelerator splits up the file into multiple segments and all that. So here is how... 

The popularity of linux has finally captured 1% of desktops. Now, comes the need for good software which Ubuntu surely lacks. Personally, I am a Ubuntu Linux fan. There are a lot of top Ubuntu software posts available on the internet and all of them narrow down to around seven applications when combined. Not so cool! Here is my list of softwares I have on my Ubuntu installation. Billiards GL This... 

Debian is the most popular architecture for Linux. It provides a mix of ease of use with integration with different API’s and GUI’s. This is a simple tutorial to create a package backup from any Debian based system. Although, ubuntu comes with an application “APTonCD” which creates a backup of all your packages, the application requires the packages to be present in the apt... 

Every time you install ubuntu linux on your workstation, it comes preconfigured with some features which are least required and are nothing more than an annoyance. In most cases, simple command line workarounds are easy to use instead of the oftentimes buggy GUI.These are the five tweaks I have on my to-do list each time I install a fresh copy of Ubuntu. When was the last time your ISP blocked you... 

It is a sure phenomenon that if at any point of time we had installed Linux on your system, the bootloader was changed to GRUB, LILO and likewise. The problem arises here when we mess up with the installation and want to reinstall the OS itself. Most of us do this by formatting the Ubuntu partition from within Windows. In the course, we also lose our boot directory which contains the boot files and...