However, for those that are concerned about the performance of this latest release that is codenamed the Maverick Meerkat, here are some benchmarks comparing its performance to Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS as well as last October's Ubuntu 9.10 release.

Couple of days ago I installed "Nautilus Elementary" on my Ubuntu maverick meerkat. Strangely I was not able to enable clutterview. When I pressed F4 it just showed a black blank screen and that was real annoying.

There are many reasons one person would want to change their MAC address and it could be for good reasons or for bad reasons. A good reason someone might change their MAC address would be for security reasons.

Some days, you almost feel sorry for them. Isn't Free Software great!

Nautilus Elementary now have a embedded terminal and clutter view by default for ubuntu 10.10. Not only its simple - It looks gorgeous.

Ari Jaaksi, the vice president of Nokia's MeeGo unit, is moving on to other things. His resignation is an unfortunate loss for Nokia, but it's especially troubling at this time when the Finnish phone giant is working to deliver its first MeeGo-based product.

As we all know it, Google has its own URL shortening service called goo.gl. Google’s URL shortener still doesn’t have an official API and it doesn’t offer all the features that are available at bit.ly, but it works well.

Here is a Python script to shorten URL using goo.gl.

There are times when you play around with Ubuntu/Gnome, trying different things like new settings, new themes, new managers etc, and all of a sudden you run into a problem that you can’t seem to find a way to fix it and you wish "If I could just reset it back to its default settings"