After you have downloaded and installed Ubuntu 9.04, what is next thing you should do?

I had to send my netbook, an Acer Aspire One, for repair after three months of use. I had installed Fedora Core 10 XFCE respin, but when sending in the unit I knew that Acer would probably re-install Windows.

Although some of this stuff is old, here are some funny Easter eggs I bumped into over time.

If you aren’t doing remote backups you are at risk. In this post we discuss the problems with incremental sync backups and encryption and how to effectively produce encrypted remote backups that are bandwidth efficient. We will leverage an existing FTP server or show you how to set one up on your friends computer so you can swap data and never have to pay for a backup service again.

I had to set up a Fedora 8 machine recently.  The installation process was simple enough, but configuring the system reminded me of several simple features that I take for granted when using Ubuntu, but which, when absent, make the user experience significantly more daunting.  Below are four of the features that provide an extra boost of user-friendliness to Ubuntu.

This tutorial will explain how to Upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibix) to Ubuntu 9.04

Almost without exception, today's Internet users prove their identity online using a fixed account name and password. In the past, this simple system provided sufficient security. But with the growing popularity of online banking and eCommerce, the value of stealing online identities has skyrocketed.

Ubuntu 9.04, codenamed Jaunty Jackalope, was released on April 23rd, also celebrating the 10th Ubuntu release. Since its first version back in October 2004, Ubuntu went through many improvements and quickly became one of the most popular distributions out there, with a huge and continuously thriving community and a fast development method.