Running Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) is great except for the fact that the nvidia proprietary driver only loads half the time. Here are some of the fixes people have tried (with varying degrees of success) as well as my current workaround.
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How to make a Water-Colour Ubuntu Wallpaper in GIMP
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In this tutorial I’ll guide you through making a cool and fresh Water-Colour Wallpaper in GIMP. At the end you can add your favourite operating system logo and set your new wallpaper as your background :) !
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Christine - Small media player based on Gstreamer
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Christine is a small media player based on Gstreamer written in Python using GTK as GUI Tool Kit. The goal is to allow you to listen your music in a very easy way, by let you import your files and browse them.
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Rigs of Rods Simulator Game Gets Marked 0.37-r1
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One of the free software projects we have been talking to as of late about better enhancing their benchmarking capabilities for likely integration into the Phoronix Test Suite is Rigs of Rods.
Read more »Android rootkit demonstrated
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At this year's DEFCON 18 Hacking Conference, two security researchers have demonstrated what they claim is the first rootkit for Android
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.3
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Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an OpenSUSE 11.3 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Quick Impressions of openSUSE 11.3
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About two weeks ago, the openSUSE Project released version 11.3 of its popular Linux distribution, and after putting it off for quite a while, I decided to give the latest version a download and see what SUSE has been up to.
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4 Educational Linux Distributions
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As you may know, the Linux and open source community provides a wealth of free operating systems. Today, we'll review 4 different desktop distributions specifically designed for educational and academic use.
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Using Checkinstall To Build Packages From Source
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Checkinstall is a utility that builds a .deb, .rpm or Slackware package from a third party source code tarball. This allows you to introduce such third party software using the standard package management features of your distribution.
Read more »Top 10 Avant Window Navigator AWN Themes #Part 2
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Been a long time for changing Avant window Navigator theme, found really cool collection on deviantart, you will find many themes appropriate for your desktop and installed themes you have even it was dark theme or bright theme.
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In Search of the Perfect KDE4 Distro – 3 Linux Mint 9
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I am writing this from Linux Mint 9 KDE4. Already I am feeling very at home with it. Is Linux Mint 9 the KDE nirvana I am looking for?
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Ubuntu 10.10’s New File System: btrfs
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Between ext3, ext4, reiserfs and others, Ubuntu has no shortage of file systems to choose from when installing a new system. And those options are set to become yet more numerous in Ubuntu 10.10, which will introduce support for btrfs.
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24 Addictive Free Linux Games (Part 1 of 3)
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In recent months LinuxLinks Towers has been consumed with playing games. In fact, some might contend that game playing has become so excessive that real life has been neglected to a degree. We have seen team challenges, leaderboards, and even the odd wager. Healthy competition to say the least!
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Is Linux Really Harder to Use?
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Not surprisingly, the misperception that Linux is harder to use than other operating systems is also one that competing vendors routinely use to scare potential new users away from Linux.
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Ubuntu Tweak is Slowly Evolving Into a Must Have Installation Candidate
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To be frank, though we had posts about Ubuntu Tweak and similar app like Ailurus before, I never liked the idea of 'application to control other applications'(over simplification may be). This time I decided to give a good neat try at Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.5. And I have to say, I was quite literally blown away.
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