By the end of 2004, I'd been running Debian ‘testing’ on my laptop since around early 2003, but after 6-8 months of woody, I was backporting far too much and I couldn't spare the time for upkeep. At just about that time, a thing called ‘warty’ was released.
Read more »Back Home, with Debian!
http://ebb.org –
Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Lucid Lynx Alpha 2 Released; Software Center Changes, Less Games, and New Applets
http://www.learningubuntu.com –
Get your bug report hat on because Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 2 is ready for testing. What's new in this release?
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Is this for real?
http://blog.init.hr –
When I was in high school, during IT classes we worked with DOS, WordPerfect for DOS and BASIC. When my sister showed me her school textbook ‘Information technologies for gymnasium’, I was expecting tons of Windows screenshots. But, I was surprised.
Read more »Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
Distributed Storage Across Four Storage Nodes With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 9.10
http://www.howtoforge.com –
This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 9.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 9.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.
Read more »New Video Teaches You About The Ubuntu Release Schedule
http://www.learningubuntu.com –
The Ubuntu release schedule isn't always clear to everyone. There's the regular releases, the LTS releases, server releases, and Alpha, Beta, Omega, and Zeta releases. OK, the last two were fake, but it can all get pretty confusing to new users.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Can a student go fully open source for 48 hours?
http://blogs.zdnet.com –
How would an “ordinary” student cope using a non-Windows environment for 48 hours? Would there be any particular advantages, or would he/she find more disadvantages than it’s worth for long term use?
Read more »
Category: Beginner Tags:
- Login to post comments
How To Set Up Database Replication In MySQL On Ubuntu 9.10
http://www.howtoforge.com –
This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL. MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated to the database on the slave server so that both databases are in sync.
Read more »Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 Finally Released
http://www.webupd8.org –
With a bit of a delay, Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 has been finally released. We already posted a quick what's new guide (initially, 0.5 was supposed to be released on 1th of January, so read about most of the new features there), but let's have an even quicker look at what's new:
Read more »Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
High-Availability Storage With GlusterFS On Ubuntu 9.10
http://www.howtoforge.com –
This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 9.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 9.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem.
Read more »Ubuntu, the Manual Project
https://wiki.ubuntu.com –
A complete beginners manual for Ubuntu, featuring comprehensive guides, How Tos and information on anything you need to know after first installing Ubuntu.
Read more »- Login to post comments
Buying a Dell Ubuntu Netbook
http://www.workswithu.com –
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my search for an Ubuntu netbook. I finally made a decision and received the new machine this week. Read on for the details.
Read more »Category: End User Tags:
- Login to post comments
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx’s Social Networking Features
http://jordanhall.co.uk –
Social media and social networking are huge now-a-days, with Twitter, Facebook and the like being hugely successful at keeping friends and family in touch. Now only that, but social networks are huge for charities, with many causes being supported and heavily promoted via social networking.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
How To List The Installed Packages on a Debian Based System
http://tuxtweaks.com –
In this tutorial I'm going to show how to list the installed packages on a Debian based operating system, (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Sidux, CrunchBang, etc.) I got this gem of a command line one-liner from the Sidux website.
Read more »
- Login to post comments
Ubuntu Spotted on Doctor Who Set
http://popey.com –
After watching the two Doctor Who Christmas episodes I thought I’d watch the ‘behind the scenes’ programme ‘Doctor Who Confidential’. During one segment where they discuss the set used in the Christmas episode I spotted a bunch of machines with what look like Ubuntu boot screens on them.
Read more »Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
My Mom uses Ubuntu
http://ubuntuliving.blogspot.com –
I don't quite know how it happened, but my parents finally got the Internet / computing bug. Last year, my Dad bought a Dell Studio and my Mom bought an HP Mini. Slowly, my two senior citizens have been getting the hang of things.
Read more »Category: Community Tags:
- Login to post comments
