By using Ksplice Uptrack, your Ubuntu Desktop or Server 9.04 will become rebootless even the kernel is updated.
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5 Simple APT Tips for Debian and Ubuntu, Part II
Several months ago I created an article with 5 APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) tips for both Debian and Ubuntu available here. APT is the package manager in Debian and Debian-based distributions, like Ubuntu. Here's part two of that article, with 5 more tips and tricks for APT.
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How to setup Disk Quotas in Ubuntu
QUOTA is implemented using the BSD system call interface as the means of communication with the user level. This is based on the Melbourne quota system which uses both user and group quota files.
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Google's Chrome OS Threatens Linux, Is Good For Microsoft
One thing that both Google and Apple share is that almost the instant that they announce a new product, the public loves it. That's partly because they tend to deliver winning products, but they don't always do so. Google has shuttered a number of projects from its labs, and its productivity applications are popular, but haven't come close to toppling Microsoft Office.
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Ubuntu's Jono Bacon discusses open source versus proprietary models
Jono Bacon is the Ubuntu Community Manager and leads a small team at Canonical to grow and enable the Ubuntu community.
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No thanks Google, we've got Ubuntu
You can email Linus Torvalds or Mark Shuttleworth directly and get answers to your Linux questions, sometimes within minutes or hours. Try that with whoever is in charge of Android or Chrome development.
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Ubuntu User, You Have Some Big Issues.
It's the premier issue of Ubuntu User, the magazine. It's brought to you by the same people who publish Linux Pro Magazine that you've grown to know and love. And like Linux Pro, it's in that giant euro A4 format. I guess the Europeans realize that the world's population is aging and we need a bigger rag to read.
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How-To: Compile and Install VLC 1.0 in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
Ubuntu 9.04 (and Kubuntu) comes with VLC 0.9.9 included in the repositories. However, VLC 1.0.0 was released today and it ships with several new features and many improvements. To install the latest release of VLC (currently 1.0.0) in either Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu distributions, just follow the steps below...
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dpkg tricks for ubuntu
n Debian GNU/Linux and its derivatives such as Ubuntu the software packages are bundled in a special format. We generally call them deb packages. A .deb package is basically an archive of files that you want to install to your computer, plus some header and control information that identifies the software. The deb files can be manipulated with dpkg command.
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Koala will be 'a definitive shift' for Ubuntu Linux
You may, by now, have heard of a little distribution called Ubuntu, unless you happen to have been in space for the past five years. For now all you need to know is that Ubuntu is a popular offshoot of Debian, and the man behind it, Mark Shuttleworth, is considered to be a veritable Linux titan.
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Allow root access to the graphical mode in Ubuntu
Sometimes, in the graphical mode, we want to have full access to our system without using sudo or su.To enter the graphics mode in Ubuntu as root, you must do the following
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Install VLC 1.0.0 Final In Ubuntu, Arch Linux and Fedora
Final as in 'non release candidate', obviously there will be versions like 1.0.1 and so on.
What's new: Support for HD and other new formats, finer speed controls, customizable toolbars, AirTunes streaming, and much more.
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There may be a third Mono application in Ubuntu
Canonical's Gerry Carr said that Ubuntu was not deliberately looking for Mono-based applications nor is it excluding them. The Canonical Board has yet to make a policy decision on Mono. He said that there will be one more piece of Mono based software called Banshee in 9.10. Banshee is an audio player and might replace Rhythmbox.
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Using iSCSI On Ubuntu 9.04 (Initiator And Target)
This guide explains how you can set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 9.04. The iSCSI protocol is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows iSCSI initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) iSCSI target using normal ethernet cabling. To the iSCSI initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.
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File Attributes on ext3 filesystem
Files and directories in Linux file systems all have read, write and execute permissions associated with user, group, and others. However, there are also other attributes that can be attached to files and directories that are specific to certain file system types.
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