How to Disable ipv6 on Ubuntu

August 21st, 2007 A guide to easily disable IPv6 support on your Linux workstation / server: 1. Add the two lines, if not already present, to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off For Fedora 7 you should add the command to blacklist instead as shown below: blacklist net-pf-10 Note: I haven't personally tested on Fedora 7.

August 4th, 2008 You may see the following error in Fedora 8 while starting / restarting the network (service network restart): FATAL: Module off not found. Let's see how we can fix this.

March 17th, 2005 I am eagerly waiting for my copies of Ubuntu. The site says that it was sent on February 22.

April 9th, 2009 Ubuntu is perhaps the richest graphically well equipped operating system from the Linux world. It gives us a more sophisticated flavor that an usual Linux misses in the eyes of a layman.

July 7th, 2005 I hate to say this but after installing Ubuntu on a 1.8 GHz PC with 256 MB RAM, I found it to be slower than Windows 2000. Here is my experience.

April 27th, 2009 Free and open source software or FOSS have never been able to penetrate into the gaming world effectively. What they needed to do was perhaps to build up a community of gamers, a platform for the game freaks so that from there it can start off with a strong userbase.

April 2nd, 2009 This is a pretty cool trick for Ubuntu users. Ubuntu users frequently go through updates that they download to keep the OS up-to-date.

May 30th, 2006 Sun Microsystems is getting support for its Sparc-based Niagara servers from Canonical, the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said on Tuesday. The free Debian-based Ubuntu distribution of Linux, launched in 2004 by South African dot-com billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, has already attracted millions of individual desktop users.

May 4th, 2009 Ubuntu 9.04, codenamed Jaunty Jackalope has satisfied the Linux community to no end after its successful launch of the newest version of the distro where stability ands speed both were awesome as per the tech pandits. The other day, while I was going through a series of tests with my own Jaunty, I thought of using Samba with it so that I can share folders.

January 3rd, 2009 Mac fonts are lucrative to say the least. But what if you are a Linux user? Can you use their fonts in your good ol' Ubuntu? Preferably yes.

April 24th, 2009 Ubuntu 9.04, released yesterday, has got a lot of great new features. One of them is ext4 filesystem.

April 13th, 2009 Coming from the Linux community, Ubuntu is perhaps the most visually attractive distro among other nerdy ones. I remember, after my reviews of Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex, how people were crazy about the theme and the wallpaper that is by default there.

March 20th, 2009 Now you have an easy-to-use tool for installing Ubuntu linux into your PCs without disturbing your Windows installation. One of the latest releases by Ubuntu, Wubi can do it for you.

December 22nd, 2008 Azures has a huge number of following as a file sharing network. And there have always been a question of how Ubuntu-ans and Fedora fans can easily download and install Azures in their computer.

May 3rd, 2006 The security vulnerabilities addressed are: Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information and Denial of Service. Ubuntu has issued an update for thunderbird.