How to Speed up Ubuntu Updates

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

May 2nd, 2007 In the process of mirroring Fedora Core updates repository over a slow (256 Kbps) connection using rsync, I realized that the process can be extremely frustrating as you spend lots of time looking at the console, waiting for something to happen...anything. Then I found the magic option to show a progress meter - --progress.

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.

February 13th, 2009 Are you unappeased with your Ubuntu theme? At best what you do is open the appearance tab, re-scaling and choosing background colors for each pic. Blah! I say it's nothing but unproductive knob-twiddling.

August 3rd, 2009 Ubuntu Studio 9.04 is out and you must be thinking of ways to spice up your Jaunty Jackalope? Well, you know it's easy to customize everything in GNU/Linux systems. Given that, what about fantabulous themes to embellish your Ubuntu.