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6 most talked about Linux games
Jul 26th
In your quest to find a good, native and free game for Linux you might have seen long lists of games mentioned on various sites and forums. These mentioned games range anywhere from simple 2D side-scrollers to impressive 3D shooters. The amount of Linux games is surprising and can be More >
Make gEdit more like TextMate
Jun 29th
I love Linux, Rails and my Mac laptop. When I’m on my Mac I use TextMate for my Rails projects, but when I’m using Linux I prefer the simplicity of gEdit. However, I always have this feeling like I want gEdit to act a little more like TextMate. Well, there’s More >
Minimal Ubuntu Lucid Setup
Jun 13th
Installing Minimal Ubuntu If you are like me, then you enjoy using the Ubuntu linux distro, whose latest release at the time of writing is 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). I’ve always been somewhat annoyed by all the applications that get pre-installed, as I never use them, but rather install the ones that More >
Installing Rails 3 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
May 22nd
This is a short guide on how to get Rails 3 (which is still in beta) running on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. I’m going to assume that you have some skill with the terminal. Also, since you can’t have one without the other, I’m going to walk you through through installing Ruby More >
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx dark theme and Skype
Apr 21st
If you use Ubuntu’s latest release Lucid Lynx and you enjoy to chat with your friends using Skype, then you might have noticed that Skypes default theme clashes with Lucid’s dark theme. Personally, I think the new theme is kick-ass, but I was a bit annoyed that I couldn’t read More >
Top 10 Ubuntu Apps that users rated
Mar 13th
I know that lots of the people choose to use open source software for their productive purposes. Linux is a vast ocean of open source apps. It’s easy to get lost in this ocean, and is even hard to find out about some great applications that are out there. Thus, More >
Gnome-shell: the future desktop environment
Dec 7th
Desktop environments give the users a very rich, cool interface with their computer. Gnome is one of the best desktop environments that is made available to the users since its release version.
1. Gnome had its developments in various releases, and most recently the stable release of gnome 2.28.so whats up now, More >
The World’s Largest JPEG Image
Dec 3rd
Today, I’ve got a nice story for you about the world’s largest JPEG image. This image is being kept on magnetic tape in a research laboratory in Palo Alto, California. The image measures 2,147,483,647 pixels wide by 2,147,483,647 pixels tall, and contains nothing but the color black.
Pixels are the smallest More >
Sharing your downloaded Ubuntu Software!
Dec 2nd
APTonCD is a piece of software that backups all your downloaded software from internet.
1. Download APTonCD using Synaptic and install it. Use this to make a ISO image from downloaded packages.
2. Then you can mount this ISO image and it will just work as the package CD.
3. To mount an ISO More >
Installing nVidia Graphic Card Driver in Ubuntu
Dec 2nd
Note: This is not for the older versions of Ubuntu.
1. Go to Nvidia site and download the driver for your model.
2. Save the driver somewhere on your file system, that may be your home folder or /opt.
3. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and go to terminal. Enter terminal as root.
4. Then to end xserver, More >
