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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 1.9.2 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 >
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 >
C – Super simple program in Ubuntu!
Jul 20th
Are you interested in writing a basic “Hello World” program using the C programming language?If yes, then this post is for you.
Here is an example of how you can write, compile and execute a very simple C program in Ubuntu Linux. You can use any editor. For this example, I’ll More >
