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I found a great article from UbuntuGeek on how to turn Microsoft Windows 7 desktop to Ubuntu, with proper theme hack. The result is amazing!
You can read the rest of the article here: How To Make Windows 7 look like Ubuntu
Let’s say you’ve manage to get yourself into a GNU/Linux bash terminal. What can you do in order to determine its distro and release information? Listed here are the three methods to get release information of a running GNU/Linux box.
lsb_release method
You can type “lsb_release -a”
/etc/*release and /etc/*issue method
Alternatively, you could try typing “cat /etc/*release” or “cat /etc/*issue”.
/proc/version method
If else fails, you could always try the “cat /proc/version” method to see where the kernel came from.
Hope this would help!
Dear readers,
I’ve uploaded Windows XP driver for Winbond W89C35 as it can enable the use of Winbond USB wifi dongle (VID:0416 PID:0035) under Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.
Follow the step-by-step instruction as outlined in the Ubuntu Wiki page, in order to use the driver with ndiswrapper.
p/s: I’ve uploaded this driver because I find a lot of websites out there that offers fake Winbond W89C35 drivers.
p/s 2: Of course I would recommend the rest of the users out there to buy a more Linux-friendly USB wifi dongle, such as from TP-Link
, D-Link, Netgear or TRENDnet which I found to be very portable across operating systems.
Thanks to my pal Amet (9W2AZV), I manage to get my self a cheapish 19″ LCD monitor for one of my computers. The trouble is, Ubuntu is only able to give 1024×768 (or lower) resolution on this monitor, which is a shame because of its display size. The problem is related to Ubuntu failing to recognize the monitor capability and thus unable to assign appropriate values necessary to obtain the optimum monitor resolution.
After a couple of hours googling, I found several websites which list correct settings for Philips 190s.
What you need to do is to create (or edit) the “/etc/X11/xorg.conf” file as root and modifies the “Monitor” and “Screen” section details inside the xorg.conf files. Here is the example of my xorg.conf Philips 190S settings
After that, save the file and restart X server.
A word of caution: Changing xorg.conf is risky. I only tested this solution on my computer which runs on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) operating system. Be warned, your mileage may vary.
Reference:
1 – my xorg.conf for Philips 190S config
Some of you may find that CTRL-ALT-Bkspace key-combo does not work anymore with Ubuntu latest releases, this issue has been addressed by Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Release Notes which explains that the key-combo cause users to trigger it by accident.
How to restart X server?
To obtain the same effect, Ubuntu has decided to change the key-combo to RightAlt-PrintScr-K. But this time, the key must be pressed in the respective order.
How to enables the original Ctrl-ALT-Bkspace key-combo?
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Release Notes contains information on how to enables the original keycombo back in the operating system.
1 – Ubuntu (GNOME Desktop)
1 – Kubuntu (KDE Desktop)
Hope that will help you!
Great news! Ubuntu-my Loco team is organizing the Lucid Lynx release party in Petaling Jaya! Details as follows:
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Release Party details:
Questions and Contributions
Any party who would like to contribute towards this community meeting may contact:
Khairul Aizat KAmarudzzaman
Position in Ubuntu-my : Ubuntu-my Team Leader
E-mail : fenris@ubuntu.com or mohdfenris@gmail.com