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The video shows how cool Dell Inspiron Duo is when running Ubuntu.
This particular demo uses Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) with Ubermix customization, which contains a collection of application suitable for netbook users.
Ubermix can be downloaded from its official website, please check the Netbook/table model specific instructions for proper installations.
Supported Netbooks
Netbooks)
Ubuntu One Files for Android is an application written by Micha? Karnicki as part of Google Summer of Code Project (GSoC) 2010. The client is licensed under the GNU Affero GPL v3 and its source code is available from Launchpad.
The application lets you synchronize your phone contacts, files and photo gallery on the cloud automatically. Ubuntu One files also offers convenient feature to change the visibility of your files, making it easier for you to share files with the rest of the world.
Ubuntu One Files is also available on the Android Market, free of charge.
Note: Ubuntu One is a service similar to Box.net that enables you to store your files on the cloud. You do not need to be an Ubuntu user to use Ubuntu One. Each registered user are given 2GB space for free.
The upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 release (Oneiric Ocelot) will drop Synaptic Package Manager from default installation in favor of Ubuntu Software Center.
This has been foreseen since Canonical has spend their effort in developing and improving Ubuntu Software Center as a convenience one-stop center to install free and paid software alike.
Personal Thoughts
Personally, I still prefer to use Synaptic Package Manager over Ubuntu Software Center as it is still doesn’t offer the same number of options that I used to get from Synaptic (ability to search by name, description, ability to test the fastest mirror).
But I believe the changes that Canonical and Ubuntu community made might make it easier to streamline the looks and functionality of package manager into desktop environment (Unity) regardless of the computing platform.
sudo is probably the most used command in Ubuntu.
In this post, I will show you how to make ‘sudo’ display funny and humorous error messages in Ubuntu Linux.
To do that, you would only need to edit the /etc/sudoers :
sudo nano /etc/sudoers
Then find the line that starts with Defaults env_reset, add insults at the end of the line so it would look like this:
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file
#
Defaults env_reset, insults
Save the file, and you are done! You can test the results by running the sudo command and entering the wrong password.
Screenshot Demo
Linus Torvalds has announced Linux kernel 3.0-rc1, this marks the end of 2.6.x series line which has 40 releases since late 2003.
To mark this event, Con Kolivas has made a tarball archive (163MB) of all 2.6.x releases available for download. The archive uses lrzip compression which can be installed from the standard Ubuntu apt-get repository.
Note that the size of of the archive after decompression would reach 10.3 GB!
Happy downloading, and hello Linux 3.0!
Apache2 web server will almost always display this information message :
"Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified name"
when it is first started in Ubuntu and Debian server.
The reason behind this message is because the web server fails to find the suitable domain name in the system.
How to remove the message
First, you need to edit “/etc/hosts” file and put your server name of choice in the file. For example:
127.0.0.1 server.mylocal
Then you need to add “ServerName” directive in the “/etc/apache2/apache2.conf” file.
ServerName server.mylocal
Finally, restart the web server for the changes to take effect. You will notice that the information message is gone now.
$ sudo service apache2 restart