Are you new here? Subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In a mailing list post dated September 8th, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced plans for Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, scheduled for release in April, 2009.
Shuttleworth starts out by making a bold statement that we can expect Ubuntu to be shipping on millions of [...]

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If you’ve had the same Ubuntu installation for a while and have just been upgrading to newer releases, you may have noticed that a lot of older kernel versions are piling up in your grub menu and on your system.
How to remove older kernels from Ubuntu
This can be done by using the Synaptic Package Manager, [...]

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I don’t know about you but I find the login sound on Ubuntu pretty annoying. Here is a quick, nice and easy way to disable it.
How to disable Ubuntu Login and Logout sounds
Navigate to System > Preferences > Sound then click the Sounds tab.

Set the Log Out and Log In sounds to “No Sound” [...]

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It may be a bold statement to make, especially considering the fact that I’m by far no Ubuntu fanboy.  My background in Linux began with Slackware, and I’ve always preferred the more simplistic distributions that allow you to have complete control over what goes on.  However, as the demand and the user base for Linux [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, and Canonical Ltd., recently did an interview with Linux-Magazine Italia and he was kind enough to translate the Italian version to English and post it on his blog.
Here is a great question and answer from the interview:
3) Ok, let’s talk about the latest Ubuntu 8.04. In an interview you [...]

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If you’re looking to get rid of the annoying system beep in Ubuntu, here is how to do it from both the command line, and from the Gnome desktop.
Disable the System Beep from the Command Line
#sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
And then add:
#pc speaker beep
blacklist pcspkr
Save and quit the file:
:wq
Now, remove the pcspkr module:
sudo rmmod pcspkr
Disable the System [...]

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Here is a question I’ve been seeing pop up over the past few days:
My Broadcom bcm4306 Wireless card wont work in Ubuntu 8.04.  How do I fix it?
The most common reason is simply because Ubuntu did not enable the restricted driver.  If your Ubuntu 8.04 installation did not enable your Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 Wireless LAN [...]

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Over the past few weeks prior to the Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” release, I was skeptical about Ubuntu fully endorsing and officially supporting Wubi in Ubuntu 8.04. Previously, Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 included Wubi, but unofficially. I’ve tested Wubi on a few different computers, and have had varied results. It works sometimes, [...]

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If you haven’t heard the news already, Ubuntu has released Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” for both the Desktop and Server. This is the second Long Term Release of the popular distro.
This release marks some pretty drastic improvements for the fight to bring the Linux desktop to the mainstream audience. Wubi, the Windows based Ubuntu [...]

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This is a guest post by Taylor Douglass
From the official Wubi website:
“Wubi is a Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application. If you heard about Linux and Ubuntu, if you wanted to try [...]

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