Ubuntu developer, Dave Walker, shares more insight into the development of Ubunutu 10.10. This month, the Ubuntu platform sprint rally goes under the spotlight… More here
Archive for August, 2010
Preparing for Ubuntu 10.10 with the Platform Rally
Create an Ubuntu Live CD on a USB Flash Drive
An Ubuntu Live CD has many useful purposes and is handy when installed on a USB flash drive. UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on both Windows and Linux. More here
Set up your LDAP server on Ubuntu 10.04
Fortunately, in my desperate scouring to work out an easy method of doing this, I have found some tools to make the job easier. And that’s what this article is all about, getting slapd up and running on a Ubuntu machine so you too can have LDAP running. More here
Samsung N150 Plus Netbook – Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04
Rather than drag through the complete installation procedure, I will give a summary of the results first. However, as there have been some comments recently about “everyone says installing Linux is easy, but then it sounds difficult”, I will include the installation procedure at the end. It really is very, very easy. More here
VLC in Ubuntu Gets a New PPA And It’s Working Great!
Think you all knew this already, the c-korn/vlc ppa has been removed by the author himself. You can’t live without PPAs in Ubuntu especially for most downloaded apps like VLC. Guys at LFFL have made a dedicated PPA for VLC. I just gave it a try and it worked awesome.
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