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OpenOffice’s future was doomed from the day when Oracle acquired SUN Microsystems. The eventuality became even more obvious when they pulled the plug on OpenSolaris. Thankfully, OpenOffice is an open source software and leading contributors of the original project has forked OpenOffice and the new project will be called LibreOffice. More here

In his blog Tuesday, Ubuntu creator and lead developer Mark Shuttleworth announced the publishing of the first source code for Ubuntu — the font — and revealed plans for an entire open source font family. More here

What trips up many in deinstalling dual-boot Ubuntu is that deleting the Ubuntu partition is not enough. It will still try to boot into it. This is because GRUB, the Ubuntu bootloader is still present with the Windows bootloader. However, using Windows Fixmbr (Fix Master Boot Record) solves that. More here

Want to install the new LibreOffice on Ubuntu or a Debian-based distribution? Although the Document Foundation doesn’t yet offer .deb binaries for these distros, you can use the provided .rpm packages to install LibreOffice on a machine running Ubuntu or Debian More here

Here I am writing complete instructions on recovery process which includes DHCP and TFTP server setup on Ubuntu 10.10 (Beta). The basic purpose of this post is as a reference for myself in future. More here