Ubuntu is my fast operating system. When I don’t have time to wait for Microsoft Windows to load itself up and decide whether it is going to respond, I dual boot into Ubuntu. I reloaded Ubuntu 11.10 recently and was fooling around with its configurations. The latest version uses a new interface – Unity...
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Ubuntu 11.10 is the latest version of that Linux based operating system to adorn my Dell Mini 9. We started with 8.04 and have been through fits and twists sometimes to get drivers working, etc. but it is now as reliable and more enjoyable an operating system to work in than my Windows 7...
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The new Unity desktop is growing on me and the latest version of Ubuntu – 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot – is the slickest I have seen yet. One of my personal metrics? Although I have the computer set to dual boot between Ubuntu and Windows 7, I spend nearly 100% of my time in Ubuntu....
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This site was recently offline after a server upgrade went sideways. I upgraded my Ubuntu 10.04 Maverick Meerkat to 11.04 Natty Narwhal. I’d upgraded a number of other systems but for some reason, this one died in mid-upgrade and then did a very unclean backout. When the system restarted, I could no longer boot...
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The Bisigi themes are not yet available in a repository for Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 so if you follow the instructions on their site, they won’t appear in the list of products to add. I wrote about this cool set of themes before. I found instructions on another page, however that showed how to get the...
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My Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is my regular portable, as it is small and easy to tote. It came preloaded with Ubuntu and I have since used Windows XP on it and also multiple versions of Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx, Maverick Meerkat). I was reading a post by a lawyer who had tried the Google...
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