So next week marks the official release of Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal along with a whole host of new features. Today it occurred to me that I am yet to write a single piece about the up coming Ubuntu release so I’m going to give you guys my Ubuntu 12.10 cherry with this article. I’ve been testing Ubuntu 12.10 in a virtual machine for a few weeks now and there are some great features ... »
Mounting a shared drive in Ubuntu can be quite a confusing process. With many of us having multiple machines and NAS drives at home, auto mounting network locations is becoming a very common requirement in most homes and offices. I have a NAS drive at home that I use for multimedia and I make Ubuntu auto mount the NAS as soon as I log on. Here’s how I do it: First of all you need to run this... »
A few days ago I was speaking to a friend of mine who is completely none technically. He saw my computer screen (Ubuntu 12.04) and asked how I got Windows to look like that. I explained that it wasn’t Windows but rather Ubuntu. I then went on to explain what Ubuntu was. After about 30 minutes or so of ‘geek talk’ with this friend, he asked me a very simple question. So which is b... »
In anticipation of a new Ubuntu release and in need of a fresh install on my Dell “test” laptop (11.6 inch, i3 1.2ghz, 4gb RAM) I thought I’d use the time to test drive some other distros. One that has been near and dear to me for some time is Bodhi Linux. When I first decided to get off the Apple money train and assemble my own desktop, I started with a super low cost bare bones... »
Recently I have bought a couple of new pieces of hardware (as all good geeks do). Some of the new toys I have bought are a HP Envy Sleekbook Laptop, a HP Officejet 4500 Wireless Printer and also a Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet. I use Ubuntu on most of my machines but on my Sleekbook laptop I have both Ubuntu 12.04 and also Windows 7 in a dual boot configuration so all my new toys had to work with b... »
During the great GNOME/Unity debates of the last two years, the Ubuntu spinoff Linux Mint gathered a large following. Mint head Clem Lefebvre and the rest of his Mint Team attracted many devotees who wanted to hang on to the classic desktop that many had come to love in GNOME 2. Part of that effort produced Cinnamon, a fork of GNOME 3 that just hit a milestone with stable version 1.6 this ... »
The Humble Bundle series has today released it’s 6th iteration of their extremely popular games series. For those of you that don’t know, the Humble Bundle series allows you to pay whatever you want for a collection of games. You can also select where you want the money to go whether it be the developers, Humble Bundle, a charity or a mixture of the three. What’s more, if you pay... »
I love Ubuntu but the default wait of 10 seconds that you have to endure when booting up is a real pain. I know you can simply hit enter to select the Ubuntu boot option but I just think that 10 seconds is far to long to wait. I could understand if it was 3 or even 5 seconds – but 10, that’s just way to much for me. In previous versions of Ubuntu I used to install a program called Sta... »