Are you like me and have multiple Ubuntu machines under one roof? Are you tired of downloading the same update multiple times? Sick of what seems to be duplicate work? Let me introduce you to my little friend… squid-deb-proxy.
Squid-deb-proxy is a new package for Ubuntu 10.04, and it’s designed to make your life easier and allow faster updates if you manage more than one Ubuntu machine. Conceptually, squid-deb-proxy consists of two pieces, a client and a server. The server package is “squid-deb-proxy” and the client package is “squid-deb-proxy-client”. The “squid-deb-proxy” server package is basically a squid caching server, with an out-of-the box configuration that allows it to cache .deb packages and make them accessible to the local area network. The “squid-deb-proxy-client” package is basically an include file to your standard apt configuration that makes apt aware of the squid-deb-proxy.
An Ubuntu-based Linux distro identical in look and feel to Microsoft’s Windows XP’s been updated.
Ylmf OS 3.0 has been released from a Chinese software maker with the familiar Luna theme found in Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Windows Vista predecessor.
YLMF open source operating system (Ylmf OS) English Edition is released!The interface operation is clean and clear.The adjustment and creation is based on the user’s experience and usage.We firmly believe that Linux can do as well as Windows through our efforts and give customers more choices.
A month ago we celebrated the release of Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" with an incredible collection of Ubuntu Lucid Wallpapers. Now it's time for some more Ubuntu wallpapers coming your way. A compilation of 30 beautiful Ubuntu wallpapers for desktop.
GnoMenu - A consolidated menu for gnome that brings eye candy to the world of the Gnome menu’s. Fully functional menu , supports themes , for a composited or non composited desktop. It can emulate the look and feel of the most beautiful menus of most modern desktops, and it can also use custom menus, due to its powerful theme XML engine. GnoMenu currently supports Gnome-Panel, Avant-Window-Navigator, Cairo-Dock, XfApplet, Kde Plasma and in the system tray.
One of the areas in which open-source software has truly come into its own during the last few years is virtualization. The latest LTS release of Ubuntu, which offers a variety of Free virtualization solutions, makes this abundantly clear. Below, we take a look at some of those options, with a focus on KVM, and consider their meaning for Ubuntu users.
The technology for creating virtual machines has been around in one form or another for decades. As recently as 2006 or 2007, however, there were few free and open-source virtualization solutions that were ready for production environments.
Linux has no dearth of media centers. XBMC and Boxee are the 2 very popular ones. Enna is another media player solution for Linux and is surprisingly light weight and fast with wonderful features.
Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.
Amarok was my favorite for a long time. But when the new Amarok 2.0 series started coming in, I was left with no option but to leave my beloved music player in Ubuntu. Amarok 1.4 was by far the best music player I ever had in Linux. I even managed to get Amarok 1.4 working in Ubuntu Karmic. After a long time I gave a try at the latest Amarok 2.3.1 in Ubuntu, and I have to say, this is impressive work. Amarok is slowly getting back to its past glory and Amarok 2.3.1 is another huge leap.
There are usually two areas that can cause problems and errors in a Wordpress blog. The first are plugins that produce incompatibilities or display errors while the second are problems after updates of the blog software itself.
There have been some problematic messages occasionally when trying to publish posts lately. The error message Your attempt to edit this post [..] has failed appeared occasionally after upgrading to Wordpress 2.7. Wordpress was not able to publish the article which was bad enough but the underlying problem was that all work up to the point of the last auto save was lost as well.
I’m new to Linux and have just set up an old laptop to run Ubuntu a few weeks back. I spend a good chunk of my weekends playing around with it and I’ve learnt a lot so far. One of the things I’ve done is set up an application to monitor my CPU’s temperature. My laptop gets quite hot at times and this is one way to keep track of it.
Luckily, Linux has just the thing I was looking out for, in the form of lm-sensors. This little piece of software is lightweight and easy to install. If you’re an Ubuntu user, first you have to enable the ‘universe’ repository via System > Administration > Software Sources. Once there, check the box near ‘universe’.
The official stable release of Ubuntu 10.04 is only days away. That means we can finally list all of the new features to expect in the next longterm-support version of Ubuntu, without having the developers change them every other day. With that in mind, here’s a look at what to expect when you upgrade to Lucid Lynx on Thursday.
As a word of introduction, I’d like to observe that Ubuntu’s official release dates have always seemed a bit arbitrary to me. They’re set months in advance, and are adhered to regardless of the state of the code itself.