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Ubuntu 12.04 Wallpapers Contest Started on Flickr

The Next majour release of ubuntu is Precise Pangolin. The Default wallpapers for Ubuntu 12.04 contest started on Flickr. Anybody can submit quality photographs or illustrations to be considered as the default set of wallpapers in Ubuntu 12.04. The wallpapers are selected from a public pool of Flickr called Precise Pangolin wallpaper submissions group . The dead line of the contest is on 15th  March 2012. After that a dozenRead More…

Fedora 16, Fedora 15 Bluetooth in Gnome [Solved]

The problem in Fedora 16  Gnome was not showing the bluetooth devices and in fact it didn’t detect any. However, lsusb found them with no problems. There is a bug #695588 at RedHat and it looked like systemctl may have not started it.  You can correct these bugs very easly #systemctl status bluetooth.service bluetooth.service – Bluetooth Manager       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service)       Active: inactive (dead)       CGroup:Read More…

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Gnome Shell Looks Like Gnome 2 – Cinnamon Desktop

The main problem with gnome 3 is users are feeling in foreign land. It is much improved desktop with radical changes. Even Linus Torvalds also feels like bad to use gnome 3. Then to this scenario gnome shell extensions came into picture. They add a new way to tweak gnome shell. Also gnome tweak tool helped user a lot to change various functionalities of gnome shell. Now Gnome open anRead More…

linux mint 12 released with Gnome 3.0, MGSE and MATE

Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) released. It is based on the recently released Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)  and is powered by Linux kernel 3.0, X.Org 7.6 and GNOME 3.2, yes Gnome 3.2. It offers a set of extensions to gnome 3.2 for making the look native to gnome 2. The extensions set MGSE includes the Mint menu, bottom panel with applications minimized and desktop indicator, native system tray etc.. This makeRead More…

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Libre office 3.4.4 Released with fixes. Install on Ubuntu

The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 3.4.4, an improved version of the free office suite. LibreOffice comes pre-installed on Ubuntu and many other Linux-based distributions.   This version comes with some bug fixes including * Recalculation of matrix formula dimension correctly. * Toggling grammar checkbox deletes sentence * Random crash while dropping texture * Handing in slideshow. (fdo#32861) [Thorsten Behrens] * Crash on closing document with footnotes. You can readRead More…

Fedora 16 Post Installation Guide for Perfect Desktop

Fedora 16 codenamed Verne released. This time the greatest update is the new Gnome 3.2, the evolution of the new gnome platform to next level and KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.7. The new kernel 3.1 added, latest Libreoffice and Firefox are usual updates. On Gnome 3.2 you will get sushi, a default preview applicaiton for nautilus, gnome documents, gnome contacts etc.. Grub2 is now used by default and HAL has beenRead More…

Iptables Commands for Linux Networking

Some of the most useful commands related to iptables to control the interface of network. Display filter table rules. #iptables -t filter -L Display nat table rules. #iptables -t nat -L Display raw table rules #iptables -t raw -L Display mangle table rules. #iptables -t mangle -L Delete all rules in the filter,nat,raw and mangle table. #iptables -t filter -D #iptables -t nat -D #iptables -t raw -D #iptables -tRead More…

Linux Mint on Gnome 3

Linux Mint, a popular linux distribution based on Ubuntu is planning a Gnome 3 edition on the upcoming release “Lisa” . Linux mint will be released on a gnome 3 edition and gnome 2.32 edition. The developers had decided to stick with GNOME 2.32 because there had been “radical changes” in GNOME 3.x’s desktop which had split the communities of GNOME and Mint users. Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint Founder andRead More…

Ubuntu 11.10 Features

As usual the Ubuntu 11.10 distribution is available as an installable LiveCD and as a DVD image. The ISO files are now hybrid images that can either be burnt to CD or written directly to a USB flash drive using dd to create a bootable medium. This is the greatest ubuntu ever released. It is based on the milestone which put on ubuntu 11.04.  In ubuntu 11.10, the ubuntu teamRead More…

Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 11.10

  Ubuntu 11.10 comes with Firefox 7 as the default web browser. The latest version of firefox comes with lot of improvements. It uses very less memory and prevent memory leakage. Google Chrome web browser is a great web brower with lot of google features integrate. The Omnibar, sync of google accounts etc are some great features.  Google Chrome is based on the open source project called  chromium. Chromium webRead More…

Configure Backups in Ubuntu 11.10

Deja Dup is the default backup software available in Ubuntu 11.1o. It is very simple, robust and automatic backup tool. You can shedule the backups to a local or remote location. The GUI is not that much promissing but it is Very fast and do the work. If you backup your valuable data then you are protected from various kinds of threats like Harddisk Crashs, Virus Programmes etc… If youRead More…

Firewall for Ubuntu 11.10

A firewall management applicaiton is necessary in everyday computing. The ‘online security risks’ are increased now a days. If you are using ubuntu 11.1o there are lot options to controll your firewal. iptables provides more advanced security. The ‘netfilter‘ packet filtering system is built in into the Linux Kernel by default. A user can configure iptables for every needs. You can implement various kinds of rules for filtering incoming/outgoing packets.Read More…

Download YouTube Videos from Ubuntu 11.10

YouTube is the most popular online video sharing website. You can find videos of every subject in youtube. You can watch and download videos from Youtube if you are using a youtube video client software in ubuntu 11.1o. The client software is not a web browser. You can directly play youtube videos using the youtube client. YouTube Video Downloader in Ubuntu 11.10 You can use various ways to download aRead More…

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