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By kubulai, on March 9th, 2012 We received some insite today on the reason Canonical forced Unity upon us. Apparently Canonical is trying to implement voice commands and will restore the menu system next month in the April release of Ubuntu 12.04. They will also add a new “HUD” which seems to be a cross between the Unity “Dashboard” (the red [...]
By kubulai, on February 18th, 2012
In “Practical Ubuntu — Part 1 of 2” we installed Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot on an HP 6910p notebook alongside the existing Microsoft Windows Vista, set the administrator “root” login to a password we know, added openssh-server so we can work on it remotely instead of needing to stand right there beside the computer while [...]
By kubulai, on January 23rd, 2012 whenever Linux upgrades, the VMWare becomes unusable for a month or two until VMWare catches up. To run, the VMWare Player must be compiled with the current Linux headers. If you upgraded to 11.10 and lost your headers, run the command line sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r), Then download the current (free) version of VMWare Player from VMWare.com and install it. [...]
By kubulai, on November 6th, 2010 In their article today “Ubuntu 10.10 (“Maverick Meerkat”) Review” ExtremeTech.com discussed their testing of the new Ubuntu 10.10 for netbook and smart phone, including their new cloud. They also provide a free client so Windows systems can also use the free cloud. [...]
By kubulai, on November 30th, 2009 What to look for when buying a notebook or netbook computer. [...]
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