It’s time for Ubuntu upgrades!! With the most biggest LTS release just round the corner, fans and critics are eager to upgrade. Below are the steps to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu LTS development version. Disclaimer: Please follow the instructions at your own risk. I assume you have some knowledge of Linux and can troubleshoot. […]
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Ubuntu 15.04 final release is just 3 days away and now it’s time for upgrades. This release, although not very exciting on the UI front, is shaping up quite well with some pretty under the hood improvements, plus the much needed upgrade to Gnome 3.14 (not the latest gnome version though!). I’ve been running this
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Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS, the second point release for the LTS version, was released last week. This release includes kernel 3.16, which contains improved and new features which includes support for new Kepler GPU support, many fixes to Btrfs file system, and many more. For detailed changelog and full list of changes made between Ubuntu 14.04.1 and Ubuntu 14.04.2 visit
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Upgrading from point release is very easy. However, if you are skipping one or two releases and upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 it may not be very straight forward if you go the traditional way. But, a simple 5 step command line approach can help you overcome that problem. Below are the steps to upgrade from
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Ubuntu 13.10 is going to be a tricky release with XMir and Intel not supporting XMir. However, It does come with some exciting new features: Smartscopes, which was unceremoniously dumped from Ubuntu 13.04, have now been included by default The Unity 7 Dash click behaviour for applications has been updated. A left click will launch
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If you are running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have been raring to jump to ‘Raring Ringtail’ edition of Ubuntu, you can follow the commands below to switch to bleeding edge features. Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) is past the beta stage now and is very stable; can easily be used as a daily driver. Upgrading is
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Upgrading to any Ubuntu release is just a cakewalk. However, sometimes, small settings need to be changed to get the latest release. Below, a series of pictures will show you how to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10. Step 1: To run update-manager for upgrading to a new release , press Alt+F2 and type update-manager -d and
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Linux users are always spoilt with choices. Be it different distributions, different applications or different versions of the operating systems. Following the usual tradition, Canonical, the official sponsor of Ubuntu, released Ubuntu 11.10 codenamed Oneiric Ocelot yesterday. This was Ubuntu’s 15th release. As with all new releases, this version also brings a few changes to
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In the recent weeks, there has been quite a number of new releases for applications and the core software for Ubuntu 11.04. Of them, most notable are New Unity release (v 3.8.16) The Ubuntu Software Centre release 4.1.8 Lets see how we can get these installed in Ubuntu Unity Ubuntu’s home grown answer to GNOME3
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