A lot of us want to use AWN or Docky panel mode as the main panel and get rid of the top and bottom gnome panels. In Ubuntu 9.10/10.04, the top panel, however, cannot be deleted just like that! Delete the panel option is disabled for the top panel in Lucid Lynx. However, a simple workaround […]
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Moonlight 3.0 , which is aiming to bring Silverlight 3.0 functionalities to the opensource world, has just released its 7th preview version. The site warns the product to be treated as alpha quality. For the bold,experiemental and restless open-source fans, does it really matter? The good news for the testers is that, this plugin is
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Since I have an inbuilt TV Tuner card on my Dell XPS 1640, I wanted to watch TV after I installed Ubuntu 10.04 . I had earlier watched TV on my Windows 7 partition. However, after I installed the required software, Me-TV, I found out that there was no driver in the Ubuntu default installation for
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Sometimes , due to some unknown reason, the touchpad on my Dell XPS hangs while running Ubuntu 10.04. Earlier, I used to restart my system to get that fixed. After googling around, I found that a whole system restart can be avoided and just a simple touchpad driver restart can fix the problem. If you
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AMD has released its monthly update for its proprietary driver for ATI graphics cards. The version now stands at 10.6. This release has a few good additions. For ex, 2D acceleration is now enabled by default. Also it now includes RHEL 5.5 production support, official support for OpenGL 3.3 and OpenGL 4.0. There is considerable
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A bugfix release of popular open-source cross-platform office-suite software, OpenOffice has been released and is available for download. The download is available for multiple languages and for all three major operating systems, Linux, Mac and Windows. Download links here Whats new in this bugfix release? Well, quite a few bug fixes for sure!. Read the
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World’s second largest PC maker has gone on record to say Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft Windows. While browsing through Dell’s US website, I stumbled upon this section. Read point number six. Although, this is an actual fact, it is very rare to see PC makers comparing Windows to Linux(Ubuntu) and showing its positive side.
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Generally when a stable version of a software is released , it is assumed that the product will be stable and will have less crashes. My Google Chrome stable v5 on Ubuntu 10.04 seemed to behave otherwise. Eversince I installed the stable package, the flash plugin kept crashing without any warning. It would crash on
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If you have both KDE and Gnome installed on your machine and you have KDM ( KDE Display Manager) as the default login manager and you want to change the login manager to GDM( Gnome Display manager), simply type the following after opening a terminal. sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm This will change your default login manager
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Most of the users trying to install TweekDeck or some other useful Adobe Air applications on 64bit linux systems, had to go through a lot of tweaks and tricks first to install Adobe Air. And after installing the applications, users were left fuming as update manager reported broken packages for adobe air applications and eventually
