Cairo Dock is a docking application for Linux. It’s quite awesome and makes a wonderful addition to your Linux’s look and feel. Let’s see how to install this lovely utility in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).
But before we get into the details of installing it. Let’s see how it looks like on Ubuntu 10.04.

Let’s get on [...]

Skype is one of the most popular voip service out there and is available across various platforms including Linux. We have earlier covered Installing Skype on Ubuntu on LinuxHub. Today we are going to see how to install skype on Opensuse. This is how you install it.
Install the following packages before installing skype.
libqt4-x11
libqt4-dbus-1
libsigc++2
To install these [...]

Boxee is a  cross platform home theater PC (HTPC). It brings the power of social media center to your machine. It’s pretty neat and I sort of like it. I was trying to see if it’s available for Lucid and it’s officially not available  at least not the PPAs. So I tried to install it [...]

Upgrades are very important for any operating system. It keeps running things smoothly and ensures the security of your machine. Let’s see how to upgrade packages and softwares in OpenSuse 11.2. This is pretty simple to achieve.
Go to Computer > Install Software

Select the tab that reads Upgrades.

Click the first package and click CTRL+A to select [...]

By default OpenSuse 11.2 comes with Firefox 3.5.4 and when you run the upgrade you’ll end up having Firefox 3.5.8. However, as we all know there’s Firefox 3.6 available for sometime now. So I decided to update my Firefox to 3.6 on my OpenSuse machine. Following is what I did to upgrade to Firefox 3.6.
1. [...]

We all love the infamous cube in Linux. Actually to be frank this is what drove me to start using Linux. Today we are going to see how to install Nvidia graphic drivers in OpenSuse 11.2 and then enable the desktop effects to get the infamous 3D cube.
Install Nvidia graphic drivers in OpenSuse 11.2 with [...]

I am pretty excited that I now have OpenSuse on my machine which means that I will be covering OpenSuse related articles here on Linux Hub meaning more number of articles. To begin with after installing OpenSuse 11.2 (With Gnome Desktop), the first thing I needed was KSnapshot because it makes my job very easy [...]

Strangely, my Ubuntu machine doesn’t resolve nameservers fast enough when I am connected to my ADSL wifi connection. This doesn’t happen on my Windows 7 machine. So, I decided to change my DNS servers to OpenDNS. And I found significant improvement.
OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet [...]

I think I have waited enough and now it’s time to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 code named Lucid Lynx. If you have just too much of stuff to worry about on previous versions of Ubuntu, I’d suggest to wait for the final release in April. That’s right the current release is alpha (not even Beta) [...]

The purpose of this post is to give the users the flavor of Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). We will only focus on using the PPA repository for Karmic Koala. We will see how to upgrade to Firefox 3.6 which was already released a few months back.
Open the terminal window and type the [...]