Install IceCat 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10
IceCat is a GPL version of Mozilla Firefox. Which means it's totally free and does not have the non-free Firefox art work. Another reason to have IceCat on your machine is because you can have another browser to open side by side Firefox which has the same features as that of Firefox. You can install IceCat on your Karmic machine using the following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnuzilla-team/ppa Once you...

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Conky: Bringing life to Linux desktop
Conky is a system monitoring tool for Linux. However, it's a great tool to bring immense amount of information right on your desktop. You can flaunt off some really geeky looking desktop to all your friends stuck with Windows (though there are ways to achieve the same in Windows as well). Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the...

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Install Firefox 4 beta 2 on Fedora 13
Firefox 4 beta 2 has been making some news across the web and I have found it pretty stable for daily use. There are some cool new features. Let's see how to install Firefox 4 beta 2 on Fedora 13. 1. Open a terminal window and change to root user. 2. Install the Remi Dependency on Fedora 13 [sourcecode language='bash']rpm -Uvh...

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Alarm Clock for Ubuntu
Did you feel a need for alarm clock on your Ubuntu machine? Well most of us don't need it however, if you are just too geeky to use your laptop or computer to have an alarm clock that wakes you up, then you can have one. This alarm clock is called as alarm clock. Alarm Clock project is a simple alarm clock software for the GNOME desktop. You can schedule your tasks in an easy way. In Ubuntu all you have to do is...

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Install Firefox 4 beta 2 in Ubuntu using PPA
Firefox 4 has been making some buzz around. With the browser market heating up, none of the companies want to stay behind and Firefox 4 is an effort in such direction by Mozilla. Firefox 4 will be a little more slimmer and will have some neat features including a revamped UI. The beta version of the browser is out though for Linux the version doesn't have any significant UI changes thought the features are slowly...

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Upgrading packages/softwares in OpenSuse 11.2
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 all the packages. Click Upgrade Click Apply to begin...

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Enable Desktop Effect in Fedora 13
This post is specific to enabling 3d (desktop effects) in fedora 13 running on Nvidia graphics. I struggled to enable the desktop effect in Fedora 13. But eventually I managed to enable the desktop effects using the following steps. Note: This is a 3 steps process. Please follow all the steps to enable desktop effects in Fedora 13 1. Install Nvidia drivers ( if you have 4Gb of RAM or more you will probably have...

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Installing KSnapshot in OpenSuse 11.2: How-to guide
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 to write heavy screenshot based articles here on Linux Hub. So let's see how to install KSnapshot on...

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Upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
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) so please upgrade at your own risk. Following is what I did to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala to Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha Lucid...

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Enna is a powerful light weight media center for Linux
Linux has no dearth of media centers. XBMC and Boxee are the 2 very popular ones. Enna is another media player solution for Linux and is surprisingly light weight and fast with wonderful features. Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia...

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Grub 2: Add splash image to beautify grub 2

Jul 25th

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 23,458 views

Share Yesterday I did a post on how to install grub 2 on Jaunty Jackalope machine. And I started getting comments that it was as ugly as it’s predecessor. And I could not agree more on that. Following which I started looking for way to pimp up grub 2 to look a little more eye

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Install IceCat 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10

Conky: Bringing life to Linux desktop

Install Firefox 4 beta 2 on Fedora 13

Alarm Clock for Ubuntu

Install Firefox 4 beta 2 in Ubuntu using PPA

Upgrading packages/softwares in OpenSuse 11.2

Enable Desktop Effect in Fedora 13

Installing KSnapshot in OpenSuse 11.2: How-to guide

Upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Enna is a powerful light weight media center for Linux

Posts tagged background grub 2

Grub 2: Add splash image to beautify grub 2

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