Install LXDE (Light weight desktop manager) on Ubuntu 10.04
This post is inspired by one of my geek friends. She totally loves Linux and keeps experimenting it. She suggested I try LXDE as my desktop manager on Linux. The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. I wasn't disappointed when I installed it. It's lightening fast and loads up in no time. Following are some of it's features: Lightweight It...

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Upgrade to Firefox 3.6 on OpenSuse 11.2
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. Open a terminal window and type the following command: sudo zypper ar...

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How to install Firefox 3.6 stable release on Ubuntu 9.10 using PPA
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 following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable Next we need to update the software...

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Install Google Chrome on OpenSuse 11.3
Google Chrome is a lightening fast browser and is available cross platform. Let's see how to install Google Chrome on Open Suse 11.3. All you have to do is go to Google Chrome Download Page. 1. Click on Get Google Chrome (BETA). 2. On the subsequent page make sure OpenSuse is selected. Click Accept and Install. 3. The package file will be downloaded and opened in YaST and Google Chrome will be installed on...

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Installing Shutter on Fedora 13
Shutter is one of the best screen taking utility for Linux and it's my default screen capturing tool. I managed to get the new version of Fedora (13) running on my machine and wanted to start off writing about how to install Shutter on Fedora 13. The installation process is fairly easy: Go to System > Administration > Add/Remove Software and search for Shutter. Select the package as shown in the screenshot...

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Install Chromium (Google Chrome) on Linux Mint 9 {Isadora}
Personally I like to have a few browser on my machine whether it's running Ubuntu, Linux Mint or OpenSuse. Google Chrome (chromium) is one of my favorite browsers after Firefox. By default it doesn't come installed in any of Linux distors mentioned above. However installing it is not a very painful process and can be achieved using the synaptic package manager. In order install chromium on your Linux mint: 1. Open...

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How to install qBittorrent in Ubuntu 10.04
Torrent applications have become almost an integral part of every operating system and user desktop. There are plenty of choices of torrent client for Ubuntu and one of them is qBittorrent. qBittorrent 2 is a multi-platform Bittorrent client developed in C++/Qt4 by Christophe Dumez, a Ph.D student in the University of technology of Belfort-Montbeliard. This software is still under active development and it becomes ...

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Fix Big and Ugly Plymouth in Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}
Once you install proprietary Nvidia and ATI drivers in your Ubuntu 10.04 and boot your machine next time all you see is an big and ugly Ubuntu Plymouth logo. Though it really doesn't too much to have that ugly Plymouth, but if you are a stickler for perfection like me then you would want to fix it to get the following nice looking Plymouth. Following is a way to fix this: 1. Open a terminal Window and type the...

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How to install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
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 with the installation. Open a terminal window and add the following line and copy paste the following...

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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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Top 35 handpicked Ubuntu wallpapers

Jan 21st

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 20,519 views

Share Ubuntu is my favorite Linux distro and is probably the most popular out there. It’s powerful at the same time customizable. Having a large community support Ubuntu enjoys the love from artists and designers. Following is a collection of 35 hand picked Ubuntu wallpapers. Hope you like’em.