Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
I noticed that many pages in Ubuntu Wiki Documentation only tell users to apt-get the packages that they need to install in order to do certain things. Ubuntu is an easy to use GNU/Linux Operating System based on Gnome. Ubuntu has easy of use on top of their priority list. ...
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
Ubuntu by default supports free formats for audio and video files and it doesn't (by default) support many popular audio and video formats. These formats are called Restricted Formats. It doesn't mean that you can not play these formats in Ubuntu. Ubuntu Wiki has detailed information about enabling support for ...
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Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Well, this is the first confusion I had after installing Linux based Ubuntu. During the installation it created a user account and asked password for it but didn't asked to creat a root account and set password for it. When I clicked on some applications where a super user priviledges ...
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Friday, April 7th, 2006
After Installing Ubuntu, I was pleased to find out that it had my favorite web browser Firefox installed by default. Since Firefox allows users to manually configure proxy settings, I had no trouble browsing web. The second decission that I needed to make was to choose my default mail application. ...
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Friday, April 7th, 2006
Ubuntu is a complete Linux based operating system. Only a month ago, I installed Ubuntu on my computer and since then I never looked back to Windows XP that I previously used for all my work. The purpose of this blog is to tell the world that it is not ...
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