Category: Ubuntu

I have an Ubuntu Linux system and I'm looking for a USB 802.11g adapter that won't be a complete nightmare to set up. I'm very Linux-savvy, but have better things to do with my time than waste hours finding the right combination...

Up until now I had not tried installing Dapper from scratch. I had only upgraded an existing Breezy system to Dapper and it went very smoothly. Tonight I attempted to use the Dapper CD to install Dapper on to a 40 GB hard drive...

I wanted to build qemu-0.8.1 and the latest kqemu kernel module, but I haven't yet figured how the heck to reconcile these facts: When you run ./configure on a Dapper system, QEMU complains that gcc4 is not recommended. I can...

It took more than a few minutes to to get my Ubuntu Linux system configured exactly right for our new Samsung SyncMaster 204B monitor. I tried doing sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg a few times and it didn't seem to quite get...

I know that Ubuntu must really be getting popular, because now it is starting to have detractors that are foaming at the mouth bashing it and Mark Shuttleworth and creating lots of interesting conspiracy theories. I reckon it's a...

After seeing Nick Thomas's post, I thought it might be useful to actually do something with the Windows key on my keyboard in GNOME in Ubuntu. Here's how I got it to work: First, I had to go the Keyboard Preferences Panel, click...