Category: Linux

Ubuntu must be getting really popular…

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...

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Getting the Windows key to work in GNOME/Ubuntu

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...

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When you get sick of Solitaire…

A free multi-player 3D Wolfenstein game that you can run on Linux, including Ubuntu. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnemyTerritory

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Musix

Being a guitarist, back when I was running Windows, I would use audio apps like Cakewalk Pro Audio and Acid to noodle around and do recordings here and there. Now that my desktop machine is running Linux, I don't really have the...

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Accelerating OpenSSH with connections with ControlMaster

From an article that I wrote recently for Linux.com: OpenSSH 4.0 introduced an interesting new feature called ControlMaster that allows it to reuse an existing connection to a remote host when opening new connections to that...

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Automatix for Ubuntu

I've been running Ubuntu Dapper Drake for several days now, but I had never bothered to plug in my speakers and see if sound worked. I plugged in the speakers and holy crap, the sound worked straight away without me having to...

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Inside the Linux boot process

IBM developerWorks has a nice article called Inside the Linux boot process that gives a nice high-level overview of the various stages of booting a Linux kernel from the BIOS to the MBR to GRUB to decompressing and loading the...