Posts Tagged ‘ Ubuntu ’

Generate Hardware Information on Linux!!!

You can generate a nice report (HTML or XML format) of your laptop/desktop hardware information by executing this command: lshw -html > sysinfo.html You may need to install it first… For Debian and Ubuntu users installation is simple.. sudo aptitude install lshw You can find the detailed information about lshw from the following page: http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter [ READ MORE ]

Howto : Twitter from Command Line…

This is a tutorial explaining how to post to Twitter using command-line in Linux, without needing to even open up your web browser…. First, install the curl package: sudo apt-get install curl Next, create a script anywhere in your $PATH, for example tweet.sh inside ~/bin, where ~ is your home directory (make sure ~/bin is included in your [ READ MORE ]

Finally Google Chrome for Mac & Linux!!!

Google released its Chrome Browser for Mac and Linux yesterday… Chrome for Mac/Linux beta doesn’t have all of the features available to Chrome on Windows, and if you’ve been using the dev builds of Chrome before this, you probably won’t notice any significant changes. Got a chance to play around with it on Ubuntu yesterday night… [ READ MORE ]

Ubuntu 9.10 vs. Mac OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7!!!

Close Ubuntu - Apple - Windows Apple let Snow Leopard out of [ READ MORE ]

Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” (Review)!!!

A a new Ubuntu release definitely requires a post! Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” has been released. There have been some significant changes since that release in April, so read on to find out what they are and why you might want to consider upgrading to Ubuntu Linux 9.10. [ READ MORE ]

How Does Ubuntu 9.04 Measure Up to Mac OS X???

Publication: Linux Magazine Bucking the historical trend of comparing desktop Linux with Windows, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth recently told journalist Bruce Byfield that he was looking to Mac OS X as the operating system to beat for future Ubuntu releases — particularly in the areas of usability and user experience.  Now that Ubuntu 9.04 is out, [ READ MORE ]

Voice Chat on Ubuntu – Empathy!!!

Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia’s Mission Control, and reuses Gossip’s UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into [ READ MORE ]

How to Install and Configure Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu!!!

Apache Tomcat is a servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a “pure Java” HTTP web server environment for Java code to run. Installing and configuring Tomcat on Ubuntu is very easy. Before starting you need the Java Development [ READ MORE ]

Linux newbie guide to installation of LAMP on Ubuntu!!!

The acronym LAMP refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers Linux, the operating system; Apache, the Web server; MySQL, the database management system (or database server) and Perl, PHP, and/or Python, scripting languages. The LAMP stack is a very popular setup and many websites [ READ MORE ]

Reasons to put Linux/Ubuntu on your netbook!!!

Microsoft pounded itself on the chest in April saying over 96% of netbooks now use Windows. This made me somewhat sad, because I was hoping these little computers could be the break Linux had been waiting for. The first couple of netbooks all had Linux pre-installed. Unfortunately, Asus chose to go with a custom Linux distribution [ READ MORE ]