Ubuntu
Getting LAMP to work in Ubuntu Hardy
Few of my friends who switched to Ubuntu lately, asked me how to get LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) working in their desktops. Most of them have installed Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) so I planned to write a small guide on how to setup a LAMP development environment. This will require to have an Internet [...]
My new ASUS X51R laptop and Ubuntu 8.04
After giving up my IBM Thinkpad laptop sometime back, I got used to working on Desktops for a while. But it didn't help me a great deal in organizing things when shifting my work from home to office and vice versa. So again I started hunting for a laptop that will fulfill all my needs. [...]
Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About
LifeHacker has a nice article on 'Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About' which reminds us some of the Google Products that we are less familiar with. Even some we haven't heard about it at all. I first came across 'Flight Simulator in Google Earth' and 'Google SketchUp' after reading this article. This list [...]
Dapper -> Edgy causing probs
Couple of weeks back I was getting to the edge of upgrading my Ubuntu Desktop from Dapper Drake to Edge Eft. Upgrading has been a very easy process in Ubuntu as last time too I upgraded from Breezy Badger to Dapper Drake without any problems. With that in mind I started to upgrade it on [...]
Edgy Eft is out
A lot has been happening this week and one being the release of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). It was released yesterday with a lot of enhancements and new features in order to make it a user friendly OS. Planning to upgrade to Edgy hopefully by today so I'm almost on the edge now
Ubuntu Dapper – XserverFailover
I came home after work in the evening and found out that the X Server failed to start after booting my laptop. The log didn't give me that much of a clue though I tried to update my xorg.conf using this command
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
But that didn't help and was wondering what could have gone [...]
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) Released
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS has been released right on time with the code name 'Dapper Drake'. Read the Release Notes to go through the improvements on Dapper Drake. Its something I have been waiting for since I started using Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) on my desktop few months back. Didn't get a time off to upgrade [...]
