Ubuntu 11.04

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Upgrade Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04

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The new Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) has just been released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 10.10 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 11.04. read more...

permapage | score:9411 | -falko, May 2, 2011

Ubuntu 11.04 Preview

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An early look at the next release of Ubuntu Linux...

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 1 is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.38, GNOME 2.32.1 and X.Org 7.5. It will included applications such as LibreOffice 3.3.2 as the default office suite, Banshee 1.9.4 as the default audio player/organizer and Mozilla Firefox 4.0 as the default web browser.

A set of seventeen new and beautiful wallpapers will also be present in the Beta release, to please every Ubuntu user out there. And now, the features we've promised...

Tutorial: Install Apache2, PHP5, MySQL on Ubuntu 11.04

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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. read more...

permapage | score:9175 | -falko, May 17, 2011

Tutorial: Android app build environment with Eclipse, PhoneGap (Ubuntu 11.04)

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This tutorial describes how you can set up an development environment for building Android apps on an Ubuntu 11.04 desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap. I will describe how to build Android apps from the command line with PhoneGap and from the GUI with Eclipse and PhoneGap and how to test them in an Android emulator and on a real Android device. PhoneGap allows you to develop your Android applications using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (e.g. with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery/jQTouch), and it will turn these web apps into native Android apps (in fact, PhoneGap supports multiple platforms such as Android, iPhone, Palm, Windows Mobile, Symbian, so you can use the same sources to create apps for multiple platforms). read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:9071 | -falko, June 28, 2011

Ubuntu 11.04 Preview

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Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1 is the first release in the run up to Ubuntu 11.04, aka Natty Narwhal. The unique feature of Ubuntu 11.04, when it is released, will be the Unity interface, which will be the default desktop interface on computers that meet the minimum hardware requirements. Other computers will be able to use the Classic desktop interface.

This review, a very short one, is meant to offer a glimpse into what is in store on Natty Narwhal. Since most of the features will be unchanged, this review will focus primarily on the newest feature, which just happens to be the Unity interface. read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:9046 | -finid, December 6, 2010

Install KVM guests on Ubuntu 11.04 from command line

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Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tool that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: "But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why do I need virt-install?" The difference between virt-install and vmbuilder is that vmbuilder is for creating Ubuntu-based guests, whereas virt-install lets you install all kinds of operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) and distributions in a guest, just like virt-manager. This article shows how you can use it on an Ubuntu 11.04 KVM server. read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:9009 | -falko, May 11, 2011

Enable Compiz Fusion on Ubuntu 11.04

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This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) desktop with the classic GNOME interface, i.e., no Unity (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. read more...

permapage | score:9008 | -falko, July 28, 2011

Make Ubuntu 11.04 look like Mac OS X

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This article shows how you can change the appearance of your Ubuntu 11.04 desktop (with the Ubuntu Classic interface, i.e., GNOME instead of Unity) so that it resembles a Mac. This can be achieved with the help of Elementary, Docky, and Gloobus-Preview. Elementary is a project that provides a popular icon set and GTK theme; Docky is an interactive dock (like the one you know from a Mac) that provides easy access to some of the files, folders, and applications on your computer, and more; and Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file or directory. read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:8994 | -falko, July 11, 2011

Ubuntu 11.04: Custom Kernel

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Without knowing much about the support of Reiser4 filesystem in the kernel of Ubuntu 11.04, I stupidly went ahead and formatted a 2TB external hard drive with said filesystem from my Arch-based laptop. Then I happily put tons of data on it, since my laptop's hard drive had already failed several times. Imagine what: Very soon after, the same hard drive failed again.

I was really excited I had a backup of my data on an external hard drive and that time around I didn't lose a bit (yes, this has happened to me before). So the day came and I wanted to watch the fourth episode of Rozen Maiden (an epic Anime). But after plugging the drive into my Ubuntu box I discovered that it just wouldn't mount. I tried hard with Nautilus, pmount etc. but to no avail. At some point I looked at /proc/filesystems. What I saw in there didn't make me happy at all: Reiser4 was absent! There was also no such module in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs, so by that time I thought I was dead in the water. A moment later -it really seemed like an eternity- I managed to pull myself together and immediately looked up for Reiser4 support in the Linux kernel. Soon I discovered that the mainline kernel needs a patch in order to support Reiser4, so do the majority of the Linux distributions out there. read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:8990 | -subZraw, May 8, 2011

Set up Spicevmc Channel on Ubuntu 11.04 KVM Server and spice-vdagent on guest

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Procedure following bellow set up spicevmc channel support on KVM Server Ubuntu Natty. It also instructs how to setup spice-vdagent on Natty installed as KVM guest at any KVM Server Ubuntu 11.04 or F15. In other words it contains build debian package spice-vdagent via source for Ubuntu 11.04 ( Natty). To setup spicevmc channel on Natty install qemu-kvm packages from PPA Packages in Spice-Gtk-0.6 on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. Build qemu-kvm-060911-0ubuntu5 from PPA already supports spicevmc channel.It's original tarball is based on git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git on 06/09/2011. Also upgrade virtinst via same PPA up to 0.500.6 to have virt-install understand option "--channel spicevmc" read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:8989 | -Boris Derzhavets, June 21, 2011

Run Magento 1.6.0.0 on Nginx (Debian 6/Ubuntu 11.04)

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This tutorial shows how you can install and run Magento 1.6.0.0 on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.04 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). Magento is an open-source, feature-rich ecommerce platform; I will use the Magento Community Edition here which is licensed under an open source certified license (OSL v3.0). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files. read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:8902 | -falko, September 20, 2011

Tutorial: Install Gnome3 on Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10

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For GNOME 3, the GNOME Project has started from scratch and created a completely new, modern desktop designed for today�s users and technologies.This tutorial will explain how to install Gnome3 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty)/Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick). read more...

permapage | score:8867 | -gg234, April 12, 2011

Tutorial: Replace Windows with Kubuntu 11.04

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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 11.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Kubuntu 11.04 is derived from Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) and uses the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME desktop. read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:8822 | -falko, May 16, 2011

Triple-boot Fedora 15, Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7

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Tired of dual-booting between Windows and your most favorite Linux distribution? How about triple-booting between Windows and your two most favorite Linux distributions? If you are up to the task, this article presents a very detailed guide on how to get it done. read more...

permapage | score:8808 | -finid, June 7, 2011

Install Skype in Ubuntu 11.04

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Skype hasn�t been uploaded to the official partner repository of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. So for those who are trying out Natty out there will need to install Skype from their website. Below is the steps for that. read more...

permapage | score:8804 | -Linux Tips, January 11, 2011

Set up Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10 KVM for spice session (Fedora 14)

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The most recent patches to Fedora�s Qemu 0.14 went into qemu-0.14.0-6.fc14.src.rpm on 03/31/2011. Following bellow is brief description of F14 KVM and Spice Server set up via �Libvirt Preview�. Configured KVM Server allows to create Ubuntu 10.10, 11.04 Desktop KVM beta 1 (64 bit), which may run in spice session. Notice, that Virt-Manager 0.8.7-2 does have SPICE support. It allows to switch particular VM from VNC Server to SPICE Server and run spice session via GUI or connect to VM via command line locally or remotely. Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop, 11.04 Desktop KVM beta 1 require �apt-get update,apt-get upgrade� to run stable in SPICE session read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:8770 | -Boris Derzhavets, April 8, 2011

Dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04

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For those Windows users who have discovered what Linux has to offer, but for one reason or another are not ready to completely abandon Windows, dual-booting between the two operating systems is one method of keeping a foot in both worlds. And to help those users, this article presents a step-by-step guide on how to dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 on a computer with one hard disk. read more...

permapage | score:8747 | -finid, May 25, 2011

Ubuntu 11.04 review

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Ubuntu 11.04, code-named Natty Narwhal, is the latest version of the popular Linux distribution. Its release marks the end of Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE). The major new feature in this release is Unity, a desktop interface which replaces GNOME 2 as the default desktop environment. You can still use GNOME 2 if your computer does not meet the minimum hardware requirements for running Unity, or if you do not like Unity.

This article presents a detailed review of Natty Narwhal, with a focus on Unity. read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:8741 | -finid, May 4, 2011

Run SugarCRM CE on Nginx (Debian 6/Ubuntu 11.04)

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SugarCRM is a webbased CRM solution written in PHP. SugarCRM is available in different flavours called "Editions" ("Community" (free), "Professional", and "Enterprise"). In this tutorial I will describe the installation of the free Community Edition on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.04 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). With the modules My Portal, Calendar, Activities, Contacts, Accounts, Leads, Opportunities, Cases, Bugtracker, Documents and Email, SugarCRM Community Edition offers everything that can be expected from a CRM solution.

(here are some portal prints) read more...

mail this link | permapage | score:8687 | -falko, November 3, 2011 (Updated: April 26, 2012)

Tutorial: Build an Ubuntu 11.04 server

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This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (Ubuntu 11.04) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig 2 (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box). read more...

permapage | score:8674 | -falko, May 12, 2011

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