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How to install Firefox-3.5 with Firefox-3.0 in Ubuntu

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Firefox is a great browser when it comes to usability, innovations and features. But there is a huge problem in most GNU/Linux Operating systems, which dont have the latest Firefox 3.5 on its repositories replacing Firefox 3.0. So one has to test by downloading from Mozilla website and some times it might not work (that was my case) so how do we use both Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 side by side? Here is how to do it ubuntu’s way.

Go to Applications –> Add and Remove –> and type in Shiretoka Web Browser (which is a beta test available in ubuntu repository) and install it.

Now you can test both Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.5 side by side and njoy browsing.

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Ubuntu: How to disable automount-open usb media

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Ubuntu is a great Operating System to work on, though it is relatively new compared some of the other distributions like Debian, Mandriva. There is an annoying feature(atleast I feel) in Ubuntu in which- newly connected usb drive is auto-mounted and poped up. So here is a tip to disable that feature,

Press Alt + F2 and type gconf-editor (or) type in gconf-editor in the command line

Navigate theought / –> apps –> nautilus —> preferences —> uncheck media_automount_open.

So thats it. Happy ubuntuing

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Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 4 released

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Ubuntu, a popular GNU/Linux distribution is gearing up for its next release Ubuntu 9.10 code named Karmic Koala. Ubuntu developers have released 4th alpha of Ubuntu 9.10.

Upgrading from older versions: If you want to test the new version, press Alt + F2 and type in “update-manager -d“. Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release ‘9.10′ is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

Key Features: Some key features included in this alpha include,

  • Latest Gnome 2.27.4 development release
  • Empathy replaces Pidgin
  • Karmic images available on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon’s EC2 cloud services.
  • GCC 4.4 as default compiler
  • ext4 by default
  • Linux Kernel 2.6.31-rc5

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How to install KDE 4.3 on Jaunty

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

KDE 4.3 (Codename: “Caizen”) is the latest release of KDE v4 bringing many improvements to user experience with around 2000 feature implements. But it takes some time before it is oficially supported by Ubuntu and include in it releases, so if you want to install and try, here it is

  • Open sources list
    sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
  • Add the following ppa line at the end of the file
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu jaunty main
  • Update the system
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

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Ubuntu 9.10 aka Karmic Koala alpha 3 released

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Ubuntu, a famous GNU/Linux distribution’s new version Karmic Koala is out with 3rd alpha, Ubuntu has 6 months release cycles.

Upgrading: Alt + F2 and type update-manager -d and press upgrade next to 9.10.

New Features:Some new features include

  • Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 3 includes the latest GNOME 2.27.4 development release.
  • Ubuntu one file sharing service if available by default.
  • Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 3 includes the 2.6.31-3.19 kernel based on 2.6.31-rc3.
  • Ext4 by default.
  • Grub 2 by default.

Download: Chick here for download page.

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