Its been ages since I played with SecondLife but I was reminded about it this evening and thought I would put something together regarding how to install it. There are not any packages for it in the Ubuntu repositories, but it is pretty simple to get running.
For those that currently use SecondLife maybe you [...]
I want to thank everyone for the great feedback that I got on the poll regarding what you’d like to see on this site. I think the results are pretty clear, although some of them did surprise me. For those that haven’t taken a look at the results they are as follows:
Gnome Desktop Tips [...]
Last week Aaron asked me if I knew the reason behind the latest kernel update, or if I knew where to find the changelog. I poked around a bit and found that Aptitude, the command-line package management tool, has a changelog option. If you’d like to see the changelog for a package before you update, [...]
If you’re new to Ubuntu you may or may not be aware of the fact that we like our choices here. One of the big choices is the desktop environment that you work in. The big two are Gnome and KDE, but there are quite a few more. Xubuntu, or Ubuntu using the XFCE desktop [...]
Some of you might remember, long ag, that I asked for some feedback regarding a presentation at Ubuntu Live 2008. Well, as it turns out the Ubuntu Live conference was cancelled by my presentation was migrated to OSCON instead. I’m pretty excited to be going to OSCON this year, especially as a speaker. I went [...]
Some time ago I blogged about keyboard shortcuts for the Gnome Desktop. I figure its time to revisit some of these. If I’ve missed any that you find helpful as usual drop a comment. I am unaware of any definitive list of Gnome shortcuts. Could this be a start?
Gnome Desktop Keyboard Shortcuts
Alt-F2 : Run Application [...]
I have seen a few questions in IRC and the forums lately regarding upgrading Ubuntu machines. I thought I would toss out a reminder on the best, supported, methods of upgrading your machine and how to avoid (hopefully) some common pitfalls.
Upgrade Preparation
The first step towards an upgrade is to backup any mission-critical data that you [...]
I recently blogged about installing the Adobe Acrobat Reader on Ubuntu 8.04. For those that followed that tutorial you may also be interested in adding the Firefox plugins for Adobe Reader as well. These will also require the Medibuntu repository, which I’ll review quickly here.
Configuring the Medibuntu Repository
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && [...]
Recently I blogged about installing Adobe Acrobat reader by way of the Medibuntu repository. This got me thinking about some of the other great (albeit non-free) software that is available there. Here I’ll review how to add the Medibuntu repository and then how to install Google Earth!
Configure the Medibuntu Repository
Setting up this third-party repository can [...]
I figured it was time to update my previous posts on how to install Adobe Acrobat Reader for Ubuntu 8.04. It has become much simpler to install than it has been in the past, meaning it can be installed via a proper .deb package. It is not available in the main Ubuntu repositories, but it [...]
