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Red Hat Takes Its Hat Off to Dennis Ritchie

Red Hat Takes Its Hat Off to Dennis Ritchie
Share It is with sad hearts that the Red Hat community mourns the passing of computing pioneer Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie. Dennis Ritchie was the principal designer of the C programming language and co-developer of the Unix operating...

How To Download YouTube Videos In Ubuntu 11.10

How To Download YouTube Videos In Ubuntu 11.10
Share YouTube is the most popular video sharing site – or I can say it has videos about everything. When you’re watching videos on YouTube (Suppose You’re using Ubuntu 11.10) and some of them are such videos that you watch often –...

How to change Login Screen background in Ubuntu 11.10 LightDM

How to change Login Screen background in Ubuntu 11.10 LightDM
Share Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has released its second alpha. In Ubuntu Oneiric, it starts using LightDM as default to instead Gnome Display Manager(GDM). If you have upgraded to or new installed Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, you might want to...

Gnome3 Tip- Find out Gnome-shell Shutdown/Restart buttons

Gnome3 Tip- Find out Gnome-shell Shutdown/Restart buttons
Share This is a simple tutorial about how to get “power off” and “Restart” options in gnome-shell user account menu. When I first time using Gnome 3, I didn’t find shutdown/restart button anywhere. I shut down and reboot my...

Linux Ubuntu : Difference Between WUBI And Normal Install

Linux Ubuntu : Difference Between WUBI And Normal Install
Share Linux Ubuntu Is there any difference between a “normal install” and a “WUBI-install” other than that the two operating systems share the same file space? Are there any disadvantages with the...

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) New Applications and Defaults

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) New Applications and Defaults
Share This is list of New Applications and Defaults on ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Thunderbird is included as default email client including menu and launcher integration. Déjà Dup is included as the default backup tool, making it...

Torvalds Dumps GNOME for Xfce

Torvalds Dumps GNOME for Xfce
Share Linux users seem to be interested in what our de facto leader uses on his desktop. In 2005 KDE users reveled when Linus said, “just … use KDE.” Later on in 2009 GNOME users returned the nose rubbing when he said,...

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Released

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Released
Share As Ubuntu 11.10 is still in active development you are not advised to install this alpha on your Mom’s laptop, your Brother’s nettop or even your own desktop. What’s new since Alpha 2? The latest experimental snapshots of Compiz...

How To Uninstall Ubuntu 11.04/10.10/10.04

How To Uninstall Ubuntu 11.04/10.10/10.04
Share Uninstall Ubuntu ? Huh! Are you kidding? not of course, in this post you are going to learn – about uninstalling or removing ubuntu completely from your computer (Desktop , Laptop, Notebook or whatever); although it’s a different...