Jono Bacon has announced the creation of the Ubuntu Hall of Fame. It is an effort to recognize contributors that make the Ubuntu community a success.

I had some spare time on my hands last weekend, so I set about putting together a new release of CrunchBang Linux. As the numbering suggests, CrunchBang Linux 8.10.01 is based on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex sources.

Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore present the eighteenth Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.

In a rather belated episode we have:-

We discuss our experience of upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 - the Intrepid Ibex.
We review Ubuntu Kung Fu, a book by Keir Thomas, and we give away [...]

As I mentioned in yesterdays post, I have begun studying perl.  I’m actually enjoying it quite a bit, and picking things up fairly quickly I think.  I’m sure my familiarity with bash scripting helps quite a bit.
This morning I hacked together an irssi script for origami users that will let you display your current [...]

This guest article was written by Vivek Kumar from TNerd.com, a blog focused on technology news, tricks and tips and Linux tutorials.
It’s a good idea to ensure that you have a backup and restore system in place. Today we’ll see how in a few very easy steps you can setup system backup and restore in [...]

The other day I received a message from Sean Hammond letting me know that moosplash, a cowsay inspired

Over the weekend I started studying Perl and quickly realized I was going to be better off if I reviewed regular expressions before I got too far into things.  I went back and found my copy of “Mastering Regular Expressions” and dove right in.  Now, maybe its just me, but I find that I [...]

The Eee PC 901 is an Intel Atom-based laptop, with 1 GB of RAM, a 20 GB SSD, and a 9 inch display. Since I bought mine, it’s been running Ubuntu 8.04 rather than the default Xandros-based OS. The laptop is surprisingly unfriendly to Ubuntu despite being preloaded with Linux. Ubuntu 8.10 has delivered some [...]

I just realized that I missed a lot of new things while I'm gone for a few days. I just found a cool media center program that you can try inside your ubuntu! I will give a review and installation method for this program.

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #117 for the week of November 9th- November 15th, 2008 is now available.

In this Issue:

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data
are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication
can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article
explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 8.10 server.

The past few days have been all about installing third-party applications.  Yes I know some of these are “non-free”, but it does seem like a lot of these are those apps that many of us just can’t do without.  So, to continue the series here we have Installing Skype 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.10.
Download The [...]

There are two methods one can use to play video inside .rar files in Ubuntu (without extracting the archives).

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So its a little after noon today and I just woke up.  No, I’m not a lazy late sleeper, I got home from work last nite about 4:45am.  We had a huge server room rebuild consolidating ~40 servers, rebuilding two racks, and going to the data center.  Loads of fun, let me tell you.  [...]

For those of you that run blogs, are you ever surprised at the content that ends up being the most popular?  I get surprised all the time, particularly that my previous post regarding installation of adobe reader on Ubuntu 8.04 is near the top of the list.
Well, now that 8.10 has been released and [...]

Recently I blogged about “What Do You Do Post-Install?” to find out what little tweaks everyone applies to their systems on a fresh machine.  It appears that a lot of you enable the Medibuntu repository right away and take advantage of that for media and codecs.  Did you know there are also other applications [...]

Don’t have a graphics card capable of running desktop effects with Compiz on Ubuntu? By enabling compositing in GNOME’s default Metacity window manager, you get some eye candy and can run applications that require or benefit from a compositing window manager. Metacity uses your CPU instead of a graphics card, so it’ll work on anything [...]

Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 8.10)

I mentioned in a recent post regarding postfix smtp via Gmail that I use the logwatch utility for monitoring my systems.  Ever since I found this utility I have really enjoyed the daily snapshot that it gives me of each of my systems, whether local or remote.  Everything from package installed and removed, to [...]

A few days ago, the Ubuntu Tutorials blog pointed out the excellent Shiki-Colors theme. It’s my new favorite!

On the theme’s GNOME Look page, you can download the GTK theme, or a script which can also install icons, a GDM login screen theme, and wallpapers. I just wanted the GTK theme so I selected this [...]

After quite the hiatus from coding I have released Origami 0.6.9.  Thanks go to Martin Zuther for his bug and feature request submissions on Launchpad.  This release should resolve a long standing bug and also added two new features.
Origami now supports definition of BIGPACKETS, which can be very important depending on your hardware.  I’ve [...]

The last time I needed to install Ubuntu on a system without a CD drive, my Eee PC, I created a bootable USB drive to run the graphical installer. The UNetbootin tool I used makes creating the USB system simple, but in Ubuntu 8.10 there’s an even easier way.
You’ll need:

The USB Startup Disk creator tool. [...]

Recently I was tasked with doing a bunch of documentation work here at the office, and I decided to put together a wiki for the job.  After a few hours of editing directly into the browser I was about to blow my brains out.  I quickly decided that if I’m going to be working [...]