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Ubuntu Beta

By Mark on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

The new Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerka is in Beta now and will be released October 10, 2010. I have not tried it (because I hardly do Betas anymore) but it is said to have many great features. Besides the usual updates, there’s a new photo manager, improved multimedia controls, better Ubuntu One syncing, and more. [...]

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Ubuntu Better Than Ever

By Mark on Sunday, July 11th, 2010 | No Comments

The new Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is by far the best Ubuntu ever. I installed it on several computer. The installs have been flawless. Every easy! It is much more difficult to install Windows. Lucid finds all of the drivers except of course my Broadcom wireless drivers but it found a proprietary driver and ask [...]

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Lucid Lynx Countdown

By Mark on Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 | No Comments

The Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is out. You can download it now.

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Speed Up Ubuntu

By Mark on Monday, March 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

There are several programs that may start up when your Ubuntu computer starts. Many of these programs are not needed. You can turn these off by going to “System, Preferences and Startup Applications”. You can turn off some of these but first you must know which applications do not have to start up so I [...]

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Upgrading Ubuntu

By Mark on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | No Comments

I was discussing last night with someone about upgrading Ubuntu to a new version. I said I did not know much about it because I was alway trying new distros and I never keep a version long enough to upgrade. I also said I thought it was very simple. Just a few clicks and that [...]

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Ubuntu Installer for Windows

By Mark on Saturday, February 13th, 2010 | No Comments

You can setup a dual boot Windows-Ubuntu Linux system  no muss, no fuss. You hardly need any technical skills at all to this with WUBI (Windows Ubuntu Installer). There is a WUBI installer on all Ubuntu Disk but you have to have some skill to create the disk or boot to the disk but you [...]

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Karmic Koala Pretty Kool

By Mark on Sunday, November 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is here and I’ve only been using it for a few days even though its been out since September. Sorry I’ve been busy with Windows 7. Ubuntu 9.10 is a fantastic operating system. There is everything you could want here. Easy install, nice looking and friendly user interface. It is very [...]

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Linux Mint

By Mark on Friday, May 15th, 2009 | No Comments

I need a Linux that is lightweight. One that can run on old machines. I can install it and not spend a lot of time configuring. I think I have found it in Linux Mint. The one CD install loads most of the common applications like: Firefox, GIMP, Open Office, media players and CODECs. The [...]

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