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Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a custom user interface for the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution designed to play well with laptops with small screens. Instead of dealing with a panel and a series of drop down menus, Ubuntu Netbook Edition has a series of categories on the left side. Click on Accessories, Games, Internet, Office, or another category to bring up a series of large icons for accessing the associated programs and settings. It’s also tweaked with optimizations for Intel Atom processors. According to this blueprint , folks at Canonical are getting ready to help " Ubuntu Netbook Remix " change to " Ubuntu Netbook Edition " status. It seems that the they have removed the blueprint. Here is the link to the cached copy by google . It says " Ubuntu Netbook Remix has now been a part of the Ubuntu cycle for two releases now, and it should drop the Remix, and become Ubuntu Netbook Edition . This spec is about what changes are needed to enable that....

Go is an open source project, distributed under a BSD-style license . This document explains how to check out the sources, build them on your own machine, and run them. First of all you need to set some Environment variables The Go compilation environment depends on three environment variables that you should set in your .bashrc or equivalent, plus one optional variable: $GOROOT The root of the Go tree. Typically this is $HOME/go but it can be any directory. $GOOS and $GOARCH The name of the target operating system and compilation architecture. Choices for $GOOS are linux, darwin (Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6), and nacl (Native Client, an incomplete port). Choices for $GOARCH are amd64 (64-bit x86, the most mature port), 386 (32-bit x86), and arm (32-bit ARM, an incomplete port). The valid combinations are linux/amd64, linux/arm, linux/386, darwin/amd64, darwin/386, and nacl/386. $GOBIN (optional) The location where binaries will be installed. If you set $GOBIN, you need to ...

 These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements Qt 4.2.1+ D-Bus 1.0.0 libasound2 1.0.12 PulseAudio 0.9.10+ (optional) PulseAudio 0.9.15+ (optional recommended) Technical details Version 2.1.0.47 Download the skype for fedora 12 from here http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-fc10

You might have had experience with your ubuntu system hang up due to some applications (this happens sometimes with Firefox and some games). You can actually login to one of your other terminals and stop the applications which is causing problems. 1. Use Alt + Ctrl and any function key F1 through F7. Where F7 is the default xwindows terminal. 2. Log in and then use the command "top" from the command line to find the process id (pid) of the frozen or run away application which is causing problems. $ top 3. After finding the pid number, type $ kill -kill PID (where PID is the process id of the application). Now go back to terminal 7 with "Alt+Ctrl+F7" to find the troublesome application gone.

Google have been working on a particularly interesting project that combines Google Maps and search technology - they have been trying to work out if our search query in Google Maps means we are interested in having current real estate listings returned to us. Now, simply searching for "real estate" on google maps will return, well, real estate ( try it )! You could also try " homes for sale sydney " or " homes for rent adelaide ". Or while you're at it, check out " apartments for sale brisbane ", or " homes for rent near perth ". The idea is to make it really easy for you guys - you tell us what you want, and we get it back to you! Of course, we'll continue to work to return the best results for all your Google Maps queries, whether you're looking for local businesses, geographic features, or your perfect home. For more info see  http://google-au.blogspot.com/2009/11/making-it-easier-to-find-property-you.html

These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements Qt 4.2.1+ D-Bus 1.0.0 libasound2 1.0.12 PulseAudio 0.9.10+ (optional) PulseAudio 0.9.15+ (optional recommended) Technical details Version 2.1.0.47 Get your Skype for OpenSUSE from here OpenSUSE 11+ For other Linux distros see  http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/

These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements Qt 4.2.1+ D-Bus 1.0.0 libasound2 1.0.12 PulseAudio 0.9.10+ (optional) PulseAudio 0.9.15+ (optional recommended) Technical details Version 2.1.0.47 Get your Skype for fedora from here Fedora 9   Fedora 10+ For other Linux distros see  http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/

These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements Qt 4.2.1+ D-Bus 1.0.0 libasound2 1.0.12 PulseAudio 0.9.10+ (optional) PulseAudio 0.9.15+ (optional recommended) Technical details Version 2.1.0.47 Get your Skype for Ubuntu from here Ubuntu 8.04   Ubuntu 8.10+ 32-bit   Ubuntu 8.10+ 64-bit For Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 you can use the versions for 8.10. For other Linux distros see  http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/

These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements Qt 4.2.1+ D-Bus 1.0.0 libasound2 1.0.12 PulseAudio 0.9.10+ (optional) PulseAudio 0.9.15+ (optional recommended) Technical details Version 2.1.0.47 Get your Skype for debian Lenny from here http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-deb For other Linux distros see  http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/

These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  Hardware requirements 1 Ghz processor or faster. 256 MB RAM. 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive. Microphone and speakers or headset. Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements Qt 4.2.1+ D-Bus 1.0.0 libasound2 1.0.12 PulseAudio 0.9.10+ (optional) PulseAudio 0.9.15+ (optional recommended) Technical details Version 2.1.0.47 Get you Skype from Here http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/  

GNOME 3.0 will be released in September 2010, and in the meantime, they will release GNOME 2.30 in March 2010, continuing their long-standing tradition of six-months releases. Note that this release date for 3.0 doesn't mean that 2.30 will be less stable than usual. On the contrary, this will help them integrate the changes that are ready for 2.30 , while leaving the parts that are still rough on the edges outside of GNOME , as used daily by the users, until after 2.30 is out. This will solidify both 2.30 and 3.0 releases. The idea of doing GNOME 3.0 was first seriously discussed in 2008, before focus areas were defined in 2009, alongside a plan to reach 3.0 . Those focus areas include revamping the user experience, streamlining the platform and improving the promotion of GNOME . Compared to GNOME 3.0 , GNOME 2.30 will see the iterative improvements and bug fixes that people have now come to expect from our 2.x branch, in addition to some preliminary work needed for G...

GNOME 2.28 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first-class internationalization and accessibility support. GNOME is Free and Open Source Software and provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, such as email, groupware, web browsing, file management, multimedia, and games. Furthermore, GNOME provides a flexible and powerful platform for software developers, both on the desktop and in mobile applications. The GNOME Desktop is released every six months and contains many new features, improvements, bug fixes, and translations. GNOME 2.28 continues this tradition. GNOME 2.28 includes all of the improvements made in GNOME 2.26 and earlier. What's New For Users 1 . GNOME 2.28 includes the first release of the GNOME Bluetooth module to help users manage their Bluetooth devices. GNOME Bluetooth supports hundreds of ...

L I N U X P O L L How do you pronounce "Linux" Lee-nooks Lie-nuks Lin-ucks Lin-icks Current Results There are three common pronunciations of Linux. All three are quite acceptable. The only proper pronunciation is the one used by Linus Torvalds himself . The name Linux is a derivative of his name, and thus is pronounced like his name. Linus pronounces his name "Lee-noos", so Linux is properly pronounced "Lee-nooks".  A linguistically acceptable pronunciation is based on the Anglicized pronunciation of Linus, which is "Lie-nus". Hence, an acceptable Anglicized pronunciation of Linux is "Lie-nuks". However, there is a third common pronunciation of Linux, which is "Lin-icks" (or sometimes "Lin-ucks"). This pronunciation has no basis as a linguistic derivative. It does, however, sound more like "Unix", which is probably the reason it came about.

You can find many applications for windows to play many kind of codecs. Some of the windows applications are windows media player, real player, vlc, mplayer Ubuntu equivalent : vlc, mplayer, helix player To have Ubuntu playing all kinds of stuff, you need to install many codecs. Add the new repository and update your system. $ sudo wget  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1402212/karmic.sources.list  --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/full.list $   sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2EBC26B60C5A2783 0DA7581859566E92 D739676F7613768D 43BB102C405A15CB 6AF0E1940624A220 2ED6BB6042C24D89 632D16BB0C713DA6 A6DCF7707EBC211F F9A2F76A9D1A0061 5A9BF3BB4E5E17B5 A040830F7FAC5991 FA3A1271 7FB8BEE0A1F196A8 0CC1223EE2314809 7889D725DA6DEEAA 28A8205077558DD0 2D79F61BE8D31A30 6E871C4A881574DE 66D5C734F6EFB904 DCF9F87B6DFBCBAE 2A8E3034D018A4CE F0876AC9 978228591BD3A65C 6298AD34413576CB FC6D7D9D009ED615 4FEC45DD06899068 2A423FD95416E75D $ sudo apt-get upd...

A larger casper-rw loop file is particularly useful for those who have performed a linux install to a large thumb drive using a Windows USB tutorial and need more persistent storage space for saving changes. The default casper-rw loop file might be low. Boot from the Live CD and then (once the system is up and running) insert the USB drive that contains your Linux install and small casper-rw. Creating a NEW larger casper-rw loop file The following method will create a NEW casper-rw file that will replace the old one. If you want to resize an existing image see the next section. 1. After you have booted up and running in Linux, insert the flash drive that contains your casper-rw loop file 2. Now open up a terminal 3. Type the following into the terminal window and press enter dd if=/dev/zero of=casper-rw bs=1M count= 1024 (replacing 1024 with the "size in MB" you wish to use for saving changes persistently) 4. Type the following into the terminal and press ent...

After installing skype 2.1 in your ubuntu 9.10 you might have seen that there is only one option in skype's audio properties: "pulse audio server" and Nothing else.  But most of you might had used "HDA Intel hd:0" option in their previous versions and it was working. To solve this problem you will just need to install "padevchooser" on your Ubuntu. 'pavechooser' will help you configure your Pulseaudio and select the proper Mic input. Install it via command line or synaptic. Or get it from here  http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/sound/padevchooser Or try installing the skype version 2.0 and select "HD Intel (hw:0)" option. Download the version 2.0 from  http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-debian_2.0.0.72-1_i386.deb If you have already installed Skype 2.1 you will have to uninstall skype-common via synaptic, as well as skype, or else the Skype 2.0 package will not install via GDebi.

Most current video multimedia players play many video formats, including the Flash video .flv format. MPlayer Multimedia Player Mplayer is a video player with a wide range of formats supported (including RealMedia and Windows-codecs) and a wide variety of outputs. sudo apt-get install mplayer SMPlayer SMPlayer is an enhanced frontend for MPlayer. sudo apt-get install smplayer Dump a video stream to disc You can dump a video stream to disc using Mplayer: mplayer -dumpstream streamurl VLC Multimedia Player VLC is a cross-platform multimedia player that supports many formats without need for additional codecs. It can not only receive video streams (also see here to convert it to mp4), but can act as a server for video streams, as well. It is one of the only players that can view and backup almost any DVD format, no matter which copy protection is used. See these tips for using VLC to backup/rip encrypted DVDs. sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse VLC plugins There ...

Follows the steps below to play DVD in your ubuntu 9.10 karmic Koala 1. Become root $ sudo su - 2. Add medibuntu repositories to your sources.list. # wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/karmic.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list Now add the GPG Key: # apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update 3.Update your system. # apt-get update 4. Now install the libdvdcss library. # apt-get install libdvdcss2 # cd /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/ # ./install-css.sh