Q. I've installed Gnome instead of Unity on Ubuntu 11.10, now my clock is the middle of the screen. How do I move it? A.The process is fairly easy, once again, I don't know why they've changed it fr...

Here we go again. A new version of Ubuntu is out and if you still don't want to switch from it because of Unity, you are welcome to try and install Gnome. (I didn't try removing or disabling Unity thi...

The new version of Ubuntu Linux (version 11.10 - Oneiric Ocelot) will not have Synaptic Package Manager. This was one of the changes for the new version. I'm not sure if anyone uses Synaptic - most so...

Q. I'm willing to give Unity a try, however, I'd like to have some features back. One of them is the classic gnome menu. How do I get it back? A. At the time of this writing it could be done as foll...

Q. My netbook is really slow after upgrading to 11.04. Videos are choppy and the computer heats up a lot more. Is there any way to fix that?   A. One solution is to get a better netbook, with...

Q. My CPU and Memory indicators are missing in Ubuntu 11.04 under Unity. Is there any way to get them back? A. No, not the one that you are used to, but here's one for Unity specifically. It doesn't...

Q. I've installed the new version of Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) and Alt+PrtScn doesn't work anymore. A. This will be fixed in the future releases (hopefully), for now there are various ways around it: ...

Q. How do I find out what version of ubuntu I have? A. If you are running a desktop edition, do the following: 1. Go to the Main Menu. 2. Click System, mouseover Administration and select System...

Yet another "feature" from the developers of ubuntu to simplify life. "dos2unix" and "unix2dos" are missing in version 10.04 (Lucid). First of all, install dos2unix package: sudo aptitude install ...

To increase performance on your linux box and decrease IO waits for applications that use /tmp, you can mount it as a ramdisk. The process is simple, just keep in mind that it gets cleared any time a ...

Q. Where's the toggle button to change between text address line and button address line (in Ubuntu 10.04). A. Yet another "feature" of Lucid/Gnome - developers decided to remove the toggle button. ...

Q. After installing Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), my volume control is missing. How can I get it back? A. 1. Right-click on the panel where you'd like the volume controller to ap...

Q. I'm having some problems configuring XTerm under gnome. How can I make the font bigger? A. There are several things that you can try Method 1 Try creating an alias in ~/.bashrc alias xtrem='...

Q: I have a new disk and I would like to mount it on my existing linux install. I can't use the device name (eg. /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb3, etc) because every time I reboot the partitions shuffle around. ...

On unix-based systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table. You can read more about it on wikipedia. # ps aux | ...