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 | ...

When transferring large amounts of data, its a good idea to tar/gzip it first. What if there is not enough space on the source system to contain both the original content and the tar/gzipped content? ...

This is a short HOWTO on setting up secure shell access without a password Generating Keys Protocol version 1 key generation To create the most simple key, with the default encryption, open up a...

With Ubuntu 8.10, the previous method doesn't work. This is a way to manually set the keyboard layouts: Create a file in /usr/bin/ vim /usr/bin/fixkeyboard Add following lines in this file. I am usin...

To install TrueType on a gnome system, follow these steps: Create a ~/.fonts directory. Copy the TrueType files to your ~/.fonts directory. Verify that the fonts are available to your system wi...

Ubuntu version that was used: 8.04 To begin, install some packages that may be required later on: sudo apt-get install binutils cpp fetchmail flex gcc libarchive-zip-perl libc6-dev libcompress-zlib-...

If you need to use multiple keyboard layouts, the panel keyboard layout switch in Xfce is not very useful (at least at the time of this writing). All you can do is add it to the panel and see your def...

Why Xubuntu? Xfce is ideal workstation desktop environment for slower end computers (P2 and up with 256 megs of RAM or so). Kubuntu and Ubuntu with KDE and Gnome can consume quite a bit of resources, ...