New Ubuntu Security Guide

Published in July 31st, 2007

Posted by Tom in tips

A new Ubuntu Security guide has been posted on the Ubuntu forums. I am writing this guide as a concerned member of the Ubuntu Community. Security is a concern for us all and in welcoming new (and experienced) users to Ubuntu I would like to demystify the complexities of security that come with your new [...]

Dell Wants Better ATI Linux Drivers

Published in July 30th, 2007

Posted by Tom in ubuntunews

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Not surprisingly, Dell wants to be able to ship a wide variety of hardware with their Ubuntu PCs. But many components are just not supported well enough in Linux. ATI’s graphics cards are either supported very poorly, or not supported at all on Linux. Now that Dell says they want to ship ATI graphics, does [...]

Offline Until August 7

Published in July 29th, 2007

Posted by Tom in notices

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I will be offline until August 7. Until then, there are posts written in advance for weekdays only.

Shuttleworth Says More Ubuntu Dell PCs Coming

Published in July 28th, 2007

Posted by Tom in ubuntunews

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In a recent interview, Mark Shuttleworth had this to say about the Ubuntu/Dell deal: “What’s been announced to date is not the full extent of what we will see over the next couple of weeks and months. There are additional offerings in the pipeline.” It is clear that Dell has been satisfied with demand for [...]

Check Your Free Memory with “free”

Published in July 27th, 2007

Posted by Tom in software, tips

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Finding out how much free memory a Linux system has available can be tricky. Linux uses all of the RAM it can because unused RAM is wasted RAM. RAM that is not needed for applications is used for buffers and cache. The command in Linux for getting memory information is called free, which is always [...]

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