Everex, a budget PC maker, will be selling a $300 dollar PC with Windows Vista Home Basic this fall at Wal-Mart in the United States. The interesting thing is that the same computer from Everex will also be available with Ubuntu later this year. Could Wal-Mart end up selling the computer with Ubuntu? The GC3502 [...]

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Most computers come with Windows Vista preinstalled, so I recently got a chance to play with Microsoft’s newest OS. (It only took 4 reboots to install!) One of the things I noticed was that the folder navigation in Vista’s file manager is very similar to Nautilus’ button-based location bar. The difference is that Vista’s is [...]

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The default widgets in Firefox on Linux are ugly. Let’s fix that. One thing that has always bothered me about Ubuntu’s firefox is that the buttons, radio buttons, drop down menus, text fields, and checkboxes (known as widgets) are very cruddy looking. Fortunately I found a simple way to fix this. What we have below [...]

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The third test release of Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” has been released. There have been a few changes since Tribe 2: latest Compiz Fusion Gnome 2.19.5 (alpha release) new appearance dialog power profiling improved Rhythmbox Ebox configuration tool (server edition) AppArmor As it says in the release notes: Note: This is still an alpha release. [...]

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In most Linux distributions, configuring the Grub bootloader means manually editing the menu.lst configuration file. But a graphical tool called StartUp-Manager can easily make changes to your Grub and Usplash configuration in Ubuntu. I installed StartUp-Manager with the latest Debian package from this page. Once installed, there seemed to be no item in the menu [...]

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