Picasa is Google’s free photo organization software. Picasa runs on Linux officially, but instead of a native port to Linux it uses Wine to run. Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your computer. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones [...]

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The Epiphany web browser does not have a handy search bar like Firefox. But its powerful smart bookmarks system lets you create as many as you like for any search engine you choose. Smart bookmarks are bookmarks which can take arguments. To create one for use as a search box, start by doing a search [...]

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Ubuntu has the root account disabled and encourages the use of sudo to run commands as root. If you are doing some work requiring root access, it can be tiresome to type sudo over and over. The normal way to get a root shell is the su command, which doesn’t work in Ubuntu. This command [...]

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CNR (Click’N’Run) is Linspire‘s website and client software that provides an easy way to discover and install free and commercial Linux software. Linspire just released the beta with support for their own distributions as well as Ubuntu. Does it make installing software in Ubuntu easier? CNR.com is a free one-click software delivery service designed to [...]

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According to “multiple sources”, Dell has sold 40 thousand PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled. Dell agreed to ship PCs and laptops with the Ubuntu operating system after more than 130,000 people promoted the notion on the company’s IdeaStorm web site. It would seem, however, that only a fraction of these zealots were willing to back [...]

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