Dell’s line of computers featuring preinstalled Ubuntu is about to be joined by the thin, light, and powerful XPS M1330. There have been plenty of low-end Linux systems available lately: the ASUS Eee PC, Everex gPC, Everex Cloudbook, Dell’s Ubuntu computers, and others. But this one is definitely high-end. The XPS with Ubuntu features a [...]

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For students like me, it may be a busy time for studying at the end of January. I was interesting in trying out some flash-cards for memorizing question and answer format material, but without using lots of small paper cards. It turns out there’s a great flash-card application in the Ubuntu repositories. Mnemosyne does a [...]

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Unlike GNOME’s panels and panel applets, KDE 4.0′s plasma widgets don’t have to be placed in a panel. In fact, you don’t need to have a panel at all. Here’s how to remove the bottom panel in KDE 4.0: Browse to ~/.kde4/share/config/ and make a backup copy of of the plasma-appletsrc file. This is the [...]

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I run the latest Ubuntu live-CDs inside a VirtualBox virtual machine to test them and run the graphical installer. Without this keyboard shortcut, using the installer would be nearly impossible because its window is larger than the 800×600 pixel resolution that VirtualBox uses. Holding the Alt key allows you to click anywhere in the window [...]

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EA has donated the original SimCity source code to the One Laptop per Child project to port it to Linux and include on the laptops. It’s now called Micropolis, and can be played on any Linux system. Micropolis can be easily installed in Ubuntu using the package available at GetDeb. The official downloads will also [...]

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