A Guide to System Backup and Restore in Ubuntu

Published in November 18th, 2008

This guest article was written by Vivek Kumar from TNerd.com, a blog focused on technology news, tricks and tips and Linux tutorials. It’s a good idea to ensure that you have a backup and restore system in place. Today we’ll see how in a few very easy steps you can setup system backup and restore [...]

Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on the Eee PC 901

Published in November 17th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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The Eee PC 901 is an Intel Atom-based laptop, with 1 GB of RAM, a 20 GB SSD, and a 9 inch display. Since I bought mine, it’s been running Ubuntu 8.04 rather than the default Xandros-based OS. The laptop is surprisingly unfriendly to Ubuntu despite being preloaded with Linux. Ubuntu 8.10 has delivered some [...]

Metacity Compositing Effects in Ubuntu 8.10

Published in November 14th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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Don’t have a graphics card capable of running desktop effects with Compiz on Ubuntu? By enabling compositing in GNOME’s default Metacity window manager, you get some eye candy and can run applications that require or benefit from a compositing window manager. Metacity uses your CPU instead of a graphics card, so it’ll work on anything [...]

Shiki-Colors and Community Themes in Ubuntu 8.10

Published in November 13th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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A few days ago, the Ubuntu Tutorials blog pointed out the excellent Shiki-Colors theme. It’s my new favorite! On the theme’s GNOME Look page, you can download the GTK theme, or a script which can also install icons, a GDM login screen theme, and wallpapers. I just wanted the GTK theme so I selected this [...]

Create a Bootable USB Drive the Easy Way in Ubuntu 8.10

Published in November 12th, 2008

Posted by Tom in software

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The last time I needed to install Ubuntu on a system without a CD drive, my Eee PC, I created a bootable USB drive to run the graphical installer. The UNetbootin tool I used makes creating the USB system simple, but in Ubuntu 8.10 there’s an even easier way. You’ll need: The USB Startup Disk [...]

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