This article was written by Blair Mathis. Blair works with Laptoplogic.com where she is responsible for all Linux/Ubuntu related articles. At Laptoplogic.com you can find all the information you need on the best gaming laptops and go through the latest Acer laptop reviews.
As always, the latest version of Ubuntu, 9.04, was released on time. It [...]

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The Eee PC 901 is an Intel Atom-based laptop, with 1 GB of RAM, a 20 GB SSD, a 9 inch display, and ships with Asus’ own Linux distribution. Since I bought mine, I’ve installed and used Ubuntu 8.10 and 8.04. The new Ubuntu 9.04 finally has full support for the Eee PC 901.

With previous [...]

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I use a one terabyte external hard drive for backing up data. The drive came formatted with a FAT filesystem, which I immediately replaced with the more reliable ext3. After formatting the drive as ext3 I noticed that the storage capacity had dropped considerably.
Why did this happen? Linux filesystems such as ext3 reserve a percentage [...]

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This is a guide for running the Windows version of Civilization IV (no expansion packs) on Linux using Wine. I’ve written guides on this twice before, but recently I wanted to play and found that my previous instructions were out of date again. Since I last played with Wine 0.9.44, the graphical glitches have been [...]

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Running a server as a guest in a VirtualBox virtual machine isn’t much good when you can’t network with the guest OS from your host machine. Instead of setting up host interface networking, you can simply port forward though VirtualBox’s NAT. Once port forwarding is set up, any computer on your network will be able [...]

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