Adobe invented the PDF (portable document format) thus their PDF Reader is perhaps one of the most widely used applications for reading PDF files. But in my experience, apart from all of its features and usability, it’s a PC resources hog!. If you have a PDF file with lots of images (and somewhat an older
Now, starting with Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, Ubuntu developers introduced a new desktop environment of their own called ‘Unity’. There are two versions of ‘Unity’, one that relies on fancy 3D effects etc and another one that doesn’t use any of those. The latter is aimed at ‘older hardware’ and it’s called ‘Unity-2d’. But the
Synaptic is the graphical front-end that was created to use the powerful, command-line tool called “apt-get”. “apt-get” was originally created by the Debian community, designed to handle the “.deb” archive format for installing/un-installing packages in Debian or Debian based GNU/Linux distributions. In my experience there aren’t that many who can be as powerful (extremely stable)
As accordance with Ubuntu’s release schedule, the latest version of Ubuntu, named 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has been officially released few minutes ago!. This version, just as with the now previous 11.10, no I mean the 11.04 release 😉 is much anticipated by the users for few reasons. It’s much faster than the 11.04, have added numerous features to the Unity
Usually when you double click on certain types of executable files such as a script (.sh) or a “.bin” file for instance, then Nautilus (default file manager in Gnome and Ubuntu) lets you run them either through the command-line or graphically via a message. But that feature doesn’t work on all the occasions (some Python
Both the application indicators and the Ayatana Scrollbars are among the key features of the Ubuntu Unity desktop. Although the application indicator is somewhat inspired from Apple’s Mac OSX but the Ayatana Scrollbars is a completely new feature that came into life because of Mark Shuttleworth and Christian Giordano. For the newbies… Ayatana Scrollbars are
LibreOffice is the new open-source office productivity suite for GNU/Linux (well not just for GNU/Linux actually, it’s a cross-platform office suite that works in MS Windows and Mac Osx as well). Although by default it works really well with most of the major GNU/Linux desktop environments but from the beginning it had problems while integrating
Unlike any other operating system, GNU/Linux has its roots hidden deep down inside one of the most basic user interface known as the Command-line or the Shell (which is actually a sort of a “emulation” of the original command-line interface). It’s true that most of the GNU/Linux users, thanks to major desktop environments such as
Ubuntu 11.10, code named “Oneiric Ocelot” is going to be released two days from now (by the time that you read this it could already be released, I tested these settings under the Beta 2 which worked flawlessly and should work under the “official” release too). The 11.10 version does bring some few major changes
Cloud computing is a pretty important “thing” these days. Although personally I don’t feel that safe if I “host” all my data on someone else’s computer on a remote location. Anyhow, Ubuntu in this case has been sneak-peeking into the word of cloud computing for sometime now and they’ve built some solid “framework” which is