The Canonical Team has recently announced the release of the first public beta of the next version of their popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat”. Scheduled for final release on October 10, this is a first look at what’s new in Maverick Meerkat Beta 1. Installation The usual menu asking the user to Install Ubuntu, Test Ubuntu using Live CD, or boot directly from hard drive no longer appears. Instead, it will open the installation window asking whether the user [...]

The next major release of Ubuntu is now available. Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” packs in a ton of new features in this new long term support (LTS) release. So what does Lucid Lynx have in store for us? The best new features include noticeably faster boot up (thanks to the removal of HAL), a nifty social media manager, a great new music store, as well as new default applications. Of course, there are numerous under the hood changes including updating to the latest GNOME environment and Linux [...]

Are you getting a handful of server not found or DNS Errors when you know the server is not down and your network connection is working fine? When you browse the internet, your internet browser looks up the DNS Records of each website you visit in order to connect to the website’s server. To save time when you revisit the website, the DNS Entry is cached on your computer. However, your browser may cache a bad entry, such as when the server really is down or during DNS Propagation time. If this [...]

Ubuntu, the popular GNU/Linux Operating System, has released its latest release, known as Karmic Koala today. As with the first day of new releases, the servers will be very slow, therefore, if you intend on getting the release right now, we recommend you download the Torrent file and use a BitTorrent client rather than dealing with speeds that can go as low as 5 KBs or even generate a connection time out. The final ISO download is approximately 698 MB. You may want to look at our first looks on [...]

Portable Ubuntu Remix is essentially a portable Ubuntu operating system that runs directly in windows. Download it here (the DOS release 4). The download size is around 450 mb, and when fully installed, it will be around 3.8 gb. Toss this to the side and return home if you don’t have enough disk space or don’t feel like trying this out because of its extremely (not) portable size. After downloading the exe, extract the 7z archive by double clicking the exe file. Then, go to the directory [...]

Ubuntu from Canonical Systems has a tradition of releasing a new version of the Ubuntu operating system (as well as official derivatives like Xubuntu and Kubuntu) every six months. Back in April, Ubuntu 9.04 was released. Its been almost 6 months and that means, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is about to be released. The beta was released on October 1, 2009 and this is a first looks at whats new in Ubuntu 9.10 Beta. The new Ubuntu splash screen