Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD (Relinux)

This article is about how to create a DVD image of your machine with the exact same software included on
the disk. This can be done using a software called Relinux.
Relinux is a fork of the recently discontinued Remastersys.

Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12

Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot
from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint
12 alongside Windows 7 – the procedure however should be the same for
all Ubuntu based distributions and only slightly different for every
other.

I’ve realized I’ve missed out on a huge area of computational
science—chemistry. Many packages exist for doing chemistry
on your desktop. This article looks at a general tool called
avogadro. It can do computations of energy and gradient values.
Additionally, it can
do analysis of molecular systems, interface to GAMESS and import and
export from and to several file formats. more>>

BeOS was a much loved and highly advanced desktop operating system that ceased active development in 2001. ZevenOS is a Ubuntu 11.10 based system (with a bit of help from Xubuntu) that attempts to recapture some of the BeOS look and feel. more>>

Use Minitube To Watch YouTube Videos On Your Desktop (Linux Mint 11)

This article is about how to watch YouTube videos on your desktop
with a tool called Minitube.
Minitube is a piece of software with a nice GUI that lets you enter
keywords into a searchbar just like on youtube.com to display a list
where you can choose your desired video from. It is then played
directly in the graphical interface without the need to install any
flash player for your browser or even open it.

The recently released Linux Mint 12 offers a two pronged approach to supporting those who prefer the traditional Gnome desktop. Firstly, the Mint Gnome Shell Extensions (MGSE) transform Gnome 3 into something resembling Gnome 2. Secondly it ships with Mate, the Gnome 2.0 fork project. more>>

Introduction To The Enlightenment 17 Window Manager For X (Ubuntu 11.10)

This tutorial is supposed to show some features of the Enlightenment window manager as an alternative to the often used Gnome and KDE  managers. I will install Enlightenment on a desktop computer with Ubuntu
11.10 installed. Apart from the login screen however, all of the
controls shown on the screenshots should be the same for every
installation of enlightenment, whatever distribution you install it on.
Enlightenment is already included in the Ubuntu repositories, therefore
Ubuntu users and those of any Ubuntu derivatives won’t have any
problems installing it. It is also available for download for most
other distributions though.

Many Linux users who have been GNOME fans for years find themselves in a
sudden quandary. GNOME 3.0 has completely abandoned the desktop experience
we’ve come to love during the years. That’s not to say change is bad,
it’s just that many folks (even Linus Torvalds) don’t really want
to change.
more>>

Enabling Compiz On Linux Mint 12 (GNOME Classic)

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Linux Mint
12 Lisa desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable
graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a
desktop cube on your desktop. Compiz is not supported on GNOME 3 yet, that’s why this how-to is
applicable only for the classic GNOME desktop.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Pinguy OS
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. The Pinguy OS developer has stated that there propably will not be
any further release of Pinguy 11.10 due to some instabilities of the
components used. This Perfect Desktop tutorial therefore refers
to the currently released beta version of Pinguy OS 11.10.

This article is about how to use the S/MIME encryption function of
common e-mail clients to sign and/or encrypt your mails safely. S/MIME
uses SSL certificates which you can either create yourself or let a
trusted certificate authority (CA) create one for you.

Install GNOME 3 (With Mint GNOME Shell Extensions) Or Mate On Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

This tutorial shows you how you can install the GNOME 3 desktop on
Ubuntu 11.10 with
the shell extensions that are used in the Linux Mint 12 release (Lisa)
(these shell extensions are called Mint GNOME Shell Extensions – mgse).
These shell extensions give GNOME 3 the look and feel of GNOME 2. For
those who prefer GNOME 2 this tutorial shows how to install Mate from
the Linux Mint repositories on Ubuntu 11.10. Mate is a GNOME 2 fork.

Creating Your Own Distributable Ubuntu DVD

This article is about how to create a DVD image of the Ubuntu
distribution on your machine with the exact same software included on
the disk. This can be done using a software called Remastersys.
Remastersys allows you to either create iso-backups of your whole
system, including the home folder, or just
backups of the installed software, leaving the home folder aside.

Enabling Compiz On Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Xubuntu
11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable
graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). Xubuntu uses the
Xfce desktop
environment which is a fast and stable alternative for those that are
not happy with Unity or Gnome 3. With Compiz you can use beautiful 3D
effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

Indicate Mail Accounts On Your Desktop (Ubuntu)

This article is about how to get informed about new mails without
actually opening your mail client using a handy indication tool called popper.
Popper is silently running in the background and gives you a notice
when a new mail arrives at your mail account, containing the mail’s
sender, subject and the time it arrived. Popper does not actually display the mail’s content – it only gives
you the information mentioned above. I have tested it on Linux Mint 11,
but it should work fine with all other Ubuntu derivatives.

The Perfect Desktop – Linux Mint 12 (Lisa)

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 12 (Lisa)
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 12 is
a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that has lots of packages in its
repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype,
Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other
distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience
even for Linux newbies.

The Perfect Desktop – OpenSUSE 12.1 (GNOME)

This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 12.1
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

How To Upgrade OpenSUSE 11.4 To 12.1 (Desktop & Server)

This guide shows how you can upgrade your OpenSUSE 11.4 desktop and server installations to OpenSUSE 12.1.

Enabling Compiz On A Fedora 16 GNOME Classic Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8100)

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz
on a Fedora 16 GNOME classic desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable
graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz you
can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on
your desktop. I will use the free nouveau
driver in this tutorial instead of the proprietary NVIDIA driver.
nouveau is an accelerated Open Source driver for NVIDIA cards that
comes with experimental 3D support on Fedora 16 – on my test system 3D
support was working without any problems.

Back Up Files With Déjà Dup (Linux Mint 11)

This article is about how to back up your files with the file based back-up program duplicity‘s Graphical User Interface déjà dup. I have tried the tutorial on the Linux Mint 11 distribution, but it should work fine with all other Ubuntu based distributions.

The Perfect Desktop – Fedora 16 i686 (GNOME)

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 16
desktop (GNOME) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows
desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the
things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you
get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old
hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

Enabling Compiz Fusion On Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu
Linux 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Unity desktop (the system must have a
3D-capable
graphics card – I’m using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz
Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a
desktop cube on your desktop.

How To Upgrade From Fedora 15 To Fedora 16 (Desktop & Server)

This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 15 system to
Fedora 16. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server
installations.

How To Let Your Wallpapers Rotate With Webilder (Linux Mint 11)

This article is about how to automatically change your desktop
wallpaper on prespecified intervals with a software called Webilder that also downloads new wallpapers from
flickr and webshots every few hours. This is also the software used for rotating wallpapers in the Ubuntu derivative Pinguy OS. I have installed and tried Webilder on
Linux Mint 11, however it should also work on all other Debian and
Ubuntu based distributions.

Installing Windows Software With Wine (Linux Mint 11)

This tutorial is supposed to show you how to install .exe files on your Linux system. I am using Linux Mint 11 as an operating system, however the steps
should not differ greatly from other distributions. The software I am
going to use as an example will be VLC Player.
I am aware that there is a version of VLC for Linux, in some cases even
preinstalled, but it serves well for the purpose of guiding through the
steps of installation.

The Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu Studio 11.10

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 11.10
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Please note that Ubuntu Studio 11.10 uses Xfce as the default desktop environment (instead of GNOME).

The Perfect Desktop – Kubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 11.10
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Kubuntu 11.10 is
derived from Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and uses the KDE desktop
instead of the GNOME desktop.

The Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric
Ocelot) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows
desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the
things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you
get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old
hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

How To Upgrade Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) To 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) (Desktop & Server)

The new Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) has just been released. This
guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 11.04 desktop and server
installations to Ubuntu 11.10.

Changing Desktop Appearance On Linux Mint 11 (Advanced)

This tutorial is supposed to show you how to change the GNOME
desktop’s appearance on Linux Mint further than the standard options of
the Appearance section in the Control Center allow. I am going to use several different applications for this cause. This tutorial will describe how to alter the appearance of a Linux Mint
11 system with a GNOME desktop. This is the standard desktop that comes
with Mint, so if you have not changed anything about that all steps
should work fine for you. Be aware that the use of the nVidia
proprietary drivers may not be unrisky!