Ksplice Uptrack is a really cool technology which allows you to update the Linux Kernel without rebooting your computer. In this article we will tell you how to Download, Update and Configure Uptrack on Ubuntu and Fedora systems.

Tata Photon Plus mobile broadband internet connection is becoming very popular in India. The modem that Tata Photon Plus comes with is Huawei E1261 (atleast that is what they gave me). In Windows and Mac, it is detected automatically. You can just plug in the modem and start using it. In Ubuntu, however, the modem [...]

Thunderbird 3.1 was released a couple of days back with a lot of new features. We are not going to go over the new features. You can see them at the Thunderbird website. Thunderbird 3.1 will not available as an update from the official repository and there is no PPA to install it from either. [...]

Update: This does not seem to be working now. Mark Shuttleworth has announced the new Unity interface in the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Here we show you how you can install it in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Warning: Unity is not yet in its final form. Treat this as a preview. To install Unity in Ubuntu [...]

Windows 7 defeats Ubuntu Lucid Lynx when it comes to mobile computing power consumption.

Ubuntu has come a long way since it’s start in 2004. Through these years Ubuntu has changed the face of the linux operating system and has made linux more user-friendly than ever before. Come Ubuntu 10.04 (codenamed Lucid Lynx), a lot is set to change in the Ubuntu Community. Based on a review of brand [...]

OpenOffice 3.2 has already been released a few weeks back with some very interesting new changes and a faster loading time. However it is not yet available for Ubuntu in the PPA. So in this article we will show you how you can download and install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu from the OpenOffice download.

In an earlier post we have told that Google will be replaced by Yahoo! as the default search in Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Now, the Ubuntu community has come up with the design for what the Firefox Start Page with Yahoo! is going to be like.

Update: Abiword and Gnumeric are now most likely to replace OpenOffice. According to the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix Blueprint, the Ubuntu community are planning to drop OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release, atleast for now. Now documents will be opened by default in Google Docs. (After this [...]

For a very long time now, GIMP has always been in the default image manipulation software in Ubuntu. Now that is about to change. It seems pretty certain that Gimp will not be included in the default installation of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. This decision was taken at the Ubuntu Developer Summit which is going [...]