LibreOffice 3.4 was released a few days back with new features and improvements. In this article, we will tell you how you can install LibreOffice 3.4 in Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 10.10.

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With the new accelerated development (or rather versioning) of Firefox, Firefox 5 beta had been released a few days back. In this post, we will tell you how to install from Mozilla’s PPA. As of now, there are not much visible changes between Firefox 4 and Firefox 5. There are a few improvements under the…

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If you use a mouse with your laptop, there is a a good probability that more often than not the touchpad gets in the way. In some laptop, there is a physical button to turn on/off the touchpad, but many do not have it. However, you can easily install a install Touchpad Indicator to switch…

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There is a really annoying bug in Empathy in Ubuntu 10.10 – it refuses to connect to MSN. MSN works fine from other IM clients like Kopete. Finally, there is a fix for this Empathy bug

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Edubuntu is an official Ubuntu derivative meant for educational purposes. Unlike Ubuntu, it comes as a DVD not a CD. If you want to try it out you have to download the ISO of the DVD and use the Live Session. Well, this is what most of the Linux dristros offer so that users can…

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A little known feature of the Unity interface in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 is the support for multi-touch. Sure Unity feels a bit beta-ish, but with uTouch and the UI with large icons, it is works quite well on a touch-screen device. (Well there is no on-screen keyboard yet. But that is another thing.)

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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is off to a good start with positive reviews everywhere. However the same cannot be said of the Netbook specific version of Ubuntu – Ubuntu Netbook Edition. UNE 10.10 is off to quite a bad start – because of the Unity interface. Unity is a new interface introduced in Ubuntu Netbook…

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Yesterday we published screenshots of the changes in Ubuntu 10.10. Today, we take a look at KDE-based Ubuntu derivative Kubuntu. So, what are the new things you may expect to see in Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat? Read on. As in our Ubuntu post, we will only look at the visible changes.

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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has already been released. Many of you must have installed it and other will be looking install it in a few days. In this post, we list the must have applications you will probably want to install after installing Ubuntu 10.10. You might also like to take this screenshot tour of…

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