Super Software for Work & Play Ubuntu 9.10

Launchers are Ubuntu shortcuts for your Desktop. Here’s how to create them. Being a shortcut kind of a guy, I add a couple of these to save wading through the applications menu. They can be used to enact any [...]

Upgrading the System and Software

Once you have repositories set up and your system updated to reflect what upgrades, patches, packages, software, libraries and so on are available, it’s time to safe-upgrade. Safe-upgrade? Didn’t it used to be [...]

Four Ways to Install .. Here’s Why Aptitude Is Best?

As we install many packages from a clean install, let’s compare the 4 methods for this and software removal, 2 of which are new, included by default. The first two methods, apt-get and aptitude, are used in [...]

Set Up Unmanaged VPS (4 Newbies) – Part 11: Nginx (better than Apache) Web Server

Installing & configuring Nginx web server, tweaking the default file structure, then setting up a vhost file with symlink is the subject of this copy/paste how-to. So open up that CLI and I’ll explain. So [...]

Useful Copy/Paste Repos List

Repositories store Ubuntu software packages & libraries online. Here’s a guide to them, to using access keys, and my own repository list for you to copy & paste. When you need some package – maybe a library, [...]

Virtually the Best Web Dev PC on the Planet

Unless you are still using Jaunty, this post is outdated because Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 has superceded Jaunty 9.04. Scroll down for the series index of the new 25 part Karmic Koala Bible, ideal for noobs and Linux [...]