Precise Pangolin is to be released today
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) should be released today. The previous release was 11.10. This release will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release. It may be downloaded from the home page itself,...
View ArticleUbuntu without Unity
After much reluctance I installed Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin on my office Desktop. It was rather an upgrade as I was using 11.10 the last release. Now upgrading to Precise from Natty is really easy...
View ArticlePrecise Pangolin 12.04 Unity sucks!
It sucks! Let me begin from the beginning. I am using the Ubuntu since the days of Jaunty but never before faced so much problems in one go. Read on the problems: Installation. Precise Pangolin...
View ArticleInstalling Cinnamon as alternative of Unity in Precise Pangolin 12.04
Unity v. Gnome 3 v. Cinnamon Ubuntu without Unity The choices are so many that it is not easy to decide. For installing Gnome 3 check here. In my experience, the Linux Mint per say is somewhat slower...
View ArticleRemoving Unity from Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS
Getting rid of Unity altogether: As per the method indicated in previous post, after installing Cinnamon, we found Unity as unnecessary. Since it has been decided not to use Unity on the desktop or...
View ArticleMy desktop wallpaper for April 2013.
I liked a picture of Red Rose, the way it turned out and I decided to use it as wall paper this month. Screen shot of Desktop is here: Presently I am using Ubuntu-Gnome Desktop. It does not have...
View ArticleGroup and User settings in Ubuntu Raring Unity and Mate Desktop.
Ubuntu 13.04, Raring Ringtail has no Graphical User Interface or GUI for changing the User and Group Settings. Therefore default option is either to use ‘sudo usermod’ command from terminal, which is...
View ArticleUbuntu married wrong girl.
A letter to Ubuntu: “Ubuntu, your latest and young wife may be more socialite, may have smooth make up and may look sleek, but she is not we had expected. She may have great touch but that is not...
View ArticlePrecise Pangolin 12.04 Unity sucks!
It sucks! Let me begin from the beginning. I am using the Ubuntu since the days of Jaunty but never before faced so much problems in one go. Read on the problems: Installation. Precise Pangolin...
View ArticleInstalling Cinnamon as alternative of Unity in Precise Pangolin 12.04
Unity v. Gnome 3 v. Cinnamon Ubuntu without Unity The choices are so many that it is not easy to decide. For installing Gnome 3 check here. In my experience, the Linux Mint per say is somewhat slower...
View ArticleUbuntu married wrong girl.
A letter to Ubuntu: “Ubuntu, your latest and young wife may be more socialite, may have smooth make up and may look sleek, but she is not we had expected. She may have great touch but that is not...
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