Summary: Mark Shuttleworth says yes, Ubuntu is now competitive with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the enterprise space. Since last summer, Ubuntu has been more popular than Red Hat as a Web server.When you think of Ubuntu Linux, what do you think of? I would guess you think about the Linux desktop. While Ubuntu is certainly a big player—maybe the biggest—when it comes to the Linux desktop, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu wants you to know that “A remarkable thing happened this year: companies started ...

I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 a week or so back in order to get a more recent version of SCons. 11.04 dropped me into the new “Unity” GNOME interface. There may be people in the world for whom Unity is a good idea, but none of them are me. The look is garish and ugly, and it takes twice as many clicks as it did before to get to an application through their supposedly “friendly” interface as it did in GNOME Classic. No, dammit, I do not want to text-search my applications to call one up!But the real crash landing was when I found out that the Unity dock wonâ€�...

Evolution mail now is the default Email client on Ubuntu. When we configure this mail client with Hotmail. The steps should be followed. Step 1: Open Evolution mail through Applications->Internet->Evolution mail  Step 2: Goto Edit->Preferences Step 3 : Click Add button or double click on the added mail account. Step 4 : On the Identity tab, fill the Hotmail account you want to use.  Step 5 : On "Receiving email" Tab,              Server Type select "POP",              Ser...

In this guide I will show you how to install a LAMP system. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The guide is intended to help those who have very little knowlegde of using Linux. Install ApacheTo start off we will install Apache.1. Open up the Terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal).2. Copy/Paste the following line of code into Terminal and then press enter:sudo apt-get install apache23. The Terminal will then ask you for you're password, type it and then press enter. Testing ApacheTo make sure everything installed correctly we will now test ...

A- The GUI way (for beginners only)For those who are new to linux and don't want to use a FTP server without GUI, or just for those who don't use often their FTP server and wish to set it quickly without a high level of security, there is a GTK GUI for proftpd.Be careful, it's less secure than configuring yourself your server.1- Install proftpd and gproftpd with synaptic or with this command :Code:sudo apt-get install proftpd gproftpd2-Play with the GUI and set up quickly your server.Beware no support is offered here for this tool but it shouldn't be too hard to use.B- The secure way1-&nb...

First install exim4 and exim4-config using the package manager then install mailxsudo apt-get install mailutilsand follow the promptsonce this is set up use the command “mail” to check your mail.if you would like to send mail type “mail” followed by the email address to mail it to egmail me@examplecomenter the subject and pressenter the body and keep pressing enter as many times as you need to, when your body is finished, press “Ctrl” and “D" together this will prompt you for a cc etc and finally the mail will be sent.If you want to setup mail client, ...

Step 1 : Get the libflashplayer.so file from Adobe offical websiteStep 2 : Extract the libflashplayer.so file to a folder Step 3 : Go tp the folder which sores the libflashplayer.so fileStep 4 : Run the following command in terminal             sudo ln -s libflashplayer.so /etc/alternatives/libflashplayer.soStep 5 : Start the Firefox and now can watch flash...