“The U.S. Ubuntu Shop (shop.ubuntu.com) carries a wide range of Ubuntu-branded items, from best sellers like organic cotton t-shirts to CDs and DVDs of the latest Ubuntu software, and will soon include Kubuntu merchandise for the first time.” According to a press release.
“Our goal is to sell fun, useful and beautiful items for people who love Ubuntu,” said Andrew Rodaway, marketing director at Canonical.
To make the perfect desktop, it is NOT enough just changing into a cool background and apply a nice theme. The secret, which I will guide you through consists in my guide of 9 steps:
Gufw is an easy, intuitive, way to manage your Linux firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common p2p, or individual ports port(s), and many others!
Due to legal issues with Apple, Compiz Fusion is not allowed to have the vacuum effect for minimizing windows. If you are determined to re-enable it, here’s how:
TimeVault makes saving and recovering data easy through an automatic process.
Read on for five tweaks that any Ubuntu user (or Linux user in general) should consider making to get started on the right foot.
Don’t have a graphics card capable of running desktop effects with Compiz on Ubuntu? By enabling compositing in GNOME’s default Metacity window manager, you get some eye candy and can run applications that require or benefit from a compositing window manager. Metacity uses your CPU instead of a graphics card, so it’ll work on anything – even a virtual machine.
Install kvpnc, configure and you are good to go.
I was able to get video playback working in Vlc player by changing the video output module to x11. Hope a fix comes soon. I’m using the mediaplayerconnectivity plugin for firefox to stream wmv, real player, and quicktime formats in x11 as well flash seems fine.
I solved my problem simply adding ‘rootdelay=130’ in grub config, exactly at the end of the kernel parameter (/boot/grub/menu.lst)
Useful Ubuntu Links 