Full Circle Magazine: A Great Free Linux Resource

Full Circle Magazine for Ubuntu Linux

Full circle magazine is a great resource for Linux learners. I came to know about this great free magazine a few months back and have been regularly reading it. Personally I found this as a great resource for Linux users. It has got great articles ranging from Libre Office tutorial, Gimp tweaks, programming stuff and [...]

Things I Hate About Ubuntu Linux

What I hate in Ubuntu Linux

I am a huge Linux/Ubuntu Fan (which I am sure you would know if you follow me on twitter @ankurandu or check out this website regularly) but there are few things I hate about Ubuntu or Linux. Please keep in mind that these are “my opinion”. You may have completely different experience with Ubuntu Linux [...]

Re-install/ Recover GRUB from LIVE CD of UBUNTU LINUX

GRUB Reinstall in UBUNTU

Today , I am going to discuss something very important and something every Linux user MUST know. Its related to Master Boot Record ( MBR ) issues. A fair knowledge in this regard is necessary otherwise you may land up in trouble and loose important data ( though there are ways to recover them too ). [...]

Weather Indicator For Ubuntu 11.04

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If you are Windows users then there is a good probability that you would be using a weather indicator widget on your desktop. Ubuntu Linux does not provide this by default but there are always ways to find and customize Linux as you like. There are many weather indicators for Linux but one I personally [...]

Thunderbird Could be Default in Ubuntu 11.10/12.04 LTS

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Evolution is the default email client for Ubuntu. This has been a topic of discussion many times over the Ubuntu forums whether they should switch to Thunderbird in next release. Thunderbird is a very good email client & good substitute of Microsoft outlook.   At the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit, this issue was again discussed [...]

Ubuntu 11.10 To Use Lighter & Flexible LightDM

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Those of you using Ubuntu would be familiar with the login screen which uses GDM. The latest development in this regard is that GDM is going to be replaced by LightDM in the next release of Ubuntu ( most probably if everything runs well ) .   It is an important issue for various factors. [...]

Reduce Shadow size/radius in Ubuntu 11.04

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I am sure that many Ubuntu fans like me would have upgraded their Operating System to the latest release of 11.04 despite knowing that its always safe to postpone the upgrade for a month so that various bugs could be fixed. But I guess its nearly impossible to control the temptation of trying out the [...]

Using Tata Photon Plus (+) with Ubuntu Linux

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Since I have begun my new journey to Ubuntu Linux , a little problem I faced was how do I use my Tata Photon Plus with Ubuntu to access the Internet.   I plugged in photon plus and I expected it would automatically be loaded or Ubuntu would find necessary driver for it. Unfortunately, that [...]