Installation

Installation is extremely easy and even a novice can do it. And if your system is connected with the internet it will also download and install all the updates while installing. During installation it will ask for your country, Time Zone,Keyboard Layout, Partition Info etc. It will also search your windows partition and gave you the option to copy settings from your windows desktop in my case it worked perfectly and it copied my wallpaper and documents folder etc continuing with installation installer will complete the installation in seven steps and some 15-20 mins on a decent system with 2GB RAM. If you have Windows installed it will automatically create a dual boot using GRUB and you dont have to worry regarding partitions or data loss as installer will take care of that.

Booting

My good this was something booting is extremely fast on my old system it takes less than five seconds to show my desktop and i am ready to roll. Ubuntu team has worked really hard on booting time i remember in days of 8.04 it used to take minimum 20 seconds to boot.

Desktop

Desktop looks neat and beautiful in new Default Ubuntu theme running on gnome which is called Ambiance. You have the standard Applications, Places and System tool bar as well as the power options bar on the right top. The new desktop manager is very easy to operate. It is bundled with all the standard gnome apps. And if you are a kde lover you can download KDE as well or try Kbuntu.

Internet and Social Networking

Ubuntu is ready with internet with latest version of firefox, Empathy IM client which supports your gmail, yahoo, msn, live and even Facebook Chat and provides a single window from chat and you can easily change your status and picture from top bar. It also come with gwibber using which you can broadcast on your tweet and facebook accounts. For email you Evolution the default option.

Multimedia

By default you cannot play your mp3 and mpeg video files but it take few seconds to download codec for these files and you are ready to roll by default it provides you with Rythmbox for playing audio and Totem for playing video but ill recommend you to download Amarok for audio and VLC for video. Ubuntu has also added ubuntu music store from where you can purchase music etc.

Office & Productivity

For office you have the usual choice openoffice which is now Oracle open office after the accusation of Sun by Oracle. The office suite dose a decent job and if you want to try different you can also download abiword and koffice from Ubuntu Software Centre.

Overall

Last word is ubuntu 10.04 is refined product with three year LTS support from ubuntu its seems a great option for home and even Enterprise. Its neatly packaged and is amazingly fast you also have the standard compiz 3D Desktop affects which adds the glamour and the standard administration and configuration options which are fairly easy to use. Overall undoubtly the best Linux desktop ever.

How To install Open Office 3.2 in Ubuntu Linux

1 – Once you have done that, extract the .deb file

OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz

Then you’ll see a file called OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483
2 – You can remove the existing version of OpenOffice if you wish with this command:

sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.*

3 – Copy and paste OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483 onto the desktop then open Terminal and paste this command:

sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/*.deb

4 – Then paste this command:

sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.2-debian-menus_3.2-9472_all.deb

Once you’ve done that you’ll find OpenOffice 3.2 in Office.                                                         [Via UbuntuForums]

Ubuntu 9.10 Live USB Flash Drive :

1. Download Here or Here  and launch u9.10p.exe, extracting to your PC. A U910pfolder is automatically created
2. Place the Ubuntu 9.10 ISO in the U910p folder on your computer
3. From the U910p folder on your PC, click U910.bat and follow the on screen instructions

4.    Once the script has finished, restart your PC and set your BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot

[VIA]

Marcan also detailed about his model,

• libusb-1.0 provides an advanced API to access USB devices under Linux, replacing the old libusb-0.1 API
• usbmuxd coordinates application access to the device and talks the specific iPhone/iTouch USB protocol
• libiphone implements the Apple-specific protocols that are tunneled through usbmuxd: it can launch services through lockdown, retrieve device info, send notifications, and access the filesystem via AFC.
• iFuse and gvfs-backend-afc both provide access to AFC to regular Linux apps. iFuse does this by mounting via FUSE, while gvfs-backend-afc is obviously a backend for gVFS.
• libgpod (the library that traditionally has managed music databases for iPods) is being extended to support the new SQLite format, the new hash, and also to talk to libiphone to properly put the device in to and out of sync mode.
• Theoretically, actual music players such as Amarok and Rhythmbox will need none or very few modifications to work.

The developer also asked for interested persons to join and contribute to the project. For more information about it you can read the article on the official blog.

First you need to reate a dvd.repo text file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ with the following content:

[dvd]
mediaid=1170972069.396645*
name=DVD for RHEL5( if Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 is Your Operating system if you are using any other OS please change the name)
baseurl=file:///media/RHEL_5%20i386%20DVD/Server
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

(*) The mediaid= value comes from the .discinfo file located in the root of the DVD.

For example, to install the dovecot package using the new dvd.repo file, run yum with the –noplugins option so yum will not try to communicate with the online repositry server for dependencyinfact will look in the drive for other files.

# yum install dovecot –noplugins
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package dovecot.i386 0:1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 set to be updated
–> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
dovecot i386 1.0-1.2.rc15.el5 dvd&nb!
sp; 1.5 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 1.5 M
Is this ok [y/N]:

If problems occur while trying this procedure, run yum clean all and try running yum install again.

[dvd-cluster]
mediaid=1170972069.396645
name=DVD for RHEL5 – Cluster (type Fedora in place of RHEL5 if using Fedora same goes for if you are using any other flavour)
baseurl=file:///media/RHEL_5%20i386%20DVD/Cluster
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[dvd-cluster-storage]
mediaid=1170972069.396645
name=DVD for RHEL5 – ClusterStorage (type Fedora in place of RHEL5 if using Fedora same goes for if you are using any other flavour)
baseurl=file:///media/RHEL_5%20i386%20DVD/ClusterStorage
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[dvd-vt]
mediaid=1170972069.396645
name=DVD for RHEL5 – VT (type Fedora in place of RHEL5 if using Fedora same goes for if you are using any other flavour)
baseurl=file:///media/RHEL_5%20i386%20DVD/VT
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Happy Hacking

Yum or Yellow dog Update, Modified is a package manager that was developed by Duke University to improve the installation of RPMs. Yum searches numerous repositories for packages and their dependencies so they may be installed together in an effort to alleviate dependency issues. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 uses yum to fetch packages and install RPMs.Yum uses a configuration file at /etc/yum.conf. Also refer yum(8) man page for more information.
There are multiple ways by which you can install a repository on the system and install/update packages :

- Add an existing repository

- Setup a new repository having packages populated from ISO’s downloaded from RHN

- Register the system on RHN and subscribe to the channels depending on the subscription you have.
How do I use it?

Here are some useful commands.

Install a package:
yum install package

Example: “yum install apache”

Remove a package:
yum remove package

Example: “yum remove apache”

Update a package:
yum update package

Example: “yum update apache”

Search for a package:
yum search package

Example: “yum search apache”
Find information about a package:
yum info package

Example: “yum info apache”
List packages containing a certain term:
yum list term

Example: “yum list apache”

Find what package provides a particular file:
yum whatprovides filename

Example: “yum whatprovides httpd.conf”

In order to disable a CPU core in a running machine, use the file /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online.

The following command will disable a CPU:

# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online

Where X is the ID of the CPU as determined from /proc/cpuinfo.

To re-enable the CPU, run:

# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online

Example:

The following output from /proc/cpuinfo shows two processors on a system:

root@xen # grep “processor” /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
processor       : 1

In order to disable CPU 1, echo “0″ to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online:

root@xen# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
cpu0/ cpu1/

Check /proc/cpuinfo to see if the cpu is disabled .

root@xen # grep “processor” /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0

Notice that there is now only one processor shown (CPU 0) instead of two.

Note: There are some architectures in which a CPU cannot be disabled due to a dependency on a certain CPU. In such cases you will notice that the /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/online file is missing.

For further details on CPU hotplugging, see this file:

/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt

The documentation files are in the kernel-doc package, which can be installed from RHN.

Method 1: Installing Via Repository

If you are downloading firefox for first time on your Linux box then add following repository to source list. Others please skip to step 3

1. Open your Terminal and run following command

echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list

echo ‘deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list

2. Add the Launchpad PPA GPG key:

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 247510BE

3. Now run below command on your terminal

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5

Method 2: Install from a Tar file.

1. Download Firefox from the Firefox download page to your home directory.
2. Open a Terminal and extract the contents of the downloaded file.

   cd ~
   tar xjf firefox-*.tar.bz2

3. Close Firefox if it’s open.
4. To start Firefox, run the firefox script in the firefox folder.

   ~/firefox/firefox

Firefox should now start. You can then create an icon on your desktop to run this command.

As noted above, you need to install the required libraries for Firefox to work. Many distributions don’t include libstdc++5 by default.

Method 3 : Using Wget

Either you can download Firefox 3.5 via any other browser if you have on your Ubuntu or else run following command on terminal to download Fierfox 3.5

1. wget -O – ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~

2. Double-click the firefox file inside the firefox folder in your home directory, or run this command:

~/firefox/firefox

That’s it, A lest version Firefox 3.5 is installed and ready for use on your Linux Machine.

How to install libxine1-ffmpeg package for MP3 support in Amarok :

1. Open Synaptic package manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager)
2. Insert libxine1-ffmpeg in the Quick Search box and press Search.
3. Press the check box near the libxine1-ffmpeg package and select “Mark for Installation”. If you get a message about required additional packages press the mark button.
4. Press the applay button and follow the rest of the installation steps