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Ubuntu changes its desktop from GNOME to Unity – Computerworld Blogs

October 25, 2010

Ubuntu changes its desktop from GNOME to Unity – Computerworld Blogs: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the company behind it, Canonical, surprised the hundreds of Ubuntu programmers at the Ubuntu Developers Summit when he announced that in the next release of the popular Linux operating system, Ubuntu 11.04, Unity would become the default desktop [...]

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If your Add/Remove applications has no applications in it, here’s what to do

January 14, 2009

It looks like there’s an interesting bug in the current version of Adobe Air for Linux which, if you install it, can affect the Ubuntu Add/Remove Applications programme. So, if you find that after installing Air, you have no applications at all listed in Add/Remove Apps, do this: In terminal, type sudo update-app-install If that [...]

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How my computing needs affected switching to Linux

January 11, 2009

In response to my post about switching to Ubuntu Linux, Charles Arthur tweeted a question asking about my computing needs. It’s a good question, because – obviously – how you use your computer will often determine your platform of choice. My needs are pretty diverse, but largely I’m a media monkey. Text is the most [...]

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Switching

January 11, 2009

You might have gathered from some of my more recent posts that I've switched platform. My main machine is now a Dell laptop, running Ubuntu 8.10.I've been using Macs since 1986, and have owned one more or less continuously since 1989. Machines that have been through the mill of my day-to-day keyboard bashing include the [...]

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