New computer, new distro or goodbye Ubuntu, welcome Mint

New computer, new distro or goodbye Ubuntu, welcome Mint

In the last 2 days I’ve been busy with my new desktop, I’ll use it as my home computer where i browse, write office documents do some gaming everything on Linux of course. With my requirements more or less any new hardware will work for me, sometimes i wonder why people with not knowledge of […]

Launchpad the first (?) bugtracker used to raise a polemic

Or should i say: “grep -R doesn’t automatically search amazon” ? This is becoming the most popular bug on launchpad, and if you are an Ubuntu user perhaps you have already seen it, for all the others..this is an interesting “bug” on a feature request, this is the original text of the bug posted by […]

Easily manage your PPA in Ubuntu with Y PPA Manager

Easily manage your PPA in Ubuntu with Y PPA Manager

Ubuntu software repository is one of the bigger, and this means that you can easily install a lot of software with the Ubuntu Software Center or from the command line with a simple sudo apt-get install softwarename, but sometimes you want a software that is not present or perhaps a newer release of the one […]

How to remove Zeitgeist in Ubuntu and why

On my desktop I use Xubuntu 12.04, and today i noticed that this distribution shipped by default the Zeitgeist daemon, a thing that I’m not using at all, for what i know. From Wikipedia: Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users’s activities and events, anywhere from files opened to websites visited and conversations. It […]

Find files on Linux with the command locate

I just realized that I’ve never written anything about one of my favorite commands on the Linux shell: locate. This command take as input the name (or part of it) and instantly it gives you all the locations where that file is located, an alternative to this could be to use the command find, but […]