With the big 8.10 release of Ubuntu just around the corner, many of you will probably be upgrading or doing fresh installs on release day. Here are few things you can do to get ready for the release of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex (or any other Linux distribution), and make sure you accomplish your goal [...]

Tombuntu has done it again, with an excellent tutorial on getting the latest OpenOffice up and running on your Ubuntu Linux box. Tom guides you step-by-step as you install the new version of OOo alongside the old one. He even provides instructions for completely removing the old version, if you’d like.
Here’s a short list of [...]

Yeah, it seems pretty awesome, especially for us Linux geeks. Sure, GNOME-DO, Deskbar, and even some of the venerable terminal emulators have hooks into the web, but this new offering from Mozilla takes things to a new level.
Those perceptive folks at Mozilla labs have assessed (correctly, IMHO) that the web is no longer mostly full [...]

I was pretty psyched to read on Lifehacker today that the popular app launcher for Windows called Launchy has released a Linux version for GNOME and KDE. I’ve never tried Launchy (Linux only around here!), but as soon as I get home to my desktop (in about four days or so) I’ll definitely give it [...]

Just pulled down Firefox 3.0 (Release Candidate 1) from the Hardy Heron Ubuntu repos this morning. Nice to have it out of beta. I’m still missing some important extensions that haven’t updated for Firefox 3.0, though, most notably Commentful, Greasemonkey, and FireFTP.
The Commentful extension is a great tool for tracking comments on various blogs. [...]