A few days ago the media exploded with astonishing news that OpenOffice.org developers created fully independent The Document Foundation and developed new fork of OpenOffice.org suite — LibreOffice. Moreover Mark Shuttleworth said that “Office productivity software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu”. So it’s time to see how LibreOffice looks like and get it installed on your Ubuntu!
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Posted on September 30th, 2010 by kate.p in Applications, HOWTOs | 13 commentsJava Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu
Posted on July 15th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 2 comments
Java is a programming language that was developed by Sun Microsystems (it was acquired by Oracle Corporation). The major characteristics of Java is the portability meaning that the applications written in Java are cross-platform by default so can be run seamlessly on Windows, MAC OS X and Linux including Ubuntu. It is required to have Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on your Ubuntu system to run Java programs or visit web sites with Java applets. See below how to get JRE installed and also how to test Java/JRE in Ubuntu.
Try Firefox 4 in Ubuntu
Posted on July 5th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 5 comments
Currently Firefox 4 (codename Minefield) is available only in testing branch of Mozilla’s software (today is 5 July 2010). This is because the fact Firefox 4 isn’t officially released yet. At the same time it is possible to try it out using one of Mozilla’s nightly builds available at nightly.mozilla.org without breaking stable Firefox you have as primary in your Ubuntu. Below in this post you can see how to do it.
Update: Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 was released on 6th July 2010 so you can download it also from Mozilla’s all beta page and also look through Firefox 4.0b1 release notes. There is still no deb packages available.
Next Update: Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 was released including Firefox Panorama feature and you can download it also from Mozilla’s all beta page, release notes are here.
Convert Video for iPod in Ubuntu
Posted on July 5th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 2 comments
There is outstanding application available for Ubuntu to convert video for iPod — winff. Using winff you can convert a lot of various video file formats into others by means of simple and easy graphical tool. No need to type long commands it terminal (winff is GUI frontend for well known command line program ffmpeg) to e.g. convert some .flv video to ipod compatible .mp4 file.
Install new software in Ubuntu easy
Posted on July 4th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 6 comments
Thankfully to community developers there are at least four ways to install software in Ubuntu. In this post I will describe the easiest ways to get some new application installed: using Synaptic Package Manager, Ubuntu Software Center, Gdebi and aptitude way (command line).
Cache Youtube videos using Squid in Ubuntu Linux
Posted on June 30th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 21 comments
It is well known fact that nowadays more and more ISPs in the world use Ubuntu driven servers as proxies, domain name servers, routers etc. Squid is one the major open source web caching proxy software for Ubuntu and Linux as a whole. Term ‘caching‘ means a way to store Internet objects on locally deployed proxy server for sake of reducing bandwidth consumption and access time to popular web content. You may read more about squid caching software at wikipedia or squid-cache.org.
Youtube videos can also be cached and squid web caching proxy under Ubuntu is reasonable choice for this purpose. It’s common practice when one user downloads some very popular youtube video and then shares its URL to other users withing the same organization. Caching of such youtube video using squid will definitely save Internet connection bandwidth and traffic as every time users download that video it will be fetched from local web cache rather than from youtube servers.
iTunes in Ubuntu Linux
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 16 comments
As far as Apple’s doesn’t support Ubuntu Linux iTunes is compatible only with Mac OS and Windows operating systems. Therefore a lot of Ubuntu newbies have problems with permanent switching as they still require iTunes. In this post I describe all possible approaches and workarounds to run itunes in Ubuntu and also tell how and why to replace itunes with one of native Ubuntu software. So how to run itunes in Ubuntu? There are all known approaches below.
