by Richard W | Mar 12, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Would you like to know what software version you’re upgrading to before you upgrade in Ubuntu? By default, Ubuntu will go and fetch available updates for your system but won’t show you which version each package is upgrading to. This simple tutorial shows you how to...
by Richard W | Mar 9, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
This brief tutorial shows you how to install Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) via PPA. As you may already know, Ubuntu comes with a package called OpenJDK in its repository that takes the place of Oracle Java. By the way, Oracle...
by Richard W | Mar 9, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Today is day six of our thirty-day series called ‘Thirty Days with Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)’. We’re going to continue from where we left off on Day Five. This series started with installing Ubuntu on Day One and continued onto Day Five where we showed you how to...
by Richard W | Mar 8, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
This short guide shows you how to turn on or turn off mounted volumes on the desktop whenever they are mounted in Ubuntu 11.10. If you have this feature turned on, everytime you insert an external USB drive or a volume / share that are set to automatically mount, it...
by Richard W | Mar 7, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
A new version of Wine ( a program that lets you install Windows software in Ubuntu) was released today. This version is 1.4 and comes with many enhancements and fixes. It took almost 2 years of development work and over 16,000 individual changes, but it’s finally...
