AMD announced a few minutes ago, July 26th, another improved version of its ATI Catalyst Linux display driver, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. ATI Catalyst 10.7 introduces final and stable support for the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, More here

No extra program is needed to take screenshots with Ubuntu.

Neary, who highlighted the results of his survey of the GNOME 2.30 code at GUADEC this week, set off a minor firestorm within the community when it was noted that among all the organizational commiters to the GNOME base code, Canonical, makers of the Ubuntu distribution, seemed to have contributed very little to GNOME. More here

What is BAR? From application author BAR is backup archiver program. I developed this program after I could not find a simple to use archiver program to create compressed and encrypted archives of my files which can be stored on a cd or dvd.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is still the most widely used open source server operating system in data centers, but Ubuntu Server adoption is on the rise, and it could come at the expense of SUSE Linux. More here

The Places feature in Ubuntu is similar to the Favorites in Windows. The folders inside it appear in the Places dropdown on the Ubuntu taskbar, in the rightpane of Nautilus (the file manager) and in the right pane of any Open dialog of any Ubuntu application More here

The Bash shell is the default shell environment in most Linux distributions, including all flavours of Debian. One default feature of the Bash shell is to record a history of all the commands entered by a user in a log file called .bash_history, found in the user’s home directory. (…) Read the rest of How to View bash shell history and Change bash history file size in Ubuntu (143 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2010

Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need. (…) Read the rest of Create your own Linux from Scratch (Download free PDF Guide) (107 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2010

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Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop. Smuxi is based on the client-server model: The core application (engine) can be placed onto a server which is connected to the Internet around-the-clock; one or more frontends then connect to the core

Ailurus is a simple application installer, and GNOME tweaker.

Cover Thumbnailer is a small Python script which displays music album covers in nautilus, preview of pictures which are in a folder and more. (…) Read the rest of Cover-thumbnailer – Displays music album covers in nautilus (85 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Cover-thumbnailer , desktop , install Cover-thumbnailer ubuntu , install Cover-thumbnailer ubuntu lucid Related Articles How to install Dawn of Ubuntu wallpapers in Ubuntu 9.10(karmic) (21) Two more new applications for creating Ubuntu .deb packages (1) BAR – Backup archiver program (7) Advene – Annotate Digital Video, Exchange on the net (0) Wally – Wallpaper changer using multiple sources (4) Send and Receive Your Hotmail messages through Evolution (122) How to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix in Ubuntu 8.10/8.04 (8) How to install globalmenu in Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid)/9.10(Karmic) (9) Fix for VLC doesn’t play video after ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Upgrade (14)

Here is nice google chrome extension for ubuntu PPA search.

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VLC Media Player is a long-time open-source favorite, and the latest version is also the first to be out of beta development. It’s not the only option for free video playback, but it’s one of the best, and the feature updates in version 1 make it well worth the upgrade.

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Apt-fast script that combines the power of the axel download manager with the stability of apt-get.