Oh my God! There are security holes in Ubuntu 10.04! The sky is falling! Bill Gates is the maker of the one true operating system; forgive us Bill for we have worshiped at the feet of false Penguin idols.

Ubuntu Maryland Leader Chuck Frain is stepping down as the leader of the group which he founded. In a blog post he has given reasons behind his decision and they raise some serious questions. He said that Ubuntu has changed from a community driven project to a company controlled product

File Commander is a 32 bit text mode file manager and shell that allows you to locate, copy, move, delete, view, edit and execute your files in a quick, convenient and customizable manner. Its main display provides dual directory view panels that may serve as source and destination of a copy or move operation or just two different views of your files.

As expected, Canonical has released a third alpha for Ubuntu 11.04, code named “Natty Narwhal”. This development milestone is the last of three planned alpha releases, which will be followed by two betas – as previously previously reported, there will be no release candidate for Ubuntu 11.04. More here

Canonical will join forces with Cfengine, a configuration management leader to hold a one day technical training and business case workshop on conquering configuration management in diverse environments.Learn about the benefits of using enterprise-ready Linux in everthing from embedded environments to the largest datacentres. Meet and talk with industry leaders, in two of the most up-and-coming players in the space of Datacentres, Cloud and Embedded Applications.To register for the event, send an email to anita.bilicka@cfengine.com Location:  London, UK Time:  Fri, 03/25/2011 – 09:00 – 17:00

RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. Currently, it is integrated into the Nautilus file manager and only supports Subversion, but our goal is to incorporate other version control systems as well as other file managers

The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Natty Narwhal Alpha 3 Release of Ubuntu 11.04, is a developer snapshot to give you an early glance at the next version of Ubuntu.

Rosegarden is a MIDI and audio sequencer and musical notation editor whose purpose is to serve as the sequencer of choice for users who prefer to work with music notation. Rosegarden allows you to record, arrange, and compose music, in the shape of traditional score or MIDI data, or of audio files either imported or recorded from a microphone, guitar or whatever audio source you care to specify.

A new Python IDE intended for beginners. It is fast, light weight with common features and many others in coming. It’s focus is simplicity and ease of use

Last week, in “Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go?” I presented one view of Ubuntu and its relationship with other parts of the free and open source software (FOSS) community. One of the first and most articulate responses to the article came from Ubuntu’s community manager Jono Bacon.

The war is almost on: GNOME Shell vs. Ubuntu Unity. Both have been available long enough to draw the conclusion as to which will rise above and find success

In this tutorial, we will show you how to get VLC-shares up and running in your Ubuntu machine. VLC-shares is available for Windows as well and the installation and configuration instruction is pretty easy and straightforward, so we will not touch on that.

This is the list of Unity Keyboard shortcuts and if you have more you can add in to the askubuntu thread (…) Read the rest of List of Ubuntu Unity Keyboard shortcuts (448 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011.

So, I finally decided to release my computer from the grip of Mr. Bill Gates. I installed the free and fast Linux Ubuntu 10.10 netbook operating system.

If you are connecting your server or desktop through putty and if you press Ctrl-S accidentally it will send Xoff the only way to recover is by pressing Ctrl-Q. (…) Read the rest of How to disable the Ctrl-S (XOFF) keystroke in Putty (34 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: desktop , disable the Ctrl-S (XOFF) keystroke in Putty

Ubuntu 11.04 will be arriving in less than two months and when it does, there will be reactions. Big reactions.

Peyote is an audio player with friendly MC-like interface.Peyote is designed specifically for work easy with cue sheets.Peyote supports wv ( wavepack ), wav, flac, ape, ogg and mp3 formats. (…) Read the rest of Peyote – Audio player with friendly MC-like interface (99 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011

Banshee is an open-source media player, originally called Sonance until 2005.Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players, including Apple’s iPod, Android devices and Creative’s ZEN players.Other features include Last.fm integration, album artwork fetching, smart playlists and podcast support

RSS feed updates in the indicator area. Features: * Editable, sortable list of feed URL’s * Notification popups of new feed items * Adjustable update timer * Adjustable number of items to show per feed * Option to run on system startup * Mark all items as read / unread * Uses standard XDG desktop directories and Gconf for settings (…) Read the rest of Feedindicator – RSS feed updates in the indicator area (92 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: desktop , Feedindicator deb package , Feedindicator ubuntu Related Articles FoxTester – Install and launch multiple versions of Firefox (0) Rapid Photo Downloader 0.3.2 released and installation instructions included (0) nautilus-wallpaper – Add a “set as wallpaper” entry in context menu (3) glChess now supports themes in SVG Drawings (0) How to change network card speed and duplex settings in ubuntu (3) How to Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) using PPA (18) How to Change The Bootsplash In Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) (13) Photostory – Take a picture of yourself every day, and compile them into a video, showing the story of your life as photos of you (1) Howto Make Link to Filesystem on desktop or panel (3)

Release News Screencast Overview of the Maverick Meerkat 10.10 64bit & 32bit for Ubuntu Linux & Kubuntu with KDE & Xubuntu with Xfce & Lubuntu with Lxde. I show you all of them in this First Look Review. everything is updated, the kernel is better, better support for hardware, less bugs, more polish, new font, [...]