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Ubuntu Linux 7.10, aka: Gutsy Gibbon, is officially available as of right now - right this very second. My plan is to upgrade my Kubuntu 7.04 desktop to Kubuntu 7.10 (because I like KDE more than Gnome) tonight.
A few things I’m interested in the new release are:

The upgrade process from 7.04 (aka: Feisty Fawn) [...]

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This weekend I made the switch, leaving Windows behind. Sure, those Get a Mac ads are ever-so charming, but I did not switch to OS X - I’m not made out of money I switched to Linux - specifically Kubutnu 7.0.4 (aka: Feisty Fawn), the KDE-powered version of Ubutnu Linux (which uses [...]

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Last night while updating some Firefox extensions in my Ubuntu virtual machine, I decided to try an experiment. The recently released Flash Player 9 also has a version for Linux. The last version for Linux was version 7, which made sites like YouTube unusable. And installing Flash 7 player on Linux was [...]

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Upon reviewing my web server’s logs, a lot of people stumble upon this website o’ mine by submitting queries for “ubuntu phpmyadmin” to search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. I’ll assume that it’s because installing PHPMyAdmin on a fresh Ubuntu Linux install isn’t all that straightforward. Everybody lands on this post from [...]

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This might be the first part in a series. Ubuntu is unlike any Linux distro that I’ve ever used before. Its installation and quick ‘n’ painless and its ease-of-use are (currently) second to none. Ubuntu’s package management app, Synaptic, is stellar. It allows you to easily install apps (and their depenecies) [...]

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I had enough of hearing about how wonderful Ruby On Rails is, so I wanted to see it for myself. Being the type of person who’s interested in many things all at the same time, I had a reason to try out another much-talked about thing. In order to properly try out RoR, [...]

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