To Do List After installing Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS aka Precise Pangolin OS

Ubuntu 12.04 Unity Desktop Environment

Ubuntu Classic 12.04 “Fallback” Desktop Environment

Ubuntu 12.04 Gnome 3 Desktop Environment

Ubuntu 12.04 Cairo Desktop (Gnome Environment)

Supported until April 2017

Ubuntu is designed primarily for use on personal computers, although a server edition also exists. Ubuntu holds an estimated global usage of more than 12 million desktop users, making it the most popular desktop Linux distribution with about 50% of Linux desktop marketshare. It is fourth most popular on web servers, though its popularity is increasing rapidly. No more viruses, and no more spyware/malware. This guide was created primarily to help new Ubuntu users transition quickly over from other operating systems, but is just as useful to even very experienced Linux users. When you are done installing everything on this list hopefully you will have everything you would probably find on other comparable commercially available operating systems. There was a step-by-step list written for Fedora many many years ago when I was first starting out learning about Linux OS and was the concept for this guide, and I always found this to be best way to do fresh installations of Linux on my own computers.

To Do List After installing Crunchbang “Waldorf” Debian “Wheezy” Linux OS

Debian Linux “Wheezy” Openbox Desktop Environment

Crunchbang is a light-weight Debian OS, using Openbox desktop environment. It has a minimalist approach in comparison to other distos, and it includes projects like conky, tint, and compositing eye-candy.  Crunchbang got it’s name from the possibility of it making your system go “Crunch” “Bang”. The distro description small print disclaimer says it’s unstable, may break, and you use it at your own risk.

To Do List After installing Ubuntu 12.10 aka Quantal Quetzal OS

Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Desktop Environment

Ubuntu Classic Gnome 12.10 “Fallback” Desktop Environment

Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome 3 Desktop Environment

Ubuntu 12.10 Cairo Desktop (Gnome Environment)

Supported until April 2014

Ubuntu is designed primarily for use on personal computers, although a server edition also exists. Ubuntu holds an estimated global usage of more than 12 million desktop users, making it the most popular desktop Linux distribution with about 50% of Linux desktop marketshare. As of 2012, according to online surveys, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution on desktop/laptop personal computers, and most Ubuntu coverage focuses on its use in that market. However, it is also popular on servers and for cloud computing. No more viruses, no more spyware/malware, and Ubuntu OS is free.

To Do List After installing Ubuntu 13.04 aka Raring Ringtail OS

Ubuntu 13.04 Unity Desktop Environment

Ubuntu 13.04 Classic “Fallback” Desktop Environment

Ubuntu 13.04 Gnome 3 Desktop Environment

Ubuntu 13.04 Cairo Desktop (Gnome Environment)

Supported until January 2014

Ubuntu is designed primarily for use on personal computers, although a server edition also exists. Ubuntu holds an estimated global usage of more than 12 million desktop users, making it the most popular desktop Linux distribution with about 50% of Linux desktop marketshare. As of 2012, according to online surveys, Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution on desktop/laptop personal computers, and most Ubuntu coverage focuses on its use in that market. However, it is also popular on servers and for cloud computing. No more viruses, no more spyware/malware, and Ubuntu OS is free.

Installing Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal)

Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome 3 Desktop Environment

If you are reading this article, chances are that you have tried the Unity interface on Ubuntu. Although Canonical has done a great job with the development of Unity, some of us still prefer to use Gnome as a default GUI. In addition, the Gnome team has also done an excellent job improving Gnome and released this as Gnome 3. Since Gnome 3 comes with both the classic (similar to Gnome 2) and the new Gnome 3 interface, I decided to focus on installing Gnome 3 in this article.

To Do List After installing Ubuntu 10.04.4 Lucid LTS OS

Ubuntu 10.04.3 Lucid LTS Gnome 2 Desktop Environment

Supported until 05/2015

Last time this page was link-checked and completely updated: 11/2012

Ubuntu is designed primarily for use on personal computers, although a server edition also exists. Ubuntu holds an estimated global usage of more than 12 million desktop users, making it the most popular desktop Linux distribution with about 50% of Linux desktop marketshare. It is fourth most popular on web servers, though its popularity is increasing rapidly. No more viruses, and no more spyware/malware. This guide was created primarily to help new Ubuntu users transition quickly over from other operating systems, but is just as useful to even very experienced Linux users. When you are done installing everything on this list hopefully you will have everything you would probably find on other comparable commercially available operating systems. There was a step-by-step list written for Fedora many many years ago when I was first starting out learning about Linux OS and was the concept for this guide, and I always found this to be best way to do fresh installations of Linux on my own computers.

How-to Install Minecraft in Ubuntu

Minecraft is a sandbox construction game, inspired by Infiniminer, Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper, created by Markus Persson, the founder of Mojang AB. The game involves players creating and destroying various types of blocks in a three-dimensional environment. The player takes an avatar that can destroy or create blocks, forming fantastic structures, creations and artwork across the various multiplayer servers in multiple game modes.

How-to Install VMware Player on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

Ubuntu 12.04.02 LTS Post Installation Script

[Reposted: A really convenient post-installation script from http://nicolargo.github.com/ubuntupostinstall/]

Tired of using my do-to lists to get everything you need installed on your freshly installed Ubuntu systems? If you are doing several installations of Ubuntu 12.04 daily this script will be a big time-saver for you. With this Python script you will avoid wasting time to install and configure your Ubuntu 12.04 operating system. Just download this script, run it with your favorite configuration file (or create your own custom config file, host it on github.com for free) and … enjoy!

I tested it out this morning and it works terrifically! Give it a try!

The script can:

• Install Ubuntu repositories (deb repos, PPA, …)
• Install packages
• Configure dots files (.bashrc, .vimrc, …)
• Configure the user interface (support Unity and Gnome Shell)
• Run every command line
• Write and use your own custom configuration list (apps, PPAs, etc)
• Completely automatic, quiet, no prompts, very quick and easy
• Great for remote support and fleet deployment
• You can create multiple configuration files for several kinds of complex installations remotely (Server, SQL, Scripts within scripts, whatever you can imagine)
• No more hassle sharing/hosting costly pre-configured larger-sized image files for cloud installs/deployment
• Game/Application installations scripts for Debian/Ubuntu Linux

How-to Install VMware Player on Ubuntu 12.10

Bitcoin Mining with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and CGMiner

CGMiner is a GPU miner written in C, cross platform for Windows, Linux and OS X, based on the original code Cpu Miner, with limited FPGA support merged from BFGMiner. This document should be complete enough to get you started mining Bitcoins using a graphics card.

Bitcoin mining in Ubuntu with bfgminer

Every BitCoin transaction is recorded in a public ledger, which is found at Block Explorer. Each transaction is hashed into a block, and they are explained in the original paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by BitCoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. After the solution to the block is found, it is replicated throughout the peer-to-peer network, and all transactions are then verified by the BitCoin client software. Any attempts at forging a block are rejected by the network as invalid. It is by solving a block which rewards the solver with Bitcoins and further propagates the BitCoin economy.

To Do List After installing Debian Squeeze

Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential Linux distribution. It is distributed with access to repositories containing thousands of software packages ready for installation and use. Debian is known for relatively strict adherence to the Unix and free software philosophies as well as using collaborative software development and testing processes. Debian can be used on a variety of hardware, from NAS devices to phones, laptops, desktops and servers. It focuses on stability and security and is used as a base for many other distributions. This guide was created primarily to help new Debian users transition quickly over from other operating systems, but is just as useful to even very experienced Linux users. When you are done installing everything on this list hopefully you will have everything you would probably find on other comparable commercially available operating systems. There was a step-by-step list written for Fedora many many years ago when I was first starting out learning about Linux OS and was the concept for this guide, and I always found this to be best way to do fresh installations of Linux on my own computers.

How-to Install Grammar Checker for LibreOffice on Ubuntu

One of the default utilities missing from LibreOffice Writer in Ubuntu is a grammar checker, but here is how you can install the LanguageTool plug-in for LibreOffice Writer.

LanguageTool is a style and grammar proofreading software for English, French, German, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, and a lot of other languages. You can think of LanguageTool as a software to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect some grammar mistakes. It does not include spell checking.