The new version of Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) is much better than its predecessors in times of eye-candy and desktop effects! However the position of the minimize,maximize and close buttons on the window title bar has been changed to the left. This could be a problem for users who have got used to the default layout [...]
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How to change the position of min/max/close buttons in Ubuntu 10.04?
Posted: August 15, 2010 in Linux Tips1
Recently my friends laptop which came with Vista pre-installed got corrupted by a Rootkit. Boy was he mad! He didn’t expect it to flunk so easily. He tried to install XP in the lap but as Vista was a higher version than XP it wasn’t possible. He couldn’t reinstall Vista as he didn’t have the [...]
Let me make it clear. I am not a Linux fanatic. I too use Windows but mostly for playing games. I have successfully run several windows games in my Linux machine. For those that don’t work I use Windows.I have installed both XP and Linux on the same harddrive. I want to advocate the same [...]
In all the 3 years that I have used Linux, I have never seen it crash once. Oh yeah I have seen a few programs running on it crash. But those are just programs and not the OS. I can just fire up the system monitor and kill the crashed program and thats it. No [...]
Software is usually known as packages in Ubuntu. There are two ways to install packages in Ubuntu 1. The Hard way 2. The Easy way The hard way is by using the terminal. You have to remember that the definition of hard depends on th user. Go to Applications->Terminal. Type the name of the package [...]
Flight gear is the mother of all Linux games. It is all one of the most expansive and realistic flight simulators around. Just fire up Youtube Metacafe and search for a video on Flightgear. It is so accurate that it is used for teaching purposes! It is also absolutely free. However it has a high [...]
Danger from the deep is an open source submarine simulator which allows a player to pilot a variety of WW2 era diesel submarine. Its has ultra realistic and allows the player to experience an authentic environment of a real WW2 submarine during wartime and promises loads of fun and hours of gameplay. Click on the [...]
If you read the caption you might think that the game developer Valve has created a version of their addictive game Counter Strike for Linux. I wish that was true. Fear not. there is an equally addictive game for Linux called Assault Cube. Actually its not just for Linux but it will work on Windows and Macs (cross platform). Its free, Open source, [...]
Google’s Chrome Browser isn’t available for Linux. However that shouldn’t prevent you from using both. A developer known as SRware Iron has taken Chromes source code, its open source and ported it to Linux. It looks and feel the same as on Windows. However their is one good feature about the modified browser. They have removed some of the Googles monitoring software from [...]
Who said Linux has a shortage of Games? I love train Simulators, but I had to say goodbye to them since I started using Linux as all of them were written for Windows. However while surfing the net I stumble upon a Rail Sim that blew my brains out. It was Open source it was [...]
