If you’re developing websites, it’s nice to be able to test your code in the privacy of your own computer rather that out in the public internet. In order to do that, you’ll need to install a web server on your development computer. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php) is one of the most common web …
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Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) uses the latest version of the Nautilus file manager (version 2.30.0). If you’ve been using Ubuntu for a while then you might be accustomed to using location entry in Nautilus. By default, Nautilus came up with the Button Bar to represent the current location in the file system.
Continue reading Use Nautilus Location Entry in Ubuntu LucidI’ve shown previously how to use the more command to view text output. Today I’ll show how to do the same thing with the less command. You can run the command simply by opening a terminal window and entering less followed by the file name. For example:
Continue reading Command Line Basics: View Text With lessIf you’ve added the Kubuntu packages to Ubuntu, or vice versa, then you can choose whether you want to use KDM or GDM to act as your log-in manager. To choose your log-in manager, open a terminal and enter
Continue reading How To Select Your Log-in Manager in UbuntuI’ve recently been doing a lot of testing on the next version of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. After installing Ubuntu I also decided to add the Kubuntu packages to my system. This is easy to do with a simple One of the annoyances I have with this is that adding the Kubuntu packages through …
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