The latest version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system was released today; Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. The popularity of Ubuntu usually means that the download servers have difficulty keeping up with the high demand of release days, so I’m here with a list of torrents and download mirrors so you can get on with your installation or upgrade. Continue reading
In this post I’m going to show how to send an email from the Linux command line through your Gmail account. This can be handy if you’re a command line junkie. The real power, however, is in being able to send an email automatically from a script. I’ll be doing another post where I use this in a script to notify me when something has changed on my system. For now though, I’ll just show the setup so you can send an email from the command line. This process has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 13. Continue reading