Since it’s tax time here in the US, I figured it would be good to post something to help you keep your information safe. Today I’ll show you how to install and use the Cyptkeeper applet in Ubuntu. Cryptkeeper is a GNOME applet for managing EncFS encrypted folders. To install it, make sure the Universe …
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One of the common complaints heard about Ubuntu is that some people just don’t care for the brown theme that’s applied by default. Many who have tried Fedora 10 have commented on the clean appearance of the theme. Thanks to the open source nature of Linux, it’s not too hard to get your Ubuntu desktop …
Continue reading Install the Fedora 10 Desktop Theme in UbuntuThis post is part of the process to Install the Fedora 10 Theme in Ubuntu. The Echo Icon Theme is an icon set created by the Fedora team to be used as the default Gnome Desktop icons for a Fedora Linux installation. This post will show you how to download these icons and install them …
Continue reading How To Install the Echo Icon Theme in UbuntuThis post is part of the process to Install the Fedora 10 Theme in Ubuntu. Fedora 10 has a nice and clean theme that you might prefer over those available with a default install of Ubuntu. I’m going to show how to install Fedora’s Nodoka theme engine. This howto is based on the one I …
Continue reading How To Install the Nodoka Theme Engine in UbuntuIf you’ve been using Linux for a while, you’ve probably run across the need to install something from the source packages. Either the program you wanted wasn’t available in the repositories, or you wanted a more recent version than what’s shown in the repositories. Checkinstall is a program that will create Slackware, Debian, or RPM …
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