Forgoing The Commonplace, Hello Ubuntu!

I’ve decided to begin researching making the move from Windows XP to full-on Ubuntu.  I’ve been waiting to make the move to see if Ubuntu’s Flash and Sound capabilities would improve, but I’m not entirely sure this is the case. A friend of mine the other day noted having the same issues with Iris.  I’ll do [...]

Thanks for Ubuntu Forums for coming through with another problem solver.  At first I tried the standard practive of trying to update with reinstallation of the nswrapper to no avail.  Then I tried the obvious clicking on the ‘Install Plugin’ route on flash portions of webpages, to no avail. Finally I used Synaptic and installed “swfdec” [...]

In Applications >> Accessories >> Terminal aka, the command prompt (shell), type: lsb_release -a Voila!  The output will look something like: No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID:    Ubuntu Description:    Ubuntu 8.04 Release:    8.04 Codename:    hardy There you have it, my first meaningful Ubuntu tip/information tidbit.  -Pats self on back.

It simply ain’t going to happen, at least not at this time and not at my skill leve (or most other’s it seems).  I’ve been trying for a week to install Flash on my Ubuntu OS to no avail.  Even the Ubuntu forums have not been much of a help for Hardy Heron x64 flash [...]

A few days ago there were some pretty big updates to the important parts of this Ubuntu system from what I can tell.  Prior to these updates that required me to restart, FireFox normal release as well as the FF Beta releases were all crashing on my suddenly, seemingly for a multitude of reasons.  It [...]

Yes, I´m one of ¨them¨.  The UPDATE SPAZ.  With Windows I was always checking for new updates, going to betanews.com and like sites to make sure I had the most current beta, alpha, RC whatever software on my machine.  I guess I was bored, maybe it´s even a slight case of OCD.  I´m just stating the [...]

Here´s my deal, I´m internet savvy, not computer savvy and definitely not Ubuntu savvy.  I have a little experience with Linux via text based shell prompts over the 13 years I´ve had web servers to deal with.  Only basic things like navigating in Linux, changing directories, removing, editing, changing ownership and permissions of files.  That´s [...]