HowtoForge has instructions for building a custom LiveCD out of an Ubuntu based system. This guide shows how you can create a Live-CD from your Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon or Linux Mint 4.0 system with a tool called remastersys. Remastersys is available in the Linux Mint romeo repository. You can customize your Ubuntu/Linux Mint system and [...]

Hi all hope I can fin some helpafter reading abot this everywhere. I had surround sound working very well on my xonar d2x up until about a week ago when a partial upgrade messed up everythinh (I suspect vlc mainly responsible). However I was able to recreate the 5.1 digital profile but when I...

Not really an ubuntu question, but I couldn't think of a better community to ask. One of the organizations I work with has a decade of historical documents. I need to scan them and organize them. I've seen this neat desk / neat receipts product out there but it's software doesn't get great...

I was just looking at my old iMac G3 and I remember from long ago that there is horrible flash support for PowerPC and Linux, but then it got me thinking about how Google Chrome has flash built in, so wouldn't this work for a PowerPC running Linux? e.g. - Install Ubuntu on PowerPC - Install...

I'm using Ubuntu Natty 64-bit and I want to setup an OS in VBox. I receive an error message that I need to change the "vboxusers" group. I know exactly what I need to do because I have done this in the past, however, I can't seem to access my "Users and Groups" in Natty. If I click on my user...

Hi there, I'm having problem with my installation of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I can't boot into the live environment which is booted of a USB because every time I try to boot into the live environment my monitor says there is no signal, could it something to do with the video drivers ?. When I boot...

I love the Aero Snap feature from Windows 7, and was using it with Compiz + Grid plugin in Gnome 2. While the Aero Snap behavior can be reproduced using the mouse in Gnome 3, I'm looking to do the same with keyboard shortcut keys.

When i try to watch Live TV the screen goes blank shows the word Please... and then comes back to the frontend without seeing any video. When i checked the mythbackend.log I have three errors but the most blatent one i can seem to figuire out is Sample Rate: Attempted to add a rate 32000Hz,...

This is a question about substituting fonts in a PDF file, when viewing or printing from Evince Document Viewer 2.30.3 On a Windows XP machine, I printed a page to a FoxIt PDF 'printer' in order to save the page as a PDF. Since the page seemed to have only the Times New Roman font in it, I...

Hello, How can I find out about apt-get packages without installing them? I looked at man apt-get and didn't figure this out. For example: Code: --------- ~$ pms The program 'pms' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install pms

Hi, I am trying to install a package (ath9k driver as explained in: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k), but make does not work, I get the following error. I guess the problem is in the Makefile, because the errors does not make sense (I did not change anything in the code). I...

Hi, In Ubuntu 12.04 or later, will it be possible to disable screen flash when taking a screenshot? To me it's an annoying feature since imo flashing at someone's eyes is a bad idea, especially when it's dark in the room.

Hey guys I am having some issues getting ironhide to work on my ASUS 1215N. I run optirun glxspheres and I get the same framerate when running it without optirun. I went through the configuration and it didn't indicate that there were any errors. I am not really sure what else to check hopefully...

hi yesterday i swapped the mother board in my computer for one that enabled the ram and cpu to run at full speed. but since then i have no sound. it was working before. everything else is working correctly. i have search through the forum and come across guides, been to the alsa mixer etc but the...

i have ubuntu and xubuntu. i would like to have music play through my speakers and other audio play through my headphones my media player does have output device which says "leave blank for the default. Examples: "/dev/dsp", "front", etc." and i am wondering if i can just put that as something...

Hi, I recently had to create a customized initrd for Ubuntu 10.04 so I could load in the MegaRAIDSAS9260 driver. When I created this initrd it was for kernel 2.6.32-33-generic, when I upgrade the kernel to 2.6.32-38 I know a new initrd is loaded into /boot but is there something in the upgrade...

Yahoo games using Java generally works as expected but it's only a matter of time before the game windows go blank (solid gray) and become unresponsive. I'm 64 bit and this happens using both Chromium and Firefox. I'm guessing installing Sun/Oracle's latest Java might solve this issue. ...

HI I have just installed a low profile firewire card in my Dell Optiplex 330 to use with my camcorder in open shot but I cant see it after rebooting ?Im using Pinguy OS any help would be great

I have a Micro SD card that I can't read from. I get this error:

I did an upgrade to Mythbuntu 11.10, and Mythweb shows it to be running, but startup is to the red Mythbuntu splash screen, There is no access to desktop or Mythcentre. Any way to fix from the command line or SSH ?

Hi everyone, I have 3 computers at home, one that I use as a server, and two laptops for my girlfriend and I. A few weeks ago, I manage to make samba work and I was able to share my printer that was plug in my server (running ubuntu 11.10). My first laptop, running ubuntu 11.10, and my second...

I want to enable utf8 on my ext4 partition. Why. you might ask? Here's an example: Code: --------- $ dir - Ministry Of Sound - Chilled 1991-2008 Disc 1.log - Ministry Of Sound - Chilled 1991-2008 Disc 1.m3u 13 - Tim ���Love��� Lee - One Night Samba.mp3 14 - The...

HP 4650dn Printer. I regularly get a 49.4c02 service error on the printer screen, on print jobs from Ubuntu computers mainly from other Ubuntu computers on the network. After some other print problems with two other printers I tested the printer on a Windows XP computer for 3 days and I do...

I am using an acer aspire 5516 1.76 gb of usuable ram and an AMD athlon tf - 20 dual booting vista basic and xubuntu (all my issues i am experiencing happened in ubuntu as well). as i am typing this i cant right click to use spell check, im unable to close the web browser because the entire upper...

so... here I am trying to change my resolution (something that I need to do every time I boot up since I installed the ATI drivers) and boom, my password doesn't work. It's not that I forgot it, it's too simple for that, something fishy is going on. Now, I noticed that there are some tutorials...

My instructor just isn't breaking things down in enough detail and I don't know what to do about it. Trying to ask more questions is like beating a dead horse. There comes a point where there's no point anymore at all. What I'd like help doing is tracking through, line by line and assignment by...

So I needed to re-image my desktop and no Grub no longer gives me the option of booting in Windows 7 pro partition... (which I need for work) If I run a Code: --------- sudo update-grub --------- It comes back with this in a terminal.

Hi, We have just received a new wireless router from O2. Now I cannot connect to external ssh servers when using wifi. It is fine when I use wired connection. Internet seems to work fine on either interface. I can use ssh from other OS' over wifi (Tried putty on Windows7 and prompt on...

I Cant Play MineCraft I Know that my Graphiccard is disabled so im in xorg.conf and im trying to add The Driver but i dont Know what the Name is...

Hi, I'm having a problem with Ubuntu. I've tried several versions but this haven't worked in any of them so far, I'm running 11.10 now. The problem is that the system keeps saying that the "wireless is disabled by hardware switch", even though it's PERMANENTLY ON! (Can't even turn it off,...

Hi everybody. I am wondering if anyone here own SSD. I am just about to buy one, but when i googled a little, i found out that it is very imoprtant that you have TRIM support of SSD. Well, my chosen SSD does support TRIM, but i use encrypted LVM. As far as i get the think i can not permanently...

Hello, I am running Ubuntu 10.04.2 and I have noticed I don't have the software to purchase option in the software centre? Can someone advise how I add it - I'm sure when I normally install it is there by default and doesn't require a ppa to added manually. Many thanks M.

I've downloaded a tar and unpacked it from the command line. The package contains a setup python script that I'm having all sorts of trouble installing. I've chmod'ed the file to the highest privileges (a+x) but when I go to issue the install command it returns "permission denied". I follow that...

Okay, so I was curious, when people sell products running on linux, how is it legal? I heard that roku ran on linux, can someone give me the legal stuff behind this? I mean, the GNU GPL which linux is licensed under requires you to distribute the source with your work, right? So that would mean you...

I have just installed Wingpanel and an older version of Slingshot on Jupiter. How to I remove the Gnome Panel at the top of my screen so I can use WIngpanel? If I right click on it, remove panel is not letting me click on it.

I have ubuntu alongside windows xp and I am trying to get rid of windows. Therefore, I need a disk management program which runs on ubuntu. Can you recommend me one? Thanks

In terminal I am trying to access my music in my windows folder. I type "cd C:Documents and SettingsPadiSkaMy Documents" and I get told "bash: cd: C:Documents and SettingsPadiSkaMy Documents.: No such file or directory" Whats the problem?

Hi Everyone, I've started going through Linux From Scratch, and it's actually not as difficult as I expected. I hope to have a working system in a week or so (just have an hour two every few days to work on it) then I hope to start tackling Beyond LFS to add more functionality to the system. ...

I've been looking for an alternative to Gnome3/unity, and took a look at xubuntu a little while back. As a programmer, I like to use virtual desktops, and I also like it to be two dimensional, so I can have, say, 2 rows by 3 or more columns (or vice versa). It seemed like xfce only allowed one...

how can I give a domain user sudo rights? I need it to work if it is logged onto the domain or not logged on

I've been using Ubuntu company wide for the past 2 weeks, however, I have a very basic question to ask that I wasn't able to locate in any previous posts. For both Vinagre and Remmina, I can't seem to find a way to invoke a CTRL-ALT-DEL command to a remote Windows box. I looked at the buttons...

Hi, Could somebody please help me how to get rid of this message and tell me what is that mean ? No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached Thank you, Regards, Martin

Is there any reason why Ubuntu uses "/" for file paths and windows uses "" for windows file locations?

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Hello, How can we open a gnome "desktop" session (*) with ssh ? Thank you (*) that is to say, a session with the same definition when the session will be started from the start screen (appearing on the screen connected to the server), containing all usernames

I recently moved from Fedora 16 to Ubuntu 11.10 and now my HP dm4 laptop is getting unnecessarily hot (very hot to the touch) when doing mundane things when it does not in Fedora 16 or Windows 7. What are some steps I could take to figure out why this is? Thanks, zdubdub

Hi, I am trying Ubuntu (I have 11.10) for the first time and I am having problems with getting the screen brightness to change on my ASUS k60i. The screen seems to be always stuck on max brightness and there is no brightness change when I change the brightness in the screen settings or use...

Hi, I am already using ubuntu 10.04 LTS and i would like to install windows (for some rpg-games i cannot find on linux) without unistalling ubuntu. I haven't done it before so i don't know how it will work if i simple run the windows cd.

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/14/10407275-hackers-accessed-nortel-network-for-more-than-a-decade ---Quote--- The Wall Street Journal has found that, for more than a decade, hackers appeared to have unfettered access to Nortel Networks' corporate computer...

The Gateway laptop NV79 Series with Intel graphics and with the I5 processor, seems to have a problem with Ubuntu, or rather the newer Kernels, in that the graphics when you try to install Ubuntu, comes to a blank screen. I am not sure of 10.10, I never tried it but I did 11.04 and 11.10.. I...

Ubuntu 11.04 is out, grab the live Desktop CD in order to check out Canonical’s new GUI. Canonical has announced the official release of Ubuntu 11.04, codenamed Natty Narwhal. This major update introduces the new Unity desktop shell, which is designed to improve ease of use and deliver a more modern user experience. via Ubuntu [...]

OMG! Ubuntu! has an article covering additional uses for the Ubuntu LiveCD besides installation.

Lifehacker has a Top 10 list of cool stuff to do with a USB flash drive. Numbers 9, 7, and 1 involve Live booting operating systems from them.

TechRadar takes Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.10 and installs them on USB flash drives. You’ll need a flash drive with at least 1GB of free space, and ISO images of either Ubuntu 8.10 or Fedora 9. It’s likely there are other distros out there that work with similar or perhaps even identical instructions, but Ubuntu [...]

Highlighted by the latest Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (#88), there’s a great tutorial in the Ubuntu forums for transforming an Ubuntu install into a custom LiveCD/DVD. This HOWTO is about making a live CD/DVD from the main system on your hard drive. This might be desired if you have customized your system and want to have [...]

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn is out, which means four new LiveCDs and two new LiveDVDs. Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu all have Live “Desktop” releases to go with them. Downloads: Ubuntu 7.04 CDs Kubuntu 7.04 CDs Xubuntu 7.04 CDs  Edubuntu 7.04 CDs  Ubuntu and Kubuntu 7.04 DVDs (torrents) 

Debian/Ubuntu Tips & Tricks has step by step instructions for copying an Ubuntu LiveCD to a USB flash drive. In the end you get a bootable flash drive, which can be used for installing Ubuntu on a computer without a CD drive, or getting the LiveCD experience with something you can fit in your pocket.

Ubuntu Tutorials shows how to save some time getting the daily builds of Ubuntu Feisty.

A great example of how LiveCDs can be used, this programming book comes with an Ubuntu LiveCD with all the code examples and code editors installed and ready to use. There’s a live CD included so you can boot up Ubuntu Linux and see all the projects – not only view and play with code [...]

TablePCReview has success with an Ubuntu LiveCD on an Acer Tablet PC.

The new Ubuntu LiveCDs are being announced on Ubuntu.com. While the link is still pointing to the 6.06.1 release, ISO images of 6.10 are currently propagating throughout the Ubuntu mirrors in a hidden folder called .pool, which happily has full read access. The new Desktop CDs (LiveCDs as they’re known around here) boot significantly quicker [...]

The latest testing version of Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, Knot 3, has been released. The biggest change is the move to upstart, which should eventually benefit every laptop user. Common to all variants, we have changed the init system from the venerable sysvinit to upstart which is an event-driven init script system.

The Linux Newbie compares 11 different LiveCDs in this article. One interesting piece of information included is boot times for each of the LiveCDs.

DesktopLinux.com has a quick review of a book which comes with an Ubuntu LiveCD.

DistroWatch Weekly has a quick summary of new LiveCDs from Ubuntu, Debian, and SLAX.

Manila Standard Today has an intro to Linux via the Ubuntu 6.06 LiveCD.

OSDir has recently posted many screenshots of new releases, here they are: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Xubuntu 6.06 LTS Edubuntu 6.06 LTS Puppy Linux 2.0 Backtrack 1.0 Notice the installer icons on the desktops of all the *buntu screenshots.

The final version of Dapper Drake has been released, and with it comes new LiveCDs for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu. They include GUI hard drive installers on the desktop, and have been named “Desktop” CDs to differentiate themselves from the text installers.

Application Development Trends has a second blog posting covering positive and negative aspects of the latest beta version of the Ubuntu LiveCD. Overall, some good points are made, such as the expectations some Windows users may have when trying Linux out for the first time. The first part of the Ubuntu coverage is here.

TECTONIC has some information on Dapper beta, including the combination of the install and LiveCD, Network Manager, and the new theme.