Mar
9
Cool Ubuntu Projects on Launchpad.
March 9, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in Applications, Experiences, News
For those not familiar, “Launchpad is a free software hosting and development website. We make it easy to collaborate across multiple projects.” More information about Launchpad is here: Collaboration, project management and code hosting for free software https://launchpad.net/+about
One thing I like about services such as these, is that I often find interesting (and usable) projects. [...]
Mar
6
Hardly Any Hardware Works on Ubuntu Linux?
March 6, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in Experiences, News
… that’s a statement in one of me email messages this morning.
Imagine, I’m starting my day and reviewing messages and posts over a cup of tea, when I read this rather angry filth desperate plea for help because “… apparently Ubuntu, and all of Linux is worthless, there is no hardware support for these crappy [...]
Mar
3
Ubuntu ISO’s for Dial-Up Users
March 3, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | Leave a Comment
Posted in Experiences, News
This is just short, quick post for some for the dial-up users who have asked about downloading Ubuntu CD images. I appreciate that it’s not often feasible to download an image via a dial-up connection. Ubuntu themselves have one fix for that issue: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
ShipIt will allow you to request that a CD, and it will [...]
Feb
29
We’ve Let Someone Go…
February 29, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 4 Comments
Posted in News
This is an open post to all visitors. Recently we were contacted by an individual who had some of their content posted on our blog. (Actually, we found out by accident when we saw a message from the poster while he was away from his desktop and left his Yahoo webmail page open; and he [...]
Feb
28
Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications
February 28, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 137 Comments
Posted in Applications, Experiences, News
The following is a list of about 100 of the best OpenSource Applications, that actually help make Linux more usable for people. It is my hope that this list shows potential Linux users that there really is a large, effective, productive and usable range of free, OpenSource applications. For existing Linux users (like myself), I think this will provide a great resource in finding applications that may better suit your needs, or just for fun! Needless to say, this is just some of the thousands of applications available! I develop web sites, so this list tends to focus on applications which support that type of work.

