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Ubuntu is a great os. It is really user friendly and has a great usability. And there is no doubt that, if we consider the graphics and interface in concern then, MacOs X is best. It will be great if we can use both, the usability of Ubuntu and feel of Mac Os. Fortunately there is some package which can transform the look of Ubuntu to Mac Os. Macbuntu is one the best of them. By installing software and changing theme  in such a way that Ubuntu completely looks like Mac Os. But there is no particular version of Macbuntu that can transform Ubuntu 11.04. But you can use the version of Macbuntu for Ubuntu 10.10 and use it for Ubuntu 11.04. Here is the step by step instruction how to install Macbuntu in Ubuntu 11.04. Download Macbuntu for Ubuntu 10.10 form the following site, http://sourceforge.net/projects/macbuntu/ now extract the file in some folder. Now navigate to that particular folder where you have extract mackbuntu. You have to change the installation code little ...

Intelligent Input Bus (IBus)   is an framework for multilingual input in Unix like software. This became the default input method for Ubuntu from the version Ubuntu 9.10.  (see wikipedia entry)  This is very easy to set up and use as an input method. There are several key board in different languages including phonetic keyboard. This was working very good till now. But I have just install new version of Ubuntu (11.04 64 bit) and there it stopped working. Thank fully I got the solution from one post in the  Linux user group of Delhi IIT.   To get it working you have to install ibus-m17n using this command. sudo apt-get install ibus-m17n Now go to language support from the System menu. Install the language you want to use. Dont forget to install input methods. (it will be install automatically if you do not uncheck any option while installing language.) and select IBus as input method in language support menu. Now go to IBus preference...

The people who are involve in doing research (like PhD student) have to study lots of paper. So they download lots of paper and save them in the computer. Now this is a headache for them to manage so large no paper and other document like book, thesis they have downloaded, so that they can be found easily. Again if you are using different computer in different place (suppose you have personal laptop and you have computer in lab) then it is very difficult keep track which paper we have downloaded in which computer and to sync them. The problem can be solved easily. Thanks to Mendeley, a research cataloging tool for desktop and web. You can use it to manage all your paper, book, thesis, ….. from same place. You can search them very easily. You can synchronize them with your other computer. You can import document from any folder or file from your computer. You can directly generate bibliography citation for your document from Mendeley. There is a web importer plugin, which you can use d...

Ext-4 (fourth extended filesystem) is the default file system of the modern linux distro. And NTFS (New Technology File System) is the default file system for windows system now. If you format your disk you can view the files on linux because linux support both file system. But you can’t open ext 4 (or any ext version ) formatted file system with windows. Fortunately there are some driver which can be used to access ext 4 file system on windows. ext2fsd is one of the best of them. I have used it and it is working fine. It does not support ext4 natively.So first download and install the ext2fsd from here and install it. Now download the patch from here and extract the zip file. There is read me file, follow the instruction given in the read me file and you can read the ext4 file system from windows now. You have both option either you can mount the filesystem on read only mode or read write mode. cheers APaul

Hi This blog is for those people who actually getting bore using same interface from gnome in ubuntu. In that case kde can give you some fresh wind. Though the ubuntu distro with kde environment is kubuntu but still you can use kde in your ubuntu. It will actually install kde enviroment side by side. Just go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package. Now search for Kde desktop and install it. It will istall some required package and some kde default package together. Now when you start your system and your login screen is coming then at the button of the screen there is some option. From session option choose kde from dropdown menu. Then you will redirect to the kde environment. If you want to go back to the gnome environment then just logout and then select the "ubuntu desktop" session from dropdown menu of session option. You will now logon to the gnome environment. Now since gnome desktop environment use gdm (gnome desktop manager) for desktop management and kde ...

Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distro now. This is really simple to use and at the same time highly customizable. There is a very strong community support behind you. Lots of theme and software to use with it. Still you some time fill bad. Here I am telling some trick to enhance your experience. Menu: Ubuntu menu is one of the thing that most of the people don't like. And there are lots of menu to use like gnome main menu, gno menu and so on. But the menu that I like most is cardapio menu. It is very much like windows menu. Check some screen shots here . It has native gtk interface. There are lots of plugin. You can search file, application from the menu window. You can even do google and wikipedia search right from the menu window. To install it add the ppa ppa:cardapio-team/unstable (how to add ppa? see other blog). And then you can install it directly from the package manager. Avant Windows Nevigator: Avant Window Nevigator (AWN) is a dock bar for linux. This i...

New version of Ubuntu comes on every 6 month with most recent version of software and with, up to some extend, new look. If we don't want to continue with the old version of software and if bored with same look we want install the new version. If you want to upgrade your system then it is ok. But if you want a clean installation then you have to install all your required software and you have to do all setting ones again. This is very tedious job. Here are some tricks to simplify the job. First you can generate the list of installed software by using this command, dpkg --get-selections > installed-software This command will create a text file name installed-software. You can edit this file and if you want remove some software by simply deleting the line containing the name of the software. Now when you are installing Ubuntu do not format the home folder. This folder actually contain all the settings of the software. And when you re install the software, in most cases, you w...