Tag: Kubuntu
40 Open Source Programs That You’ve Probably Not Heard Of
After a recent post on a forum, extolling the virtues of a number of free Open Source program, I made mention that they were always the same problems being mentioned – OpenOffice , ClamWin , Audacity , etc. SourceForge alone holds over 150,000 Open Source projects, let alone those at Google Code , etc. So, I was set a challenge – [...]
Running Kubuntu under VirtualBox
I’ve written a number of times on this topic, but thought I’d bring it all up to date and draw all the various, disparate posts together. I use Kubuntu , not as my main OS, but for web development testing, which means I need a broad cross-section of Linux browsers. Therefore I run Kubuntu for it’s [...]
Upgrading Kubuntu
So, I started up my copy of Kubuntu, running under VirtualBox. For ages it’s been saying that there are no updates available for it, which is odd, so I ran it manually. This time I found a version update available – updating to 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). So I ran it. Now, in the past when [...]
Running VirtualBox from a command line
As I’ve mentioned in the past, VirtualBox is my favourite of all the out there. I use it to run Kubuntu on my Windows XP machine, for web development purposes. Anyway, I have just the one “guest” machine, Kubuntu, so it seems a bit tedious to have to start VirtualBox each time. Naturally, there is another way [...]
VirtualBox Additions
There’s a facility with VirtualBox to install “Guest Additions” – various utilities for a particular OS that will enhance it’s capabilities to work with VirtualBox. Most of the other virtualisation software has its own equivalent. However, I’ve struggled to get it work until I came across an article in PcPro (October 2007) about how to [...]
Gutsy Gibbon
Now that Kubuntu has been upgraded from Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon , it was time to re-install my copy on VirtulBox . Why re-install instead of simply upgrade? Well, I did try that but the update seemed to regularly crash. In the end I had an upgraded version of Kubuntu but it wouldn’t install and future updates. Which is obviously bad. [...]
A Virtual Change
I posted recently about trying out Linux via VMWare . VMWare was incredibly easy to set-up but has had 2 frustrating problems… It’s slow (this is apparently on purpose to get you to buy the commercial version. Allegedly) The network bridging that it uses causes my network connection to not start for about 5 minutes after [...]
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VMware, Linux & Web Development
So there I was a couple of nights ago reading a PC magazine, when I came across a great article on how to use VMware . I’d heard of virtualisation but not dabbled. But it seems so easy I’d give it a go. And you know what? It actually is easy! My intention was to install [...]
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