Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Burg Bootloader for natty.


Do you think it a booted Os, or a splash of a booting Os?

Can u believe that its a boot loader.


How to install Burg boot loader in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal?

Open up your favorite terminal gnome-terminal or xterm or konsole.

Add ppa to the software source list.


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/burg
sudo apt-get update



Installation


sudo apt -get install burg burg-common burg-emu burg-pc burg-themes burg-themes-common




Use the following commands if the burg is not appeared after rebooting.(Installation of burg to MBR, usually it will be done automatically after burg install).


Remember to substitute ‘hd0′ with the drive on which your MBR is installed. This usually, but not typically, located on your primary HDD.


sudo burg-install hd0
sudo update-burg






Burg ships with a selection of (admittedly pretty) themes by default. To switch/change between theme is simple:
  • Reboot
  • Press ‘T’ on your keyboard when at the BURG screen
  • Using your arrow keys select a theme from the list that appears
  • Hit enter for it to be applied
How to install custom BURG themes?

Monday, May 02, 2011

Amarok | Rediscover music!


For the newbies the default player in ubuntu is banashee.
But I recommend you to try Amarok.
It can be easily installed from ubuntu software center or Synaptic 
or 
the geeky way



sudo apt-get install amarok



Also install the following codecs, the codecs ubuntu recommends is having some problem in my system, these are recommended by the amarok developers.
  • libxine1-ffmpeg
  • gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

 
Also try clementine and exaile two mediaplayers inspired by amarok

Ubuntu Natty Bluetooth Problem



While on Natty, the blue tooth applet crashes at the time of start up, dont know why?

It can be started by using the following command




bluetooth-applet




Hit Alt + F2 Then Enter the above command.



Sunday, May 01, 2011

FSCK - Free Software Community Kariyavattom

"fsck - check and repair a Linux file system."

Fsck is a very much useful Linux tool to repair broken file-systems it even repairs NTFS.

But for me its a community I tried to start in my college, University college of engineering, Kariyavattom.

I only tried to start it but not started. But now I officially announce that the community has been started. But now its not a college community. Its head quarters is situated at

Room no:102
Taj hostel,
Kazhakootam

So how can I help my fellow friends?

  • As an inauguration offer I will provide free Ubuntu natty installation.
  • Also provide a free upgrade to gnome 3 on request.
  • Free installation of almost all free and open source software that come under GPL licence.
  • Help in doing college lab works in GNU/Linux for free.
I welcome all to be members of this Community.
Premium membership is open and will be closed soon, so better hurry.
Normal membership will be open all time.

Have quries? Dial 9061 120 210

Gnome 3 in natty

Any way I am not going to use unity. So switch to gnome 3
Installation of gnome 3 in natty is simple in 3 steps
Open your terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop3


As the default ubuntu is not packed with gtk3, you need to install gtk 3 to make it look sexy


sudo apt-get install gtk3-engines
sudo apt-get install gnome-themes


To change themes, you need gnome-tweak-tool


sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

There is no guarantee that this will work fine.
if u are too afraid then wait till Oneiric Ocelot or switch to fedora 15.