ubuntu

I want to add a server to my home network. I want to to work as a NAS, Plex server, and host Home Assistant. I may also use it for VMs but that is a future discussion. It doesn't have to be super powerful or have a ton of storage yet. I'd like expandable, but I may just focus on affordable for...

I got my old Vista machine working and partitioned the hard drive so I could install Ubuntu. Went with 64 bits on about 113 GB of storage. So far, I've: - installed Cairo as a dock, -Conky for my background and adjusted it to show the weather, -Firefox, -Chrome, -Wine to run Spotify, -had...

I have just bought a new laptop. The newest from asus G74s. After getting it home I download skyrim and an Ubuntu 11.10 iso file to a cd. Now comes the problem of getting it to boot from the CD drive, there is no promt to press f12 or such to enter bios. Maybe it has something to do with it...

In Ubuntu 10.04, I have open a terminal window and started a program shell called mongodb. Now when I use the arrow key to use the command history, I get this printed on the screen instead of the previous commands : ^[[A for the up key and ^[[B for the down key. In other windows like the...

I'm completely lost with this kind of stuff on Linux. I have a machine running Ubuntu 11.10 and it has a Radeon 4200 video card. This card will not run Flash 11 GPU content because I suspect the driver is pre-2009 which Flash 11 won't support. Before buying a new card, I want to make sure it...

Having a bit of an annoying issue in Ubuntu here. Firefox 4 isn't available via Synaptic yet, so I just downloaded it and ran it via command line. No problem there. But, there's this whole deal with "Preferred applications" and outside hyperlinks. I figured there's got to be some way to get the...

I am trying to installing Ubuntu 10.10 on a desktop but it goes to the screen that looks like a wallpaper with a curser after the purple screen that says "Ubuntu 10.10" with 4 lights. How do u fix this.

I may need to nuke and pave this comp, so - with 1GB Ram and ~2 Ghz processor, am I able to run kubuntu or ubuntu? Or should I stick with xubuntu for now?

I'm currently running Ubuntu on my PC and I'm quite happy with it. But doesn't recognize my new Canon printer/scanner. Can I get a driver from somewhere? And how do I install it if I find one? Up till now I've only installed stuff from the software center. I have no idea how to install...

This looks pretty cool:

I've been playing around with Ubuntu Linux (yet again), and have installed it for the first time on a dual-monitor system. The OS recognizes there are two monitors, and I can expand my desktop across both monitors just fine using the plain-jane video driver that Ubuntu slaps down as a...

Any suggestions? I'm currently using Amarok. The simpler the better. I just want to play MP3s. No burning, ripping, playlist making....

Since I'm updating my system anyhows, I was thinking of switchin from WinBlows to Linux. I wondered if some of you people out there could help me with some rather daft questions in relations to the Ubuntu distro. Some of the stuff I need to run have either a Linux version or can be run under...

My wife recently bought herself a Dell netbook that came loaded with Ubuntu 8.04. Since I do tech support in this house I found myself having to try and bring myself up to starting speed on an OS I've never used before. I bought a book and with it came live CD which I tried in my own laptop...

<rant> I recently installed Ubuntu but am now finding that almost all of my USB gadgets will not work, and Ubunty will not read the disks that they came with so I cna't install any drivers because they are all EXE files, and the manufacturers have no clue where to find Linux-formated drivers...

Ubuntu, a Linux OS, will not open EXE files. Where can I find a BIOS upgrade for my computer written in a format that Ubuntu can open? I understand there's a program called Wine that can open EXE files, but to use it you have to write libraries and such in the system first and I'd rather not do...

I'm too stupid for Kubuntu, it seems. In days gone by I would flick from O/S to O/S without really thinking about it. In any given day I would probably have used an Amiga (I miss it so much), a Windows PC, a Mac, a VAX, some Linux, tinker with Sun Microsystems and the occasional play with the...

I've been playing around with various linux distro's recently, but I always seem to have a problem that the resolution can't be set any higher than 1024x768. With Windows, I have my resolution at 1280x1024, so the lower resolution looks really strange. Any suggestions? Specifically in Ubuntu...

I'm seriously going to try this out - www.ubuntu.com. It looks like a well-organised effort to use Linux as a reliable desktop platform. Perhaps I can get some of my, well, let's call them "less computer aware" clients off the complicated, confusing and bloated Windows platforms they are using...

So I'm posting this via Ubuntu LiveCD, which I've never used before. Neat distro, all in all. I decided to pop this in, because for whatever reason Windows' internet connection dies periodically (2-3 times a day), I haven't been able to fix it, so I got pissed off and decided to run off this...

I'm trying out the Ubuntu version of Linux - quite impressed so far and I'm thinking of installing it properly on one of our two computers (as soon as I get around to replacing the dead motherboard on the other). Anyone else tried it? I'd be particularly interested in knowing how fast it is...