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I am using Kubuntu, and trying to configure the fonts for gtk apps from systemsettings > Common Appearance and Behavior > Application Appearance > GTK
Changing the themes and font family works fine....

anybody ?

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I have a HP F380 printer. It is an old one, about 5 years old now.
It printed fine till ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10

But after that, even till ubuntu 13.04 it does not print properly.
It will pull...

more cpu cores mean more processing power, so performance boost.

You mean, X is eating GBs of RAM ?
On my system Xorg consumes around 24MB of ram which appears ok.

It is simple. Setup internet connection sharing using Firestarter.



1. Setup your mobile phone internet on 1 linux machine.
2. Connect your 2nd machine to this first machine via ethernet cable...

apt-cache show packagename

or

aptitude show packagename


Read a complete apt tutorial

Xfce or Lxde is better. Install one of them.

Most probably grub would get overwritten, however it should be possible to restore grub later on.

Quanta Plus is dead, but even to this date, it is the best, if not the most featureful web development tool for linux.
If you are doing php/css/javascript development then quanta does very well....

Windows 8 does boot much faster than xp or 7.
However it is nowhere near to ubuntu in terms of resource usage. It eats a lot of ram and cpu, which ubuntu does not.

A normal ubuntu system with...

First ping your router and check the response time
for example
ping 192.168.1.1

then ping a dns server like 8.8.8.8

note the time, check which part is slow, your connection to router or...

Do this and it should fix the speed

sudo ethtool -s eth0 duplex full speed 10 autoneg off

Yes, I noticed that too. The gnome desktop if installed messes with lxde and xfce.
However if lxde is the only desktop installed such problems do not appear. For example Lubuntu

Let me know if...

Follow this tutorial to install quanta plus on ubuntu

http://www.binarytides.com/install-quanta-plus-ubuntu-13-04/

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Silver

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On a fresh hard disk, can I first install ubuntu on primary partition and then install windows on a logical partition?
How should I go about it. Installing windows would erase the boot record....

you can just install a lubuntu version for which ubuntu has LTS. so you will keep getting updates from repositories.

yeah, for many users it does not make any noticeable difference specially on laptop/tablets with large font sizes.
but on lcd monitors with small font size, it makes huge difference in clarity and...

what is the exact error message. what ftp client are you using ?

does ubuntu work stably with your hardware ?

All linuxes can now render fonts exactly the same beautiful way.
Just hack your .fonts.conf file

Here is my version that makes your fonts look gorgeous.
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I played around with some settings in the .fonts.conf file and used free google fonts like droid, noto sans
they give excellent rendering results on ubuntu. not talking about any patches to...

Suphp installation guide :

http://www.binarytides.com/blog/install-suphp-on-ubuntu-linux/

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In KDE :
I upgraded my system from 9.10 to 10.04.
I see some difference in fonts. In Karmic fonts were slightly smaller and they are around 20% bigger in Lucid for the same font size.

In...