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What you are seeing is called the grub menu. Both are displayed because GRUB is finding two kernels on your hard drive, the original and the one resulting from an automatic system update. The most...

I did something slightly different to simplify things. I have a basic ~80GB drive that is my "main" drive. It contains the OS, and partitions for /home, /var, /tmp all that. A standard generic...

While not blogs, per se, my favorite sites are:

distrowatch.com
lxer.com
linuxjournal.com

They provide a healthy quantity of fresh linux news.

The directory and file chmod commands worked perfectly. Problem solved. THANK YOU !

Unfortunately, the smb.conf changes broke the share completely. I rolled back to my original smb.conf and...

here is the smb.conf:

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
netbios name = Music
security = share

[data]
comment = Ubuntu
path = /media/network_drive/mp3

Would appreciate some assistance. Setting up a simple Samba server share on Ubuntu 9.04 so that my MP3 library is accessible to other PCs on the LAN, including Windows PCs. The /mp3 folder has a...

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I ran the sudo gcc-3.4 -o autologin autologin.c command as described above and received the following error:

sudo: gcc-3.4: command not found.

I did a whereis gcc in a shell and found it in...

If I understand the above correctly, it assumes you have added xfce on top of the standard Ubuntu install which includes Gnome. An alternative approach if you don't want Gnome installed and want a...

The default XFCE behavior is to make you type in your password in order to shut down. To fix this so that xfce simply shuts down without prompting you for a password, add the following line to the...

Thanks for the tip. I will try this. I do have a question however. I *DO* want a graphical login for one of my PCs to keep my kids out of my stuff. I did a Ubuntu server install and then loaded...

I'm not familiar with many specific packages, but there are whole distros devoted to mathematical packages. Check this out:

http://www.livecdlist.com/

Select the "LiveCDs with a function of..."...

SFN, thanks for the reply. You answered my questions. When I said 'on the fly' I meant without permanently wedding by OS to one desktop. The ability to select which window manager I want to use at...

I'd like to experiment with xfce on Ubuntu, but I'm afraid I'd break my system. Questions:

1. What happens to system when you run install xubuntu-desktop? Does the system automatically switch from...

I suggest you verify you added the repository lines correctly. I had apt errors and realized I did not include spaces where required.

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