If you’ve been wanting to use voice and video chat on Linux (our top video chat request), then we have good news for you: it’s now available! Visit gmail.com/videochat to download the plugin and get started. Voice and video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming [...]
Most of the applications contained in a PPA can be quite too bleeding edge and not as well tested as what comes with the Ubuntu repos, so the users would sometimes want to revert back to the official Ubuntu packages.This post educates you how to do it using the “PPA-Purge”.What does it do? : ppa-purge [...]
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As everyone knows “Pidgin” is a very popular multi-featured instant messaging desktop client that is used by millions of Linux users. It supports a wide range of chat networks like Yahoo!, AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, and IRC. You can even send and receive SMS (Text Messages) for free via Pidgin. So if it can do [...]
Execute this command in the terminal to bring up grub chart to edit.sudo gedit /etc/default/grubLook for the line “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash” And change that to “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”profile quiet”(without quotes) and save the changes. Now in your terminal execute the command:sudo update-grub2 to update your grub and make the changes and reboot.your first boot after this will be a bit [...]
I had this small but EXTREMELY annoying problem of the tab-autocompletion not working with apt-get in the terminal. I use it a lot to install programs and related packages, but now i need to know the specific name instead of tabbing to see what i can type. After considerable searching I found the cure. Well [...]
