In September last year, Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind Ubuntu, announced Ubuntu 9.04 aka Jaunty Jackalope. And here you have it. The latest Ubuntu build hits the street. When it was announced, Shuttleworth stated that Ubuntu will soon surpass Mac OSX and 9.04 will be the first step towards this goal. Though there hasn’t been [...]

Techie Buzz is powered by a Ubuntu Hardy operating system, and we do a lot of configuration and setups on the server. However unlike Windows we only use the command line for managing the server, so adding and removing startup items becomes a pain.

Linux distributions have been a pain to install in the past, we have been through that pain and can assure that it was frightful. The earlier versions of Red Hat required you to have unformatted space on your hard drive on which you could install it, and to be quite frank it was a pain [...]

The root or super user is the most powerful user in a Linux operating system, it has power to cripple you system to a piece of crap if it lands in the wrong hands. Root user is also synonymous with the Windows Administrator for Windows based system. In the past we have seen many system [...]

Did you just switch to Linux and realise that pressing Win Key + D shortcut doesn’t take you to the desktop? Yes, by default this keyboard shortcut for ‘Show Desktop’ doesn’t work in Linux.