The “Oracle-java″ package is no longer available in the official Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Precise Pangolin.   In this post i will show you how to remove OpenJDK and install Oracle Java7 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.

Question: I installed and configured samba share on Ubuntu, now from a windows machine i can see the shared folders but i can not access them, how i can resolve this?

Updated 05/04/2013 : One of the common issues facing Ubuntu users after installing or upgrading Ubuntu is the nosound problem, there are many reason for this issue, sometime is related to a volume setting configuration, misconfiguration or can be that … Continue reading →

Thunderbird 11 has been released, this is a new release that comes with  a new user interface with Tabs above the main menu bar to facilitate navigation and make it more contextual, fixed a various bugs  including security bugs, Thunderbird notifications … Continue reading →

FrostWire 5.3.3 has been released, this is a stable release that comes with improvements in Search, Magnet support and performance

Unsetting is another graphical configuration tool for Unity, Unsetting  allows you to change the themes for GTK, window manger, icons, cursors, switch off the global menu and the overlay scrollbars used in Unity, another nice feature is that Unsetting lets … Continue reading →

Updated 05-04-2013: One of the most asked features for Samba is a graphical user interface to help with configuration and management,  there are several GUI interfaces to Samba available, for me the most  simple and powerful one of these tools … Continue reading →

Updated: 19-04-2013 : Medibuntu is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Ubuntu for various reasons, related to geographical  variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues, some examples of packages included in … Continue reading →

In August last McDonald’s chose a leading IT services provider to run their Point-of-Sales signboards, for a period of five years across Ireland and UK.  And recent pics, such as these,  show why there is so much talk about the role Ubuntu plays in … Continue reading →

Conky-Lua next generation is a nice conky theme from the same author of Conky Lua. This theme is available for Debian, Fedora, LinuxMint, PCLinux, Opensue and Ubuntu. From my side i tested this conky theme in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise … Continue reading →