. . . but you may. How to use more than 4GB RAM on a 32 bit Ubuntu installation.
Today in my inbox, which often overflows with notifications about open source software, I received two separate notifications which I plan to combine in one blog post. The first was a list of command line clients for Twitter for use under Linux. My main office machine runs Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), and I date from…
I have encountered serious difficulties with sound and sound editing on my Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) machine. I’ve blogged about it before, and how I kept using Audacity on my Gutsy machine and even did some editing under Windows to produce my podcast. I’ve had moments with the Hardy machine, but it was hard to extend…
The netbooks appear to be. A few months ago I passed my desktop to my wife because her machine was too slow for what she needed to do. I then took a machine that was slower (1.8 v 2.4 GHz) and had less memory (768 MB v 1 GB), and installed Ubuntu for my own…
This guess post at Greg Laden’s blog gives one man’s experience switching to Linux. It’s a repost from 2009, so the version numbers are a bit different (Ubuntu is at 11.10 now), but it still gives a pretty good idea of what to expect. I would add the strong recommendation that when you switch operating…
A very nice post at Linux Magazine explains the benefits of Aptitude and the basics of how to use it. Aptitude takes the apt-get command and provides a menu driven system. This is one of those nifty old menu systems that runs in your terminal window. Enjoy!
Since I recommend Firefox all the time, I thought I’d put a note about this. There are solutions in this Ubuntu forum thread, but for those who might not get there because they’re thinking of the problem as one with opening a new tab, let me note the solution that worked for me, which is…