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GRUB 2

Many duel boot system users might have faced this issue. Crashing  of windows OS is most likely to happen. Some time due to virus attack or some time due to improper shutdown of system.

When you try to restore it, you will lose boot loader. This happens because windows used to rewrite the master boot record. Need not be panic, its easy to restore your GRUB with some simple steps.

Chinmoy Kanjilal has written a simple step by step tutorial in techie-buzz.com which describe restoring GRUB.

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Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.0

A new version of Ubuntu Tweak (Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.0) has been released with drastic improvement from the previous versions. The latest version has changes in sidebar and title bar and also can sync data over the internet.

Ubuntu Tweak is a small piece of software which enable even an ordinary computer user to tweak their Ubuntu desktop. It also provide an application center when you can install new software as well as add third party software sources.

Using Ubuntu Tweak you can tweak your ubuntu desktop graphically which are only possible by editing config files in default ubuntu installation.

Ubuntu Tweak features

*  View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.)
* GNOME Session Control

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KDE GNOME

Plasma desktop is one of the main attractions in KDE 4 series. It enabled KDE comparable to any other Windows or Mac OSX interface in terms of beauty. But only a small percentage of  Ubuntu users use KDE . There are many reasons for that.

Though KDE is beautiful, its not that much easy or straight forward  as GNOME. KDE is fairly complex for absolutely new users.

Most of the ubuntu’s developments are primarily targeting GNOME. So people think that to get full support from Ubuntu, they should use GNOME.

And  of course some people are not using KDE just because it resembles Windows. They terribly hate Windows.

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Linux Terminal

For a long time, Linux is known as operating system for servers and techie people. The scenario has changes a lot. Now Linux has a nice GUI, lots of quality applications that make it a viable alternative to Windows or Mac OSX.

But Linux’s desktop market share is still a tiny percentage comparing to Windows. But it really shines in Server space.

Unlike windows server version, Linux servers does not carry a GUI by default. You can install GUI for Linux server, but it not encouraged as it will be a wastage of resources. Moreover, after the server is up and running, there is no need of a GUI.

Linux amins usually depend mainly on command line interface which is more robust and useful. The only problem is the initial learning curve.

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Nexuiz

Nexuiz is one of the most popular First Person Shooter game for Ubuntu. Its an open source and freely available for Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OSX.  Nexuiz emerged after the open-sourcing of the Quake 3 engine.  It is developed by Alientrap.

The 2.5 series bring many improvements, featuring new graphics, new maps and an even faster game play. The latest version is 2.5.2, a bug-fix release to the stable 2.5 release.

TuxArena has published a full review of the latest release Nexuiz 2.5.2

You can read the full review from HERE

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Linux Games

Ubuntu is a very good operating system in all respects.  But in the case computer games, Ubuntu is not comparable with Windows (Mac OSX have the same problem). The reason is most of the high end Game developers are not ready to port it’s windows version to Ubuntu or Mac OSX.

But Ubuntu still have some good open source games. I am not telling about high end games. Some small interesting games

TuxArena have published a review about 3 interesting open source games

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Ubuntu

Recently Ubuntu developers released Lucid Lynx Alpha 1. Its just a beginning. Lots of development versions are yet to come. So its very early stage to make a verdict on it.

But first alpha version come with several changes from previous version and most of them are not related to user interface. Each new version of ubuntu gives a feel that ubuntu release previous versions just to study what a customer really want it ubuntu.

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New Wave theme give a modern professional face for your Ubuntu desktop. New Wave had been included in Ubuntu  since Jaunty release. It is basically a dark  theme with perfect blend of orange. So you never miss Ubuntuish feel while running on this theme. The theme is published and available for download at Gnome-Look.org. Detailed installation instruction is also available there.

New Wave Theme for Ubuntu

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Shotwell is a simple photo organizer for GNOME desktop environment. It enables you to do basic photo manipulations of your personal photo collection. Yorba, a non-profit software group based on San Francisco, is the organization behind Shotwell. It incorporate a simple user interface. Shotwell is written in Vala.

Shotwell photo organizer (Image from Shotwell official site)

Shotwell provides a non-destructive way to tweak your photos. Instead of modifying the original photos, Shotwell stores all edits in a database and applies them on-the-fly as necessary. This means that you can easily undo all edits and even revert to original directly.

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Ubun2.com

Ubuntu, the most popular linux distribution, is about to reach 13 million users. Unlike the other distributions, the number of non techie computer users come to ubuntu world is considerably high. Most of the non – techie people are not familiar with forums. Unfortunately Ubuntu’s main support is given through forums. It would be better if there is a place which is very much like Yahoo Answers and  Stack Overflow. People love to use such services.

Ubun2.com is such a start up which is inspired by Yahoo Answers and  Stack Overflow.
“Ubun2.com is a web 2.0 style question and answers service for people to discover and share ubuntu (linux based operating system) knowledge with the world.

Inspired by the popularity of Yahoo Answers, Stack Overflow and popular forums we thought ubuntu deserves a reliable and dedicated web 2.0 resource for sharing solutions to problems.”

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