Ubuntu

The Linux on Desktop blog offers 13 installations that will make your new Ubuntu desktop feel and work a little more like Windows. The list includes utilities every computer user needs, like a PDF reader, RAR unarchiver, the Flash plugin, DVD playback support and desktop search, as well as apps that enable NTFS (Windows-formatted) disk access, and different codecs for multimedia playback support. If you're taking the leap from Windows to Ubuntu,

Take a look HERE.

Source : LifeHacker [ comments ]

Also, Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks HERE.

Ubuntu Linux free e-book

eBookSpyder has the complete text of the Ubuntu Linux Bible available for download as a PDF.

As you might expect from the title, the 931-page book covers everything you need to know about installing, configuring and using Ubuntu. It teaches you groups, graphics, gaming, spreadsheets, e-mail and much more. It's an impressively comprehensive guide--highly recommended for anyone interested in Ubuntu.

#########################################

Is it spyware?

Wondering what that suspicious looking Windows process might be? Look it up at TaskList.org, a comprehensive alphabetical database of various processes - good or bad - that might be running on your machine.

Click on any of the process links and you'll be taken to a short and sweet bio page: what it does, why it's necessary (or not), and what you can do to get rid of it, if you need to. A good resource to tap into before deleting things willy-nilly.

Visit the website HERE.

==================================================================