[Article] Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" Alpha Out For Testing!!

Was busy with college so found out just today that Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha is out for testing. Also, Ettercap Lazarus was released on the same time so didnt pay attention to anything except Lazarus for couple of week.

This release contains Linux Kernel 3.2 RC3.
Mozilla Firefox 9.0 is the default browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0 is the default email client.
It has gnome 3.2.1 as desktop environment.
Also, Rythmbox is the default music player.

So, why wait, lets download and check the Alpha release and see if we can find any bugs and/or fix the bug and help for the release of 12.04. Please click here to go to the iso download pages.

Try to inform ubuntu of any bugs you find asap!! :D

[Article] Sketching Tux

Lately I have been attracted in drawing tux.
For people who dont now who or what is tux, please go here.
So, here are a few of Tuxes I drew.

 

This is the first tux i drew withing 5 minutes as soon as I was attracted. Looks like shit, but still as a memorable first drawing. :)

 

This is the second tux I drew taking about 15 minutes. This tux is now a sticker in my laptop after being coloured, as shown in the figure below :) :

The below one maybe the final Tux I will draw, its bigger than others, about 3-4 times bigger than the one above. I have planned to stick this big-tux on the back of my laptop. :)

The tux above was bald when he was born, LOL. :D

[Mini-Tutorial] Enabliing 4 GB RAM in 32-bit Ubuntu.

I have seen and heard that 32 bit operating systems (linux) take only 3 gB of RAM even if more than 3 gB is installed. Here is my experience and solution to it.

I recently bought a 32-bit laptop with 2 gB of RAM. I had a spare 2 gB RAM with me, so I installed that 2 gB RAM in my laptop hoping that I will get 4 gB of RAM. The BIOS shows 4 gB of RAM installed, but OS shows only 3 gB. I was a bit shocked. Googled for a bit and found a simple solution.

Need to install PAE linux kernel header. My OS was ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. I fired up my terminal and typed:

aptitude install linux-generic-pae linux-headers-generic-pae

reboot

and bam it showd 4 gB. For more detailed info, go here. here.