VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. To [...]
Full Story »How to Enable Root Account in Ubuntu 12.04
In Microsoft Windows Administrator is the most powerful user, same way in linux there is a SuperUser named Root. Root can do anything and everything. Due to the same root can be dangerous in daily work. You can use sudo command to do most of the super user’s task. By default, the root account password [...]
Full Story »How to install GIMP 2.8 on Ubuntu 12.04
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a multi-platform photo manipulation tool. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction. GIMP has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a [...]
Full Story »How to Install SSH Server on Ubuntu 12.04
By default Ubuntu Desktop OS comes with ssh client package. It does not include ssh server package which is needed to access this machine. To install SSH on the newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 run following commands sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ssh That’s it. To confirm the working ssh. Run the following commands from [...]
Full Story »How to Disable GUI Boot in Ubuntu 12.04
Following the steps I followed to enable console boot in Ubuntu 12.04 Step 1 First update your repository by running sudo apt-get update Step 2 There is some bug in old version of lightdm, so we need to upgrade the same. To do so run, sudo apt-get install lightdm Step 3 Now we have to [...]
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