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GRAMPS – Free Software Project for Genealogy

GRAMPS is a genealogy program. It helps you organize your family tree, and is capable of exchanging data with other programs using the GEDCOM standard. (...)Read the rest of GRAMPS - Free Software Project for Genealogy (33 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: desktop, GRAMPS, GRAMPS ubuntu, install GRAMPS ubuntu Related [...]

Remmina – Remote desktop client

Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travellers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks. Remmina supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistant user interface. Currently RDP, VNC, XDMCP and SSH are [...]

Uget – Free and Open Source download manager

Uget is a Free and Open Source download manager, it has many of features like easy-to-use, support pause and resume, classify download, every category has an independent configuration. (...)Read the rest of Uget - Free and Open Source download manager (194 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: desktop, download-manager-ubuntu, install [...]

Unleash your inner sysadmin with AjaXplorer

Hello good people of the oh-em-gee communitee! My name is Benjamin, otherwise known as humphreybc. For those of you who haven't heard of me I'm a 19 year old kiwi Computer Science student studying in Dunedin, New Zealand. I like many things including (but not limited to) flying, photography, music, drumming and Ubuntu! I do my best to help as much as I can with Ubuntu and a lot of my time is spent on the super cool and you-should-totally-come-check-us-out manual project xD

I'm going to be hanging around here writing articles every so often as I see the need to brain-fart my less than extensive knowledge onto you so I hope I can bring something new and exciting to your day.

Anyway, one thing that Joey doesn't write about much is Ubuntu Server Edition. Possibly because he doesn't have a server. Thankfully I do, so all those sysadmins out there can breath a sigh of relief because their favourite Ubuntu site now covers servers.. well.. a few posts at least.

Specifically I'm going to show you two easy-to-install applications that help you set up your own rockin' LAMP home file server: AjaXplorer and phpsysinfo.

AjaXplorer

AjaXplorer is an easy-to-install file explorer for remotely managing files on a web server. Its rich client layout and actions make it accessible to any end-user for a variety of purposes: file management/sharing, photo gallery, code browsing, etc. PHP 5 is necessary, no database needed.

Because it's web based, it plays nice with pretty much all operating systems. I use it in my flat, and we have a combination of Linux, Windows and Mac computers with all manner of browsers and it runs flawlessly, even though the server itself is running Ubuntu 9.10! Some features:

Repositories - you can create "repositories" that point to directories on your server

User management - set permissions, passwords and allow users to only see certain repositories

Detailed logs - keep track of who's downloading what

Audio previews - listen to audio tracks before you download

Search - find that particular movie in a flash

Select multiple files to download and AjaXplorer will zip them up for you!

Slick interface complete with animations so all your OS X users will be happy

Easy installation - just extract it into /var/www and away you go!

But hey, instead of looking at pretty pictures, why don't you go and check out the demo?

phpsysinfo

phpsysinfo is a really neat way to see your server statistics. It's a PHP script that displays stuff like:

Uptime

CPU usage

Hardware information

RAM and Disk usage

Network statistics

You can see it in action running here.

Best of all, it's in the repositories!

sudo apt-get install phpsysinfo

...And just to show you why sysadmins are so cool:

xkcd.com

Ubuntu 10.04 Icons Re-Coloured Purple…

With the familiar brown tones of Ubuntu of yore being replaced with vibrant purple hues in the recent re-branding, the 'purplification' of the default icon set had to occur sooner or later.

In updates to the new Ubuntu icon set 'ubuntu-mono' some icons have started to receive just that - having their old human colourings made-over with distinctive orchis highlights.

So far 5 icons in the Ubuntu-mono icon set have undergone 'purplification'. These are the icons for 'Computer', 'Desktop', 'Remote Desktop', 'Startup Applications' and the menu icon for 'Appearance'. (See image above)

The 10.04 desktop is starting to bloom into utter sumptuousness.

After Digg, now is reddit who says yes to Cassandra DB, bye to MySQL

After Twitter and digg, now is Reddit who announced yesterday that they switched their database to NoSQL Cassandra database; this is the second bad news for MySQl and Oracle in two days. As i mentioned in my previous article, Cassandra is an open source project that develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database.

How to install FreeNX server and client in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

FreeNX is a system that allows you to access your desktop from another machine over the Internet. You can use this to login graphically to your desktop from a remote location. One example of its use would be to have a FreeNX server set up on your home computer, and graphically logging in to the [...]

Font Manager – A font management application for the GNOME desktop

Font Manager is a font management application for the GNOME desktop. It is not intended to be a professional-grade font management solution, but rather a simple application suitable for the needs of most desktop users and even some graphics designers who may need to manage just a few thousand font files. Although designed with the [...]

Frugalware -Just another Linux distribution

Frugalware is a general-purpose Linux distribution designed for intermediate users who are not afraid of text mode. "The Frugalware Philosophy" is about simplicity, multimedia, and design. The authors try to make Frugalware as simple as possible while not forgetting to keep it comfortable. Frugalware uses Judd Vinet's pacman package manager.

Lyricue – The GNU Lyric disply system

Lyricue is free and open-source application that is used to edit/display song lyrics and passages of text along with images and videos on a second screen/projector. It was designed for use at live events such as church services, concerts and seminars. (...)Read the rest of Lyricue - The GNU Lyric disply system (244 words) © admin for [...]