We now have the full Repositories for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx. The full set of Ubuntu Repository DVDs (set of 8 DVDs) are now available and you can order it through our RequestCD Program. The repositories (both 32bit and 64 bit) are available as DVD repositories or as full repository folders on an External Hard Drive. Get your copy and enjoy the glory of GNU Linux.

BSNL had recently launched their 3G services in India with speeds of up to 3.6Mbps. Interestingly the 3G USB modem provided by BSNL also comes with a wvdial front end targeting GNU Linux users. Welcome change from the national telecom provider. Unfortunately the 3G USB device(ZTE MF626 HSDPA with device id 19d2:2000) had the same problem with switching the mode from the storage device, that it gets detected by default, like its predecessors. Here are the steps for configuring the BSNL 3G modem in Ubuntu. This should work with minor variations in other GNU Linux distros as well.

Counterpath X-Lite is free SIP based softphone that is pretty popular. The X-Lite is a stripped down version of the premium SIP solutions offered by the same company. X-Lite is available for GNU/Linux as well but only as a 32bit binary. Recently one of our customers walked in with X-Lite software and a 64bit Arch Linux installation requesting us to set up the 32bit X-Lite soft phone on the 64bit machine. The following steps describe how we did it on Arch Linux. It should work fine on any other 64bit GNU/Linux distributions with minor variations.

When you you wish to run multiple services bound to different IPs possibly under different subnets from a single machine the simple way is to create multiple virtual adapters tied to a single physical card. The following instructions are for CentOS but should also work for RedHat and Fedora.

If you install sendmail on your desktop and have not configured your system correctly you will very likely come across this problem. Ubuntu boot up slows down considerably and stops for a long time at the "Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA) sendmail" line. This is because sendmail is trying to resolve your host and times out failing to do so. You can fix this problem easily by making a few changes in to yours hosts file.

OpenOffice is possibly one among the finest examples on what can be achieved in the world of Free Software. For starters, OpenOffice is an office application suite in the lines of Microsoft Office and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The latest stable release is OpenOffice 3.1. You may want to know how to install OpenOffice 3.1 in Ubuntu. Now let us take a look at the list of extensions you could use in OpenOffice.

Rar used to be a favorite compression format when the compressed files were to be split into multiple pieces to fit into legacy external storage devices like Floppy, Zip disk, CD etc. WinRAR is a popular GUI application that can rar and unrar files in the rar format. If however you come across rar files that are split into multiple parts then you can extract and combine them as follows

Firefox is readying itself for yet another major release. That is an amazing feat by itself when you consider the fact that, they had another major release, called Firefox 3.0, less than a year ago. Now it is time for highly revised and improved Firefox 3.5. You can even give it a try by installing the release candidate vesrion called Firefox 3.5RC2 in your Ubuntu. But we recommend you to wait until the official release of Firefox 3.5 which is safer. Firefox 3.5RC2 is only for testing purposes.

Got Atheros AR242x 802.11abg Wireless device and have problems to make it work with Ubuntu? I had this same issue while i was trying to install Ubuntu in an ASUS netbook. Finally i got it working though. Here is a detailed post on how to install Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) driver in Ubuntu and get it to work.

The latest KDE 4.2.4 is released with much improved features and lots of bug fixes. Some of the new features include a highly improved pdf reader, Okular and and a much versatile KMail. Improved applets,  efficient and smooth window management,  breathtaking desktop effects, etc are some of the highlights of KDE 4.2. The latest release in the series, KDE 4.2.4 is probably the last release before the official release of KDE 4.3, which is going to happen some time in the month of July/August. Here is How you can update your Ubuntu/Kubuntu with the latest KDE 4.2.4.