Category: Ubuntu

Link: How To: Enable Hibernation in Ubuntu Systems

Hibernate option saves all the currently running applications and turns off the system without any further power consumption. When the system wakes up on the next restart, all the previously running applications are restored. By default, Hibernation is disabled in Ubuntu and it is removed from the Ubuntu’s shutdown menu (for versions 12.04 and onwards). This article will guide you to re-enable the Hibernate feature in Ubuntu systems.

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How To: Enable Hibernation in Ubuntu Systems (Your Own Linux..!)

Really want to switch to Linux but hate losing that Mac OS X look? There could be a solution…

Look, we’re not suggesting that anyone copy the look and feel of another operating system – that might be frowned upon in some circles. But that said, there are some people who are finding that true Macs are priced just a little out of their reach, so they either try to build a “Hackintosh” or they put Linux on a computer and then try to make it look and work as much like a Mac as possible. For the latter crowd, we offer this article, but suggest you consider carefully which tweaks you actually make, particularly if you ever plan on using your system in any kind of public setting.  Could you get sued for displaying an Apple logo on a non-Apple product?  We don’t know, and we don’t want to find out!

Mac OS X (MBuntu 13.10) Pack is ready, Install in Ubuntu 13.10/Linux Mint 16/other related Ubuntu derivatives (NoobsLab)

Mac OS X transformation pack is ready for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Linux Mint 16. This transformation pack has been completed with collaboration of haniahmed (One Gnome Shell theme) and mbossg (One Gtk theme + two icon sets) both guys did really fine job. Mac themes for Linux are almost stopped but we kept this project on our list from 12.04, and now we release Mac transformation for every new Ubuntu release. Many people look over the internet for pre-configured Mac look like Macbuntu 13.10/Mac4lin, Mac Ubuntu theme and so on, but it is good idea to transform it by yourself because if you want to change to old/other look you can do that easily. This method of transformation doesn’t use any excessive memory/CPU/and other resources.

This time NoobsLab is offering four Mac GTK themes, two Gnome Shell and one Cinnamon theme. Cinnamon theme isn’t very close to Mac but it can give Mac feel to panel. This time we included three icon packs which are somewhat different from each other.

We don’t think we’d go through all this trouble just to change the look and feel, even though we do hate Unity in Ubuntu.  It might be easier to just start with a Linux distribution that already has a great interface, such as Linux Mint.

Link: Grsync : Graphical rsync backup tool on Ubuntu (12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10)

grsync is a graphical rsync tool in ubuntu linux. It provides a graphical user interface to backup or sync important files & directories to remote machine or in local machine using rsync. It currently supports only a limited set of the most important rsync features, but can be used effectively for local directory synchronization.

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Grsync : Graphical rsync backup tool on Ubuntu (12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10) (NextStep4it)
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How to Install Grsync : Graphical rsync backup tool on Ubuntu ( 12.10 / 13.04 / 13.10) (KBTECHWORLD)

Link: How to mount Google Drive on Linux

As I speak, more than 22,000 people signed up for a petition, desperately wanting to have an official native Linux client for Google Drive, and yet their voice is still being ignored by Google. Perhaps when it comes to boosting their bottom line, Linux desktop market is not a priority for Google.

They can ignore Linux desktop market all they want, but they cannot ignore the power of FOSS. Faced with the frustration, the open-source community responded, producing unofficial Google Drive clients such as Grive or SyncDrive. These clients are file synchronization tools which sync files and folders between local file system and remote Google Drive. As such, you cannot mount Google Drive using these tools.

If you want to mount Google Drive on Linux, you can try google-drive-ocamlfuse, which is a FUSE-based file system backed by Google Drive. Using this user-space file system, you can mount your Google Drive account on Linux, and have full read/write access to files/folders in Google Drive as if they were local files/folders.

In this tutorial, I will describe how to mount Google Drive on Linux with google-drive-ocamlfuse.

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How to mount Google Drive on Linux (Xmodulo)

Collection of links: Setting up a PPTP VPN server in Ubuntu Linux

Just a collection of pages we found on this topic, in no particular order:

How to Setup a VPN (PPTP) Server on Debian Linux (How-To Geek)
Configure a PPTP VPN Server on Ubuntu Linux (Networking Howtos)
Setting up a PPTP VPN Server on Debian/Ubuntu (Jesin’s Blog)
Steps to setup VPN in Linux using Graphical User Interface (Mr. VPN)
How to setup PPTP VPN on Linux (How To Install VPN)
Set-up PPTP virtual private network (VPN) server on Ubuntu Linux (Open Source Hacker)

Link: How To Install Cinnamon 2.0 On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04, Linux Mint 15, 14, 13

Cinnamon is a fork of the Gnome 3 desktop environment, created by the Linux Mint developers. The latest version available is Cinnamon 2.0, which brings improvements and new features to the previous version, Cinnamon 1.8. For a full list of changes and new things, see the official announcement.

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How To Install Cinnamon 2.0 On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04, Linux Mint 15, 14, 13 (LinuxG.net)

Link: Diffpdf – Compare two PDF files textually or visually

DiffPDF is a GUI application used to compare two PDF files.By default the comparison is of the text on each pair of pages, but comparing the visual appearance of pages is also supported (for example, if a diagram is changed or if a paragraph is reformatted). It is also possible to compare particular pages or page ranges. …

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Diffpdf – Compare two PDF files textually or visually (UbuntuGeek)

Link: How to clean up disk space on Linux

BleachBit is an open-source disk space cleaner software, available on Linux and Windows platforms. Besides cleaning up disk space, BleachBit can also shred files securely, and wipe out unallocated disk space for your privacy.

In this tutorial, I will describe how to clean up disk space on Linux by using BleachBit.

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How to clean up disk space on Linux (Xmodulo)

Link: 5 Free Manuals On Ubuntu Distributions

Ubuntu is one community that will always lend you help for your problems and is extremely helpful but it is even better with Ubuntu documentation – you will find a user guide for each release. So here we will list other interesting books available for download.

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5 Free Manuals On Ubuntu Distributions (EFYTimes.com)

Link: How To Change Desktop Environment On Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04 & Linux Mint 13/14/15

In this post I will show you how to change your desktop environment. Once you install a new desktop you can change to it by logging out and then changing your session to your new desktop environment.

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How To Change Desktop Environment On Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04 & Linux Mint 13/14/15 (Hacker Paparazzi)