2buntu

I was recently asked by Roland to write a tutorial describing how to record a video of your desktop using VLC. This is that tutorial. The first step in this tutorial is to simply fire up VLC. I am currently using Windows, so the screenshots below will reflect that – but the beauty of cross-platform ...

We have “acquired” yet another amazing team member at 2buntu! Of recent AskUbuntu fame, Joker Dino is known for his funny (scary) gravatar, and both good questions and answers, and according to his profile, he’s also a recent convert to Ubuntu. I’m sure that he will be able to bring a new perspective to our ...

A true visionary and technologist is reported to have passes away according to Apple Inc. I know we try to focus on Ubuntu and Linux here, but we have to keep in mind that he brought personal computing to the masses along with a handful of other people, and shaped the landscape of technology as ...

This blog post is dedicated to people who disliked the Ambiance-themed Nautilus just because its sidebar wasn’t dark enough to sit well with the dark bread crumbs. So, if you are one of those who were desperately trying to achieve that near impossible consistency, you should have enough reasons to be delighted. In other words, ...

If you have tried gnome-shell, you might have seen those shiny little Google and Wikipedia search buttons in the overview. If you had wanted to have AskUbuntu search among them, fear not. This post will guide you towards exactly that! Creating a new button of your desired service is very much easy, thanks to OpenSearch ...

I was casually watching CNN-IBN at 4:30 and Ta Da, a Ubuntu review on the popular tech show, Techtoyz. The host(Ankit Vengurlekar) describes Ubuntu as “one of the internets best kept secrets“.The main review is done by Suresh Venkat, and boy, he does seem impressed by the FOSS model. The apps reviewed are the Unity Dash,LibreOffice,Evolution and the Ubuntu One ...

If you’re like many in the Linux community, you probably don’t like Unity/Gnome-shell for any number of reasons. So, you made the jump (like [Linus Torvalds did](http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Drops-Gnome-3-for-Xfce-Calls-It-Crazy-215074.shtml)) to XFCE. Now, you plug in your laptops monitor, and it doesn’t…. work right. It’s not a dual-monitor setup…

Hello! I am Nitin  from Chennai, India. I am a guy who loves Linux especially Ubuntu mainly for its ease-of-use and the awesome community and  I strive my best to be an advocate for it. I am highly excited and nervous to be making my first post here. Enjoy your read and hope I made ...