I've a machine I use as server however roommate wanted to work on GUI so installed gnome but now I want to strip down all unnecessary stuff what is easiest and safest way? plus I want to delete him and give him an account again as I needed to give him all rights to install packages
here u go
btw thanks for ssh and webserver guides those r setup now :)
I'm planning to turn my old PowerPC G4 into a wordpress website. I'd like to use the server edition of ubuntu 10.04, install a GUI (to set up wordpress) then uninstall the gui.
Would I be able to do that?
I wanted to switch to xfce (I had kde and gnome installed), and I did this :
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get autoremove
but to my surprise, I could still pick gnome, kde plasma, etc during the log in.
S...
First, I should apologize for not announcing the changes before I made them. You're right about that. But I felt the tagging issues had gone on for 6+ months with no significant action at all, and even worse, a technical programmer code "fix" to the entire Stack Exchange engine was being promoted...
Can you answer this? How can I always show the close, minimise and maximise buttons on their windows and... http://askubuntu.com/questions/81175/how-can-i-always-show-the-close-minimise-and-maximise-buttons-on-their-windows #unity
I am writing a script to add a large amount of users to a system. Part of this involves setting default passwords for each user. How can I set users' passwords without it prompting me for the password up front?
Unfortunately passwd doesn't seem to take an argument stating the new password to set...
I have a few Ubuntu server boxes set up on ESX, and I changed the IP addresses via SSH. The moment I changed it, it dropped me off of SSH (as expected).
After a restart it works 100% as expected and I can SSH in on the new IP.
However, as much as this works and I know it is a solution, I am try...
Remote control direction keys repeat twice in MythTV http://askubuntu.com/questions/82331/remote-control-direction-keys-repeat-twice-in-mythtv #mythbuntu
ok might be a stupid question.. when dd if=img of=/dev/sdd1 bs=64k what should my block size be (some say 64k some say 1m) and what should my flashdrive be formatted as (ext2? fat32?) should this be on a msdos partition table?
i'm trying to install freebsd from a flashdrive. using gparted to format the drive and dd to copy the image.
Bounty offered: How to edit whitelisted apps in the notification area in gnome fallback session? http://askubuntu.com/questions/81674/how-to-edit-whitelisted-apps-in-the-notification-area-in-gnome-fallback-session #gnomepanel
I'm planning to turn my old PowerPC G4 into a wordpress website. I'd like to use the server edition of ubuntu 10.04, install a GUI (to set up wordpress) then uninstall the gui.
Would I be able to do that?
I wanted to switch to xfce (I had kde and gnome installed), and I did this :
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get autoremove
but to my surprise, I could still pick gnome, kde plasma, etc during the log in.
S...
I have a few Ubuntu server boxes set up on ESX, and I changed the IP addresses via SSH. The moment I changed it, it dropped me off of SSH (as expected).
After a restart it works 100% as expected and I can SSH in on the new IP.
However, as much as this works and I know it is a solution, I am try...
It's not open-source afaik. Porting it might be an issue... I'm not sure whether this harms the license?
