If you already have Gimp installed and you want to upgrade, run the below commands first before upgrading. 1.Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field. And click Terminal. 2.Type the…
Gnome schedule is a graphical user interface tool to schedule tasks on your computer. It supports recurrent (periodical) tasks and tasks that happen only once in the future.
Main features:
Supports custom titles and icons for your tasks.
Templates support.
If run as root, you can edit any user’s crontab and “at” tasks.
Human-readable strings like “Every hour” instead of “0 * * * *”
Advanced mode for crontab experts
Provides a “panel applet”
A calendar allows you to choose the day you want a task executed.
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LinuxMint 13 (Maya) is now available for download in two editions, MATE and Cinnamon. This is an Long Term Support release and it will be supported until April 2017.
What’s new in this version?
MATE 1.2
Cinnamon 1.4
MDM – new Display Manager
Artwork improvements
Yahoo as the default search engine for the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
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Note:On April 20, 2012 Google announced that they were deprecating Picasa for Linux and will no longer maintain it on that operating system.
To install picasa 3.0 on ubuntu 12.04
1.Go to picasa download page and download the deb package file (32-bit).
2.Double click the .deb package file or open with ubuntu software center and click the install button.
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What’s new in 3.4?
Btrfs updates
GPU drivers
New X32 ABI: 64-bit mode with 32-bit pointers
x86 CPU driver autoprobing
Verifiable boot path with the device mapper “verity” target
Support a external read-only device as origin source of a thin provisioned LVM volume
perf: GTK2 report GUI, better assembly visualization, branch profiling, filtering of users and threads
Yama’ security module
QNX6 filesystem
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How to install BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices on ubuntu 12.04
To install BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices on ubuntu 12.04 and above
1.Go to BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices license key request page to request a license key and download link.
2.Once you received the email from BitDefender,click the download link and download the BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-7.6-4.linux-gcc4x.i586.deb.run file(for 32 bit) on your desktop.
Download link
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avast! Linux Home Edition Main features:
ICSA certified
Independent on installed graphic libraries
Working with the scan results
Actions with infected files
Storing the scan results (history)
Virus encyclopedia
Command-line scanner with STDIN/STDOUT mode
Non-incremental updates
Updates can be completely automatic
Alerts via SMTP
Shell scripts for common tasks
To install Synaptic Package Manager on ubuntu 12.04
1.Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field. And click Terminal.
2.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
sudo apt-get install synaptic
3.Type your ubuntu password if needed.
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To enable auto login in Ubuntu 12.04
1.Open system settings.To open system settings, click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type system settings in the search field. And click system settings.
2.Click User Accounts.
3.Then click Unlock button and type your ubuntu password and hit enter.
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To install gnome 3 on ubuntu 12.04
1.Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field. And click Terminal.
2.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
3.Type your ubuntu password if needed.
4.Then press enter to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding the ppa.
5.Type below command and hit enter
sudo apt-get update
6.Then type below command and press enter
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