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Environment: Linux Mint and Ubuntu; separate TeXlive installation The author of TeXstudio used to distribute deb files for each Linux dist...

Gnome 2 and 3 Ubuntu with Gnome 2 Ubuntu with Unity After moving to Ubuntu GNU/Linux for all my work, in 2009, I used the default ...

I'm finally moving to 64 bit Linux (since all my machines are fine with that).  My disks have my /home and root files in different parti...

In older Linuxes, if xapian indexing is sucking up all your CPU cycles, here's a fix: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9304431...

When Canonical decided that Ubuntu would have a new user-interface, "Unity," to replace Gnome 2, there was a lot resistance and di...

News, November 2012:  The problem described below went away with the upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10 (Linux kernel 3.5).  Thank goodness, and high...

My main desktop machine got in a terrible mess during the Oneiric update.  Could have been my fault - I started the update and then left th...

Grr, recurrence of the old, old problem that the Evince menus turn to little squares like this: Solution: http://ubuntuforums.org/...

Ubuntu, HP LJ 1300 - use the Gutenprint or the Foomatic/pxlmono driver.  Not CUPS or HPLIP.

Essential tweaks for 11.04, from Webupd8

 If you get the warning Unable to monitor filesystem Please run "echo 100000 | sudo tee /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches" ...