Gnome Do – App Launcher for Linux
by Mandar Vaze on February 4, 2009
in Linux, Productivity, Ubuntu
If you have read the about page, you know I started my career on unix, hence my love for command line.I genuinely feel that command line is efficient than GUI. Most of the times I can achieve the result much quicker using the keyboard, than using mouse. So when I heard and read about Quick Silver application, I was jealous of folks who use OS X. Soon I realized that although windows doesn’t have as good an alternative as QuickSilver (or QS, as they fondly call it) there are options like Launchy, DOMercury and my current favorite Executor.
So when I finally installed Ubuntu on home machine, I wanted an equivalent for Linux as well. I had read about Gnome Do long ago, and when I looked at it (back then) it was in a very nascent state (plus I didn’t have working Linux machine at home)
Troubleshooting Ubuntu GRUB issues
by Mandar Vaze on January 31, 2009
in Linux, Ubuntu
I rebooted, and selected the entry for Ubuntu from Windows boot loader. I was greeted with GRUB menu. There was only one entry for Ubuntu which was for memtest option.
My previous post (nearly) ended as above. In that post, I mentioned that I was able to overcome the problem, read all the details in this post.
Installing Ubuntu 8.10 Dual Boot with XP
by Mandar Vaze on January 27, 2009
in Linux, Review, Ubuntu
My previous attempt wasn’t so pleasant. Not only did I not get a working Ubuntu system, but in attempt, I also trashed my Windows Partition. Back then, ubuntu was just up and coming Linux distro. Eventually, I realised that I should have used Alternate CD, rather than attempting to install from Live CD.
Flash forward to Jan 2009. Four years later, things have changed, Ubuntu has matured a lot. Will my attempt to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows XP succeed ?
