Ubuntu Tips And Tricks

Sabily Magazine - Coming Soon

In order to spread Sabily, Sabily Promotion Team from Malaysia already decide to publish a Magazine of Sabily call "Edaran Sabily" mean Sabily distribution. It is iniative from Sabily Malaysian Team to spread Sabily to their nation. In this case the magazine will be in Malaysian language. Hopefully soon they will translate it to English then publish it. The magazine soon can be downloaded from Sabily Malaysia homepage. Print version is under consideration depend on reader request.

In this case they now calling for volunteer especially from Malaysia or Indonesia to participate in their magazine project to be a writer and graphic designer for specific article that they would like to publish in the second issue of the magazine soon. The magazine will cover more topic about Sabily, a little about Ubuntu and other distro, Open source, latest news, Community activity, games, programming, Tips, Q & A, etc.

So if you have talent and interest to participate, you should sent your application to edaransabily@gmail.com tell which areas of interest.What are you waiting for?

Here is sample screenshot of the "Edaran Sabily" magazine cover.

Don't forget to get it soon..

source Sabily Blogsphere

Marqeaux' Ubuntu Wallpaper Quartet 2

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Update: How To Install 13 Stunning Themes From Bisigi in Ubuntu

If you want to install Bisigi themes in Lucid or Karmic, there is an even easier method. Check this link

Add GPG Key First

Open Terminal and copy-paste the following line.

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574de

Done.

Now Add The Repo

Open sources.list file first. Do the following command in Terminal

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Now, depending on the version of Ubuntu you use, copy-paste the following repo to the sources.list file, preferably to the last line.

For Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574

For Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

For Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

For Ubuntu 8.10 Hardy

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

Done.

Update Repositories to Include the Changes

Do the following in Terminal.

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574

sudo apt-get update

Done.

And Finally, Installing of Bisigi Themes

To install all the 12 Bisigi themes for Ubuntu Gnome in one go, just open Terminal and copy-paste the command.

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574

sudo apt-get install zgegblog-themes

Now in order to download themes of your choice, here are the name of the themes with corresponding commands on the right side.

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574

AquaDreams:                      sudo aptitude install aquadreams-theme
Ubuntu Sunrise:                   sudo aptitude install  ubuntu-sunrise-theme
Bamboo-Zen:                      sudo aptitude install bamboo-zen-theme
Step into Freedom:               sudo aptitude install step-into-freedom-theme
Tropical:                             sudo aptitude install tropical-theme
Exotic:                                 sudo aptitude install exotic-theme
Balanzan:                            sudo aptitude install balanzan-theme
Wild Shine:                          sudo aptitude install wild-shine-theme
Infinity:                                sudo aptitude install infinity-theme
Showtime:                           sudo aptitude install showtime-theme
Orange:                              sudo aptitude install orange-theme
Ellanna:                              sudo aptitude install ellanna-theme

Links
http://www.bisigi-project.org/

Install World of Padman Ubuntu

Popular first person shooter World of Padman has received a much-awaited new release which brings the 6 year old game up to version 1.5.
The game, originally started in 2004 as a modification of Quake III: Arena, is an open source cross-platform shooter loosely based on the Padman comic strip for the magazine Playstation Games which originated in the 1990s.

The current iteration of the game now runs on an enhanced version of the ever-so-prominent ioquake3 engine to deliver some updated slick visuals which compliment the fun gameplay.
Version 1.5 brings a heap of new changes as the announcement boasts:

“Countless things have been revised and partly modified. There is a new game type, new maps, new player models, a new weapon, new powerups and much more. You might be in for some surprises.”

Download it now

You can grab the latest version of World of Padman for Ubuntu by heading over to the official announcement and choosing a mirror.
Be warned, the download is 900mb!

Source UbuntuGamers

Install Xonotic Nexuiz Ubuntu 10.10

Xonotic, a fork of popular and graphically beautiful first person shooter Nexuiz, has had its first preview release, 0.1.
Nexuiz has been around a while and is well known as being one of the nicest looking games available to run natively under Linux. The open source project hasn’t had a release since late 2009, and many speculate that the project is officially dead.
Not wanting to leave such a great game untouched and let it sink into the ground of the vaporware graveyard, the Xonotic project was born. Promising new features, graphics, physics and maps (not prescription medicine as the name suggests), they are determined to inject new life into the stranded FPS.

“The last release of Nexuiz (2.5.2) was on the first of October 2009, and when we decided to fork early March 2010 we continued where we had left off with Nexuiz. Large parts of the code, graphics and music have been redone and have improved immensely. In over a year we have managed to make huge progress on pretty much every part of the game.

However this release is still a preview, which means that bugs are likely to exist and that some of our decisions turn out to have unwanted side effects.”

What’s new?

Today, the project released a preview, Xonotic 0.1, which sees a whole host of new stuff added, as well as a heap of bugs as one should expect from such an early release. This is of course great news for Linux FPS fans who have been following the project eagerly awaiting some news.
The new release sees features such as:

Performance and graphics improvements
A new dynamic and configurable HUD
New informative cross hairs
New game menu
Tweaks to physics and weapon balance
New player models and animations
New maps
Client authentication and encryption

Phew! Quite the changelog.
For the complete list of changes and a detailed description of each, you should direct your browsers to the press release and have a read.