Lucid Tips

Virtualization allows running of multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time. This can be very handy if you are doing software development and need to test your application on multiple platforms or are doing a lot of R&D and get tired of reloading the operating system and software. Virtualization is also helpful if you need to run Linux and Windows (or different flavor/version of Linux) at the same time and dual boot just does not cut it. VMWare Server from VMWare is great virtualization software and is provided as freeware. It allows you to create snapshot of the state of any particular virtual machine and revert to it easily.

Update 05/30/2009: Also see VirtualBox – virtualization alternative to VMWare

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Default installation of Ubuntu and XUbuntu do not send the hostname to the DHCP server and this prevents other machines on the network from looking up your machine by using the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name). This is easy to fix with a few tweaks to the DHCP configuration file.

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I recently decided to rebuild my trusted little Compaq Armada M300 laptop and thought might give Ubuntu another try. Since the laptop is only 500 Mhz with 128 MB RAM XUbuntu is a better candidate as compared to Ubuntu. My earlier attempt of installing XUbuntu had not been very successful but this time I managed to get things working

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One of the cool features of Apple’s Mac Operating system is the Dock. It is used to launch applications and also switch between running applications. Linux communites like to adopt the good from other operating systems and there are several Docks available for Linux as well. The two popular ones for Ubuntu are Avant Window Navigator (AWN) and Cairo Dock. Read more