Kubuntu Lucid 10.04 was released yesterday and I have already upgraded.

Click on the image to know whats new in this release and to grab your copy now.

Download Kubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS is a post from: Manas T

Oxygen Molecule GTK+ theme based on the pixbuf GTK+engine, does a better job at skinning GNOME / GTK apps in KDE. After installing the the theme all GNOME GTK applications look like using the Oxygen style and become a part of your KDE desktop. The theme is available for download on kde-look.org. The download also contains installation instructions for copying and using the theme.

Loving the look of Firefox on KDE now.

Making GNOME / GTK+ apps look good in KDE is a post from: Manas T

If you want to install them on Kubuntu, fire up Konsole and type the below command:

aptitude install ubuntu-wallpapers

Or if you prefer KPackageKit, then search for ubuntu-wallpapers package and install it.

You can then find the new wallpapers in /usr/share/backgrounds.

Not using Lucid or Linux but want the new wallpapers? You can download all the new Ubuntu Lucid wallpapers in compressed format from here.

Here is a teaser screenshot of my desktop with one of the new wallpapers.

Get the new Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 Wallpapers in Kubuntu Lucid is a post from: Manas T

While looking at this post on my own blog, I just couldn’t help noticing the Google Adsense ads that were being displayed there.

On top of the post, there was the Google Chrome ad. Not surprisingly, Google is targeting web pages which have the word Firefox in them.

And below of the post, there was the ad thanking me for using Firefox and asking me to upgrade to Firefox 3.5. Talk about upgrading, I am already using 3.6 ! When Chrome is using so much publicity to improve its market share, I think Mozilla can do with updating its ads.

Google Chrome vs Mozilla Firefox (Adsense Ads) is a post from: Manas T

On Windows 7 particularly Firefox looks great now. Firefox now comes with:

• Support for tab previews in the Win 7 Superbar
• Aero Glass in the toolbar without any extension.
• The Stop and Reload buttons have been merged now.

Here are some screenshots from my Windows 7 machine.

Though there still seem to be issues with the Aero Glass feature (some rendering issues on the page portion just below the tab bar), it looks great. Expect the look to get more refined once the nightlies progress.

Firefox 3.7 Nightlies feature the new Windows Theme Refresh is a post from: Manas T

This thing looks seriously good. Check it out!

Microsoft Project Natal is a post from: Manas T

After a bit of googling on the errors I was getting during compiling those plasmoids, I think the below command should do the job of pulling in all packages you need to compile almost any plasmoid on Fedora KDE.

yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel kdelibs-devel kdebase-workspace-devel kdebase-devel

Note 1 – This command will also pull in some more packages which are dependencies.

Compiling Plasmoids from source in Fedora is a post from: Manas T

If you head to the Chrome release channels page, you will see that the Dev version is available only in Debian format. The page says:

Requirements: Intel Pentium 4 / Athlon 64 or later CPU; 32- or 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 or later, or 32-bit Debian 5. Support for other Linux distributions is planned; unpacking the .deb files by hand may work.

But Google Chrome has a Dev version for RPM distros as well . To install the Dev version:

1. First get the Beta version of Google Chrome from here.

2. Install by double-clicking on it. This will install Google Chrome beta and add Google’s repo for future updates.

3. Now open you software management tool (PackageKit for Fedora) and search for google-chrome. You will see that google-chrome-unstable is also present in Google’s repo. So you can now uninstall google-chrome-beta and then install google-chrome-unstable.

For Fedora command line, the commands will be ‘yum erase google-chrome-beta’ and then ‘yum install google-chrome-unstable’.

It is time Google updates the Chrome early access channels page.

Google Chrome Dev Version for RPM based Linux distro is a post from: Manas T

The KDE packaging project is providing 4.4 packages for Fedora users. You just need to add their repository to your Software Sources in PackageKit. Here is how:

1. Go to the site and get the repo file under yum section. It is present on the home page if you scroll down.

2. Place the repo file you downloaded in /etc/yum.repos.d directory.

3. Go to KPackageKit –> Settings and enable the kde and kde-testing repositories. KDE 4.4 is present in the testing repository.

4. Open Konsole, and type: su -c ‘yum groupupdate kde-desktop’

After updating, restart to see shiny new KDE 4.4.

[How To] Upgrade to KDE 4.4 on Fedora 12 is a post from: Manas T

You can easily install Google Chrome browser on your Ubuntu Linux. Follow the below steps to install Google Chrome browser on Ubuntu Linux.

1. Go to this page and download the 32 bit or 64 bit deb of Google Chrome for Linux. These are the Dev channel builds for Chrome, so you always get the latest updates.

2. Open Terminal and type the below command to install Google Chrome:

If you have downloaded the 32 bit version:

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb

If you have downloaded the 64 bit version:

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb

This will automatically add Google’s repo to your Software Sources. So you receive all future updates from Google automatically.

If you are using Adobe Flash on your Ubuntu, here is how to enable Flash on Google Chrome. Type the below commands in Terminal:

sudo cd /opt/google/chrome/

sudo mkdir plugins
sudo cd plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --enable-plugins %U

Now open Google Chrome. A faster internet browser with Flash.

Install Google Chrome browser on Ubuntu Linux is a post from: Manas T