January 16, 2010
We have quite a collection of articles you can refer to when customizing your Linux desktop computer. Starting right from the GRUB splash screen all the way up to wallpapers and themes. There was one aspect missing though – the Ubuntu logo and the splash screen you get behind it while Ubuntu boots. For starters let [...]
October 1, 2009
We have covered plenty of Live CD related articles here on MakeUseOf. From creating your own Windows Live CD, to creating a bootable USB drive from an bootable ISO image. Today let us have a look at a piece of software called MobaLiveCD – which lets you run Live CD’s without having to burn a [...]
September 14, 2009
During my initial days as a laptop user, I had discovered a mysterious phenomenon of sorts. I would be typing thick and fast, trusting my skills without paying too much attention and then when I would look back at the screen, I found the lines of text mysteriously intertwined! It was a mystery because at [...]
August 26, 2009
Old school games have always been fun, yet simple and easy to play. They may not have the best of the graphics but you can surely enjoy a trip down memory lane! When it comes to emulators, Linux is right up there. It might not be able to run Crysis or World of Warcraft, however [...]
August 8, 2009
A few days back I wrote about books that beginners can download and read to teach themselves Linux. Today in the Linux section we have something for the power users. Here are a few tips you should try out if you are an avid Ubuntu Linux user: 1. Get lightning fast and clever at the [...]
November 29, 2008
Almost all the popular Linux distributions use the GNU GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) as the bootloader of choice these days. If you have been experimenting with a number of distributions, you must have seen that some of them have a backdrop image for GRUB and some (like Ubuntu) don’t. If, like me, the default black [...]
September 16, 2008
No, don’t get excited, Google hasn’t released the Mac and Linux versions of its new browser just yet, but here’s the next best thing. The good folks over at Code Weavers have come out with a way to run the Windows version of Google’s Chrome on non-Windows computers. They’ve used Wine to make it run [...]
