If you want to upgrade From Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) to Jaunty (9.04) use this tutorial for faster upgrades.We are going to use apt-p2p for this tutorial.apt-p2p is a p2p proxy for apt dowloads, it will act as a proxy between apt requests and a repository server, downloading any request files from peers (if possible), else will fallback to direct HTTP download. In general, apt-p2p save bandwidth, use limited cpu and memory resources and reduce congestion on the ubuntu mirrors.apt-p2p will get the request files from peers, therefore, it will avoid the congestion on the ubuntu mirrors.
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This tutorial will explain how to setup abit AirPace PCI-e WiFi card without ndiswrapper in Ubuntu Intrepid
Note:-It ought work for any card with an Atheros AR242x chipset, but is untested.
First thing to do is disable the suggested drivers; go to the Restricted Drivers Manager wherever it is on your system (Applications>System>Hardware Drivers) and disable "Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards". There may be something else relating to HAL and Atheros based cards.Reboot your system.
Ubuntu restricted extras offline installer is a cool script that installs ubuntu-restricted-extras even on computers with no internet.
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This tutorial will explain how to Configure Evolution to use Hotmail in Ubuntu 8.10.This is much easy tutorial than we have already discussed here
Requirements
* Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10)
* Evolution 2.24
* xinetd (eXtended InterNET Daemon) instead of inetd
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By default Ubuntu 8.10 comes with Pulse Audio and most users start complaining about pulse audio so if you don't want to use Pulse Audio you can remove using the following procedure.
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