These seven steps to locking down security on your Linux Desktop may be one of the smartest things you ever did.  Security increasingly becomes more important as we move to global network access.

Ubuntu, the leading desktop Linux distribution, has been looking at ways to add value to its offering for a while. The maturing Ubuntu One personal cloud service is just such an enhancement – but is it any good?

There are a number of ways to install applications on the Ubuntu desktop.  You can use the Ubuntu Software Center, apt-get from the command line or download applications from the Internet.

Learning some basic methods to navigate and customize the launcher can make it an efficient tool that is used to complete daily tasks. With several icons located in the launcher, reordering the applications may reduce your time searching for your desired program to execute.

Ubuntu 12.04 includes a desktop interface that is a strong departure from previous versions.  One of the most striking differences upon logging into the system is the launcher.  The launcher is a vertical bar that, by default, resides along the left side of the screen.  It is similar to the dock in Mac OS X and aims to make your user experience more efficient and intuitive.

Like many, I have been intrigued by the Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin release. While using Ubuntu 12.04 in Virtualbox on my Windows 7 host machine I noticed a few changes to the settings really made a difference.

The Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is a nice looking desktop, the icons are clean and powerful. There are a lot of nice desktops out there, this has to be one of the better looking ones. It is certainly worth a look.

The final part of our installation jigsaw puzzle is to create the answer file, in SUSE this is known as AutoYaST. If we were only ever to install one server or one desktop then maybe we could do without answer files...

Ubuntu 11.10 comes with a backup application, Deja Dup, installed by default. This tool allows you to backup your Ubuntu system incrementally and automatically. Users can use the same deja dup interface to restore previous backups. In this tutorial and video I'll walk through the process of a simple first backup and restoration on Ubuntu 11.10.

We have created the openSUSE installation server but in the current format we need to have boot disks to provide the OS to connect to the Installation Source. If you are able to use PXE, (network boot), on your network then we can remove the need for having these boot disks and just boot to the network itself. In this tutorial we will step you through the creation of your PXE Boot Server on openSUSE Linux 11.4