Linux while kleeping the familiarity of Windows, you don't need a custom distro. Just use Ubuntu with these tricks.

You'll first need to prepare Ubuntu by installing GNOME Extensions, GNOME Tweaks, and GIT. Next, you install the necessary themes, fonts, icon-packs, and extensions ...

Grub2, the new boot menu installed by default with Ubuntu 9.10, can still look pretty old-school ugly if your tastes don't run with white terminal text on black. You can, however, customize its ...

The past couple months, I've been showing how to create your very own customized Ubuntu live CD. In “Customizing Linux Live CDs, Part I” (LJ, May 2008), I provided a basic procedure for mounting an ...

There’s nothing like absence to make the heart grow fonder, as the old saying goes, and that’s apparently just as true for software projects as it is for people. Case in point: Ubuntu Tweak. Fans of ...

Customizability has always been one of Linux’s best defining features, and the newly released Ubuntu Linux 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” is no exception. I’ve already written about a few different ways to ...