I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my laptop. The first surprise that I got was in the form of the new unity GUI. Anyway, that’s a different story. Other thing that bothered me after sometime was the Ubuntu command line prompt colour. The concern was that while analysing problems where I had to go through lots of data on command line, I was many time lost as to where the output began.
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Ubuntu one is a cloud service offered by the canonical team. It’s the same team that works hard to improve Ubuntu year on year. The purpose of Ubuntu one is to have a centralized access to your stuff like Documents, music, pictures, contacts etc. The total free storage offered by default is 5GB and you can pay extra for more space if required. Here in this article, we will discuss the installation and configuration of Ubuntu one on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
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The other day I was installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from a boot-able pen drive. Everything went smooth as Ubuntu was easily able to detect that my system is dual booted with Microsoft Windows XP Professional. It suggested me to overwrite or upgrade the existing Ubuntu (Linux Mint that I was using earlier). I went ahead with overwriting the existing Linux mint.
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