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Desktop screenshot – Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and GNOME

November 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · GNU/Linux, miscellaneous

This is how my desktop looks like. I am running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) and Gnome platform. I have been using Ubuntu for 3 years now and it is my all-time favourite operating system. It is easy to install, user-friendly, looks good, is fast and has almost everything that I need for my day to [...]

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Get a list of installed packages in Ubuntu for reinstallation on another system

November 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment · GNU/Linux

How do you get a new Ubuntu (or Debian or any distro using dpkg) installation to quickly have a specific set of packages installed without scouring through the list of packages and selecting packages one by one? More specifically how do you get a new Ubuntu installation (the target system) to have the same packages [...]

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