Ubuntu means: 'humanity to others'

ubuntu |oǒ'boǒntoō|

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. It also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.

Source: http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu

Ubuntu-Women: Ubuntu for women

Ubuntu-Women is a team functioning under Ubuntu to provide a platform and encouragement for women to contribute to Ubuntu-Linux, a Debian based free and open-source GNU/Linux software. The main role will be along the lines of supplementing and being the stepping stone toward the larger Ubuntu-Linux world. Membership is open to all.

- www.ubuntu-women.org

Free "Ubuntu Software Centre" User Guide

The "Ubuntu Software Centre" User Guide uses plenty of screenshots to illustrate instructions and ideas, and by using accessible language ensures that even the tech-illiterate can understand the points being made with clarity.

Download FREE Ubuntu Software Center user guide.

Fotoxx for Linux: Create HDR photos using

Fotoxx is a program for improving digital photos. It allows you to navigate through large image directories using a window of thumbnail images, create HDR (high dynamic range) images by combining bright and dark images to improve details visible in both bright and dark areas, create panoramas by joining overlapped images, adjust brightness and color intensity independently for different underlying brightness levels, reduce fog or haze by removing "whiteness" and intensifying colors, rotate an image (level a tilted image or turn 90 degrees), remove red-eyes from electronic flash photos, sharpen, resize, or crop images, reduce noise in low-light photos, change color depth, and stretch an image by dragging the mouse.

It can be installed at Ubuntu Software Center.

Web site: http://kornelix.squarespace.com/fotoxx/

Fotoxx - HDR

Make an HDR (high dynamic range) image from 4 poorly aligned photos having an 8X brightness range. Adjust input image contributions. Adjust brightness distribution of output. Increase color depth. Enhance details with tone mapping.

FBReader: e-book reader (can read ePub)

FBReader is a e-book reader, it can be downloaded on Ubuntu Software Center by searching "FBReader".

web site: http://www.fbreader.org/

Main features:

• supports several open e-book formats: fb2, html, chm, plucker, palmdoc, ztxt, tcr (psion text), rtf, oeb, openreader, non-DRM'ed mobipocket, plain text, epub, eReader
• reads directly from tar, zip, gzip, bzip2 archives (you can have several books in one archive)
• supports a structured view of your e-book collection
• automatically determines encodings
• automatically generates a table of contents
• keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all open books between runs
• automatic hyphenation (patterns for several languages are included)
• searching and downloading books from www.feedbooks.com and www.litres.ru
• partial CSS support for epub files

FBReader support Android also. Link to Android Market

Bluefish - editor for programmers and web designers

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. Bluefish is an open source development project, released under the GNU GPL licence.

Bluefish runs on most (maybe all?) POSIX compatible operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, OpenBSD and Solaris, and in addition it runs on Windows.

Introduction to Bluefish 2.2.0


Website: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

Install traditional GNOME desktop on Ubuntu 11.10

There are no GNOME desktop installed on Ubuntu 11.10 by default. To re-install it, open Terminal and enter the command:

$ sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

After install, log-out and log-in again. In the log-in screen, click on the Gear icon, you can select GNOME, GNOME Classic and GNOME Classic (no effects).