Imagine the following  situation. You have been happily installing lots of stuff on your Ubuntu. All was going fine until you face a problem XYZ, the only feasible solution to which is a complete re-installation! You can probably back up all your precious personal data safely, but what about all those software you had installed? You need to re-install each and every of those in your new install of Ubuntu, but if your Internet connection is slow and/or expensive, that could be a major problem. A solution is to create a local repository with all those installed packages and use it temporarily in your new install to reinstall those packages.That is what this guide will attempt to teach you. Read the rest of this entry »

What a way to start off this blog!
Here are a couple of kewl tux avatars bearing the March linux logo on their stomach. I found the templates on the net and added the March Linux logo using The GIMP.

Tux Avatar with March logo

Another Tux Avatar with March logo