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Ubuntu usage stats with getclicky

Linux distribution statistics for Greece (2011/11 to 2012/11), courtesy GetClicky

How many people are using Ubuntu? It is difficult to get precise numbers so we end up looking for trends. Up until now we had free Linux stats from gs.statcounter.com. These are the operating system statistics for Greece for the last year. (I am using Greece as an example. All other countries are also supported). …

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Gangnam Style in Ubuntu

Gangnam Style Official Cover

Gangnam Style is a song by Korean rapper PSY (pronounced as in PSYchology), and it is currently one of the most popular songs on the Internets. It’s now the No 8 most viewed video of all time on Youtube. It is definitely the most popular Korean (k-pop) song worldwide. The Gangnam Style video on Youtube …

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Accessing your Android from Ubuntu and compiling stuff

So you got an Android mobile phone and you want to access it from your Ubuntu. You can get shell access to your phone, you can copy files from/to, and much more. In this post I cover the overall process. You connect your mobile phone to your computer with a USB cable. Most Android phones …

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The Ubuntistas magazine (in Greek)

Ubuntistas is an e-magazine by Ubuntu-gr, the Greek Ubuntu community. This is the 9th issue of Ubuntistas for May-June-July. You can click on the image above and have a look at the issue. The text should look Greek to you 🙂 but you can get the gist of the content. The contributors for the 9th …

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Ubuntu Font Beta and Greek

Screenshot-Waterfall DejaVu Polytonic

Update: All open bugs for this font at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntufontbetatesting/+bugs File your bug. Currently there bugs relating to Greek, 1. Letter γ ((U03B3) has an untypical style 2.  In letters with YPOGEGRAMMENI, YPOGEGRAMMENI is expected to be under not on the right and 3. Many Greek small letters have untypical style Here we see some samples …

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Διαθέσιμο το Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)

Είναι διαθέσιμο το Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid), και μπορείτε να το αποκτήσετε από τη σελίδα λήψης του Ubuntu. Ο απευθείας σύνδεσμος για λήψη του CD από διακομιστή στην Ελλάδα είναι Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid) – ntua.gr. To CD δεν περιλαμβάνει την πλήρη ελληνική υποστήριξη (μεταφράσεις προγραμμάτων, κτλ), οπότε όταν ολοκληρώσετε την εγκατάσταση και έχετε σύνδεση …

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