Issue 10: Remote Control

In this issue, we show you how to set up tunneling to prevent password theft, track down the biggest disk space users, and set up remote administration. We also show you how to switch from Unity to KDE and even create a custom Ubuntu distro.

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News

Welcome to Ubuntu User: Join us as we plot a course for the future.
Who We All Are: Taking Ubuntu to the masses.
News: Novacut needs money, Oneiric's cure for paper cuts, Google launches Google+, How much GNU is in Ubuntu?, Dapper bows out.
Interview – Ubuntu QA Team: We talk with Ubuntu QA lead Pete Graner and his team about improvements to the QA process.

Features

Ubuntu in Schools: We visit an all-Ubuntu high school in Germany.
Communtu: Learn how to roll your very own Ubuntu distro with the Communtu project.
Remote Access – NoMachine: Marcel explains how to use NoMachine for remote administration.
Ardour3: Get your groove on with the latest release of the Ardour music production suite.
SSH and VNC: Make your system less vulnerable to intrusion with key-based authentication.
Upstart: Get to know Upstart, an important event-based daemon for managing processes.

Know-How

Configuring KDE: Use these practical tips to switch from Unity to KDE.
Analyzing Disk Usage: Track down the biggest space hogs on your system.
Building Source Code: We take the fear out of building source code from scratch.
MariaDB: Check out MariaDB, a new fork of the MySQL database.
Answerbuntu: Get answers for your Ubuntu questions.

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