Best Music Player for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Exaile

Loved:

• Music management
• Internet radio
• Amazing sound quality
• Cover manager
• Stability when managing large music collections
• Sleek styling
• Loads of plug-ins 

 

Other players installed and tested:

Amarok - Appalling music management. Doesn't show cover art

Banshee - Crashes after installing all plugins

gmusicbrowser - Interface too simple. No looks

Guayadeque - Looks are not polished. User experience is not as good as Exaile
Songbird - Didn't test. Didn't like it in Windows

Virus Scan stuck at 1% for 5 Hrs

5 hours and 3.9 partitions later, Kaspersly still says it's completed only 1% of it's scan.. Hmmm... Shady...

Social Networking Application "Gwibber" on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

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Running Ubuntu in Full Screen mode in Windows XP with Virtual Box

After installing an Ubuntu guest in Windows XP, you might not be able to switch to high resolutions as they are not listed. Only 800x600 will be available.

You need to install the Linux guest additions to enable higher resolutions.

Press the Host key (Right Ctrl) + D.

This might not do anything. In that case you'll have to install the guest additions manually. Note that the Virtual box guest additions image is already mounted. If you go to "Devices->CD/DVD drives" you'd see a listing called "VBoxGuestAdditions.iso". This is the image containing the all guest additions.

Start your Ubuntu virtual machine. Open the "VBOXADDITONS_XXXX" drive and check the contents. This would also mount the drive if it isn't already mounted. Fire up a terminal. Go to the drive. Run "VBoxLinuxAdditions.run".

Restart the machine. You should now be able to switch resolution to high values.