These pages on the Ubuntu Linux operating system are brought to you by The Owlcroft Company, an internet publisher. While we make no claims whatever to be computer gurus in general or Ubuntu experts in particular, we are, we think, pretty good at "data mining", and have accumulated a lot of valuable Ubuntu-related information from all across the web. Moreover, this is not unqualified scraping: everything here is something we have actually done on several different Ubuntu systems; in many cases, that meant weeding through a lot of well-intentioned but partly or wholly incorrect advice by trial and error.

We assume that those coming here already know why, of the available flavors of Linux, Ubuntu already--and rightly--has the lion's share, and is still growing, in both absolute and percentgae-share terms. But if you aren't sure, you can and should look at the Ubuntu home page, as well as the Wikipedia article on Ubuntu.

These procedures were tested on several diverse sets of hardware; nonetheless, they may not have universal applicability. Further, these procedures apply to one specific flavor of Ubuntu: Ubuntu desktop 64-bit version 10.10 ("Maverick Meerkat"; though they do not necessarily apply to Kubuntu or 32-bit systems or older versions, they by and large will (and will certainly be illustrative of general methods and concepts). This is also all about a complete, fresh, single-OS system: if you want to have Ubuntu co-exist on your system with some Other Operating System, you will need advice from elsewhere.

All said, we hope and believe that there is an awful lot here of usefulness to any user of any version of Ubuntu. We have the solutions for problems from no logoff sound playing to getting a TIFF-format doc viewer for Firefox; we show how to successfully install a Canon iP1800 printer, and how to avoid deadly Thunderbird mail bloat. Take a look--you'll probably find something of use no matter how experienced you may already be in Ubuntu.

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