Customizability has always been one of Linux’s best defining features, and the newly released Ubuntu Linux 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” is no exception. I’ve already written about a few different ways to ...

Grub2, the new boot menu installed by default with Ubuntu 9.10, can still look pretty old-school ugly if your tastes don't run with white terminal text on black. You can, however, customize its ...

You'll first need to prepare Ubuntu by installing GNOME Extensions, GNOME Tweaks, and GIT. Next, you install the necessary themes, fonts, icon-packs, and extensions ...

Install GNOME Tweaks and Extension Manager. Set up .themes and .icons folders to store custom themes and icons for GNOME Tweaks. Download themes from GNOME-LOOK.ORG, apply them using GNOME Tweaks, or ...

There’s nothing like absence to make the heart grow fonder, as the old saying goes, and that’s apparently just as true for software projects as it is for people. Case in point: Ubuntu Tweak. Fans of ...

The past couple months, I've been showing how to create your very own customized Ubuntu live CD. In “Customizing Linux Live CDs, Part I” (LJ, May 2008), I provided a basic procedure for mounting an ...