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For installation mozilla thunderbird 3.0 mail client on Ubuntu you need to do following steps
• Add mozilla daily repository to you sources list
  

  gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
  #and add following lines
  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
  deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

  
  If you use another dist of ubuntu, change karmic to jaunty, hardy, karmic and intrepid
• Import GPG key
   

Here steps for conection to vpn server
• Ininitialy install open vpn client for ubuntu
  

  sudo apt-get install openvpn

• Then run following command from terminal
  

  sudo openvpn openvpn-config.ovpn

  
  Have fun!

To mount a ftp share under ubuntu linux, you need perfom following actions
• install ftp file system support
  

  sudo apt-get install curlftpfs

• run mount command
  

  sudo curlftpfs -o allow_other,iocharset=utf8,codepage=cp1251  ftp://hudson.eltegra.by/common /home/mareshkau/Desktop/Share/ftp/

To enable extra effects for ubuntu you first should install following packages

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-plugins emerald

To install google chrome browser on Ubuntu 9.10 you need to do following:
• Add repository with chromium browser
  

  sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
  #add following lines
  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
  deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

• Import GPG key
  

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/ppa

• Update sources list and install chrome browser
  

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

By default ubuntu 9.10 can use only 2989MB(3GB) memmory. If you have more than 3GB, you should install x64 version of ubuntu or add PAE support in kernel;
To add PAE support you can recompile kernel or
install kernel from server version of ubuntu. It's easiest way.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server linux-image-server linux-server

mareshkau@mareshkau:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached

To join in windows workgroup you can use following way:

• Install samba and system-config-samba
  

  sudo apt-get install samba system-config-samba

• Run system-config-samba
  

  sudo system-config-samba

  and from Preferences->Server setting enter work group name

Have a fun.