Just as easy to add and remove applications or programs icons and descriptions from Windows Start menu, customizing Ubuntu Gnome menu bar panel is a snap for ex-Windows users.

You can customize the look of the menu to your preference by adding an existing menu, create a new menu category and add separators to group and organize menu items. But one feature Windows users will appreciate, missing when customizing the Start menu, is the capability to easily order the items to your preference.

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I ordered my new Macbook Air today. I plan on testing out how Ubuntu runs on the paper thin machine. I will post a tutorial on installation once I complete the setup. As well as screenshots of the install and final screens.

Howtoforge has an excellent tutorial on installing LAMP on Ubuntu. The tutorial is aimed towards beginners or as the site likes to call them “Newbies”.

In this guide I will show you how to install a LAMP system. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. The guide is intended to help those who have very little knowledge of using Linux

I followed the tutorial myself on a test machine and everything installed the way it should. So if your interested in setting up a web server or just like try out new things, I recommend the following how to.

Installing LAMP On Ubuntu For Newbies

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