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As you probably know, Ubuntu Linux 9.04 has now been released. The upgrade is done at the click of a button. We can only wish Windows upgrades were as simple as that.

I’m currently running Ubuntu in a virtual machine thanks to VirtualBox and the upgrade is estimated to take around 40 minutes. This would be a lot faster on a computer running only Ubuntu.

What does this upgrade add to Ubuntu?
I’m sure you’re wanting to know what’s so great about this new upgrade.. so I’ll let you know what is new with this upgrade below.

• Shorter boot times (as short as 25 seconds!).
• More support for wireless devices.
• Enhanced suspend and resume features.
• OpenOffice.org 3.0 included.
• A new integrated notification system.
• New, sexier icons and artwork.

Where can I get Ubuntu?
You can get Ubuntu directly from the developers website: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu (Free download!)

As I’m regularly repairing PCs and coming across people that don’t want to pay for any security software, it forces me to find freeware alternatives. I always recommend that they use paid security software over the free ones, but not everyone has money to spend, especially with the current financial situation. For this reason, I’ll be posting monthly freebies to this website.

Free antivirus software
An antivirus helps keep your computer clean of viruses, worms and trojans. Having a virus can cripple a computer and force you into paying someone to reinstall the operating system, or even worse, cause you to lose a lot of important data.

1. Comodo Antivirus (Recommended): http://tinyurl.com/g8t6g
2. AVG Free: http://tinyurl.com/5jmy9q
3. Avast Home Edition: http://tinyurl.com/56jes

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This is possibly one of the easiest things to do, yet I still get asked by people how to do it.

To run an application in the background on a Linux OS, simply start the application with ‘&’ on the end.

Example: ./badfilescanner &

This example would allow you to run the application ‘badfilescanner’ in the background, you can then close PuTTY or whatever SSH application you use and the application should continue to run in the background.

This was tested on CentOS and I can’t guarantee it will work on other OS’s.