The first Ubuntu release hype is slowly passing away. It’s amazing to see Ubuntu-related articles rise to the top of social bookmarking sites, extolling the wonders of the new Hardy Heron. Too bad most of them stick to the obvious and fail to see the not-so-obvious-but-o-so-beneficial smaller improvements.
The repositories are packed with applications and tools. Hidden in the long lists are some real gems that provide GUI-tools for actions that used to require commandline interventions and hacking textbased configuration files.

Simplifying GRUB
For instance GRUB. There are now two tools to alter the settings of GRUB: kgrubeditor and qgrubeditor. These programs allow you to change the default for booting, to edit the text of the entries and spice up GRUB to your personal liking. Qgrubeditor seems to provide a more user-friendly interface, but both programs take away a lot of the ’stress’ in fine-tuning and personalizing the bootloader.

Ink Management

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