Ubuntu is the most popoular GNU/Linux distrbution with millions of active users. Being popular also means that, there are a lot of newbie users as well. Here is a quick list of things a newbie Ubuntu user should knew. This is a small step towards creating  a comprehensive Ubuntu Manual.
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Pidgin is among the most popular chat clients among others in Gnu/Linux. It is multiplatform and you can use Pidgin with different protocols like yahoo, gtalk, irc and the list goes on.
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Pidgin is an open source multiplatform internet chat client. It is one of most widely used chat client among Linux users. In Ubuntu, it comes as default installation and with its easy-to-use interface, is an instant hit among the newbie Ubuntu users. But pidgin has its share a drawbacks as well. The non availability of good emoticons like that in Yahoo or MSN messenger being one among the major drawbacks. But we do have a work around here. You could install Yahoo and MSN messenger emoticons in Pidgin. Here is how the installation works.
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If you have updated Ubuntu 8.10 recently, and after the completion of update, when you try to start firefox you would probably end up getting the following error message "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9b3 and 1.9b3". This is a small bug with the recent firefox updates. But there is an easy work around. Take a look.
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Windows Media Player is a product of Microsoft Corporation and it is exclusively made of Windows operating system only. There is no Free version of the Windows Media Player available as of now. But there is always good alternatives for Windows Media Player, like XBMC Media Center, Boxee and many other in the world of Free and Open Source Softwares.
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World of Goo is a puzzle game with a highly efficient physics engine. It has won many accolades from across the world since its release. It was initially available for Wii, Windows and Mac, but lately, its available for Linux as well.
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Songbird is a Music Player and a Web Browser combined. It is amazingly stable and easy to use software with plenty of plugins and themes. Songbird employs Mozilla's XULRunner platform, and is thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and GNU/Linux. Here is a quick review and some stunning screenshots of Songbird music player.

Update: Sonbird 1.2 has been released!
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Most of us might have heard about the picture preview plugin in different file browsers like explorer in WIndows or nautilus  in GNU/Linux. But you probably haven't heard about audio preview plugin with Nautilus. Yes, you heard it right. Interested?  Then read along.
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K Desktop environment or simply KDE is one of the most popular desktop environments in GNU/Linux along with Gnome. KDE is widely aknowledged for its fast and developer friendly features. KDE 4 is the current series of releases for KDE. KDE is a complete overhaul of the desktop environment. The initial release looked stunning, but it was quite buggy and many devote users stayed on with KDE 3 series. All that is changing with KDE4.1. Its a huge leap with more features and less  bugs. It is surely the way forward. Listed below are steps required to install KDE 4.1 in Ubuntu with Gnome as its DE.
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Compiz Fusion is a window manager which uses 3D graphics hardware to create aesthetically brilliant and extremely user friendly desktop effects which is widely popular as well.compiz fusion is installed default in ubuntu 7.10 and ubuntu 8.04.To know which version of the compiz fusion you are using ,simply do the following steps.
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