Here is how to install the free VMWare Server application from the Ubuntu Commercial Repository. Note that during the install you will need a VMWare Server key, which you can get for free here.
1. Add the Commercial Repository to your sources. Here is how I do it:
A. Launch Synaptic.
$ sudo synaptic
B. [...]

First, enable Remote Desktop in Gnome by going to System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop.
Check ‘Allow other users to view your desktop’.
Check ‘Allow other users to control your desktop’.
Uncheck ‘Ask you for confirmation’.
Type in the password you want to use.
Click Close.
Remote Desktop is now running on your machine.
Now, open a terminal and type this command:
$ [...]

Virtualization allows you to create a ‘virtual machine’, which is essentially an application that runs another operating system inside of your current operating system. There are several different virtualization solutions available, some of which include QEMU, Xen, VirtualBox, and VMWare. This post will detail how to set up Windows XP in VMWare.
VMWare sells [...]

SSH is a network protocol that allows establishing a secure connection between a local and a remote computer. You can install SSH server on your workstation and then have remote command line and Secure FTP (SFTP) access.
I use this command to install SSH server from the repositories:
$ sudo aptitude install ssh
By default, SSH server [...]

Here is a screenshot that shows the way I configure my Firefox toolbars, etc: (click the thumbnail for a larger image):

I use the Tiny Menu extension to condense Firefox’s main menu (File, Edit, View, etc) into one item so that I get that screen real estate back. I then drag my bookmarks up to [...]

MPlayer is my video player of choice. Here is how I install it and set up the codecs:
Install Mplayer from the repositories:
$ sudo aptitude install mplayer

Then, download the codecs package that MPlayer distributes from here. After you download and extract that file, copy the resulting ‘win32′ folder to ‘usr/lib’:
$ sudo cp -R [...]

This post shows how to get the side buttons (back/forward) on the Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 to work in Firefox in Ubuntu 7.04:
Edit xorg.conf
$ sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Find this section:
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option [...]

Ubuntu and its community maintain servers full of software applications that are all compiled to be used in the Ubuntu operating system. These servers are called repositories. Instead of having to go out onto the internet and search for the application that you want, you can simply search for it in the repositories and then [...]

I just completed my initial installation of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04. I used the standard i386 Live CD desktop installer (ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso).
The only thing that I do which is a little different than a standard installation is I keep my /home directory on its own partition. The reason I do this is because all of my [...]

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 is now officially released and available for download.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu