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Running Ubuntu 9.04? Need a cool new wallpaper to go with it?
Hong Kiat published a good selection of Ubuntu Wallpapers a few days back. The selection’s pretty good actually.
Quite sure took them some time to put the collection together. Check it out.
Received my Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron cds in the mail today.
Who doesn’t like to receive internatioanl packages with goodies? The best part is when I tell my non OSS friends that the cds were shipped free of charge.
You will be suprised to know that many people don’t believe that there are people out there providing wonderfull services not for money but out of passion. Welcome to the world of opensource is what I normally my response would be to them.
Go Go OSS!!
Anyways, if you want your own Ubuntu cd, go to Ubuntu’s ShipIt page and place your order. Remember, it’s a free service so don’t expect speedy delivery unless your are willing to pay.
Tags: Linux, live cd, Open Source, Software, Ubuntu
1) Download ipcop-1.4.18-install-usb-hdd.i386.img.gz
2) Backup your USB key if there is a file inside it … we gonna format the USB key after u already backup
3) You can format USB pen drive with the help of following commands:
[a] fdisk : Partition table manipulator for Linux
[b] mkfs.ext3 : Create an ext2/ext3 filesystem by formatting given partition name (/dev/partition)
[c] e2label : Change the label on an ext2/ext3 filesystem
First make sure USB pen is not mounted. Click on Places > Computer > Select USB pen > Right click > Select Unmount Volume.
Let us assume that /dev/sda1 is your partition name for USB pen. To format type the following command (Open X terminal and type the command)
$ sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
Caution: Careful while entering device/partition name; wrong name can wipe out entire hard disk!!!
Now use e2label command to change the filesystem label on the ext3 filesystem located on device /dev/sda1:
$ sudo e2label /dev/sda1 usb-pen
You can also create an MS-DOS/Windows XP file system under Linux, enter:
$ sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
Now you are ready to use USB pen for IPcop.
4) Next step, using linux :
zcat ipcop-1.4.18-install-usb-hdd.i386.img.gz > /dev/sda (type it without partition number)
U r Done !!!!!
*p/s : plz check your usb drive partition detected from dmesg & make sure ya machine support boot from USB.
Technorati Tags: Ubuntu, IPcop, USB Bootable
Statistics are interesting. Every Fedora Project Contributor gets an @fedoraproject.org alias. So I’m presuming, this number is greater than just package maintainers…
Fedora, via Max Spevack:
total @fedoraproject.org aliases for package maintainers: 478
Ubuntu, via Daniel Robitaille:
total @ubuntu.com aliases: 348
By the above, does it mean Fedora is way more successful than Ubuntu? Some detractors will say, RH has a lot more package maintainers than Canonical can afford. Sure. But an @fedoraproject.org “Fedora Membership” also extends to ambassadors, translators, etc. and not just package maintainers (so the number, 478 up there, is woefully under-reported). Sadly, I couldn’t find a nice easy way to show all the @fedoraproject.org aliases via the online pkgdb application.
Long gone are the days where these aliases were maintained in /etc/aliases by Seth and I ;-)
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After a year using the Xmod in Windows, now i just get my creative xmod working in Gutsy 
from dmesg
[ 72.240000] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 72.404000] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 72.412000] input: Creative Technology Ltd Creative Xmod as /class/input/input8
[ 72.412000] input: USB HID v1.11 Device [Creative Technology Ltd Creative Xmod] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-2
[ 72.672000] usbcore: registered new interface driver xpad
[ 72.672000] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c: driver for Xbox controllers v0.1.6
[ 72.832000] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
and
fenris@ubuntu:~$ asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
ICH6
Xmod
fenris@ubuntu:~$ asoundconf set-default-card Xmod
Thanks to alsa-project for the drivers, Now my desktop sound for mp3, movie and etc is powered by Creative X-fi Xmod 
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We all want it but no it’s not Google OS.
gOS is the latest Linux based OS for budget PCs. WalMart was selling gPC(gOS powered PCs) at only USD199 and the developer kit at only USD59.99. More here
gOS is developed by Good OS LLC out of Los Angeles. Based on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 and runs the Enlightenment E17 interface instead of KDE or Gnome. Despite not being created by Google, gOS uses Google’s online applications such as GMail, Google News, Google Maps, Google Calendar, YouTube, etc. It’s a neat concept for a Linux distribution, but how practical is it? One thing for sure, since the cost is low everyone will now have the opportunity to own a PC.
I am currently downloading my copy of gOS via BitTorrent. You can look forward to a review from me within the next few days.
Get you own copy of gOS via BitTorrent or direct download from the gOS download page.
Source: gOS
Souurce: ExtremeTech
Tags: , budget pcs, gpc, Linux, Software, Ubuntu, walmart
One of the reasons I like Ubuntu is because they have a really swanky commercial repository, and they make it easy for me to get some commercial software, without pulling an RMS-styled “Freedom is a feature” on me. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Fedora with all my heart, but when you get out of the distribution business per se, you feel that you might just want your primary machine to “Just Work”(tm). And long gone are the days where I carry 2-3 laptops when I travel - I just aim for one (I have lots of photo gear to worry about, instead).
The Feisty Fawn, was a pretty good Ubuntu release. That is, I got my commercial software fix - Sun’s JDK (moot these days, hello IcedTea in Fedora, for instance), VMWare Server (its free, kind of useful for running other distributions), and even Opera (sometimes I’m bored with Firefox, Galeon, Epiphany, I need to test things in another browser).
When Gutsy Gibbon got released, I couldn’t wait to update to the next, best thing. You expect things to move forward, never regress right?
Well, Sun’s software still works. As does Opera. But VMWare, has since, stopped working. Kernel 2.6.22-14 does not come with appropriate VMWare modules. Yes, that means, there’s no vmmon or vmnet loaded (or even, loadable, to be exact). Effectively, they’ve broken VMWare. I wondered why, so I hopped on to a package search, only to find out that VMWare has been removed from the commercial repository. No real explanation that I can find as to why it doesn’t exist.
So, my next option is to maybe build-my-own-package. There’s a guide titled VMWare in Ubuntu Gutsy - Kernel 2.6.22 that might be a good read for those that want to use this. Then I recall why I moved to using Ubuntu daily - I did it to get away from the frustration of having to build things myself. I did it, for the “Just Works”(tm) experience.
My options are to move to using some free software, quite obviously. There’s KVM, Xen, or even VirtualBox. Hey wait a minute, I can get all this in Fedora 8 too, can’t I?
The Gutsy Gibbon was supposed to come with a rocking new tool, displayconfig-gtk (i.e. System -> Administration -> Screen and Graphics). Unfortunately, it is broken beyond all thought. Then I remember an old friend, system-config-display, from Fedora - at least it works, and it has been around for ages (since what, Red Hat 8?). displayconfig-gtk is supposed to give me all the wonderful hotplug goodness of an external display, but it doesn’t. I can manually push xrandr to at least mirror my display (Intel chipset, might I add), which I’m sure I can also do in Fedora 8.
So I’ve come to the realisation that things are broken, and I’m going to have to do things manually, if I want them to work. This is irrespective of if I run Ubuntu or Fedora. Being just an “end user” is hard, to almost impossible.
My needs-to-work-list:
My “it’ll be nice if it worked” list:
I take it that’s enough ranting for today. Congratulations to the Fedora Project for releasing Fedora 8 today. I think Werewolf will be a gutsy release alright.
And a happy Diwali/Deepavali to all Hindus. As an aside, the number 8 is interesting - in Chinese, it loosely translates to being lucky. And November 8 2007 seems to be the “festival of light”. The only way it could’ve been any more numerically lucky is if it were released on 08-08-2008 (a day for a lot of weddings, I assume).
I seem to enjoy asides today, so here’s another. I ran dict gutsy, and it has some interesting definitions:
gutsy gutsy adj.
1. marked by courage and determination in the face of
difficulties or danger.
Syn: courageous, plucky.
2. rough or plain; not sophisticated or refined; earthy.
Opposite of {sophisticated}, or {refined}.
Syn: earthy, lusty, robust.
I wonder if, definition-wise, Gutsy Werewolf is #1 and the Gutsy Gibbon is #2?
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Sometimes its hard to avoid installing multiple Java Virtual Machines (JVM) on your computer because it has something to do with application compatibility or software development purposes.
This creates an annoyance when you just want to run one of the JVM instead of another for a specific task, then having to switch to another JVM for other tasks.
Here's an easy way to setup a default JVM (Java interpreter and javac) and switch between several JVM in Ubuntu / Debian based distribution.
From the console execute
PLAIN TEXT CODE:Then you'll be presented with this menu,
Select the Java distribution which best suits you and press enter. You're done. You can always change the default JVM for your Ubuntu/Debian distribution by repeating this steps.
Tags: java, jdk, j2sdk, ubuntu, debian, linux, jvm, vm, javac
Sometimes its hard to avoid installing multiple Java Virtual Machines (JVM) on your computer because it has something to do with application compatibility or software development purposes.
This creates an annoyance when you just want to run one of the JVM instead of another for a specific task, then having to switch to another JVM for other tasks.
Here's an easy way to setup a default JVM (Java interpreter and javac) and switch between several JVM in Ubuntu / Debian based distribution.
From the console execute
PLAIN TEXT CODE:Then you'll be presented with this menu,
Select the Java distribution which best suits you and press enter. You're done. You can always change the default JVM for your Ubuntu/Debian distribution by repeating this steps.
Tags: java, jdk, j2sdk, ubuntu, debian, linux, jvm, vm, javac
One of the changes made in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon is Compiz enabled by default on installation. However the Compiz desktop effect setting are modest at best when enabled out-from-the-box in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.
How to Customize Compiz effect in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
From Desktop, go to Applications->Add/Remove..., search for 'compiz' and then install the CompizConfig utilities.
CLI lover might want to "sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager".
To customize Compiz effects, just go to System->Preference, and select Advance Desktop Effects Settings.
There you go, a simple guide how to enable Compiz setting manager for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). From here, you can add and remove compiz effects according to your needs and processing power budget. Hope you'll find it useful !
Tags: ubuntu, debian, compiz, linux, opensource, desktop, effects, graphics, opengl, glx
One of the changes made in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon is Compiz enabled by default on installation. However the Compiz desktop effect setting are modest at best when enabled out-from-the-box in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.
How to Customize Compiz effect in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
From Desktop, go to Applications->Add/Remove..., search for 'compiz' and then install the CompizConfig utilities.
CLI lover might want to "sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager".
To customize Compiz effects, just go to System->Preference, and select Advance Desktop Effects Settings.
There you go, a simple guide how to enable Compiz setting manager for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). From here, you can add and remove compiz effects according to your needs and processing power budget. Hope you'll find it useful !
Tags: ubuntu, debian, compiz, linux, opensource, desktop, effects, graphics, opengl, glx
Resisting an upgrade, is hard, so I finished some work on Friday, and proposed to upgrade away to Gutsy Gibbon. I’ll talk about what I like and don’t later, but I still face a problem. I can’t seem to get X/xrandr working as well as I’d like it to. I also can’t get all the desktop effect bling going, but that is not as significant a problem as working VGA out.
lspci says, I have a Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03). I drive my laptop at 1440×900, and externally, I’ve got a 17″ LCD panel that can go 1280×1024 (FWIW, I tested against an external 19″ wide panel capable of 1440×900, but it made no difference). However, xrandr thinks I can only, at most, display 1440×1440, and I think that’s why I’m not being able to get a nice “stretch screen” (i.e. two desktops, not mirrored displays) experience going.
xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum 1440 x 1440
VGA connected (normal left inverted right)
1280x1024 59.9
640x480 60.0
LVDS connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right) 303mm x 190mm
1440x900 60.0*+
1280x800 60.0
1280x768 60.0
1024x768 60.0
800x600 60.3
640x480 59.9
TV disconnected (normal left inverted right)
So, mirroring works. My desktop looks a little shitty, but at 1280×1024, all is well and dandy. I have a feeling that when I plug it into an LCD projector, I might get away with things working, for a change. That alone, is impressive. So, how do I magically get a dual-display, stretched desktop experience? My xorg.conf file for reference, is tacked to the end of this.
My heart goes out to whomever decided to write displayconfig-gtk. This is a step in the right direction. End-users will want a GUI to choose external displays and stuff. I love the idea of location profiles (so, at home, maybe I’m tacked to an external 1280×1024 monitor, at another location maybe another, a roaming locating that just creates a 800×600 display, etc.). Of course, it would help if this utility actually worked. It doesn’t, and is currently broken, from my experience with it. Why is it included, under the guise like it might work?
Kudos to Intel, and their page on How to setup Dual Head for Intel Graphics with RandR 1.2. Everyone says, stick to Intel and you won’t go wrong with Linux. Why then, does such a page need to exist? Why is my out-of-the-box experience, still so bad?
If it helps, here’s the xorg.conf configuration file (I didn’t muck with it, its dpkg configured). Help appreciated, and remind me to buy you a beer when/if I see you next.
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
VideoRam 65536
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-72
VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
Love Ubuntu but can't live without Microsoft Windows? Then this might be the solution for you. As funny as it sounds, there are people who took time the to port the Ubuntu-feeling for Windows users to experience.
Read How To Make Windows look like Ubuntu Linux article from The Indie Tribune for a quick guide to make your Windows look like an Ubuntu machine. Have fun!
Tags: ubuntu, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, gnome, windows, windows vista, vista, windows xp
Love Ubuntu but can't live without Microsoft Windows? Then this might be the solution for you. As funny as it sounds, there are people who took time the to port the Ubuntu-feeling for Windows users to experience.
Read How To Make Windows look like Ubuntu Linux article from The Indie Tribune for a quick guide to make your Windows look like an Ubuntu machine. Have fun!
Tags: ubuntu, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, gnome, windows, windows vista, vista, windows xp
Maybe after spending hours of wading through http logs makes me imagining things, such as the font typeface on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. They seems to look crispier and clearer than on Feisty Fawn, even on my old CRT monitor.
The differences is analogous to letter printed with Bubble-Jet printer versus one that is printed with a Laser Printer, you can just spot the differences.
Tags: ubuntu, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, feisty fawn, gnome, font, typeface, windows, opensource, gtk, ttf
Maybe after spending hours of wading through http logs makes me imagining things, such as the font typeface on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. They seems to look crispier and clearer than on Feisty Fawn, even on my old CRT monitor.
The differences is analogous to letter printed with Bubble-Jet printer versus one that is printed with a Laser Printer, you can just spot the differences.
Tags: ubuntu, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, feisty fawn, gnome, font, typeface, windows, opensource, gtk, ttf
Few days ago my site has been subjected to bad http crawling bot which caused my site to be slower than usual. It become worse when somebody took advantage of the situation and launch a Denial-of-Service attack to my website which effectively took my website down for few hours per-day until today.
Rest assured the culprits has been identified and has been dealt with, you can enjoy reading my blog again. I've made few modification to my sites so it is more resistant to this sort of problem the next time around.
I sincerely apologize to those who have been subjected to hours of waiting for my site to load (and viewing the dreaded Internal Server Error messages) for the past 3-4 days.
And for those who are wondering about Gutsy Gibbon update will be able to read them at my personal blog : http://please.name.my.
Have fun !
Tags: gutsy, gutsy gibbon, ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, ddos, downtime, dreamhost, bots, bad bots
Few days ago my site has been subjected to bad http crawling bot which caused my site to be slower than usual. It become worse when somebody took advantage of the situation and launch a Denial-of-Service attack to my website which effectively took my website down for few hours per-day until today.
Rest assured the culprits has been identified and has been dealt with, you can enjoy reading my blog again. I've made few modification to my sites so it is more resistant to this sort of problem the next time around.
I sincerely apologize to those who have been subjected to hours of waiting for my site to load (and viewing the dreaded Internal Server Error messages) for the past 3-4 days.
And for those who are wondering about Gutsy Gibbon update will be able to read them at my personal blog : http://please.name.my.
Have fun !
Tags: gutsy, gutsy gibbon, ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, ddos, downtime, dreamhost, bots, bad bots
I just found out from Brandon Holtsclaw’s blog that he started a project named UbuntuWire for the benefit of Ubuntu users.
UbuntuWire is a specialized Ubuntu search engine which can help you find information related to Ubuntu operating system quickly without having to wade through countless unrelated websites on the internet. The search engine is powered by by Google Custom search and only takes result from reliable/official Ubuntu websites.
Alternatively you could try Uboontu which performs the exact same functionality as UbuntuWire but with different UI presentation.
Hope that would help you shorten your work when you’re searching for Ubuntu related information.
Tags: ubuntu, debian.linux, opensource, open source, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, howto, guide
Today, I had a problem. I’d been used to doing rpm -q –changelog <packagename> and generally piping that through less. I sat at a Ubuntu terminal, and wondered how to do this. Poring through the man pages for apt-get or even dpkg, proved worthless. So, I hopped on to #ubuntu on Freenode, to have a rather enlightening conversation:
Oct 11 10:11:37 <ccharles> hi! does anyone here know the dpkg/apt equivalent to rpm -q –changelog ?
Oct 11 10:12:10 <Pelo> ccharles, man apt and man dpkg see what it says
Oct 11 10:12:46 <ccharles> Pelo: you’d think i had already tried that, and failed, which is why i came here
At which point, I’m wondering what the clue-level of the channel is. So I hop onto #luv, the channel for my local LUG, and ask there. Not long after, I post this back on #ubuntu:
Oct 11 10:34:19 <ccharles> pelo: the correct answer next time, is apt-listchanges, or even zless /usr/share/doc/<packagename>/changelog.Debian.gz or if you have internet access, aptitude changelog <packagename> (with thanks to cafuego for telling me)
I remember in my active Fedora days, we used to refer to #fedora as a bit of a wasteland, largely populated by meat-heads. However, it was also the primary contact point for non-meat-heads, for a non-development question. And a lot of folk on #fedora-devel never ever joined #fedora. This is probably largely the same with #ubuntu/#ubuntu-devel. This creates a disconnect within the community.
rpm -q –changelog equivalents on Debian
However, RPM still seems to shine quite this bit more, in comparison. Maybe someone wants to update the Switching to Ubuntu From Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora guide.
Technorati Tags: fedora, ubuntu, rpm, dpkg, apt, changelog, apt-listchanges, aptitude, irc, community
I just found out from Brandon Holtsclaw's blog that he started a project named UbuntuWire for the benefit of Ubuntu users.
UbuntuWire is a specialized Ubuntu search engine which can help you find information related to Ubuntu operating system quickly without having to wade through countless unrelated websites on the internet. The search engine is powered by by Google Custom search and only takes result from reliable/official Ubuntu websites.
Alternatively you could try Uboontu which performs the exact same functionality as UbuntuWire but with different UI presentation.
Hope that would help you shorten your work when you're searching for Ubuntu related information.
Tags: ubuntu, debian.linux, opensource, open source, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, howto, guide
Great news! ShipIt is now taking orders for the latest release of Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon. Pre-order your copies now for free while waiting for the official release on 18 October 2007.
So why wait? Register yourself at http://launchpad.ubuntu.com and order a free copy of Ubuntu CD from Shipit website
Tags: ubuntu, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, free cd, linux, opensource, open source, gnu linux, gnu
Great news! ShipIt is now taking orders for the latest release of Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon. Pre-order your copies now for free while waiting for the official release on 18 October 2007.
So why wait? Register yourself at http://launchpad.ubuntu.com and order a free copy of Ubuntu CD from Shipit website
Tags: ubuntu, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, free cd, linux, opensource, open source, gnu linux, gnu
The new release of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) is just around the corner! It comes with a load of new features including :
With all these new features and latest softwares from repositories, I think it makes no sense not to upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon unless if you don't have a fast internet connection or way too crazy to upgrade.
How to upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon
Upgrading to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon is painless. You only need to press "Alt-F2" from the desktop to launch the "Run Application" dialog, and type "gksu update-manager -c".
You will the be presented with this dialog
Press Upgrade and sit back, grab a cup of coffee while your Ubuntu operating system is being upgraded to Gutsy Gibbon.
That's all, happy upgrading!
Note that Gutsy Gibbon upgrades will only be available on or after 18 October 2007, so stay tuned!
Tags: ubuntu, linux, debian, opensource, feisty, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, feisty fawn
The new release of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) is just around the corner! It comes with a load of new features including :
With all these new features and latest softwares from repositories, I think it makes no sense not to upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon unless if you don’t have a fast internet connection or way too crazy to upgrade.
How to upgrade to Gutsy Gibbon
Upgrading to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon is painless. You only need to press “Alt-F2″ from the desktop to launch the “Run Application” dialog, and type “gksu update-manager -c”.
You will the be presented with this dialog
Press Upgrade and sit back, grab a cup of coffee while your Ubuntu operating system is being upgraded to Gutsy Gibbon.
That’s all, happy upgrading!
Note that Gutsy Gibbon upgrades will only be available on or after 18 October 2007, so stay tuned!
Tags: ubuntu, linux, debian, opensource, feisty, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, feisty fawn
We may have been accustomed with Linux based operating system which is generally available for free from the internet. We also know that despite the licenses permit the commercialization of Linux distribution, they are still being developed and offered for free.
But do you how much money that you need to develop a working Linux operating system, should every component is written from scratch?
USD 1.9 Billion !
That is according to the findings made in 2001, to estimate the cost of developing Debian 2.2 (Potato) from scratch, and that survey was made more that 5 years ago.
Care to estimate the cost of developing your favorite Linux distribution now?
ps : Windows Vista development cost - more than USD 10 Billion
update:
Cost estimates for developing Ubuntu from scratch has been published
Tags: vista, microsoft, windows, linux, ubuntu, debian, etch, gutsy gibbon, gutsy, opensource, open source
We may have been accustomed with Linux based operating system which is generally available for free from the internet. We also know that despite the licenses permit the commercialization of Linux distribution, they are still being developed and offered for free.
But do you how much money that you need to develop a working Linux operating system, should every component is written from scratch?
USD 1.9 Billion !
That is according to the findings made in 2001, to estimate the cost of developing Debian 2.2 (Potato) from scratch, and that survey was made more that 5 years ago.
Care to estimate the cost of developing your favorite Linux distribution now?
ps : Windows Vista development cost - more than USD 10 Billion
update:
Cost estimates for developing Ubuntu from scratch has been published
Tags: vista, microsoft, windows, linux, ubuntu, debian, etch, gutsy gibbon, gutsy, opensource, open source
Maybe my viewpoint is a little biased, but I find using GNOME in Ubuntu is a little bit natural for my reflexes than to wade around with fancy Windows Vista's window manager. Plus, I hate to deal with hundreds of spyware/malware/worms/trojans/viruses combined threats everyday, it just eat away my productivity
Tags: windows, vista, windows xp, microsoft, ubuntu, funny, humor, comic, computers, computer
Maybe my viewpoint is a little biased, but I find using GNOME in Ubuntu is a little bit natural for my reflexes than to wade around with fancy Windows Vista’s window manager. Plus, I hate to deal with hundreds of spyware/malware/worms/trojans/viruses combined threats everyday, it just eat away my productivity
Tags: windows, vista, windows xp, microsoft, ubuntu, funny, humor, comic, computers, computer
It is always a good idea to create a limited guest user account when you are sharing the computer with multiple users. This is to prevent accidental (or intentional) tampering of system configuration which can prevent your Ubuntu Linux operating system from running properly.
Here’s how to setup a limited guest account for your Ubuntu Linux operating system. This guide assumes you are adding a guest account user for your children to play with.
How to Add a Limited User Account
1. From Desktop, go to System, Administration and select “Users and Groups”.
2. You will be shown with user settings dialog. Click “Add User” button
3. Fill in the new user details
It is always a good idea to create a limited guest user account when you are sharing the computer with multiple users. This is to prevent accidental (or intentional) tampering of system configuration which can prevent your Ubuntu Linux operating system from running properly.
Here’s how to setup a limited guest account for your Ubuntu Linux operating system. This guide assumes you are adding a guest account user for your children to play with.
How to Add a Limited User Account
1. From Desktop, go to System, Administration and select “Users and Groups”.
2. You will be shown with user settings dialog. Click “Add User” button
3. Fill in the new user details
4. You can grant the appropriate privilege on in the “User Privilege” tab.
Note by assigning privileges, you can fine-tune user account rights to use certain application in your operating system. For example you may prevent users from messing up with internet connection by preventing him/her to access modem, and so on.
Conclusion
Ubuntu provides the facility to create limited (and unprivileged) user account for conveniences in day-to-day Desktop experience. By creating users with limited privilege, you can prevent other users from messing up with your operating system configuration while giving them the freedom of using their own Desktop and workspace.
Tags: ubuntu, debian, security, linux, opensource, open source, gnome, guide, howto
Believe it or not, I’ve been getting a lot of query hits lately for instruction to use FTP on Ubuntu Linux. So today I decided to write a simple guide for using FTP in Ubuntu.
How to connect to an FTP Server
Firstly, you should note that you do not need to install anything special in order to connect to ftp server from Ubuntu.
What you need to do is to is to select “Places” menu from Desktop, then select “Connect to Server…”
Then you will see a dialog prompting you to enter ftp connection details. For this exercise we will start off by connecting to a Public FTP Server which does not require user login or password.
Believe it or not, I’ve been getting a lot of query hits lately for instruction to use FTP on Ubuntu Linux. So today I decided to write a simple guide for using FTP in Ubuntu.
How to connect to an FTP Server
Firstly, you should note that you do not need to install anything special in order to connect to ftp server from Ubuntu.
What you need to do is to is to select “Places” menu from Desktop, then select “Connect to Server…”
Then you will see a dialog prompting you to enter ftp connection details. For this exercise we will start off by connecting to a Public FTP Server which does not require user login or password.
Fill in the Server address as ‘ftp.tm.net.my’, and press ‘Connect’. The connection dialog will close and you will notice a new icon (’ftp.tm.net.my’) on your desktop. Click on the icon and you will be connected to the ‘ftp.tm.net.my’ server.
You will be able to browse the remote files on the server as if those files are inside your computer. Copying and transferring files between your computer and ftp server is as easy as copying files between folders in your own computer.
How to Connect to an FTP server with Username and Password
Use this option if you have access to a private FTP account with username and password. This type of ftp account is usually given to website owners and administrators to publish their website on the internet.
From Desktop, select “Places” menu then “Connect to Server…”. When a dialog appear, select “FTP (with Login)” service type. Fill-in the text box as shown in the screenshot below.
Click connect, a similar icon will appear on the desktop. Click the icon and you will be prompted with your FTP password login. Enter it, and you will be able to browse your remote FTP account from your Ubuntu Linux computer.
That’s it, hope that would help you connect to an FTP server from Ubuntu Linux!
Tags: ftp, linux, ubuntu, debian, gnome, open source, guides, tutorial, howto
I love it when people starts to post hacks around popular gadgets. Please refer to fsckin w/Linux article titled - How To Mount Your iPhone Filesystem On Ubuntu for more information.
Tags: iphone, ubuntu, debian, opensource, feisty fawn, feisty, gutsy, fuse
I love it when people starts to post hacks around popular gadgets. Please refer to fsckin w/Linux article titled - How To Mount Your iPhone Filesystem On Ubuntu for more information.
Tags: iphone, ubuntu, debian, opensource, feisty fawn, feisty, gutsy, fuse
Just to ensure, because it seems some people don’t understand English, but I never said people would sue Dell or IBM for non-functional software (arguably, the crap that comes from Microsoft, isn’t functional). But you can sue your hardware provider for non-functional hardware. Big difference there - software usually comes with indemnification and some explicitly come with no warranty.
Indemnification is such that if Microsoft Office eats up your data, the best you can ask for a “warranty” claim might be USD$5 or something absurd like that.
However, buying a piece of hardware, and then finding out say, it can’t drive the external display, or the SD card reader that comes with your laptop doesn’t work - that my friends, are hardware faults. Arguably, caused by software that lacks support for it, but still, not your problem.
The ACCC has a good guide on refunds, and on warranties and claims, and so on. Its not like I’m unhappy - I’m just saying someone might be, and then the real blow will come. Remember, refunds come via faulty, unfit for purpose, defective equipment. IANAL.
BTW, Dell responds, so kudos to Marco. They offer remastered ISOs which fix known issues, and assure me Gutsy Gibbon fixes all these issues.
Technorati Tags: linux, dell, ubuntu, laptop, suspend, resume, wireless, display
When is Linux ready for the desktop? Or more likely, the laptop? Walt Mossberg recently has echoed that while Linux is easier to use, its still not for everyone (permanently archived at his blog, Linux’s Free System Is Now Easier to Use, But Not for Everyone).
I have to applaud Dell for having the balls to sell Ubuntu on their laptops. In fact, now, Lenovo/IBM are thinking that they might do this as well, and the polls seem to suggest that Ubuntu is the favourite.
However, I should caution all these companies from even going near Linux with a ten-foot pole. Quite simply, this is because Linux doesn’t work. If their product doesn’t work as advertised, what are the chances of a customer possibly suing them, for a product that isn’t fit for purpose?
Before buying a laptop, I was told that if I went with an Intel video card, I would be safe, and everything would just work. I was lied to.
There are so many known bugs that Dell had to create a special Wiki page to list the known issues with the systems they sell. And if there are bug reports attached, these don’t look like they’re getting fixed anytime soon. Keeping in mind these are Intel video cards, and Intel tells you that they’ve got such a big commitment to open source. Last I checked, my Linux/PowerPC laptop with an ATI card (last generation PowerBook G4’s) did suspend/resume, external display driving and working wireless much better than I currently get on my newer Dell.
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Frankly, most of the time, my laptop sits at my desk. But there are times in a year I travel, a lot, changing wireless networks, turning it off and on from time to time, having to make presentations, putting it thru many suspends and resumes, and so on. That is, using it like how a laptop is meant to be used.
I’m so unhappy to say that after over a decade of using Linux on my desktop, I still find Linux inadequate for basic laptop functionality.
Don’t get me wrong. I like Ubuntu. I like their release policy, the fact that I have a working machine most of the time, and during the past release cycle I might have only seen two new kernels. I like that I can run some restricted/commercial software with no issue - VMWare, Java, Flash, etc. Sure I’ve had to have random hacks to get some things working, but for the most part Ubuntu has struck a chord for a good balance between freedoms and usability (when I want to futz around, Fedora is still the best for that). I just wish they would go the extra mile to ensure that basic laptop functionality works better.
Do I give up some of my freedoms and move to using OS X, like most people seem to do now? With pervasive Internet connectivity available, and IPv6 address spaces to rid me of NAT, maybe I should harness screen + ssh and get work done remotely, via a Mac.
Technorati Tags: linux, dell, ubuntu, laptop, suspend, resume, wireless, display, walt mossberg
Wel, a stupid mistake while configuring maemo development and testing environment has left me with an unsuable Ubuntu installation, the one that I’ve been using continuously for almost two years.
Looking at the damages, it seems far more simple to just backup stuffs in /home and start with a fresh Ubuntu Feisty Fawn reinstallation, and while i’m at that, maybe I should give a shot at Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5 release.
Fortunately, backing up files in my Linux pc is as easy as tarring all the stuff inside /home and copying it to another storage media, and looks like I’m done with the copying part now. What left for me to do is to pop in the Ubuntu Feisty Fawn CD and reboot my pc to reinstall my operating system again.
If this were to happen on Windows XP, i think i’ll be looking at hours of browsing through my CD collections looking for various software installers and hardware drivers CD. phew….
This has reminded me to keep backups of my crucial works as a mistake like this can cause you efforts and months of works. Well it could been worse than this, like losing my sanity over crashed hard disk. Fortunately I’ve a policy of always making backups of my current documents once-in-a-month, well even that might not be enough, as disaster might caught you when you’re least prepared. Btw have you done your backup today?
Tags: feisty, ubuntu, feisty fawn, debian, maemo, nokia
Wel, a stupid mistake while configuring maemo development and testing environment has left me with an unsuable Ubuntu installation, the one that I’ve been using continuously for almost two years.
Looking at the damages, it seems far more simple to just backup stuffs in /home and start with a fresh Ubuntu Feisty Fawn reinstallation, and while i’m at that, maybe I should give a shot at Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 5 release.
Fortunately, backing up files in my Linux pc is as easy as tarring all the stuff inside /home and copying it to another storage media, and looks like I’m done with the copying part now. What left for me to do is to pop in the Ubuntu Feisty Fawn CD and reboot my pc to reinstall my operating system again.
If this were to happen on Windows XP, i think i’ll be looking at hours of browsing through my CD collections looking for various software installers and hardware drivers CD. phew….
This has reminded me to keep backups of my crucial works as a mistake like this can cause you efforts and months of works. Well it could been worse than this, like losing my sanity over crashed hard disk. Fortunately I’ve a policy of always making backups of my current documents once-in-a-month, well even that might not be enough, as disaster might caught you when you’re least prepared. Btw have you done your backup today?
Like to keep updated with the latest news from Ubuntu community ? Then I suggest you subscribed to Ubuntu Solar System Feeds available from Yahoo Pipes!
The pipe is a collection of various planet Ubuntu feeds including planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Brasil, Ubuntu-fr, and Ubuntu-nl. All feeds published through the pipe are presented in English language so you don’t need to worry about language barrier here.
If you’re a kind of person who likes to read the rants and ramblings of the Ubuntu community, then I suggest you subscribe it here : Ubuntu solar system
Tags: ubuntu, debian, linux, open source, feeds, news
Like to keep updated with the latest news from Ubuntu community ? Then I suggest you subscribed to Ubuntu Solar System Feeds available from Yahoo Pipes!
The pipe is a collection of various planet Ubuntu feeds including planet Ubuntu, Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Brasil, Ubuntu-fr, and Ubuntu-nl. All feeds published through the pipe are presented in English language so you don’t need to worry about language barrier here.
If you’re a kind of person who likes to read the rants and ramblings of the Ubuntu community, then I suggest you subscribe it here : Ubuntu solar system
Today is Software Freedom Day 2007. Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Their goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high-quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business — in short, everywhere!
It was a bit late when I got the news, and I have not be able to organize such an event here in Kota Kinabalu. When I checked on Software Freedom Day official website, there are only 2 places that held this event in Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur and Kuching.
I was wondering on how I can contribute to the community, although I am doing this alone. It is almost impossible to contact local university (University Malaysia Sabah) in this short period of time. I also do not have any contact with Malaysia Open Source Training Center to get some feedback on the above matter.
At last, I decided to give away my Ubuntu Linux cds which I got from Canonical few months back. 1 Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn 64-bit and 2 Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn 32-bit, which is in excellent condition. I also have their Kubuntu cds, but after trying, it seems that the cds are faulty. I won’t give the Kubuntu cds out.
For your information, Ubuntu Linux is one of the friendliest Linux operating system nowadays. It is really suitable for normal computer users, either notebook or desktop. It is a Live CDs, means that you don’t have to change any configuration to your existing computer to get it running. Just pop it in and run.
So, if you want to experience the feeling of having an option to your Window$, just drop an email to drizad(at)gmail.com with your address (Malaysia only please). I will personally snail mail/parcel it to you. If you don’t mind waiting, you can also ask your copy from ShipIt.
Talking about Ubuntu, I think you want to see this. Oh, put it in a better words - YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS -up till the end of the video.
That is the least I could do. Happy Software Freedom Day!
*First come, first serve basis, and yes, I am doing this free for Ubuntu.
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The ubuntu china community has come up with a simple but creative logo to represent their sizeable community for the Software Freedom Day event. Read more at Swimming Upstream and Beijing LUG website (chinese)
Tags: ubuntu, debian, community, linux, china, software freedom, software, open source, freedom, fsf
I discovered lanmap during my stay in a hotel during the Merdeka holidays. This little handy tool can generate local area network map in PNG,SVG and GIF format by listening to network traffic from network interfaces.
lanmap does this by putting network interface in promiscuous mode and representing the data its sees into a 2-d human-readable network graph. It has the advantage of identifying the network traffic being passed around the network along with the name and the operating system of the host which are represented on the graphical representation as well.
My House Local Area Network
Local Area Network from a Hotel that I stayed in
lanmap works under Linux, BSD, Windows and OS X operating systems. It requires libpcap library for capturing packets and graphviz visualization library to generate 2-d network graphs.
You can download lanmap from its official website. Lanmap is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0.
Tags: lanmap, network, nmap, ubuntu, ethernet, internet, ubuntu, linux, feisty
The next Ubuntu release after the upcoming Gutsy Gibbon was announced in the Ubuntu Fridge yesterday.
Schedule to be released sometimes next year, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) will be the next release with Long Term Support (LTS) after Dapper Drake. This means Hardy Heron server installations will be supported up to 2013 after it release date on April 2008.
Please refer to the Ubuntu Wiki page for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) release schedule
Tags: ubuntu, gutsy gibbon, dapper drake, dapper, linux, debian, open source
After my first printer reached its end of life status (meaning that it has become too expensive to maintain it), I decided to buy a new printer. I haven’t bought a new printer for almost 6 years, I think I want to spend on a reliable and flexible printer.
After two weeks of window shopping, I decided to get the HP Officejet 5680 series, because I really wanted to have an ‘office look’ for my desk+workstation (yeah, I’m thinking of running my own business seriously).
Among its features are :
To summarize it, HP Officejet printer has all feature that I need to start my own SOHO business with functionalities that one expected to run day-to-day task. Best of all, the printer (CUPS) and scanner (sane) works well on Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn), w00t!
I’ve tested most of the feature of this little gizmo and is impressed with its performance, If you ever want to start a small-business like me, I would recommend you to get one too!
Recommended Product
Now you can do it all-print, all-print, phone, fax, copy and scan — from this compact, versatile all-in-one solution from HP. Create professional presentations and brochures with laser-quality black text, plus optional 6-ink and 4,800 optimized dpi color when you print and copy color documents. Send important faxes quickly and eliminate unwanted faxes using junk-fax barrier. Conveniently copy, scan and fax multiple pages with 25-sheet auto document feeder.
Tags: officejet, hp, printer, scanner, ubuntu, linux, debian, fax
Great news for Ubuntu Linux users, now you don’t have to manually edit Xorg.conf file to change the graphic card and display driver perimeter.
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) is going to include a GUI configurator which aims to make it simpler for users to configure X Windows. The new configuration panel also has a ‘fallback’ feature which guards against X Windows failure to start after tweaking its config.
Here are screenshots of Xorg.conf configurator running on Ubuntu Gutsy
Tags: ubuntu, gutsy, gutsy gibbon, xorg, xwindows, opensource, linux, x11
kaeru has published the URL of Malaysian Ubuntu Package mirror for faster Ubuntu installation for local users.
To use it, configure your synaptic (or edit /etc/apt/sources.list) to include this line :
deb http://mirror.inigo-tech.com/ubuntu/ feisty feisty-backports universe multiverse
The repository also includes updates for previous release of Ubuntu including Edgy Eft (6.10), Dapper Drake (6.06), and the upcoming Ubuntu release Gutsy Gibbon (7.10). Try it out!
Tags: ubuntu, repository, apt-get, synaptic, feisty, feisty fawn, malaysia
Debian AMD64 label for its version of x86 64bit platform operating system often leads to misunderstanding that the installer only supports AMD CPU only. In fact the label was meant to support Intel based x86-64 bit CPU as well (such as the Core Duo processor) in addition of AMD machines.
Why Debian use ‘AMD64′ ?
The source of confusion traces back when AMD being the first to design the instruction set for the 64bit version of x86 CPUs (for Athlon 64) back in 2002. Back then Intel hasn’t produced 64bit CPU yet making AMD the sole vendor for 64bit x86 CPU. The Debian project elected to support this architecture with the name AMD64.
The confusion persists as Debian (and previously Ubuntu), still uses the AMD64 to identify with x86-64 platform which most other GNU/Linux distro doesnt (Fedora, Red Hat, Kanotix, Cent OS). In this case, I would prefer Debian to change its AMD64 labelling to ‘x86-64′ in order to refer to 64bit x86 based machines.
ConclusionTags: debian, ubuntu, amd64, intel, amd, feisty fawn, gutsy gibbon
I’m supposed to post this post last month while the issue was still hot, but it seems that this post has been evading me for quite some time until now. Last month a friend of ours decided to get his first laptop, after browsing the internet and satisfied with our peers’ recommendation, he settled on Compaq Presario v3521 which is a relatively new model that supports SATA2.
However the joy of getting a new laptop soon fades away when he finally found out that Ubuntu does not support that particular model! The Ubuntu installer either froze up during the LiveCD booting screen or the installation dialog doesn’t detect any hard disk attached to the laptop.
After testing it with various Linux distro including Fedora, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris (ok that wasnt a GNU Linux distribution but close), It is safe to conclude that the freely available Linux distro does not support the laptop’s hardware driver. The installer will either hang, does not detect the hard disk/dvd drive or prompts for a driver CD.
Turns out to be Compaq Presario V3521 isn’t supported out from the box by Microsoft Windows XP and Vista either! According to the friend, he has no problem installing Solaris 10 and RHEL 5 Server on the laptop either. It seems the laptop requires the use of proprietary driver in order to work its hardware.
After some tweaking involved, he decided to install/use Debian 64bit on the laptop using network install, luckily besides the bumpy installation process, every other aspect of the hardware is working with the right drivers in 64bit mode.
So for all of you out there, please watch out for Compaq Presario v3521 model, it might not be for those with a faint heart.
p/s: It true, though Ubuntu seems to be easy enough to use, it might not be the best solution for you. It still has some rough edges, particularly with x86-64bit platform.
Tags: ubuntu, feisty fawn, compaq, presario, laptop, notebook, debian, red hat, fedora
Here’s the way to configure Ubuntu to autostart your favorite application upon startup (like Microsoft Windows ‘Startup’ folder). This how to assume you are using the default GNOME windows manager.
Why do you need Startup Programs ?
For convenience purposes. with Startup programs, you don’t have to manually launch your favourite application each time you logged into your Desktop environment which can become very laborious.
This is very handy if you have a list of application that you need to start each time you log in to your Desktop such as Gaim/Pidgin, Ekiga, Feedreader and/or some application that you can’t live without.
With Startup program, you can save your time from having to start these applications manually and save yourself from forgetting to start essential application each time you boot up your computer.
Tags: ubuntu, debian, open source, opensource, feisty fawn, gutsy gibbon
In this post I’ll show you how to configure commercially available Skype USB phone to use with your Ekiga softphone.
What do you need
Some Explanation on Skype USB Phone
If you have spend your time doing surveying and window shopping, you may already come across one of these USB products which offers the ‘phone’ feeling to your Skype application.
What some people does not aware of - these ‘Skype’ phone is merely a generic USB audio device built to look like a phone set. These generic chipsets are readily supported under Linux operating system without additional hardware drivers.
Instructions to use Skype USB phone in Ekiga
p/s: Note that the keypad does not work with Ekiga in this case although through my inspection, 3 out of 3 USB phone keypad that I experimented on uses Microsoft Xbox xpad.c driver which can be use to interact with desktop application like Ekiga (it’s possible)
Tags: feisty fawn, ubuntu, ekiga, usb, skype, voip, gnome, open source, opensource
Not having played a game since Prince of Persia (and we’re talking the original game, with block-like graphics, on some ancient hardware, back in 1990), I decided to try out Second Life today. Surprisingly, the getdeb folk have this for Ubuntu, even in its 64-bit variety. Installation was simple:
And fail, of course. I got a Window Creation Error. Not content with this, I started it up from a terminal, and looked at the error messages pass by. Finally found the rather telling line: WARNING: createContext: window creation failure. SDL: Couldn’t find matching GLX visual. It seems that its all got to do with the bit-depth of colour, so a quick replace of the DefaultDepth in xorg.conf was in lieu (it originally was DefaultDepth 16 but its now DefaultDepth 24).
Restart X, and I launched Second Life with success! Now signing up was a bit of a chore as I had to find a new name and so on. A lot of ideal names are taken up, so I settled with Colin Pichot. One of the things I quickly changed was how much bandwidth SL was allowed to use - quick reduction to 50kbps from its usual default (of like 700kbps+). I joined the Linux Australia group, I’ve not developed anything in SL, and I haven’t given them my credit card details (yet). It seems to create a group, you need to fork out $100 Linden Dollars.
I’ll play with this after midnight I guess, when we’ve got more “off-peak” quota to utilise, but initial impressions are its a pretty impressive environment in 800×600. I’ve not met anyone, I’ve added a friend (I think), can’t for the life of me figure out how to put a photo in my profile, and here’s hoping that eventually, I understand what all the fuss about SL is.
Technorati Tags: second life, secondlife, sl, ubuntu, window creation error, glx visual, colin pichot, alter ego
Downloading software from repositories can be a long and daunting task especially when you are downloading from a repository server which is far from your location.
It even can turn out to be an annoying experience when your downloads keeps timing out because of the bad connection between you and the mirror server. Thus it is crucial for us to find the closest/fastest software repository in order to speed up the installation and upgrade process.
In this post I’ll show you how to get the fastest/closest repository server automatically using Synaptic. Here’s how :
First you need to start up Synaptic. Then go to Settings->Repositories.
Click the Download From section, and Select ‘Other‘
Click “Select Best Server” button to enable synaptic to find the best and fastest repository server for you.
Synaptic will perform automated pinging, and It will select the fastest server based on its calculation. Its nice and easy!
Tags: ubuntu, debian, apt-get, repository, deb, repositories, synaptic, feisty, feisty fawn
It seems that for $29/month, I’m not getting my meagre 200MB quota on the 3 network, but can now get 1GB! Wanting to not fuss with a laptop card or USB modem (because they only support Windows and OS X), I decided that its time to setup a connection via my mobile phone, i.e. use my phone as a modem, via Bluetooth.
Ubuntu has got some amazing documentation on getting Bluetooth based dial-up networking working. I followed everything there, till the Configuring PPP session. Right upon there, I hit a bit of a snag, but my trusty LUG list pointed me to Using T-Mobile Nokia E65 as a Bluetooth modem guide. Using the gprs, gprs-connect-chat, and gprs-disconnect-chat from that website, I was able to use my phone as a modem. One important thing to note is that the gprs-connect-chat and gprs-disconnect-chat must be executable (fix this by doing a chmod +x).
The APN (access point) for the 3 network is “3netaccess”. So the one line I changed in the gprs-connect-chat reads as: OK ‘AT+CGDCONT=1,”IP”,”3netaccess”,”",0,0′ .
Now, a simple pppd call gprs in a terminal works. Of course, it would make a whole lot more sense if there was a GUI for this (I’m surprised that Ubuntu hasn’t figured this out yet).
E61i has registered the WiFi connection and the phone as a modem
A quick word of warning: the phone doesn’t register how much packet data you use when its acting as a modem (so you can’t find it in the logs later, under packet data, from what I can tell). Also, keep in mind, that 3 counts both uploads and downloads as part of the quota you get per billing cycle. I’ve not started wanting to do usage accounting, but I’m sure its what I’ll conquer next.
If you’re wanting to do this via Optus, consider Menno Smits guide for Optus 3G.
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, modem, bluetooth modem, e61i, nokia e61i, s60, series 60, 3, three, dial-up networking
Picture this, you’re running a lot of process that consumes a lot of memory that even your 2GB RAM is running out faster than you can blink your eye. Suddenly your machine slows down to a crawl, then it begin to hang, and all you can do is pray that you wont lose any valuable data should one of the process be killed.
You realised now that you should have allocate more space to that dwarfish 100MB swap partition, seems like it is too late as you need to repartition your hard disk to resize the swap partition to avoid this problem when running memory intensive program. All is lost…
Enter the Swap file…
Actually you can substitute a swap partition with swap files if you need more swap. What you need to do is create an empty file with the size of the swap that you preferred (for example 500MB) and add this information to your fstab.
How to add more Linux Swap with Swap File
Assuming you want to put it in “/”, Create an empty 500MB file
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap.img bs=1024k count=512
Format it as a swap file
$ sudo mkswap /swap.img
Add it to your running Linux system
$ sudo swapon /swap.img
Optionally you can add /swap.img to fstab for automatic swap activation.
$ sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Add this line at the end of the file
/swap.img none swap sw 0 0
Run “free -m” command to verify that you’ve added the newly created swap to your Linux based operating system.
Hope that helps!
Tags: linux, ubuntu, debian, opensource, open source, fstab, swap
Today I appreciate YUM’s mirror-select tool, in comparison to what APT offers me. OptusNet’s mirror is down, so its a case of editing /etc/apt/sources.list and doing a %s/au.archive/archive/g. With YUM, it’d have just found another mirror - now that seems like (good) redundancy to me.
Technorati Tags: yum, fedora, ubuntu, apt
Users of Ubuntu Linux are probably already accustomed to Ubuntu update screen which appears when there are security or critical updates to the operating system.
A typical software update screen will display a list of softwares that require updates along with their release number. What most people would probably overlooked is the “Description of update” below the the list. Clicking it will reveal the description of the updates along with a brief explanation about security hole or bug that it fixes.
The expanded description also provide hyperlinks to the patch website which contains security advisory references to the aforementioned patch. This information would help users understand which bugs/security hole that has been eliminated with the current updates.
Tags: ubuntu, security, debian, open source, opensource, linux, apt-get, synaptic, feisty fawn, feisty
Tell me what’s wrong with the picture:
Anyways, Ubuntu Live looks like a great conference. The session line-up looks more like a conference than the one-day FUDCon’s, and with the tracks (there are 4 concurrent tracks), I am truly impressed. A big part of me wishes I was there… Some interesting tech bloggers like Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk fame, and Matt Asay are keynoting.
Of course, MySQL’s very own CEO, Mårten Mickos is also giving a keynote on Monday July 23, at 9:20-9.40am.
One caveat with Ubuntu Live: its cost. FUDCon is free, and true to its nature, really does spread community love (with about two tracks). Its USD$895 to attend Ubuntu Live - very troublesome to the pocketbook.
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, ubuntu live, mysql, fudcon
Pocket PC is perhaps the most widely known PDA device available to general consumers, although it comes with Microsoft Windows CE, it still does not stop GNU/Linux users from syncing their Pocket PC device with Linux machines.
In this post, I’ll concentrate on developing Pocket PC application on Linux machine by using CeGCC.
First of all you need to install CeGCC cross compiler on your system by either
For this quick introduction, I’ll concentrate on installing the compiler from Debian Package (deb). Other packages can be downloaded from CeGCC project page
Get the Deb package
Install both packages
Install both mingw32ce and cegcc using dpkg,
$ sudo dpkg -i cegcc-mingw32ce_0.50-2_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i cegcc-cegcc_0.50-2_i386.deb
the package files will be installed on /opt.
Download Example Source Code
Compiling the application
To compile the example applications, you need to change the directory to “/opt/cegcc/bin/“, then execute
$ ./arm-wince-cegcc-gcc ~/hello.c -o ~/hello.exe
Copy hello.exe to your Pocket PC PDA, and execute it using File Explorer to see it running. Repeat the step for “Random Rectangle” example.
Conclusion
CeGCC is a great package for Pocket PC mobile application development as it produces binaries that are compatible with modern ARM processor and Windows Mobile operating system. CeGCC enables Pocket PC application development under a completely free and open source environment
Tags: pocketpc, pocket pc, linux, ubuntu, gcc, compiler, c#, pda, mobile, gadgets
Those who are just trying out the Linux Desktop environment (specifically - Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora) might already familiar with GNOME, one of the two most popular desktop environments for Linux distros.
The customizable look and theme of GNOME desktop has made it an ideal platform for desktop ‘modders’ to modify their Desktop Environment mimicking other operating system desktop such as Mac OS X and Windows Vista
The frequently customized part of GNOME are :
All of which can customized or downloaded from the famous Gnome-Look.org and Gnome Art: Theme section website or other places.
Here are some of the customized GNOME desktop images floating around the internet:
Tags: ubuntu, linux, vista, gnome, desktop, kde, vista, windows
This is a continuity from my previous post Get Ubuntu Repositories on DVD.
Now you can get Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Repository DVD images from [ftp:].
While some might argue that putting the whole Ubuntu repository on DVD is unnecessary, having it is nice especially when you need to install software packages in places where a high-speed internet connection (broadband) is not available.
Please refer here for a guide to add the DVD on Feisty Fawn repository list. You can also read the guide in Indonesian language from [wiki.ubuntu-id.org]
Alternatively, you can create a customized Repository CD/DVD that suit your needs using AptOnCD utility to be used on a computer which does not have a high speed internet connection.
-Hope that would help
Tags: ubuntu, feisty fawn, feisty, debian
This is a continuity from my previous post Get Ubuntu Repositories on DVD.
Now you can get Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Repository DVD images from [ftp:].
While some might argue that putting the whole Ubuntu repository on DVD is unnecessary, having it is nice especially when you need to install software packages in places where a high-speed internet connection (broadband) is not available.
Please refer here for a guide to add the DVD on Feisty Fawn repository list. You can also read the guide in Indonesian language from [wiki.ubuntu-id.org]
Alternatively, you can create a customized Repository CD/DVD that suit your needs using AptOnCD utility to be used on a computer which does not have a high speed internet connection.
-Hope that would help
Tags: ubuntu, feisty fawn, feisty, debian
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol responsible for keeping your computer time in sync (Standard Time) with the rest of the world. Keeping up with standard time with the rest of the world proves to be useful when you’re interacting with the rest of computers across the world.
Here’s how to manually update your computer time to syncronise with NTP, from the terminal run ‘ntpdate’ command
sudo ntpdate europe.pool.ntp.org north-america.pool.ntp.org
If you live in South-East Asia like me, you can synchronize your computer time with the Malaysian/SIngapore NTP server
sudo ntpdate mst.sirim.my sg.pool.ntp.org
Note that the synchronizing process is usually done automatically by the operating system when the computer is connected to the internet. This command is useful if you wish to synchronize your computer manually when you’re connected to internet.
Tags: ntpd, ntp, ubuntu, debian
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol responsible for keeping your computer time in sync (Standard Time) with the rest of the world. Keeping up with standard time with the rest of the world proves to be useful when you’re interacting with the rest of computers across the world.
Here’s how to manually update your computer time to syncronise with NTP, from the terminal run ‘ntpdate’ command
sudo ntpdate europe.pool.ntp.org north-america.pool.ntp.org
If you live in South-East Asia like me, you can synchronize your computer time with the Malaysian/SIngapore NTP server
sudo ntpdate mst.sirim.my sg.pool.ntp.org
Note that the synchronizing process is usually done automatically by the operating system when the computer is connected to the internet. This command is useful if you wish to synchronize your computer manually when you’re connected to internet.
Skype is perhaps the most popular client to make calls from your computer to any phone lines in the world. With SkypeIn subscription, you can even get an international phone number for everybody to call you, a completely neat way for your friend in overseas to call you with cheap rates. Although Skype is a proprietary software which uses a non-open protocol, some people would find it useful as it enables them to make international call with cheaper rate via SkypeOut.
Installing Skype on Ubuntu (or Debian)
This how to will show you how to install a Skype client in Ubuntu & Debian base operating system.
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
Click Add Sources.
Hope that will help you to install Skype on your Linux operating system. Alternatively, If you’re a fan of open source software and open standards, then you might want to look into Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting), cheerio!
Tags: skype, voip, ubuntu, feisty fawn, linux, messenger
Skype is perhaps the most popular client to make calls from your computer to any phone lines in the world. With SkypeIn subscription, you can even get an international phone number for everybody to call you, a completely neat way for your friend in overseas to call you with cheap rates. Although Skype is a proprietary software which uses a non-open protocol, some people would find it useful as it enables them to make international call with cheaper rate via SkypeOut.
Installing Skype on Ubuntu (or Debian)
This how to will show you how to install a Skype client in Ubuntu & Debian base operating system.
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
Click Add Sources.
Hope that will help you to install Skype on your Linux operating system. Alternatively, If you’re a fan of open source software and open standards, then you might want to look into Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting), cheerio!
This is the most popular question that I received currently from new Ubuntu and Debian users. This is probably because Ubuntu and Debian based operating system usually does not provide an obvious way to connect to the internet through ADSL Broadband Modem.
How to connect to internet through ADSL Broadband Modem
Here’s a quick guide for you to connect to the internet using ADSL broadband modem.
Remember, type “pon dsl-provider” if you want to connect to the internet again after you’ve rebooted or switched off the computer.
Earlier version of the post : Connecting TMNet Streamyx Broadband while using Ubuntu
Tags: ubuntu, broadband, internet, modem, adsl, debian, streamyx, pppoe
This is the most popular question that I received currently from new Ubuntu and Debian users. This is probably because Ubuntu and Debian based operating system usually does not provide an obvious way to connect to the internet through ADSL Broadband Modem.
How to connect to internet through ADSL Broadband Modem
Here’s a quick guide for you to connect to the internet using ADSL broadband modem.
Remember, type “pon dsl-provider” if you want to connect to the internet again after you’ve rebooted or switched off the computer.
Earlier version of the post : Connecting TMNet Streamyx Broadband while using Ubuntu
Tags: ubuntu, broadband, internet, modem, adsl, debian, streamyx, pppoe
If you are searching for any games playable on Linux platform, then stop. I’ve found a website which list freely available Linux games for you to kill your time with. The website provides you with the game title along with its genre and the URL to download the Linux version of the game (most of it available in Ubuntu Linux repository).
So if you’re a kind of guy who like to play games a lot, then I suggest you pay The Linux Gamers’ Game List a visit for a comprehensive list of Linux games.
Tags: Linux, ubuntu, games, open source, opensource, free, freeware
If you are searching for any games playable on Linux platform, then stop. I’ve found a website which list freely available Linux games for you to kill your time with. The website provides you with the game title along with its genre and the URL to download the Linux version of the game (most of it available in Ubuntu Linux repository).
So if you’re a kind of guy who like to play games a lot, then I suggest you pay The Linux Gamers’ Game List a visit for a comprehensive list of Linux games.
Tags: Linux, ubuntu, games, open source, opensource, free, freeware
As Ubuntu becomes more mainstream, and there are more desktop users showing up thanks to its ease of use, and hardware partnerships like Dell (I hope their sales go well), Ubuntu is going to have to rock hard when it comes to software support as well as hardware support (for workstations and laptops).
Today, I was looking for video podcasting software on Linux. PenguinTV came out tops, and I’ve never really got Democracy TV to work the way I wanted. Stable version 3.0 is out, and there are quite a number of fixes since 2.80 (5 releases to 3.0). Feisty DEBs on the website are available, but they’re i386 only, and I opted to go via the apt-get, Ubuntu way (okay, Debian way). I got version 2.80 and I thought I’d bug report it: #119262. All in hopes of a newer version. Within the hour, my request got rejected:
Thanks you for your bug report. We can find this out via merges.ubuntu.com with a lot of extra information - there’s no point reporting an update bug unless you actually plan to do the merge, attach the debdiff, and subscribe ubuntu-universe-sponsors. However, if you would like to help fix this bug, please come help us.
Now, I’m your average, and typical Ubuntu user. I just expect things to work. I’d like software thats new, and at the latest release. I am your typical Dell purchaser. I have no interest in merging, attaching a debdiff, and getting on yet another mailing list.
I don’t blame the person closing the bug report, because thats what I would have possibly done when I was futzing with Fedora packages and actively doing volunteer distribution development. However, this doesn’t bode well to Bug #1 being fixed anytime soon - PCs for sale do include free software like Ubuntu, the marketing that it has amazing features and benefits are known to quite a lot of folk, but its not nearly as user friendly, yet. Let time pass?
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, penguintv, bug, new release, mainstream usage
I’ve been a SWL for a while now since I got my hand on my dad’s old two-way ham radio. Since then, I’ve become interested to learn morse code after listening it over the amateur radio band in my place.
After spending time searching for morse code training program, I settled on the three best application I can find inside Ubuntu repositories, and they are : aldo, cw and morse-x.
aldo
aldo is perhaps the best morse training application for Linux (unix-like) platform. It can train you to recognise morse code beeps with classic Block method or the more recommended Koch method.
Aldo keep tracks of your performance by gauging your accuracy of identifying the correct morse code keyed during training sessions. Aldo is also capable of generating random north american amateur radio callsign for training purposes, which is essential when you’re communicating/listening on CW mode.
[www.nongnu.org]
cw
cw is another morse code training application which can convert characters entered from standard input (stdin) to morse code. The software package also includes ‘cwgen’ utility which generates random word for morse code practice.
cw can also be use to convert text files into morse code beeps to be sent over voice communication channels which is useful if you want to pretend that *you’re* the one that keyed in the code
morse / morse-x
Unlike training application mentioned above, morse-x concentrates on morse code sending. As sending and receiving morse code is a different experience altogether, morse-x is the cheapest and easiest way to properly train yourself on morse code sending when you’re transmitting over the air.
Bonus: codegroup
‘codegroup’ is an interesting application in which it enables you to transfer binary files using standard morse code. This is accomplished by converting binary files into five-letter word message string which is easily transmitted using morse code. Each of these encoded files is accompanied by 16-bit CRC to ensure the transmitted file can be decoded correctly after it has been transmitted over the air.
Conclusion
Overall, I find those application is useful for me to learn morse code. I dedicate an hour per day for morse code training using the Koch method, so far it has been interesting as I’m able to recognize some alphabets from random morse code tranmission. I’m hoping that I could master morse code so I could use my skills to sit for RAE and obtain my own amateur radio license.
codegroup sounds interesting for transfering small/encrypted binary files over ham radio though :p
Tags: morse, linux, ubuntu, opensource, open source, morse code
I’ve been a SWL for a while now since I got my hand on my dad’s old two-way ham radio. Since then, I’ve become interested to learn morse code after listening it over the amateur radio band in my place.
After spending time searching for morse code training program, I settled on the three best application I can find inside Ubuntu repositories, and they are : aldo, cw and morse-x.
aldo
aldo is perhaps the best morse training application for Linux (unix-like) platform. It can train you to recognise morse code beeps with classic Block method or the more recommended Koch method.
Aldo keep tracks of your performance by gauging your accuracy of identifying the correct morse code keyed during training sessions. Aldo is also capable of generating random north american amateur radio callsign for training purposes, which is essential when you’re communicating/listening on CW mode.
[www.nongnu.org]
cw
cw is another morse code training application which can convert characters entered from standard input (stdin) to morse code. The software package also includes ‘cwgen’ utility which generates random word for morse code practice.
cw can also be use to convert text files into morse code beeps to be sent over voice communication channels which is useful if you want to pretend that *you’re* the one that keyed in the code
morse / morse-x
Unlike training application mentioned above, morse-x concentrates on morse code sending. As sending and receiving morse code is a different experience altogether, morse-x is the cheapest and easiest way to properly train yourself on morse code sending when you’re transmitting over the air.
Bonus: codegroup
‘codegroup’ is an interesting application in which it enables you to transfer binary files using standard morse code. This is accomplished by converting binary files into five-letter word message string which is easily transmitted using morse code. Each of these encoded files is accompanied by 16-bit CRC to ensure the transmitted file can be decoded correctly after it has been transmitted over the air.
Conclusion
Overall, I find those application is useful for me to learn morse code. I dedicate an hour per day for morse code training using the Koch method, so far it has been interesting as I’m able to recognize some alphabets from random morse code tranmission. I’m hoping that I could master morse code so I could use my skills to sit for RAE and obtain my own amateur radio license.
codegroup sounds interesting for transfering small/encrypted binary files over ham radio though :p
Tags: morse, linux, ubuntu, opensource, open source, morse code
Tor is a free implementation of anonymity network which protects your privacy over the internet. Tor enable this by providing virtual tunnel to internet application through SOCKS interface. This post will show you how to setup and use Tor to connect to internet anonymously.
apt-get install tor
apt-get install privoxy
gksudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config
forward-socks4a/localhost:9050 .
sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart
Here’s a screenshot of Mozilla Firefox and Gaim setup to use Tor
You can access those screen through Edit->Preference->Advanced->Network->Settings in Mozilla Firefox and Account->Advance Tab in Gaim/Pidgin. Other application which supports SOCK 5 can be configured similarly to connect through Tor (including Xchat irc client and other internet browser)
Other Operating System
Tor (and Privoxy) is also supported on other operating system including Windows, Mac OS and other Unix-like operating system. Please refer to Tor Download page for instructions to use tor on those system
Tags: tor, ubuntu, proxy, feisty fawn, debian
Tor is a free implementation of anonymity network which protects your privacy over the internet. Tor enable this by providing virtual tunnel to internet application through SOCKS interface. This post will show you how to setup and use Tor to connect to internet anonymously.
apt-get install tor
apt-get install privoxy
gksudo gedit /etc/privoxy/config
forward-socks4a/localhost:9050 .
sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy restart
Here’s a screenshot of Mozilla Firefox and Gaim setup to use Tor
You can access those screen through Edit->Preference->Advanced->Network->Settings in Mozilla Firefox and Account->Advance Tab in Gaim/Pidgin. Other application which supports SOCK 5 can be configured similarly to connect through Tor (including Xchat irc client and other internet browser)
Other Operating System
Tor (and Privoxy) is also supported on other operating system including Windows, Mac OS and other Unix-like operating system. Please refer to Tor Download page for instructions to use tor on those system
Tags: tor, ubuntu, proxy, feisty fawn, debian
Some web hosting company do not offer shell access (SSH or Telnet) to your shared hosting account for security reasons, making it a bit harder for you to do regular file maintenance for your web account. Although the use of regular FTP client is adequate for most cases, some people still prefer to manipulate files directly using standard Unix tools (probably because of old habits).
Fortunately, there’s CurlFtpFS which allow you to mount remote ftp account as a standard filesystem on your Linux operating system.
Using CurlFtpFS
First of all you need to install CurlFtpFS, which in case of Ubuntu or Debian based operating system is to run ‘sudo apt-get install curlftpfs‘.
Alternatively, you can use Synaptic to install CurlFtpFS.
Assuming you’ve successfully installed curlftpfs, all you need to do in order to mount ftp locally is to to run these commands.
mkdir hostr
sudo curlftpfs -o allow_other ftp://user:pass@ftp.example.com host
user:pass is the username and password to log into ftp account.
After that, you can change your working directory to the mount-point and use the regular unix utilities to work on the files that normally accessible on the FTP protocol. After you’re done, you can unmount it by running the usual “sudo umount [mountpoint]” command
Using CurlFtpFS in fstab
You can add curlftpfs to fstab for automatic mounting by using this line :
curlftpfs#user:pass@ftp.example.com /mnt/host fuse rw,uid=500,user,noauto 0 0
Note: Please refer to CurlFtpFS website for further reference.
Thanks for reading this post, hopefully this will get you started to use curlftpfs FTP based filesystem in your Linux operating system.
Tags: filesystem, linux, debian, ubuntu, curl, fuse, mount, unix
Some web hosting company do not offer shell access (SSH or Telnet) to your shared hosting account for security reasons, making it a bit harder for you to do regular file maintenance for your web account. Although the use of regular FTP client is adequate for most cases, some people still prefer to manipulate files directly using standard Unix tools (probably because of old habits).
Fortunately, there’s CurlFtpFS which allow you to mount remote ftp account as a standard filesystem on your Linux operating system.
Using CurlFtpFS
First of all you need to install CurlFtpFS, which in case of Ubuntu or Debian based operating system is to run ‘sudo apt-get install curlftpfs‘.
Alternatively, you can use Synaptic to install CurlFtpFS.
Assuming you’ve successfully installed curlftpfs, all you need to do in order to mount ftp locally is to to run these commands.
mkdir hostr
sudo curlftpfs -o allow_other ftp://user:pass@ftp.example.com host
user:pass is the username and password to log into ftp account.
After that, you can change your working directory to the mount-point and use the regular unix utilities to work on the files that normally accessible on the FTP protocol. After you’re done, you can unmount it by running the usual “sudo umount [mountpoint]” command
Using CurlFtpFS in fstab
You can add curlftpfs to fstab for automatic mounting by using this line :
curlftpfs#user:pass@ftp.example.com /mnt/host fuse rw,uid=500,user,noauto 0 0
Note: Please refer to CurlFtpFS website for further reference.
Thanks for reading this post, hopefully this will get you started to use curlftpfs FTP based filesystem in your Linux operating system.
Tags: filesystem, linux, debian, ubuntu, curl, fuse, mount, unix
Installing Java Runtime and JDK has been made easy since Ubuntu Feisty Fawn since multiverse and universe package has been made available by default. This short how to, covers an easy way to install Sun Java environment in your Ubuntu operating system.
Installing Java Runtime
$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre
Installing Java Software Development Kit (JDK)
$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
Alternatively you can choose to install previous Sun Java version on your machine by replacing ’sun-java6′ with ’sun-java5′ for Java 1.5, or by installing ‘j2sdk1.4′ package for Java 1.4.
That’s all, you should be able to run Java applets using your favorite browser or run Java application by now.
Tags: java, jdk, linux, debian, ubuntu, apt-get
Installing Java Runtime and JDK has been made easy since Ubuntu Feisty Fawn since multiverse and universe package has been made available by default. This short how to, covers an easy way to install Sun Java environment in your Ubuntu operating system.
Installing Java Runtime
$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre
Installing Java Software Development Kit (JDK)
$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
Alternatively you can choose to install previous Sun Java version on your machine by replacing ’sun-java6′ with ’sun-java5′ for Java 1.5, or by installing ‘j2sdk1.4′ package for Java 1.4.
That’s all, you should be able to run Java applets using your favorite browser or run Java application by now.
Ubuntu comes with a default CD ripping utility called Sound Juicer that lets you convert Audio CD tracks into digital music format. However Sound Juicer only able to rip Audio CDs into OGG format by default. Most people that familiar with MP3 format might find this as a drawback because MP3 ripping option is not available because of its patented status.
However in the spirit of ‘freedom’ in the free and open source, I’d like to show you how to enable MP3 ripping capability in Sound Juicer
Enable MP3 CD Ripping
This guide assume that you’re using the latest release of Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn).
The default bitrate setting for MP3 is 160Kbps, you can change MP3 encoding parameters by clicking “Edit Profiles” option in the application, and that’s it! You are ready to rip CDs to MP3 format!
Tags: mp3, ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, ripping, gstreamer, debian, encoder, cd ripper
Ubuntu comes with a default CD ripping utility called Sound Juicer that lets you convert Audio CD tracks into digital music format. However Sound Juicer only able to rip Audio CDs into OGG format by default. Most people that familiar with MP3 format might find this as a drawback because MP3 ripping option is not available because of its patented status.
However in the spirit of ‘freedom’ in the free and open source, I’d like to show you how to enable MP3 ripping capability in Sound Juicer
Enable MP3 CD Ripping
This guide assume that you’re using the latest release of Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn).
The default bitrate setting for MP3 is 160Kbps, you can change MP3 encoding parameters by clicking “Edit Profiles” option in the application, and that’s it! You are ready to rip CDs to MP3 format!
Tags: mp3, ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, ripping, gstreamer, debian, encoder, cd ripper
An Ubuntu-on-my-main-desktop virgin. Or more accurately, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 on a Dell Inspiron 640m laptop (2GHz Core 2 Duo T7200, 2GB RAM, 120GB disk). hermione is no longer a Fedora Core machine, its all Ubuntu now.
Getting The Software
A few weeks ago, I’m pretty sure they offered PowerPC downloads that failed if you tried it for Feisty, but succeeded for Dapper. This week, they’ve cleaned up the download site, and I obviously chose 64-bit AMD and Intel computers (hello, thats what a Core 2 Duo is, right?).
The Ubuntu Download Page
First Impressions
Everything just works. Right out of the box, from the time the Live CD was inserted, to the install process, and the after-install process. It warned me of using Restricted Drivers for my wireless card (ipw3945), and that’s the only real violation I’ve got. Volume control buttons just work, as do brightness control.
After installation however, I got a 1024×768 screen, which displayed on 1440×900 looks kind of ugly. Solved easily via: sudo apt-get install 915resolution. Thats it, I didn’t have to do any more magic, beyond that.
Suspend/resume work just fine. The external display works (so far, I’ve only just used mirrored mode but there’s no reason to think stretching the desktop will not work - how GNOME copes is another matter).
Applications
I like that Firefox 2 is shipped by default. My configuration moved from Firefox 1.5 with no apparent problems. Ubuntu however has decided to disable the backspace key for going back in the history, which seemed to be quite annoying. This is apparently an upstream bug, however for tracking purposes its #60995. This is easily fix-able by opening a browser window, entering about:config and in the search bar looking for browser.backspace_action. Change the value from 1, to 0, and all will be well. Read more about browser.backspace_action if you’d like.
I think the mirror selection based on your country for apt is actually the most sensible solution, as opposed to yum’s mirrorlist. Why? Because contacting various mirrors is silly, some stop working, some don’t feed you correctly, and so forth. Worse, you might get assigned to a bogged down mirror. Ironically, au.archive.ubuntu.com is really mirror.optus.net (i.e. really fast for me) - yum has never once picked this for me automatically.
Playing DVDs? Need MP3 support so the Rhythmbox playlists load up? Their Restricted Formats page on the wiki is amazing. I never expect support out of the box (I wonder why some people rant that Ubuntu is evil as it ships these things by default) but I do expect support to be relatively easy to get. Go Medibuntu (this is the Livna of Ubuntu).
Thoughts For Improvement
Definitely, the migration assistant shouldn’t only attempt to migrate you from Windows. Its much easier doing a migration from /home/username on an existing Linux or Unix install. Sure, its probably not the mass market doing migrations from one distribution to another, but I see it as quite possible that more and more folk move to Ubuntu for ease of use, and the “just works” mentality.
A personal preference is that I don’t like the Human theme. The color scheme seems to be all wrong. Clearlooks is much nicer on the eyes, and I’ve found a Flickr photo that I took to be more interesting on my background (first time I’ve used the image, might I add). Fedora’s backgrounds are really, so much nicer. Canonical is hiring a UI Developer.
Note: This was supposed to be posted a couple of weeks back… It for some reason sat in my ScribeFire (formerly Performancing) notes pile.
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, linux, feisty fawn, migration, ui, medibuntu
Ubuntu Studio was finally out and you can see its screenshot from Howtoforge’s : Installing Ubuntu Studio 7.04 - Linux For The Creative. Ubuntu Studio features the new Ardour 2 dark theme which seems slick and stylish when combined with the applications available in the distribution.
However you don’t need to go through the hassle of obtaining Ubuntu Studio just to get its theme as Andi Darmawan has written an easy to follow guide to Install Ubuntu Studio Theme in your standard Feisty Fawn installation.
What is Ubuntu Studio ?
Ubuntu Studio (7.04) is a newly released Multimedia oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. It is targeted for audio,video and graphic professionals or enthusiasts. The Ubuntu Studio DVD iso (about 870MB) is available for download from the project’s official website which includes Multimedia content creation softwares along with specially compiled low-latency kernel suitable for audio/video editing tasks.
Tags: ubuntu, linux, debian, feisty fawn, gnome, theme, themes
Ubuntu Studio was finally out and you can see its screenshot from Howtoforge’s : Installing Ubuntu Studio 7.04 - Linux For The Creative. Ubuntu Studio features the new Ardour 2 dark theme which seems slick and stylish when combined with the applications available in the distribution.
However you don’t need to go through the hassle of obtaining Ubuntu Studio just to get its theme as Andi Darmawan has written an easy to follow guide to Install Ubuntu Studio Theme in your standard Feisty Fawn installation.
What is Ubuntu Studio ?
Ubuntu Studio (7.04) is a newly released Multimedia oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. It is targeted for audio,video and graphic professionals or enthusiasts. The Ubuntu Studio DVD iso (about 870MB) is available for download from the project’s official website which includes Multimedia content creation softwares along with specially compiled low-latency kernel suitable for audio/video editing tasks.
Tags: ubuntu, linux, debian, feisty fawn, gnome, theme, themes
Here’s a video from Youtube demonstrating Feisty Fawn with Beryl
1 2 Loading...Refer to this guide on Installing Beryl On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Desktop with With An ATI Radeon Graphic Card
btw, a friend who was just using Linux at his workplace has asked me how much does it cost to buy the latest Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn). Seems there are people who still thinks Ubuntu costs as much as other proprietary Linux distro like Linspire.
He was even shocked when I told him that he an request as many as 10 Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) CD for free from Ubuntu - Shipit. I told him to give Ubuntu a try by downloading the ISO, though I haven’t heard anything from him yet for a week..
So, lesson learned : There are GNU/Linux users who don’t know that those eye-popping Beryl effects is available for free.
Tags: ubuntu, linux, feisty fawn, feisty, beryl, compiz
Here’s a video from Youtube demonstrating Feisty Fawn with Beryl
1 2 Loading...Refer to this guide on Installing Beryl On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Desktop with With An ATI Radeon Graphic Card
btw, a friend who was just using Linux at his workplace has asked me how much does it cost to buy the latest Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn). Seems there are people who still thinks Ubuntu costs as much as other proprietary Linux distro like Linspire.
He was even shocked when I told him that he an request as many as 10 Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) CD for free from Ubuntu - Shipit. I told him to give Ubuntu a try by downloading the ISO, though I haven’t heard anything from him yet for a week..
So, lesson learned : There are GNU/Linux users who don’t know that those eye-popping Beryl effects is available for free.
Ubuntu project has announced their plan to develop Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition
Acting on the popularity of mobile and embedded device, the new Ubuntu edition is going to be developed specifically for Internet-capable mobile devices powered by the latest Intel low-powered processor. Although details about the functionality is sketcy, I suspect the first Ubuntu Embedded edition will run on Internet tablet device similar to Nokia 770/N800, which uses WiFi as means for internet connection.
Ubuntu Mobile Developer Job Openings ?
In light of this event, Canonical is looking to recruit experienced Mobile Developer to develop mobile-oriented derivative of Ubuntu. Requirements to apply for this job is stated on Ubuntu Jobs website
ps: Although I’m an Ubuntu user and a mobile/embedded device fan, in my opinion it is still early for Ubuntu to produce its own Mobile and Embedded operating system suite for handheld device. Ubuntu should take its time to expand slowly and provide proper support for its current product, such as improving its 64-bit edition support and improving Xubuntu support for old and low-end machines. It is not to say that porting Ubuntu to embedded device is a bad idea, but it is a huge undertaking and the device itself might be too costly for others to own (the resulting operating system is closely tight to the mobile device)
Tags: ubuntu, linux, embedded, debian
Ubuntu project has announced their plan to develop Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition
Acting on the popularity of mobile and embedded device, the new Ubuntu edition is going to be developed specifically for Internet-capable mobile devices powered by the latest Intel low-powered processor. Although details about the functionality is sketcy, I suspect the first Ubuntu Embedded edition will run on Internet tablet device similar to Nokia 770/N800, which uses WiFi as means for internet connection.
Ubuntu Mobile Developer Job Openings ?
In light of this event, Canonical is looking to recruit experienced Mobile Developer to develop mobile-oriented derivative of Ubuntu. Requirements to apply for this job is stated on Ubuntu Jobs website
ps: Although I’m an Ubuntu user and a mobile/embedded device fan, in my opinion it is still early for Ubuntu to produce its own Mobile and Embedded operating system suite for handheld device. Ubuntu should take its time to expand slowly and provide proper support for its current product, such as improving its 64-bit edition support and improving Xubuntu support for old and low-end machines. It is not to say that porting Ubuntu to embedded device is a bad idea, but it is a huge undertaking and the device itself might be too costly for others to own (the resulting operating system is closely tight to the mobile device)
I have recently upgrade my Ubuntu Edgy to Ubuntu Feisty and I discover a fantastic CLI magic packaged with Feisty, its call command-not-found. With command-not-found package, when you have type some command that doesn’t exist in your terminal, it will suggest you what to install.
Let say I type trafshow, which It is not installed, the result will be this
The program 'trafshow' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install netdiag
Make sure you have the 'universe' component enabled
bash: trafshow: command not found
If somehow it doesn’t work at your end, try to look at /etc/bash.bashrc, make the lines at bellow is uncomment.
# if the command-not-found package is installed, use it
if [ -x /usr/bin/command-not-found ]; then
function command_not_found_handle {
/usr/bin/command-not-found $1
return $?
}
fi
command-not-found itself is a python script that will return the suggestion line. Therefore if you type command-not-found <command name> , it will returns the suggestion line even the installed command.
command-not-found gedit
The program 'gedit' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install geditWith that, we can actually check on certain command is from which package, where conventionally I usually do with dpkg -S. Compare to dpkg -S, command-not-found is much much more faster.
Another thing I can make use of command-not-found in my bash script. Look the the simple script here
#!/bin/bash
Cmd=`which trafshow`;
if [ ! -n $Cmd ]
then
command-not-found trafshow
fi
I try to check for absolute path of trafshow, if trafshow is not installed, the variable Cmd will be null, and therefore I return the suggestion line. The reason I do this is because the command not found features is not functional automatically in bash script. I mean, if you run trafshow straight away in your script and trafshow is not installed, the suggestion line will not appear.
I have no idea whether command-not-found is available on other Linux distribution besides Ubuntu Feisty, but refers to Agile Testing, you can apt-get command-not-found package in Ubuntu Edgy too.
With command-not-found feature enabled, it somehow slow down the command line process because it performs some checking every time you hit the command name that doesn’t exist. Niath is actually time the process of command-not-found, and it is not so slow that we can still tolerate the delay.
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Yes, in the real world, we all have to run applications that are not provided via the excellent universe of Debian software packages. Some of these, even have to be binaries that you download via the Internet.
But with stupid error messages like these:
[-(~/Downloads/skype-1.4.0.58_alpha)> ./skype bash: ./skype: No such file or directory
It sure makes one wonder, doesn’t it? Thats right, this is 64-bit Ubuntu trying to run a 32-bit application. In fact, these failures will apply to upstream Thunderbird (because in Ubuntu’s infinite wisdom, its stuck at Thunderbird 1.5), GizmoProject and so on. On Fedora, multi-arch is handled a lot better - RPM actually brings in useful 32-bit libraries, and you can run upstream Skype, Gizmo, Thunderbird, with no worries. Its all transparent.
I just wish there was better error reporting. So I don’t have to fire up strace (I sure as heck don’t expect my mother do to so) to see what the real problem is.
Note to Debian-based-distros (Ubuntu in particular): You’re a big boy now. Dell is going to ship you. Most likely on Core 2 Duo machines. People are not going to want to run 32-bit Ubuntu on them, because they bought an advertised 64-bit processor. Laptops (mine even) support 4GB of RAM out of the box (yeah, except 2GB chips cost an arm and a leg).
I’m told that a 32-bit chroot is what I need to set up to make my life better again. Is that so?
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, multi-arch, multiarch, 32bit, 64bit, binaries, dpkg, chroot
I’ve the opportunity to try rTorrent today, it is a lightweight bittorrent client that uses ncurses as its user-interface. Personally, I’m impressed with all the features included in this small and seemingly simple bittorent client.
Among the feature included in rTorrent are :
rTorrent itself is written with performance in mind and it uses the smallest amount of memory compared to other bittorent client.
One of the advantage of using rTorrent is - it can be used under command line (CLI) environment without the need of an X server. This means with rTorrent, you can download torrents on another computer by using remote connection (for example SSH).
rTorrent session can also be multiplexed with the additional use of GNU screen utility, which enables you to focus on other work while monitoring your downloads.
In my personal opinion, the best thing about rTorrent is because it supports bittorrent protocol encryption which is important to me because of my ISP’s traffic shaping policy on P2P trafffic, which kinda lame - I know.
How to get rTorrent
rTorrent is available on Ubuntu repository, but the current release listed there (0.6.4) does not support protocol encryption which is one of the main point that you might want to use rTorrent.
So if you’re using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn or Debian Etch, you can install the latest release of rTorrent by using these deb packages :
Alternatively, you can compile both libtorrent and rTorrent from its sources.
rTorrent sucks, I want a GUI bittorrent client
Though rTorrent has most of the feature that makes it a fully featured bittorent client, it does feature a cryptic user-interface which is not suitable for everybody to use.
If you’re using an ISP that shapes torrent traffic, and has trouble using a CLI environment, then I recommend these bittorrent clients for you :
Both application is available in the latest Ubuntu Feisty Fawn repositories.
Tags: torrent, bittorrent, azureus, ubuntu, linux, open source, encryption, p2p
I’ve the opportunity to try rTorrent today, it is a lightweight bittorrent client that uses ncurses as its user-interface. Personally, I’m impressed with all the features included in this small and seemingly simple bittorent client.
Among the feature included in rTorrent are :
rTorrent itself is written with performance in mind and it uses the smallest amount of memory compared to other bittorent client.
One of the advantage of using rTorrent is - it can be used under command line (CLI) environment without the need of an X server. This means with rTorrent, you can download torrents on another computer by using remote connection (for example SSH).
rTorrent session can also be multiplexed with the additional use of GNU screen utility, which enables you to focus on other work while monitoring your downloads.
In my personal opinion, the best thing about rTorrent is because it supports bittorrent protocol encryption which is important to me because of my ISP’s traffic shaping policy on P2P trafffic, which kinda lame - I know.
How to get rTorrent
rTorrent is available on Ubuntu repository, but the current release listed there (0.6.4) does not support protocol encryption which is one of the main point that you might want to use rTorrent.
So if you’re using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn or Debian Etch, you can install the latest release of rTorrent by using these deb packages :
Alternatively, you can compile both libtorrent and rTorrent from its sources.
rTorrent sucks, I want a GUI bittorrent client
Though rTorrent has most of the feature that makes it a fully featured bittorent client, it does feature a cryptic user-interface which is not suitable for everybody to use.
If you’re using an ISP that shapes torrent traffic, and has trouble using a CLI environment, then I recommend these bittorrent clients for you :
Both application is available in the latest Ubuntu Feisty Fawn repositories.
Tags: torrent, bittorrent, azureus, ubuntu, linux, open source, encryption, p2p
Dell has decided to offer Ubuntu on its Linux computer products. This means the consumers now has the option of buying Linux computers instead of the one pre-installed with Windows OEM. It is implied that Dell will offer Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) as an option on e-series high-performance Desktop computers and e-series Inspiron laptop.
According to the BBC news website, Dell is going to work closely with Ubuntu team to ensure its hardwares are 100% compatible with Ubuntu Linux operating system. This is advantageous to consumers as they are ensured that their computers are fully supported under Linux operating system without any problem.
Buying Linux pre-installed computer has the advantage of lower cost compared to proprietary operating system like Windows. The operating system is much more customizable and in case of Ubuntu - you’re guaranteed to receive software updates and upgrades without any additional cost.
- I’m waiting for Dell to offer its Ubuntu Linux Computers for Malaysian Market
Tags: debian, ubuntu, dell, computers, linux, open source, opensource
Dell has decided to offer Ubuntu on its Linux computer products. This means the consumers now has the option of buying Linux computers instead of the one pre-installed with Windows OEM. It is implied that Dell will offer Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) as an option on e-series high-performance Desktop computers and e-series Inspiron laptop.
According to the BBC news website, Dell is going to work closely with Ubuntu team to ensure its hardwares are 100% compatible with Ubuntu Linux operating system. This is advantageous to consumers as they are ensured that their computers are fully supported under Linux operating system without any problem.
Buying Linux pre-installed computer has the advantage of lower cost compared to proprietary operating system like Windows. The operating system is much more customizable and in case of Ubuntu - you’re guaranteed to receive software updates and upgrades without any additional cost.
- I’m waiting for Dell to offer its Ubuntu Linux Computers for Malaysian Market
Tags: debian, ubuntu, dell, computers, linux, open source, opensource
This is where all the rave is at, today. Guess May really is a good month :-) I’ve been meaning to write about this for quite a while (linux being pre-loaded), and this seems to be a fairly good time.
It all started with Morgan Collett’s post about Linux preloaded - useful out of the box? Its been sitting in a tab awaiting comment, and I must say the history of Linux on Dell’s is somewhat funny - desktop installation on a server! Its interesting to see that Slackware gets shipped in South Africa on a laptop. Imagine the support nightmare? And then Jerome mentions that in the Philippines he got Linpus (first time I’ve heard about it). He also mentions that Acer bundles Red Flag or older Mandriva’s.
Linux makes bundling software hard. So many distributions to pick from, everyone liking something else, different release versions between distributions, spread package management formats, and the list of differences go on. Different kernel? Oops, that might react badly to your BIOS or hardware. Shipping a cheap winmodem? There goes your Linux options.
So its with pleasure that I see Dell offering Ubuntu on some of their machines. When it came to voting in IdeaStorm, I personally picked other, and wrote “Fedora or Ubuntu”. Only because my ties with Fedora go back so many years. But deep down inside, I felt it would have been a nightmare for support - fast changing releases every 6-9 months, new features, things changing rapidly, and you get the drift - it might not be useful out of the box. Ubuntu has focused on usability, they have a mix of some binary driver offerings, and their manifesto is to have a “just works” OS. Best of all - you can get support the moment you need it. Fedora is always touted as being unsupported.
This news is great for the Ubuntu community. Training, support, certification, a lot of good things can happen around this.
Why Ubuntu 7.04? Its not a Long Term Support (LTS) release. I guess this is why its on selected desktops and laptops - I see servers being the next market (alongside RHEL and SuSE) when the next release of Ubuntu comes out.
Speaking of community, Canonical is getting some flak for gagging bloggers on Planet Ubuntu. Guess as a company, they’re also dealing with change, and moving into more of the corporate world.
In other quick news, Jerome, a friend and semi-regular IRC buddy is even co-writing Ubuntu Server in Action.
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, dell, pre-loaded, book, ubuntu server
Filed in the “I wish I had done this, instead of just thinking about it and sitting on my arse” department.
Fedora Daily Package
The Fedora Daily Package is a great site. Chris Tyler, even gets to pimp his book! Its filled with nuggets of useful information, tips and tricks on how to get things going, and introduces you to some new software that you thought might not have existed. I can only wish the energy to continue, and for us to keep on getting great tips and tricks. Inspired largely from the Debian Package of the Day, one day we might see Fedora’s package count match Debian’s universe.
Full Circle Magazine
Full Circle Magazine, is touted as the free Ubuntu Community Magazine. It looks very, very interesting, but makes a few classic mistakes. Having only a PDF version of the online magazine, is a bit of a bummer - the web is largely best viewed in a web browser, so the individual articles should really be sitting as individual links, and searchable by Google, and so forth. The other mistake I think is not offering monetary rewards for article contribution - IBM developerWorks and Red Hat Magazine offer USD$500 per accepted article, and no matter what you want to say, money is always handy. In these days when one can publish so easily on their own blog, get their own AdSense dollars, it probably makes more sense to pay for content thats going into a “magazine” or being used for commercial marketing purposes (to show an active, vibrant community, even).
Here’s hoping Canonical decide to adopt Full Circle Magazine, make a web-also version, pay even USD$100 per article, and continue its success.
Low cost French computer
The Minitel is something I saw in my French textbooks, back during my high school days of learning a new language. It seems that Neuf Cegetel, a French ISP is now aiming to create a low-cost computer for folk that are unable or unwilling to buy a computer. Reminds me of the PC Gemilang. It has open source software - Firefox, Abiword, Gnumeric. It comes with very little space, but with the world moving online, thin clients seem to make more sense, everyday. There’s also a good chance this has more success than the PC Gemilang, as its ISP supported. And cheap - €167.90 buys you a computer, keyboard, mouse, camera, and a 14″ color monitor. Thats only about €50 cheaper than the PC Gemilang.
I think its safe to say that the Internet has reached everyone that matters, in most first world countries. Anyone else (with such low broadband and Internet penetration rates) is probably not into the Internet, because they’re not even wanting to get a computer. Various reasons probably apply here, but when you bring the cost of accessing the Internet down to a rate where people see it as a consumable, thats where the next wave of Internet customers are coming from. ISPs and online business folk probably should see this shift coming, soon.
Technorati Tags: fedora daily package, debian package of the day, fedora, ubuntu, full circle magazine, ubuntu magazine, minitel, low cost computer, france, pc gemilang
Here’s how to to enable the new spiffy Desktop Effects feature on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).
Note 1 : Some people reported this feature causes serious desktop bug when both ‘Wobble’ and ‘Workspace on a cube’ feature are enabled at the same time.
Note 2: This is not beryl, please refer to HowtoForge’s article :Installing Beryl On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Desktop With An ATI Radeon Graphic Card for that.
Tags: ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, compiz, xgl, linux
Here’s how to to enable the new spiffy Desktop Effects feature on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).
Note 1 : Some people reported this feature causes serious desktop bug when both ‘Wobble’ and ‘Workspace on a cube’ feature are enabled at the same time.
Note 2: This is not beryl, please refer to HowtoForge’s article :Installing Beryl On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Desktop With An ATI Radeon Graphic Card for that.
Here is a couple of performance tweak guide for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn that I tried personally and found to be effective.
Note : Your mileage may vary depending on your computer setup, system usage and other factors.
Tags: ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, performance, tweaking
Here is a couple of performance tweak guide for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn that I tried personally and found to be effective.
Note : Your mileage may vary depending on your computer setup, system usage and other factors.
Tags: ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, performance, tweaking
Finally i had the chance to install Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on my desktop after being swamped out with (paper) work for days.
The Installation was a breeze, the Ubuntu team managed to do a pretty good job here. The LiveCD let me do a lot of stuff during the installation process, such as getting online for IRC, surfing the web and reading my emails.
The LiveCD was able to detect my Windows XP Professional partition, and launched Windows Migration Tool for me to migrate my Windows documents and User account. The Installation itself was a breeze, and I’ve a Linux operating system ready to to use within minutes!
Most importantly, my desktop pc hardware (printer, scanner, bluetooth dongle, card reader, graphic card) are supported out from the box, with no restricted drivers needed.
Installation Screenshot
Enhanced Desktop Effect
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn comes with built-in Desktop Effects, so I don’t have to go to great length to enable the spiffy wobbly effect and ‘workplace on cube’ effect.
Note that you have to use a graphic card that supports 3D hardware acceleration with Ubuntu to use this feature.
Ubuntu Software Repositories
The multiverse, universe and restricted software repositories are enabled by default, which means that new users won’t have to figure out how to configure synaptic to install restricted software by themselves anymore.
The ‘completely free’ operating system solution will be addressed by the new (yet unamed) official Ubuntu-derivative project that would be ready by the time Gutsy Gibbon released.
Conclusion
Overall, I’m impressed with the improvements brought in the latest Ubuntu release. I use to criticize unfriendly Ubuntu installer interface (during the days of 5.04, 5.10) which scared some of the new GNU/Linux users but Feisty Fawn’s installation dialog was straight-forward and easy to use, it even easier than Windows Vista installation screen.
I completely agree with Ubuntu decision to include Universe and Multiverse repositories by default as it is more user-friendly to average desktop users. The addition of Desktop Effects is another attraction for potential users to try Ubuntu as their first GNU/Linux operating system.
Five stars for Feisty Fawn, keep up the good work!
Tags: feisty fawn, feisty, ubuntu, livecd, beryl, vista
Finally i had the chance to install Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on my desktop after being swamped out with (paper) work for days.
The Installation was a breeze, the Ubuntu team managed to do a pretty good job here. The LiveCD let me do a lot of stuff during the installation process, such as getting online for IRC, surfing the web and reading my emails.
The LiveCD was able to detect my Windows XP Professional partition, and launched Windows Migration Tool for me to migrate my Windows documents and User account. The Installation itself was a breeze, and I’ve a Linux operating system ready to to use within minutes!
Most importantly, my desktop pc hardware (printer, scanner, bluetooth dongle, card reader, graphic card) are supported out from the box, with no restricted drivers needed.
Installation Screenshot
Enhanced Desktop Effect
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn comes with built-in Desktop Effects, so I don’t have to go to great length to enable the spiffy wobbly effect and ‘workplace on cube’ effect.
Note that you have to use a graphic card that supports 3D hardware acceleration with Ubuntu to use this feature.
Ubuntu Software Repositories
The multiverse, universe and restricted software repositories are enabled by default, which means that new users won’t have to figure out how to configure synaptic to install restricted software by themselves anymore.
The ‘completely free’ operating system solution will be addressed by the new (yet unamed) official Ubuntu-derivative project that would be ready by the time Gutsy Gibbon released.
Conclusion
Overall, I’m impressed with the improvements brought in the latest Ubuntu release. I use to criticize unfriendly Ubuntu installer interface (during the days of 5.04, 5.10) which scared some of the new GNU/Linux users but Feisty Fawn’s installation dialog was straight-forward and easy to use, it even easier than Windows Vista installation screen.
I completely agree with Ubuntu decision to include Universe and Multiverse repositories by default as it is more user-friendly to average desktop users. The addition of Desktop Effects is another attraction for potential users to try Ubuntu as their first GNU/Linux operating system.
Five stars for Feisty Fawn, keep up the good work!
I got this photo from a guy who’s able to con his dad into using Ubuntu by telling him that it is the newly released Windows Vista from Microsoft.
Suprisingly, his dad found out that the new “Windows Vista” is better than OS X and unaware that he’s currently using Ubuntu in his pc.
From the website :
Later, when he came home from work, I showed him his new “Vista” install, complete with the latest Office and Solitaire.
Well, it’s been a few days since that and now he says Bill Gates is better than Steve Jobs and brags about how OS X on my iMac is obsolete compared to Vista on his PC.
Original website : degredo.net
Screenshot: Ubuntu Vista
Tags: ubuntu, vista, microsoft, windows vista, funny, humor, humour
I got this photo from a guy who’s able to con his dad into using Ubuntu by telling him that it is the newly released Windows Vista from Microsoft.
Suprisingly, his dad found out that the new “Windows Vista” is better than OS X and unaware that he’s currently using Ubuntu in his pc.
From the website :
Later, when he came home from work, I showed him his new “Vista” install, complete with the latest Office and Solitaire.
Well, it’s been a few days since that and now he says Bill Gates is better than Steve Jobs and brags about how OS X on my iMac is obsolete compared to Vista on his PC.
Original website : degredo.net
Screenshot: Ubuntu Vista
Tags: ubuntu, vista, microsoft, windows vista, funny, humor, humour
The moment that we have been waiting for is here. Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn was finally released today (19 April 2007), despite rumors saying that the release might has to be delayed for a few days.
It seems everybody want a piece of Feisty Fawn right now, the mirrors are dead slow, one can only guess how many terabytes are being transfered this night alone. I would suggest to use the p2p bittorrent solution to download the iso file.
But the speed doesn’t bother me that much compared to the Ubuntu official website which seems ‘weird’ to me after the release.
Take a look at the ‘before’ and ‘after’ screenshot I took :
Before (on 18 April 2007)
After (on 19 April 2007)
Seems like somebody is in a hurry to update Ubuntu.com website or was it a work by a professional cracker?
Anyway, enjoy your Feisty Fawn download :)
Updates : As of 0200 UTC (20 April 2007), the Ubuntu website is back to using the default layout again :)
Tags: ubuntu, linux, feisty, feisty fawn, open source, distro
The moment that we have been waiting for is here. Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn was finally released today (19 April 2007), despite rumors saying that the release might has to be delayed for a few days.
It seems everybody want a piece of Feisty Fawn right now, the mirrors are dead slow, one can only guess how many terabytes are being transfered this night alone. I would suggest to use the p2p bittorrent solution to download the iso file.
But the speed doesn’t bother me that much compared to the Ubuntu official website which seems ‘weird’ to me after the release.
Take a look at the ‘before’ and ‘after’ screenshot I took :
Before (on 18 April 2007)
After (on 19 April 2007)
Seems like somebody is in a hurry to update Ubuntu.com website or was it a work by a professional cracker?
Anyway, enjoy your Feisty Fawn download :)
Updates : As of 0200 UTC (20 April 2007), the Ubuntu website is back to using the default layout again :)
Tags: ubuntu, linux, feisty, feisty fawn, open source, distro
The Ubuntu project is planning to release a new variant of its distribution which would appeal ‘Free Software’ purist which want no more than a 100% completely free operating system that works out from the box.
This intention has be made known by Mark Shuttleworth himself in the Ubuntu mailing list few days ago (12 April 2007).
However the unnamed release is not intended to be a ‘variant’ of the main Ubuntu release, putting it inline with the Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu project.
The new variant of the distro will only feature software which only come with source code and that have full rights of modification and redistribution. Mark Shuttleworth also notes that works on the new variant will involve the folks from gNewsense team, an unofficial distro based on Ubuntu, which puts a possibility that the gNewsense distro will be completely integrated into the Official Ubuntu project.
The variant is estimated to be ready on the next cycle of Ubuntu release (Gutsy Gibbon) due on
October 2007. It unclear if the new Ubuntu variant will support playing mp3 or mpeg4 files as codecs for both for format are licensed under a GNU GPL compatible free software license despite their patented status.
p/s: If this plan works, I think you might be seeing FSF (or even Stallman) himself use Ubuntu on their computers anytime soon.
Tags: ubuntu, gnewsense, debian, linux, gutsy gibbon, gutsy, linux, opensource, open source
The Ubuntu project is planning to release a new variant of its distribution which would appeal ‘Free Software’ purist which want no more than a 100% completely free operating system that works out from the box.
This intention has be made known by Mark Shuttleworth himself in the Ubuntu mailing list few days ago (12 April 2007).
However the unnamed release is not intended to be a ‘variant’ of the main Ubuntu release, putting it inline with the Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu project.
The new variant of the distro will only feature software which only come with source code and that have full rights of modification and redistribution. Mark Shuttleworth also notes that works on the new variant will involve the folks from gNewsense team, an unofficial distro based on Ubuntu, which puts a possibility that the gNewsense distro will be completely integrated into the Official Ubuntu project.
The variant is estimated to be ready on the next cycle of Ubuntu release (Gutsy Gibbon) due on
October 2007. It unclear if the new Ubuntu variant will support playing mp3 or mpeg4 files as codecs for both for format are licensed under a GNU GPL compatible free software license despite their patented status.
p/s: If this plan works, I think you might be seeing FSF (or even Stallman) himself use Ubuntu on their computers anytime soon.
Tags: ubuntu, gnewsense, debian, linux, gutsy gibbon, gutsy, linux, opensource, open source
Ubuntu users are no doubt familiar with the unique and funky name for its releases (Feisty Fawn, Breezy Badger, Hoary Hedgehog) in which it is more popular than the release number (7.04, 6.10, 6.06). Most people tends to remember the codename when refering to a particular Ubuntu release (such as Ubuntu Dapper as opposed to Ubuntu 6.06)
The main reason codename is used because it is easier for humans to memorize names compared to release number (hence the motto Linux for human beings). he same codename is also used as development name during initial buildup stage. Using the same codename has the advantage of reducing potential confusion that might arise from the different development/release name pairs.
Though the Ubuntu Wiki Page explains how codenames are formed, it doesn’t reveal the technique of naming the release is known as Alliteration.
The use of Alliteration
Alliteration is a form of mnemonics that uses the same alphabet (consonant) in two consecutive words, like Peter Parker and Lex Luthor. Phrases that use alliteration is easier to remember than those that do not.
Alliteration isn’t solely used by Ubuntu alone, other brand names or products that use alliteration includes :
Alliteration can make a phrase more memorable which explains why Ubuntu release name is more widely known than its release number (ie. How many people remembers Ubuntu Hoary release number?).
p/s: Now I know why I have no trouble recalling Paypal as a credit card processor service or French Fries when ordering chips at any fast food restaurant and Coca Cola as my favorite soft drink (yeah, carbonated drinks are not good, but at least they are not as pretentious as Ribena)
Tags: breezy badger, ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, linux, distro
Ubuntu users are no doubt familiar with the unique and funky name for its releases (Feisty Fawn, Breezy Badger, Hoary Hedgehog) in which it is more popular than the release number (7.04, 6.10, 6.06). Most people tends to remember the codename when refering to a particular Ubuntu release (such as Ubuntu Dapper as opposed to Ubuntu 6.06)
The main reason codename is used because it is easier for humans to memorize names compared to release number (hence the motto Linux for human beings). he same codename is also used as development name during initial buildup stage. Using the same codename has the advantage of reducing potential confusion that might arise from the different development/release name pairs.
Though the Ubuntu Wiki Page explains how codenames are formed, it doesn’t reveal the technique of naming the release is known as Alliteration.
The use of Alliteration
Alliteration is a form of mnemonics that uses the same alphabet (consonant) in two consecutive words, like Peter Parker and Lex Luthor. Phrases that use alliteration is easier to remember than those that do not.
Alliteration isn’t solely used by Ubuntu alone, other brand names or products that use alliteration includes :
Alliteration can make a phrase more memorable which explains why Ubuntu release name is more widely known than its release number (ie. How many people remembers Ubuntu Hoary release number?).
p/s: Now I know why I have no trouble recalling Paypal as a credit card processor service or French Fries when ordering chips at any fast food restaurant and Coca Cola as my favorite soft drink (yeah, carbonated drinks are not good, but at least they are not as pretentious as Ribena)
Tags: breezy badger, ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, linux, distro
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn has improves in graphics and user friendliness, one of the tools install by default is baobab. Baobab is one of the gnome utils. As the name didn’t suggest anything, but it is a cool disk usage analyzer. As it scan your folders and present you the disk usage statistics reports in graphs. Look at the screenshot:
It is easy to use, I don’t think anyone will find it hard. When your mouse point to a portion of the graph, it highlights the portion and display the folder’s name. To Get more details information on that particular folder, click on it. You will get the disk usage graph just for that folder.
At the left hand side, where you will observed bars with colors. Those bars indicate the percentage of the disk usage. Try to right click on any one of them, and select ‘Graphical Usage Map’. It will show you another view like this:
The best part of this disk usage analyzer is that it support analyze remote site folder’s disk usage. You can scan through ftp, ssh, windows share etc. I have tried on scanning through ssh, which is easy. You only need to specified the remote site domain or IP address, port number, remote directory to scan and the user name. It will prompt you for the password and the scanning start straight away. The same way it present to you, the statistical disk usage graphs.
One minor drawback is it is not CLI user friendly enough, but I do discover you can actually scan a specific folder by doing this
baobab ~/mp3/japaneseBut, there are no ways for you to scan remote side by specified any options through command line.
If you need to analyze your disk usage with only a light command, you can try du and df.
Further readings
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A friend from #fakap asks me to create a dead simple FLV to 3gp batch converter for him to port youtube clips to mobile phone.
As a result I complied, and created flvto3gp bash script for the job.
Usage
Using it is simple, just run this script inside a directory full of FLV (or any video files supported by ffmpeg) and execute it using this command :
sh flvto3gp.sh *
The script will convert all video files to 3gp file format one by one. The script requires
ffmpeg in order to run.
Ubuntu users might have to refer to this post before using this utility : Enable mp3 and amr support in ffmpeg ( Ubuntu )
Tags: ubuntu, flv, linux, ffmpeg, open source
A friend from #fakap asks me to create a dead simple FLV to 3gp batch converter for him to port youtube clips to mobile phone.
As a result I complied, and created flvto3gp bash script for the job.
Usage
Using it is simple, just run this script inside a directory full of FLV (or any video files supported by ffmpeg) and execute it using this command :
sh flvto3gp.sh *
The script will convert all video files to 3gp file format one by one. The script requires
ffmpeg in order to run.
Ubuntu users might have to refer to this post before using this utility : Enable mp3 and amr support in ffmpeg ( Ubuntu )
Tags: ubuntu, flv, linux, ffmpeg, open source
Here are some of the new features that you can expect from the upcoming Ubuntu release, Feisty Fawn.
Codec Wizard
Now you can play mp3,DVD and mpeg4 videos of yours without much hassle. Ubuntu Linux Feisty Fawn includes a cool Codec Wizard which automatically install the required codec for you when you first played the file.
Improved Network Manager
Connecting to existing network has been made easier with the pre-installed Network Manager. You can now connect to wired and wireless network with relative ease.
Windows Migration Assistant
Provide easy migration from Windows operating system to Ubuntu. Supports Internet Explorer bookmarks, Yahoo IM, AOL IM, Desktop Wallpaper and documents during installation.
Desktop Effects
The latest release includes desktop effects, making it a definite reason to try Feisty Fawn for a desktop user.
Thin Client
An attractive functionality for those that runs a computer lab, thin client server allows you. Edubuntu Feisty Fawn includes Classroom Server edition consists of two CDs, a server image and a server add-on image with additional education applications and languages complete with tips and best practices for educators.
Other than that, Feisty Fawn also includes latest software like GNOME 2.18, OpenOffice.org 2.2.0, X.org 7.2, Firefox 2.0.0.2 and Linux kernel 2.6.20.
Ubuntu Linux Feisty Fawn is schedule to be released in 19 April 2007, please visit the official Ubuntu website for more information.
p/s: Most of this material of this post is taken from Feisty Fawn Beta page
Tags: linux, ubuntu, feisty fawn, feisty, debian
Here are some of the new features that you can expect from the upcoming Ubuntu release, Feisty Fawn.
Codec Wizard
Now you can play mp3,DVD and mpeg4 videos of yours without much hassle. Ubuntu Linux Feisty Fawn includes a cool Codec Wizard which automatically install the required codec for you when you first played the file.
Improved Network Manager
Connecting to existing network has been made easier with the pre-installed Network Manager. You can now connect to wired and wireless network with relative ease.
Windows Migration Assistant
Provide easy migration from Windows operating system to Ubuntu. Supports Internet Explorer bookmarks, Yahoo IM, AOL IM, Desktop Wallpaper and documents during installation.
Desktop Effects
The latest release includes desktop effects, making it a definite reason to try Feisty Fawn for a desktop user.
Thin Client
An attractive functionality for those that runs a computer lab, thin client server allows you. Edubuntu Feisty Fawn includes Classroom Server edition consists of two CDs, a server image and a server add-on image with additional education applications and languages complete with tips and best practices for educators.
Other than that, Feisty Fawn also includes latest software like GNOME 2.18, OpenOffice.org 2.2.0, X.org 7.2, Firefox 2.0.0.2 and Linux kernel 2.6.20.
Ubuntu Linux Feisty Fawn is schedule to be released in 19 April 2007, please visit the official Ubuntu website for more information.
p/s: Most of this material of this post is taken from Feisty Fawn Beta page
Tags: linux, ubuntu, feisty fawn, feisty, debian
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The month of April is here and beside fooling your friends on the first of april, let me remind you that Ubuntu Linux (7.04) Feisty Fawn release is just around the corner.
Schedule to be released on April 19, 2007. Free Ubuntu Feisty Fawn CDs is suspected to be back available from ShipIt!
Here’s the screenshot ShipIt interface.
What is Shipit?
For those who are unfamiliar with the term, ShipIt is a service maintained by the Ubuntu project for the purpose of shipping free Ubuntu CD through out the world.
To order free CDs, you need to have a launchpad account and the CDs will take around 1-6 weeks to arrive, depending on where you live (and customs delays).
PowerPC CD won’t be available ?
Also it is worth noting that Ubuntu has dropped PowerPC platform from its official release, so the usual PowerPC CD won’t be available from Shipit as with previous releases.
Tags: powerpc, ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, debian, linux, opensource, open source
The month of April is here and beside fooling your friends on the first of april, let me remind you that Ubuntu Linux (7.04) Feisty Fawn release is just around the corner.
Schedule to be released on April 19, 2007. Free Ubuntu Feisty Fawn CDs is suspected to be back available from ShipIt!
Here’s the screenshot ShipIt interface.
What is Shipit?
For those who are unfamiliar with the term, ShipIt is a service maintained by the Ubuntu project for the purpose of shipping free Ubuntu CD through out the world.
To order free CDs, you need to have a launchpad account and the CDs will take around 1-6 weeks to arrive, depending on where you live (and customs delays).
PowerPC CD won’t be available ?
Also it is worth noting that Ubuntu has dropped PowerPC platform from its official release, so the usual PowerPC CD won’t be available from Shipit as with previous releases.
Tags: powerpc, ubuntu, feisty, feisty fawn, debian, linux, opensource, open source
Dear Interweb,
A tiny issue plagues me. With everyone’s favourite Linux distribution of choice, Ubuntu. I’m looking at the Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Beta and for the life of me, can’t decide which to install on a Core 2 Duo machine (this was no better with Ubuntu 6.10 - and I’ve got both the amd64 and i386 ISOs sitting here). Its not AMD64, and its not 32-bit, so what are my choices? Referencing a post with regards to System76 support, it looks like I might have to go with a 32-bit install disc?
If I do have to go with the 32-bit install disc, why is that so? I mean, with Fedora, I’m quite happily running x86_64.
Kudos to the wiki documentation on Core 2 Duo Support, though maybe its a little dated. This is a very important question to answer, because I can imagine a lot of new laptops are actually, Core 2 Duo based (as probably are a lot of new desktops).
Also, a little bit of disappointment, but Ubuntu 7.04 has support for SPARC and not PowerPC. In a time when it might be opportune for third-world countries to start having Ubuntu-running Macs on their desktop…
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, core 2 duo, feisty fawn, edgy eft, powerpc
I forgot where I found this joke, but I find it funny when people use Unix command to relay jokes.
Code (bash)p/s: this is one thing I like about Unix (or Linux), the users and developers are just having way too much fun hacking the platform!
Tags: unix, linux, make, open source, ubuntu, debian, fsck, apt-get
I forgot where I found this joke, but I find it funny when people use Unix command to relay jokes.
Code (bash)p/s: this is one thing I like about Unix (or Linux), the users and developers are just having way too much fun hacking the platform!
Tags: unix, linux, make, open source, ubuntu, debian, fsck, apt-get
Those who are familiar with Debian-based system with know a thing or two about apt-get.
apt-get is a wonderful tool that simplifies package management in Debian and Ubuntu derived Linux distro, be it software installation, security updates, upgrades, software removal and searches, apt-get does wonders in daily computer management.
However some linux distro (Ubuntu, obviously) relies heavily on internet connection to access its repository. This sometimes impractical to computer that is not always connected to the internet.
One alternative to that solution is to get the repositories on CD/DVD. However packages included in there may not suit your needs and might be redundant.
Luckily there’s AptonCD, a GUI application that helps you create removable repository on CD/DVD using packages you’ve downloaded.
AptOnCD, enables you to select specific package that you want to put in removable repository (DVD/CD).
Once created, the DVD can act as a repository itself and you can install software from it using apt-get normally.
AptOnCD also has feature that can restore/copy all the packages on the target computer, this means you can ‘preload’ the computer with packages from apt-get before you start using it. This can save
your time from having to insert the repository CD/DVD when you want to install a software.
Currently AptOnCD is tested and available for Ubuntu and Debian Linux distribution and can be downloaded here : [aptoncd.sourceforge.net]
Tags: apt-get, ubuntu, debian, mirrors, repository, synaptic
Those who are familiar with Debian-based system with know a thing or two about apt-get.
apt-get is a wonderful tool that simplifies package management in Debian and Ubuntu derived Linux distro, be it software installation, security updates, upgrades, software removal and searches, apt-get does wonders in daily computer management.
However some linux distro (Ubuntu, obviously) relies heavily on internet connection to access its repository. This sometimes impractical to computer that is not always connected to the internet.
One alternative to that solution is to get the repositories on CD/DVD. However packages included in there may not suit your needs and might be redundant.
Luckily there’s AptonCD, a GUI application that helps you create removable repository on CD/DVD using packages you’ve downloaded.
AptOnCD, enables you to select specific package that you want to put in removable repository (DVD/CD).
Once created, the DVD can act as a repository itself and you can install software from it using apt-get normally.
AptOnCD also has feature that can restore/copy all the packages on the target computer, this means you can ‘preload’ the computer with packages from apt-get before you start using it. This can save
your time from having to insert the repository CD/DVD when you want to install a software.
Currently AptOnCD is tested and available for Ubuntu and Debian Linux distribution and can be downloaded here : [aptoncd.sourceforge.net]
Tags: apt-get, ubuntu, debian, mirrors, repository, synaptic
Dell is considering to ship computers with Linux preinstalled in factory and are asking for your opinion about it.
So show your support by filling out Dell Linux Survey and vote for your favorite Linux distribution.
p/s: I vote Ubuntu
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Dell is considering to ship computers with Linux preinstalled in factory and are asking for your opinion about it.
So show your support by filling out Dell Linux Survey and vote for your favorite Linux distribution.
p/s: I vote Ubuntu
Tags: dell, dell linux, ubuntu, debian, linux
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I’m sure many of you might stumbled upon this problem when you discovered first hand that there is no /etc/inittab file on Ubuntu Edgy Eft or Feisty Fawn.
This is deliberate because Ubuntu do not use init anymore to manage its services during startup or shutdown of the system. Instead it uses ‘upstart‘ as replacement for the traditional sysvinit utility that is common to Linux-based operating system.
All the things that you used to have in the /etc/inittab is ported to upstart’s /etc/event.d/.
It might take some of time to get used to the way upstart manage things in your computer, For example, the settings for ‘tty3′ is located in ‘/etc/event.d/tty3′ if you need to change it’s parameter, and rc scripts on rc*.
Additionally You can use ‘runlevel’ command to determine which runlevel your computer is in.
Please refer to Upstart Project page if you’re interested to know more about the project
Tags: ubuntu, upstart, init, inittab, linux, opensource, bsd
I’m sure many of you might stumbled upon this problem when you discovered first hand that there is no /etc/inittab file on Ubuntu Edgy Eft or Feisty Fawn.
This is deliberate because Ubuntu do not use
init anymore to manage its services during startup or shutdown of the system. Instead it uses ‘upstart‘ as replacement for the traditional sysvinit utility that is common to Linux-based operating system.All the things that you used to have in the /etc/inittab is ported to upstart’s /etc/event.d/.
It might take some of time to get used to the way upstart manage things in your computer, For example, the settings for ‘tty3′ is located in ‘/etc/event.d/tty3′ if you need to change it’s parameter, and rc scripts on rc*.
Additionally You can use ‘runlevel’ command to determine which runlevel your computer is in.
Please refer to Upstart Project page if you’re interested to know more about the project
Tags: ubuntu, upstart, init, inittab, linux, opensource, bsd
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Experiencing slow software updates from Ubuntu servers? Why don’t you try the nearest server to your location?
Although Ubuntu default installation already chooses the closest server to you, it is still a good idea to find a mirror located in your country to speed up software installation and updates.
The fastest way to do that is by using the Source-O-Matic tool fromUbuntu-NL website. The service is provided free-of-charge for the benefit of Ubuntu users around the world.
Beside the ‘official’ Ubuntu repository (main, universe, multiverse), Source-O-Matic also lists several popular ‘unofficial’ software repositories for you to put in your /etc/apt/sources.lst file.
Be aware that the ‘unofficial’ repositories isn’t regularly updated with the latest security patch and might break your operating system.
After you’ve done ticking the checkbox, you will be presented with a plaintext display of source.lst file content like this :
Code (bash)All you need to do is save the page and overwrite your current /etc/apt/sources.lst file with the one generated with this tool.
A word of warning
My initial checking reveals that not all servers listed in Ubuntu-NL is hosted in the same country as indicated in the list.
For example, a ‘dig’ to my.archive.ubuntu.com reveals this ip, 91.189.89.8 which is clearly is not a Malaysian ip address (a dig to us.archive.ubuntu.com also reveals the exact ip address).
So its better to double check the location of ip addresses produced by the mirror domain to confirms that the mirror is indeed located near your location before you start using it.
You can confirm this by visiting ShowIP fakap or HostIP services.
Tags: ubuntu, dapper, feisty fawn, breezy, apt-get, sources.lst
Experiencing slow software updates from Ubuntu servers? Why don’t you try the nearest server to your location?
Although Ubuntu default installation already chooses the closest server to you, it is still a good idea to find a mirror located in your country to speed up software installation and updates.
The fastest way to do that is by using the Source-O-Matic tool fromUbuntu-NL website. The service is provided free-of-charge for the benefit of Ubuntu users around the world.
Beside the ‘official’ Ubuntu repository (main, universe, multiverse), Source-O-Matic also lists several popular ‘unofficial’ software repositories for you to put in your /etc/apt/sources.lst file.
Be aware that the ‘unofficial’ repositories isn’t regularly updated with the latest security patch and might break your operating system.
After you’ve done ticking the checkbox, you will be presented with a plaintext display of source.lst file content like this :
Code (bash)All you need to do is save the page and overwrite your current /etc/apt/sources.lst file with the one generated with this tool.
A word of warning
My initial checking reveals that not all servers listed in Ubuntu-NL is hosted in the same country as indicated in the list.
For example, a ‘dig’ to my.archive.ubuntu.com reveals this ip, 91.189.89.8 which is clearly is not a Malaysian ip address (a dig to us.archive.ubuntu.com also reveals the exact ip address).
So its better to double check the location of ip addresses produced by the mirror domain to confirms that the mirror is indeed located near your location before you start using it.
You can confirm this by visiting ShowIP fakap or HostIP services.
Tags: ubuntu, dapper, feisty fawn, breezy, apt-get, sources.lst
Did you know Ubuntu provides Mozilla Firefox theme to make it look better integrated with default Ubuntu themes (Human, Tango, Industrial).
In order to take advantage of the integration, you need to install firefox-themes-ubuntu package.
Code (bash)After you are done, you can start customising Firefox theme to make it look better integrated with the corresponding Ubuntu themes that you use, whether its Human, Tango or Industrial theme.
I know first hand that some people do not prefer the default brownish Human theme, and prefered Industrial theme instead.
So why not install these Firefox theme to get rid all those traces of brownish look on your desktop?
Tags: ubuntu, firefox, mozilla, themes, debian, linux
Did you know Ubuntu provides Mozilla Firefox theme to make it look better integrated with default Ubuntu themes (Human, Tango, Industrial).
In order to take advantage of the integration, you need to install firefox-themes-ubuntu package.
Code (bash)After you are done, you can start customising Firefox theme to make it look better integrated with the corresponding Ubuntu themes that you use, whether its Human, Tango or Industrial theme.
I know first hand that some people do not prefer the default brownish Human theme, and prefered Industrial theme instead.
So why not install these Firefox theme to get rid all those traces of brownish look on your desktop?
Sources.lst is a file located in /etc/apt/ directory. It is used in Debian-based (which includes Ubuntu) Linux operating system as a configuration file for software management.
Sometimes it is necessary to alter your sources.lst to include the nearest apt-get mirrors from your location, this is to ensure faster downloads during software upgrades and installations.
Fortunately, the good people from Ubuntu-NL has made this task easier by creating an online tool (source-o-matic) which helps you generate sources.lst file based on the list of available mirrors
source-o-matic supports Ubuntu releases on all architectures from 4.10(Warty) to 7.04 (Feisty). It is an easy tool to use, you only need to choose which country you’re in, put on your Ubuntu release and architecture, tick few radio boxes and your sources.lst file will be generated automatically.
Source-o-matic also includes a list of unofficial apt-get mirrors for installing softwares that isnt included in the normal Ubuntu distributions.
Tags: ubuntu, linux, sources.lst, apt-get
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Sources.lst is a file located in /etc/apt/ directory. It is used in Debian-based (which includes Ubuntu) Linux operating system as a configuration file for software management.
Sometimes it is necessary to alter your sources.lst to include the nearest apt-get mirrors from your location, this is to ensure faster downloads during software upgrades and installations.
Fortunately, the good people from Ubuntu-NL has made this task easier by creating an online tool (source-o-matic) which helps you generate sources.lst file based on the list of available mirrors
source-o-matic supports Ubuntu releases on all architectures from 4.10(Warty) to 7.04 (Feisty). It is an easy tool to use, you only need to choose which country you’re in, put on your Ubuntu release and architecture, tick few radio boxes and your sources.lst file will be generated automatically.
Source-o-matic also includes a list of unofficial apt-get mirrors for installing softwares that isnt included in the normal Ubuntu distributions.
Tags: ubuntu, linux, sources.lst, apt-get
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ClamAV is a GNU/GPL Antivirus application made for Unix-like operating system. It is primarily use to detect viruses and remove infected files from email attachements.
The default installation of ClamAV also includes a command line scanner to files for possible virus infection. The scanner has built in support to scan files inside :
Linux is safe and Secure, Why do you need anti virus on Linux ?
Although viruses in Unix-like operating system is uncommon, ClamAV is still handy if you want to weed out those viruses from spreading through your mail system and using your computer server as a vector.
Using ClamAV
Using ClamAV is easy, to scan for viruses you only need to use the ‘clamscan’ command
The scanner will detect any known viruses and alert you and a summary will be displayed at the end of the command.
add ‘–remove’ switch to remove the files that has been detected by virus.
Code (bash)Note that ClamAV has a policy of ’sanitizing’ any files infected by viruses, that means it will delete the files permanently (it has no ‘heal’ or ‘repair’ option).
Updating Virus Database
Keeping up to date with ClamAV is easy, you just need to run freshclam to download the latest virus database from ClamAV servers.
The official website for ClamAV is on [clamav.net], hopefully with this post, you can explore more option about fighting viruses on Linux based operating system.
Tags: clamav, linux, debian, ubuntu, anti-virus, antivirus
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ClamAV is a GNU/GPL Antivirus application made for Unix-like operating system. It is primarily use to detect viruses and remove infected files from email attachements.
The default installation of ClamAV also includes a command line scanner to files for possible virus infection. The scanner has built in support to scan files inside :
Linux is safe and Secure, Why do you need anti virus on Linux ?
Although viruses in Unix-like operating system is uncommon, ClamAV is still handy if you want to weed out those viruses from spreading through your mail system and using your computer server as a vector.
Using ClamAV
Using ClamAV is easy, to scan for viruses you only need to use the ‘clamscan’ command
The scanner will detect any known viruses and alert you and a summary will be displayed at the end of the command.
add ‘–remove’ switch to remove the files that has been detected by virus.
Code (bash)Note that ClamAV has a policy of ’sanitizing’ any files infected by viruses, that means it will delete the files permanently (it has no ‘heal’ or ‘repair’ option).
Updating Virus Database
Keeping up to date with ClamAV is easy, you just need to run freshclam to download the latest virus database from ClamAV servers.
The official website for ClamAV is on [clamav.net], hopefully with this post, you can explore more option about fighting viruses on Linux based operating system.
I believe some of you have already read my blog and will summarize that I’m an Ubuntu user and advocator.
However, having said that doesn’t mean that I dont have things that I hate about Ubuntu, and they are :
Those are the 5 things that crossed my mind when I switched on my computer and use Ubuntu everyday. What’s yours?
Tags: ubuntu, debian, linux, opensource, distro
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I believe some of you have already read my blog and will summarize that I’m an Ubuntu user and advocator.
However, having said that doesn’t mean that I dont have things that I hate about Ubuntu, and they are :
Those are the 5 things that crossed my mind when I switched on my computer and use Ubuntu everyday. What’s yours?
Tags: ubuntu, debian, linux, opensource, distro
I came across this interesting post about how to secure your SSH without changing the SSH listening port.
Things that the post author suggested are :
Personally I’ve enabled public-key authentication and SSH scanner filter to secure my server at the advice of my friend from a local security firm. Although, I haven’t tried the port knocking method yet, it seems interesting to know that ’secret port knocking’ pattern also exists in computer security (remember ali baba?)
Hopefully this post will serve as a reminder to myself and those who read them, ah oh, most of this post content are lifted shamelessly from False sense of security
Tags: ssh, iptables, ubuntu, debian, security, port knocking, nmap, security scanners, exploit
http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/2007021502-false-sense-of-security
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I came across this interesting post about how to secure your SSH without changing the SSH listening port.
Things that the post author suggested are :
Personally I’ve enabled public-key authentication and SSH scanner filter to secure my server at the advice of my friend from a local security firm. Although, I haven’t tried the port knocking method yet, it seems interesting to know that ’secret port knocking’ pattern also exists in computer security (remember ali baba?)
Hopefully this post will serve as a reminder to myself and those who read them, ah oh, most of this post content are lifted shamelessly from False sense of security
Tags: ssh, iptables, ubuntu, debian, security, port knocking, nmap, security scanners, exploit
http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/2007021502-false-sense-of-security
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We may have been familiar with the usual apt-get operations for installing, updating and removing application packages on your Debian-base Linux operating system (Ubuntu is one of it).
But do you know that you can trigger it to show a hidden easter egg?
try typing “apt-get moo” and see it for yourself :)
Tags: apt-get, debian, deb, ubuntu, knoppix
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We may have been familiar with the usual apt-get operations for installing, updating and removing application packages on your Debian-base Linux operating system (Ubuntu is one of it).
But do you know that you can trigger it to show a hidden easter egg?
try typing “apt-get moo” and see it for yourself :)
Tags: apt-get, debian, deb, ubuntu, knoppix
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You can easily watch videos and view images in ascii. If you are ascii art fans, you will be amazed what libaa and libcaca capable of. libaa is a portable ascii art GFX library, where libcaca as well, is another ascii art library but it have better support such as unicode, 2048 colors etc.
Mplayer support both real time caca and aa playback as video output.
mplayer -vo caca death_note_epi15.avimplayer -vo aa death_note_epi15.aviBesides, play real time video in ascii, both caca and aa have image viewer, where it allows user to view image in ascii. For libcaca, the image viewer is cacaview where for libaa, is asciiview.
Bellow is the snapshot of cacaview, displaying Chinese New Year postcard in color ascii.
And this is a Jun Ji Hyun ascii view presented by asciiview.
Both ascii image viewer support basic functions such as zoom in, zoom out and contrast. Check out its manual for more. For ubuntu user, you can download obtain cacaview through
apt-get install caca-utilsand asciiview
apt-get install aviewTechnorati Tags: libaa, ascii art, libcaca, ubuntu, Jun Ji Hyun
I found out about this application from GnomeFiles. Not particularly useful, but entertaining. The basic operation of the program is to convert plain text into leetspeak writing system.
Future releases may provide functionality to reverse leetspeak text back to plaintext for greater readability.
1337 generator requires GTK+ 2.x and can be downloaded from [leet-generator.sourceforge.net]
Tags: gtk+, 1337, leet, ubuntu, linux
Tired of spending hours in front of a dull and boring desktop? Then I suggest that you spice up your workspace by installing Hot-Babe.
Hot-Babe is a unique application which displays CPU utilization using images of a hot babe on your desktop, which is a nice addition to your desktop. Ubuntu Linux users can get Hot-babe application from GetDeb.net click and run software portal, however please read the disclaimer below before installing hot-babe.
Disclaimer, Hot-Babe is NSFW !!
For starters, Hot babe is literally a ‘hot’ application. This may not suitable for your daily use if you’re easily offended by the way it displays CPU utilization status.
When the CPU is idle, Hot-Babe will display a fully dresed girl. As the system activity increases girl begins to undress bit by bit (to reflect the system getting hotter) until she become completely naked when your system reaches 100% CPU utilization. Hence the name, hot-babe!
So if you’re still interested to install and use Hot-babe, please make sure that you’re using it responsibly and make sure that there’s no children around especially when the computer is extremely busy!
Tags: hot babe, applications, system, linux, ubuntu, system monitoring, open source, nsfw
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Tired of spending hours in front of a dull and boring desktop? Then I suggest that you spice up your workspace by installing Hot-Babe.
Hot-Babe is a unique application which displays CPU utilization using images of a hot babe on your desktop, which is a nice addition to your desktop. Ubuntu Linux users can get Hot-babe application from GetDeb.net click and run software portal, however please read the disclaimer below before installing hot-babe.
Disclaimer, Hot-Babe is NSFW !!
For starters, Hot babe is literally a ‘hot’ application. This may not suitable for your daily use if you’re easily offended by the way it displays CPU utilization status.
When the CPU is idle, Hot-Babe will display a fully dresed girl. As the system activity increases girl begins to undress bit by bit (to reflect the system getting hotter) until she become completely naked when your system reaches 100% CPU utilization. Hence the name, hot-babe!
So if you’re still interested to install and use Hot-babe, please make sure that you’re using it responsibly and make sure that there’s no children around especially when the computer is extremely busy!
Tags: hot babe, applications, system, linux, ubuntu, system monitoring, open source, nsfw
If you’re using Ubuntu then you must have been familiar with how you can easily install GNU/Linux software from one of its software repositories.
However there are times that the application that you are looking for isn’t available on repositories for various reasons or is outdated for quite some time.
Enter GetDeb, an unofficial software portal that provides additional software packages for Ubuntu Linux distributions. GetDeb compliments Ubuntu repositories by listing various software that is not available in official repo (main,multivers,universe).
What makes GetDeb different ?
For starters, you do not need to put GetDeb servers in your apt-get sources list. All you need to do is surf GetDeb website using the default Mozilla Firefox browser, and it will list software available for your current Ubuntu release.
Installing software from GetDeb is as easy as clicking your mouse button, after that the usual firefox dialog will appear and all you need to do is click ok to install the selected software package using GDebi.
GetDeb requires that you enable Ubuntu Extra Repositories as describe in Ubuntu Wiki.
Although it is not a new approach, GetDeb does provide choice for Ubuntu users to choose which software to install in their pc by merely using a web browser.
debian, ubuntu, click and run, dapper drake, edgy eft, deb, repositories, apt-get
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The reason I write this because I received many emails regarding this particular question or one of its variants. Here are some examples :
And so on…
Actually the root of this cause has something to do with Ubuntu update policy, which is limited to security fix and regular bug fixes. These updates however do not cover software *upgrades*. So if you want to upgrade your software, say from OpenOffice 2.0.4 to 2.1 (in Edgy Eft), you have to do that manually.
This policy has its own benefits to both users and the Ubuntu community. Because maintaining multiple version of software on the same Ubuntu release creates difficulty and headaches.
Furthermore, using a well tested software is a good practice for stability purposes specially if you are planning to do an enterprise level support.
What if you still want to use the latest software release?
Currently, you have 4 options :
Except for the final option, all of the solutions for getting latest software release isn’t much attractive to an average new users, mostly because the efforts and the level of difficulty it takes to compile software from sources, not to mention the effort it takes to maintain them (software patches and other updates that needs recompilation).
So before you decide to go to great lengths of having the latest bleeding edge software, just ask your self, did you use all 100% feature that the current software provide? Because sometimes, the latest release contains more bugs and security holes.
Tags: ubuntu, software, repository, linux, debian, backports, deb, repositories, edgy eft
I know many of you that are affected by the Taiwan Earthquake are frustrated by the quality of internet connection that you get these days (especially those from Malaysia). Downloads from foreign hosted site are slowed down due to internet congestion diverted to alternative route.
Downloading large Linux ISO might be even slower because of these conditions. However here’s some good news for Ubuntu Linux lovers. I found an unofficial Malaysian mirror site that hosts Ubuntu CD ISO, the server and desktop install ISO is available there with AMD64 and i686 platform.
So if you’re thinking of a fast local mirror, then look more than the Unofficial Ubuntu Mirror hosted by Ibzatech
Tags: ubuntu, linux, cd, livecd, malaysia, gnu/linux, dapper drake, edgy eft
Ever experience application freeze in Linux? You can easily spot them because their windows are not responding and it has blank content. Non-Responding application also eats up your memory and your precious CPU cycle. Some even prevent you from running other critical applications.
But how are you going to close a non-responding application? Clicking the close button surely won’t help because the application does not response to your mouseclicks. For some people, the solution is to quit Xwindows (GNOME) session and start it again, but that would consume too much time by re-initialising the Windows Manager back.
One thing that you can do that actually can help you eliminate non-responding application is by using the ‘xkill’ application. To use it, (either in GNOME or KDE) you need to press Alt-F2, and type xkill to run the app. Your mouse will turn into something that resemble skull bone. Click on the non-responding Windows, and the windows will be forced closed.
There you go, a not so subtle solution to non-responding windows in Linux.
Tags: linux, ubuntu, debian, xwindows, gnome, xkill, desktop
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I found this funny video clip from Ubuntu Video website. the clip is about an Automatic Cat Feeder powered by Ubuntu Linux.
Funny how this guy solve his problems by utilising excess hardware in this manner, creative indeed.
This inspires me to come up with simpler solution when I come accross such problem like this. Sometimes , the toughest problem does not always require an uber-1337 solution.
Tags: ubuntu, linux, diy, opensource, cat, cats, automatic, automation
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I know some people love to store their favorite movies or video clips in their phone (especially nokia phones). Here’s a quick how to, to convert movies and video clips to a format suitable for use in mobile phone.
For this thing to work, we will be using the multipurpose encoder/decoder - ffmpeg.
Convert from MPG to 3GP
ffmpeg -i video_clip.mpg -s qcif -vcodec h263 -acodec mp3 -ac 1 -ar 8000 -ab 32 -y clip.3gp
Convert from AVI to 3GP
ffmpeg -i video_clip.avi-s qcif -vcodec h263 -acodec mp3 -ac 1 -ar 8000 -r 25 -ab 32 -y clip.3gp
Convert from 3GP to AVI
ffmpeg -i clip.3gp -f avi -vcodec xvid -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 file.avi
With these method you wont need to spend a dime on expensive proprietary encoder anymore to transfer your favorite music files into your phone.
It should be noted that, the ffmpeg package from the default installation in Ubuntu are pretty useless for practical purposes. Please read this to enable 3gp encoding in Ubuntu : Enable mp3 and amr support in ffmpeg ( Ubuntu )
Tags: ubuntu, linux, nokia, 3gp, ffmpeg, debian, windows media player, media player, open source, encoding, ripping
Sometime, in the middle of the night, I like to listen to music while working on the computer, hacking codes or plain writing blogs on my Linux desktop.
Because of my Linux desktop default installation ‘discourage’ me from listening to MP3 streams, so I’ve to find alternative Internet radio that uses the free OGG Vorbis streams.
So far I found that Xiph Streams directory is the best internet radio directory that can be found on the internet. It feature collection stations dedicated for certain genre of songs, such as blues, hard rock, dance, alternative rock, jazz and few others.
The streams is playable on Totem Player, XMMS, Rhythmbox, and almost all music player available for the GNU Linux operating systems.
FYI, I’m currently listening to a radio station which plays oldies songs. :)
Tags: linux, gnu/linux, ubuntu, radio, streaming, mp3, ogg, vorbis
Sometime, in the middle of the night, I like to listen to music while working on the computer, hacking codes or plain writing blogs on my Linux desktop.
Because of my Linux desktop default installation ‘discourage’ me from listening to MP3 streams, so I’ve to find alternative Internet radio that uses the free OGG Vorbis streams.
So far I found that Xiph Streams directory is the best internet radio directory that can be found on the internet. It feature collection stations dedicated for certain genre of songs, such as blues, hard rock, dance, alternative rock, jazz and few others.
The streams is playable on Totem Player, XMMS, Rhythmbox, and almost all music player available for the GNU Linux operating systems.
FYI, I’m currently listening to a radio station which plays oldies songs. :)
Tags: linux, gnu/linux, ubuntu, radio, streaming, mp3, ogg, vorbis
Have you noticed that the Mozilla Firefox build of Ubuntu has an extra search plugin that lets you search for Ubuntu Package Repository? I have, and sometimes I miss the functionality much if for some reason I had to use other operating system to do my work.
I need the search plugin because sometime I want to quickly check the Ubuntu software repository for certain packages while surfing the internet.
So to make things easy for me, I extracted the search plugin directly from my Ubuntu Linux installation and made it available for download. Now everybody can use this plugin to search Ubuntu Edgy softwares even if they are not using Ubuntu.
Ubuntu Edgy Package search plugin
Tags: ubuntu, firefox, edgy eft, linux, apt-get, repositories, gnu/linux, open source, mozilla, plugins
Yesterday I was curious about Google Trends service that I tried several search terms just to get the feel of it. This is one of the interesting trends that I like to share with you, it is about the search term of popular GNU Linux distribution based on Distrowatch.com list.
While this is not an in depth analysis, we can see the relative search term popularity for the past 3 years base on the graph generated from Google Trends.
From there we can see that people started to search for Ubuntu more than Fedora Core around the end of the first quarter of 2005 (around the time of Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog release).
Similarly, people started to search for Mandriva after MandrakeSoft changed it’s name to Mandriva around April 2005 (second quarter), and the announcement of openSUSE project in August 2005 (3rd quarter).
The ’surges’ on Fedora Core’s line indicates new releases made around the time (FC 2 - May 2005, FC 3 - Nov 2005, FC 4 - Jun 2005, FC 5 - Mar 2006, FC 6 - Oct 2006) [source].
Conclusion : When you see anomalies like sudden ’surges’ in the trend, then there must be some even closely associated with it. Watch for surges that repeats itself, then you can establish a pattern and understand what causing the recurring trends.
Tags: search terms, search engine, linux, distro, ubuntu, fedora core, trends, search
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One of the things that I love about Ubuntu is it offers a wide choice of packages. Ranging from basic administration utilities (apt-get, yum,adduser, atop,cpuid) to Networking (apache2, 6tunnel, bind, xchat) and Games (nethack, ppracer, crack-attack).
The official software repository of the latest release of Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) has at least 20,231 packages, the number doesn’t include 3rd party repositories that offer restricted open source software such as lame, faad and libdvdcss.
Previously, I’ve use SUSE as my main distro. SUSE is slightly better than my first distro of choice, Mandrake/Mandriva (which was plague with rpm dependencies and stale packages), but it has certain limitation at that time mainly because it is still considered a comercial distribution and keeping up to date with the latest version of SUSE was a pain.
I’m not saying that SuSE is a lousy GNU/Linux distro, but it just doesn’t fit me well enough, and I found that SuSE lacks some packages that Mandrake/Mandriva offers.
I use SuSE until a friend recommend me to use Ubuntu as it is based on Debian GNU/Linux. Upon trying out Ubuntu, I found that it is an easy GNU/Linux distribution to use for me, an average desktop users.
apt-get does wonders in installing softwares from the internet and performing software and security updates. Moreover, Ubuntu has a predictable release cycle that I could really depend on.
I know some people would argue that shorter release cycle might degrade distro quality but I’m one of those people that like to keep up to date with the latest software release and technology (I’m pretty sure i’m not alone in this).
To summarise it, some of the things I love about Ubuntu is because it has a wide range of software choices, a predictable release cycle and a relatively up to date software releases. What about you? What is your favorite GNU/Linux distro?
Tags: ubuntu, debian, linux, suse, open source, distro
I guess by the time of this writing, almost everybody is already aware about the earthquake in Taiwan that distrupts communication lines from Asia to United States. I wrote this because I’ve grown tired of waiting for my Ubuntu Linux to finish its software updates.
Currently my surfing speed is somewhat very limited with only a handful websites hosted outside Asia is reachable. As most of my favorite websites are located outside the region, then I guess it’s time for me to start appreciating locally hosted website like FOSSfm and the local internet Yellowpages.
I hope the connection will improve soon, my ISP estimates that the internet connection will be restored back to normal in three weeks. I’m crossing my fingers now as I badly need a reliable connection to download Ubuntu software and security updates for my pc.
Tags: ubuntu, linux, debian, taiwan, earthquake, open source, internet
I guess by the time of this writing, almost everybody is already aware about the earthquake in Taiwan that distrupts communication lines from Asia to United States. I wrote this because I’ve grown tired of waiting for my Ubuntu Linux to finish its software updates.
Currently my surfing speed is somewhat very limited with only a handful websites hosted outside Asia is reachable. As most of my favorite websites are located outside the region, then I guess it’s time for me to start appreciating locally hosted website like FOSSfm and the local internet Yellowpages.
I hope the connection will improve soon, my ISP estimates that the internet connection will be restored back to normal in three weeks. I’m crossing my fingers now as I badly need a reliable connection to download Ubuntu software and security updates for my pc.
Tags: ubuntu, linux, debian, taiwan, earthquake, open source, internet
Reconstructor is an application that can create a customized Linux LiveCD distribution based on Ubuntu. Reconstructor allows you to do extensive customization by changing the splash screen, boot screen, sounds effect, wallpaper, softwares and various other settings.
You can easily build a personalised LiveCD by including softwares that does not normally come with Ubuntu distributions. For example, Reconstructor can give you the power of creating ‘Media-centric LiveCD’ with proprietary codecs that can play various media formats or a LiveCD that concentrates on a specific purpose or functionality like Games or Desktop Publishing, complete with topic-related applications.
You can easily create CD for presentational purposes by rebranding Ubuntu splash screen and logo to your liking. If your company involved in Open Source Business and would like to distribute your presentation material in various format (documents, video files, audio files) then It is nice to have a fully customized LiveCD handy with your company logo and theme.
Reconstructor is an open source software written in python, you can find support for Reconstructor from ##reconstructor at irc.freenode.net
You can download Reconstructor at : http://reconstructor.aperantis.com
Tags: ubuntu, livecd, reconstructor, linux, edgy eft, linux mint
Linux Mint project has made its latest release, 2.1 ‘Bea’ available right before Christmas.
Linux Mint is a distribution based on the latest release of Ubuntu Linux with extra non-free component such as multimedia codecs (for playing real,quicktime, mp3, windows media videos and flash plugins).
The latest release includes OpenOffice 2.1 and new artwork, replacing the one taken from Ubuntu Edgy Eft.
Additionally, Linux Mint also includes mintWifi, which help users connect to wireless network for the first time without having to rely on initial internet connection (to download drivers/howto/cabextract/etc).
Who Should use Linux Mint?
Linux Mint is ideal for those who want to use an easy Linux desktop operating system that can play proprietary multimedia files out from the box (aac,mp3,real media, 3gp, quicktime) without much hassle.
The current release Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft and is compatible with Edgy Eft repositories.
Tags: ubuntu, edgy eft, linux, debian, mint, open source
Linux Mint project has made its latest release, 2.1 ‘Bea’ available right before Christmas.
Linux Mint is a distribution based on the latest release of Ubuntu Linux with extra non-free component such as multimedia codecs (for playing real,quicktime, mp3, windows media videos and flash plugins).
The latest release includes OpenOffice 2.1 and new artwork, replacing the one taken from Ubuntu Edgy Eft.
Additionally, Linux Mint also includes mintWifi, which help users connect to wireless network for the first time without havin
This howto will show you the shortest way to convert flv (flash video) files to AVI using open source mencoder. To perform the conversion, you just need to type :
mencoder -oac copy -ovc lavc -o video.avi video.flv
What is FLV files?
FLV (flash video files) is a format for delivering video through the internet, it is currently being use by the popular Youtube video sharing service and Google Video. It is possible to obtain this file by using other open source tools such as youtube-dl or from an online youtube downloader VideoDL.org
You can convert the FLV files into other format too. In order to do that, make sure you have all the necessary codecs to perform the conversion. If you’re in doubt, install w32codecs, add this line in your repository to enable w32codecs installation (assuming you use Ubuntu Edgy Eft).
deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ edgy free non-free
deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ edgy free non-free
Now you can use Linux as to do your video encoding stuff without much hassle.
[source]
Tags: linux, mencoder, flv, youtube, ubuntu, flash, encoding, ripping
One of my friend has prepared a howto on how to install VMware tools on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. I find it interesting because he has never use Ubuntu or any debian-based distro before, yet he has published a quick way to install VMware tools on Edgy Eft.
Considering the fact that I have never use debian before, and this in my first experience on a debian based distro, i did some googling and using the trial and error method, I’ve come to the conclusion that the step below is the best way to install vmware tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft..
Read his complete post here : Installing VMware Tools 5.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft
Tags: vmware, ubuntu, edgy eft, ubuntu 6.10, linux, debian
One of my friend has prepared a howto on how to install VMware tools on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. I find it interesting because he has never use Ubuntu or any debian-based distro before, yet he has published a quick way to install VMware tools on Edgy Eft.
Considering the fact that I ha
This tip will be brief, it concerns about writing bootable linux iso images to CDROM. What you need is cdrecord, cd-writer drive, blank cd-r and iso image (and maybe mkisofs).
Howto burn ISO images to CD
Insert the blank CD-R, and run
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=/dev/cdrom ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso
and you’re done.
Howto burn (backup) files to Data CD
You’ll need mkisofs and cdrecord to burn your data files to a CD,
Run,
mkisofs -r -J -o yourbackup.iso /home/path_to/your_files cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom -data yourbackup.iso
and that’s the easiest way to burn cds on command-line linux.
Tags: linux, cdrom, iso9660, joliet, ubuntu, cdrecord, mkisofs, debian
Here’s is the step to setup OpenDNS for your Ubuntu desktop :
Here’s the screenshot of the dialog
What is OpenDNS ?
OpenDNS is a free DNS resolution service provided as an alternative to to using your Internet service provider’s DNS servers. One of the advantage using OpenDNS is its intercepts phishing attempts, when a user tries to visit a phishing site. The list of phishing website is constantly updated from Phishtank which is also run by OpenDNS.
I personally use OpenDNS when my ISP DNS service seems to fail at times, though some people speculate that OpenDNS resolution might be slow compared to my ISP’s, but personally, I hardly notice any delays at all. Read about OpenDNS at its website or from wikipedia entry.
Tags: opendns, ubuntu, dns.linux
Here’s is the step to setup OpenDNS for your Ubuntu desktop :
Here’s the screenshot of the dialog
What is OpenDNS ?
OpenDNS is a free DNS resolution service provided as an alternative to to using your Internet service provider’s DNS servers. One of the advantage using OpenDNS is its intercepts phishing attempts, when a user tries to visit a phishing site. The list of phishing website is constantly updated from Phishtank which is also run by OpenDNS.
I personally use OpenDNS when my ISP DNS service seems to fail at times, though some people speculate that OpenDNS resolution might be slow compared to my ISP’s, but personally, I hardly notice any delays at all. Read about OpenDNS at its website or from wikipedia entry.
One of my blog readers ask me personally about which Ubuntu distribution that he should use, whether its Ubuntu 6.06 LTS or the latest release, Edgy Eft. As for my personal opinion, it depends on your own use.
Dapper Drake is a Long Term Support (LTS) release, supported by Canonical and Ubuntu Community for at least 5 years. This means that Dapper Drake would receive more frequent security updates than Edgy Eft.
Edgy Eft on the other hand focussed more on providing the latest and bleeding edge software on your computer, it also have software and security updates as Dapper Drake, but it is only guaranteed for at least within the six month of Ubuntu release cycle.
After that you have to either upgrade it to the latest release or you have to patch/update the system by yourself. If you can see the differences, LTS emphasis more on stability and long term support while the normal release emphasis on providing the latest release of software but with limited time support.
To sumarise it, LTS is suitable for those who like having a stable operating system with minimal maintenance effort, while the normal release is for those who like to keep updated with the latest software release, despite having to upgrade them each time a new release is announced to keep updated with security patches.
Tags: ubuntu, dapper drake, dapper, edgy eft, edgy
One of my blog readers ask me personally about which Ubuntu distribution that he should use, whether its Ubuntu 6.06 LTS or the latest release, Edgy Eft. As for my personal opinion, it depends on your own use.
Dapper Drake is a Long Term Support (LTS) release, supported by Canonical and Ub
After being annoyed looking at all those 404 messages when IE tries to access this website /favicon.ico, i finally decided to put one up.
For those who don’t know, favicon.ico is that small (typically 16×16) icon that appeared beside the address bar. Since my blog is mostly centered around Ubuntu, I’ve chosen to put up an Ubuntu logo.
How to put up favicon.ico
Find a nice icon in png or ico format , make sure it look nice at 16×16, upload it on your website.
Put this line on your header (between <head> tags)
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://blog.mypapit.net/favicon.ico" />
If you’re using a png image, replace type with “image/png”. I haven’t personally test this with Internet Explorer much, but I doubt Internet Explorer doesnt support other icon format than .ico.
If that’s the case, you might benefit from png2ico
You can download the ubuntu favicon.ico here.
Find more information about favicon
Tags: favicon, png, ubuntu, firefox, browsers, web
After being annoyed looking at all those 404 messages when IE tries to access this website /favicon.ico, i finally decided to put one up.
For those who don’t know, favicon.ico is that small (typically 16×16) icon tha
Today I want to introduce you to Photorec, one of the open source data recovery software available in Linux. Photorec was designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks,CDRom and lost photos from Digital camera memory card.
Originally written to recover lost pictures (hence the name), PhotoRec now supports recovering more than 80 files types including zip, bz2, rar, 7z tar, microsoft office files (*.doc,*.ppt, *.xls), jpg, pdf, html, midi,mp3,wav and many more.
PhotoRec ignores filesystems and read raw data directly from block devices, this makes Photorec works well with various filesystem including fat32,fat16,HFS+, NTFS, ext2/3.
PhotoRec is known to not work very well with ReiserFS however.
Here’s the screenshot of PhotoRec in action (which i uses it to test my corrupted MMC) :
From the screenshot, you can see that PhotoRec is able to recover 263 files from my MMC.
PhotoRec is safe to use, it will never attempt to write to the drive or memory support you are about to recover lost data from. All recovered file is stored in your /home directory and not withing the recovered disk itself, thus preserving the data contained within it.
For ubuntu users, you may find PhotoRec listed under the ‘testdisk’ package in Universe repository.
You can find out more about PhotoRec and testdisk at : [www.cgsecurity.org]
Tags: data recovery, linux, ubuntu, recovery, hard disk data recovery, data-recovery, photorec
I think many of you who has installed Ubuntu, must hava encountered a login screen before you actually can use the Ubuntu desktop.
It maybe not a big deal for those who don’t mind having to login first before using the operating system because of security reasons or if the pc is shared between multiple users.
But some might find it inconvenience if they had to login each time after booting to use their operating system. However there’s a way to enable automatic login to your desktop and completely bypass the login screen.
Here’s how to do it :
This setup is ideal if you’re not sharing the computer with anybody else and the default users selected is not listed as one of the sudoers.
It is also convenience if you want to allow people to automatically log on into your pc as a ‘guest’ users without administrator privileges.
Tags: ubuntu, dapper, edgy eft, gnome, debian, linux
I think many of you who has installed Ubuntu, must hava encountered a login screen before you actually can use the Ubuntu desktop.
It maybe not a big deal for those who don’t mind having to login first before using the operating system because of security reasons or if the pc is shar
Linux Mint is a variant of one of the most popular linux distro, Ubuntu with few differences. It emphasis on convenience for users to get non free softwares or softwares under patent without much hassle.
For example, out from the box Linux Mint installs allow you to :
These capabilities is also enabled in its LiveCD session.
In addition, Linux Mint enables all Ubuntu repositories including Multiverse (non-free) and Universe repo as well as other binary only 3rd party repositories. However, the presence of binary only package means that Linux Mint is only available for x86 32bit platform only.
The latest release of Linux Mint 2.0 is compatible with Ubuntu Edgy Eft which it is based upon. Linux Mint is created for the convenience of users who have hard time to part with non-free plugins or software.
You can think Linux Mint as the opposite of gNewsense which I’ve reviewed earlier which emphasis on having only 100% free software on their distribution.
Tags: linux, ubuntu, edgy eft, opensource, livecd, distro
I got bored one day and decided to try out some of the functionalities offered by the dict.org server. Dict is dictionary server protocol designed to give access to definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
Here’s how I access dict.org server using only ‘telnet’ application available on my Ubuntu desktop.
Screenshot dict on Linux
A friendly dict client (named “Dictionary Lookup‘) is included as a panel applet in Ubuntu. You can easily lookup word definitions from your desktop panel :
And with the information on the RFC 2229, i’m there’s a lot more of dict clients out there, that might suit your needs.
Tags: ubuntu, debian, dict, dictionary, rfc
I got bored one day and decided to try out some of the functionalities offered by the dict.org server. Dict is dictionary server protocol designed to give access to definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
Here’s how I access dict.org server using only ‘
Here’s the screenshot of a GNU/Linux distro derived from Ubuntu. gNewsense is a project started by two guys from Ireland with an aim to provide users with 100% Free Software operating system. You can find out more about it at gNewSense Official Website
You can see that the gNewsense theme and repo is similar as the normal Ubuntu except for minor changes which the Universe repositories are enabled by default and Ubuntu logo are changed to gNewsense’s to reflect the new distribution (and copyright issue).
Here’s the complete screenshot walkthrough of gNewSense 1.0
Tags: gnewsense, ubuntu, dapper drake, dapper, free software, gnu, livecd
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Fancy for some Ubuntu cookies anyone?
One guy from Utah, United States came out with a recipe to make Ubuntu cookies from short dough and vanilla. You can get his recipe for Ubuntu cookies from his blog here.
I think the these cookies would made a perfect serving for Ubuntu geeks especially when they are really hungry… :p
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Fancy for some Ubuntu cookies anyone?
One guy from Ut
gNewSense is a linux distribution which derived from Ubuntu. It aims to provide users with a linux distribution that consisted of 100% free software (as in freedom) and funded by the Free Software Foundation.
Although at first glimpse, gNewSense 1.0 seems to be nothing more than Ubuntu with some cosmetic changes, it does have its differences, which are :
The gNewSense host its own repository which exactly the same as the Ubuntu repository (without the non-free software).
At the time of this writing, gNewSense 1.0 (DeltaD, which is based on Ubuntu Dapper) is only available for x86 platform.
I think gNewSense is a nice GNU/Linux distribution for those who want to run an operating system with 100% free software. The distribution itself is compatible with Ubuntu repository and you can use them inside gNewsense (though having multiverse repo would defeat the purpose of installing gNewSense itself).
One nice thing is, gNewSense include gcc in its default installation, so you can use gNewSense to substitute Ubuntu if you want to have gcc right after installation.
Like Ubuntu, the installer must be invoked from LiveCD that can be downloaded from gNewSense official website or via Bittorrent.
Hopefully the project will continue to provide us with another complete free software operating system that we can use and enjoy.
Tags: ubuntu, edgy eft, dapper drake, gnewsense, free software, livecd
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gNewSense is a linux distribution which derived from Ubuntu. It aims to provide users with a linux distribution that consisted of 100% free s
Ubuntu Edgy Eft is out, and I heard almost everybody seems to upgrade Dapper to get the feel of the new and improved init scripts.
However, some people might encounter few problems while upgrading, including not able to log into X, cant boot the new system, kernel fail to boot, 3D acceleration broken and touchpad stopped working.
Though to most people, the upgrading process will be a breeze, some (including me) are bound to experience a bumpy ride.
To ease the process, DebianAdmin published an article that solve common upgrade problem : Ubuntu Edgy Upgrade Common Problems With Solutions which might help you get out from those sticky situations.
Hope you enjoy reading it.
Tags: ubuntu, dapper, edgy eft, edgy, linux, gnu/linux, opensource, open source
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Ubuntu Edgy Eft is out, and I heard almost everybody seems to upgrade Dapper to get the feel of the new and improved init scripts.
However, some people might encounter few problems while upgrading, including not able to log into X, cant boot the new system, kernel fail to boot, 3D acceleration broken and touchpad stopped working.
Though to most people, the upgrading process will be a breeze, some (including me) are bound to experience a bumpy ride.
To ease the process, DebianAdmin published an article that solve common upgrade problem : Ubuntu Edgy Upgrade Common Problems With Solutions which might help you get out from those sticky situations.
Hope you enjoy reading it.
Tags: ubuntu, dapper, edgy eft, edgy, linux, gnu/linux, opensource, open source
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If you already have Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 LTS installed, and you’re kinda lazy to perfom a fresh installation of Ubuntu Edgy Eft, you can perform distribution upgrade from your Dapper Drake installations to Edgy Eft.
Here’s a quick way to do it :
Goto terminal ( From Desktop, goto Applications->Accessories->Terminal )
user@desktop:~$ sudo sed -e 's/dapper/ edgy/g'
-i /etc/apt/sources.list
user@desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
user@desktop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Then lay back while your distro upgrades itself.
Note: My X won’t start after upgrading from Xubuntu Dapper to it’s Edgy Eft counterpart. I fix it by doing “sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop”.
Updates (from Xubuntu website):
Xubuntu 6.10 has not yet officially been released, but you can already download the final stable .iso image here. Be aware though, that there may be some problems upgrading from the Dapper Drake version when using update-manager.
Similarly, if you use the default Ubuntu installation with GNOME, you may want to use “apt-get install ubuntu-desktop” *IF* your X won’t start after upgrading (might not affect you, btw).
Happy upgrading!
(thanks to johnny)
Tags: ubuntu, dapper, edgy eft, linux, debian, opensource, open source, gnu/linux
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I’m downloading the Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft iso as I’m typing this post right now. I’m going to install Edgy Eft on the laptop in my house, to see if it can use the broadcom based wireless internet out from the box. So expect some post about it around next week (yes i’m very busy!)
Previously (like 4 hours ago) , I’ve upgraded my dad’s xubuntu pc via “apt-get dist-upgrade”, everything went smoothly, except X won’t start after upgrading, I’ve to do “apt-get install xubuntu-desktop” to get it running again.
You can download Ubuntu Edgy Eft from its official website.
Read about the new features included in the latest release.
Ah, before I forget, Fedora Core 6 also has been released. As of this writing, you can get FC6 DVD and CD from a list of mirrors or via Bittorrent.
Tags: ubuntu, linux, gnu/linux, debian, fedora, edgy eft, edgy, open source, opensource, downloads
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I’m downloading the Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft iso as I’m typing this post right now. I’m going to install Edgy Eft on the laptop in my house, to see if it can use the broadcom based wireless internet out from the box. So expect some post about it around next week (yes i’m very
If you like to browse the internet, and suddenly have to work in a text-based only environment, then I suggest that you use the Elinks web browser.
It is the best text-based web browser i ever used besides the infamous lynx. I has features that can be found in other GUI-based popular browser like :
With these kind of features, I dont think you will miss browsing from a GUI based browser much. In Ubuntu, Elinks also available as a lite or normal package, the normal package is part of the Ubuntu main repository while the lite package without extra scripting support is available in the Universe repo.
I recommend Elinks for hardcore internet surfers that have to work under text-based environment, because I’m sure they’ll appreciate every bit that elinks has to offer.
Tags: browser, internet browser, elinks, linux, ubuntu, internet, surf
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If you like to browse the internet, and suddenly have to work in a text-based only environment, then I suggest that you use the Elinks web browser.
It is the best text-based web browser i ever used besides the infamous lynx. I has features that can be found in other GUI-based popular browser like :
With these kind of features, I dont think you will miss browsing from a GUI based browser much. In Ubuntu, Elinks also available as a lite or normal package, the normal package is part of the Ubuntu main repository while the lite package without extra scripting support is available in the Universe repo.
I recommend Elinks for hardcore internet surfers that have to work under text-based environment, because I’m sure they’ll appreciate every bit that elinks has to offer.
Tags: browser, internet browser, elinks, linux, ubuntu, internet, surf
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With the release of Ubuntu Edgy Eft is approaching (October 26, 2006), I’ve a not so great news to those who are us
ed to get free Ubuntu CDs from ShipIt. Canonical has no plan to make Edgy Eft available on Ship It as Dapper Drake is a long supported release.
So for those who wanted to get Ubuntu Edgy Eft, you can always try the old fashion way by downloading the ISO from Ubuntu Download website and/or buy it from your local cd store.
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Tags: ubuntu, edgy eft, dapper drake, debian, linux, distro, gnu/linux
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With the official release date of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) approching, Mark Shuttleworth announced the name of the next release of Ubuntu due in April. The release will be named Feisty Fawn “in the spirit of a young deer that sets out to explore a world that is new and exciting”.
Unlike Edgy Eft which have a slightly short development cycle, the Feisty Fawn returned to its six-month development cycle with focussed improvement on multimedia application and desktop effects, improved laptop support and and aggressive adoption of emerging desktop technologies.
Meanwhile, stay tuned for the final release of Ubuntu Edgy Eft due on 26th October 2006, with faster startup process!
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Tags: ubuntu, debian, linux, edgy eft, distro, shuttleworth
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With the official release date of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) approching, Mark Shuttleworth announced the name of the next release of Ubuntu due in April. The release will be named Feisty Fawn “in the spirit of a young deer that sets out to explore a world that is new and exciting”.
Unlike Edgy Eft which have a slightly short development cycle, the Feisty Fawn returned to its six-month development cycle with focussed improvement on multimedia application and desktop effects, improved laptop support and and aggressive adoption of emerging desktop technologies.
Meanwhile, stay tuned for the final release of Ubuntu Edgy Eft due on 26th October 2006, with faster startup process!
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Sometime around last month, my dad managed to infect his Windows XP pc with viruses and spyware for the last time. Normally as the second guy in the house, I would be obligated to restore his Windows XP back including cleansing his files (most of it is microsoft word .doc and html files ), but this time I’ve made an exception.
This was because everytime I restore his Windows operating system (including reinstalling it), he will always manage to reduce it to a barely usable state with spyware,malware and such. Funny thing is, the computer was fine when it was used by my sisters.
Meet Xubuntu
I had it with the Windows XP restoring/installing ritual that i’ve bare for the n-th time. I decided to install the pc with Xubuntu, an Ubuntu based GNU/Linux operating system.
Why Xubuntu Linux?
Because my dad’s computer is fairly old, Pentium-III 933MHz with 256 MB SDRam. It isn’t that slow, but It will be sluggish on KDE and/or GNOME desktop. Besides, I want to test the Ubuntu team claim that Xubuntu runs well on old and low-end machines. Though some of my friends suggested the commercial version of SUSE Linux, but I prefer the free as in $$$ and freedom solution to solve my problems.
The Installation
I downloaded the Xubuntu cd from its project website, burn it, and pop it right straight into the pc. The installation process is bit slow because of the low RAM and older CPU, but it manage to install fine, I wish that Xubuntu has an option to install under text mode for slower pc. During the partitioning process, I allocated 1GB of swap space since i forsee that the system will need that much of swap space afterwards.
The application
Except for installing the Openoffice package, I leave all the default application under Xubuntu as it is. Abiword is the default wordprocessor for Xubuntu, but I imagine that my dad would be more familiar with Openoffice layout. The thunar file manager is doing a nice job with its intuitive user-interface, so there’s no need to tweak all over the place.
The Acceptance
Suprisingly, my dad doesn’t seems to be bothered by the change, he seems to prefer Abiword over Openoffice Writer because of its simple and easy to use interface. He seems to love the icon arrangement and the UI, the only thing that he complained was that a) he needs to log into Xubuntu, b) the Start Menu is on Top. Both are easily adaptable and fix, but I chose not to.
Conclusion
I’m glad that Xubuntu did a great job replacing Windows on my dad pc, but I really wished that they optimised the Xubuntu more since it is still slow for a low-end and old PC such as my dad’s.
Since its for the low-end pc, they should probably include an obvious option for text mode installation at the start of the LiveCD menu, this is for conviences when installating Xubuntu
on a PC with low RAM and speed.
All in all, Xubuntu has already save me a lot of trouble :p, three cheers for GNU/Linux operating system!
Tags: ubuntu, xubuntu, linux, install linux
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This is one of the most popular questions that, previously i would suggest using the native NTFS linux kernel driver, but the driver itself only has a limited write support.
The best way to enable writing to NTFS partition is with the ntfs-3g userland driver. It uses the fuse driver and although still in BETA, tests proven that the driver really works for writing into ntfs partition.
For Ubuntu users, all you need to do is follow the instruction given in this website : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ntfs-3g
I’ve tried it, and it worked perfectly with my machine, no need to depend to intermediate FAT32 partitions to transfer files from Linux. But one word of advice, although it seems to work, you still need to keep in my that the developers of ntfs-3g driver still consider it in BETA release, so be advice and don’t rough it up too much :p
Tags: linux, ubuntu, debian, ntfs, fuse, kernel, linux kernel, filesystem, filesystems
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This is one of the most popular questions that, previously i would suggest using the native NTFS linux kernel driver, but the driver itself only has a limited write support.
The best way to enable writing to NTFS partition is with the ntfs-3g userland driver. It uses the fuse driver and although still in BETA, tests proven that the driver really works for writing into ntfs partition.
For Ubuntu users, all you need to do is follow the instruction given in this website : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ntfs-3g
I’ve tried it, and it worked perfectly with my machine, no need to depend to intermediate FAT32 partitions to transfer files from Linux. But one word of advice, although it seems to work, you still need to keep in my that the developers of ntfs-3g driver still consider it in BETA release, so be advice and don’t rough it up too much :p
Tags: linux, ubuntu, debian, ntfs, fuse, kernel, linux kernel, filesystem, filesystems
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Installing Java Runtime and SDK has been made easier with Ubuntu Linux. Here’s a quick tip to install Java 5 SDK or Runtime in Ubuntu Linux.
1. First, go to System->Administration->Software Properties,
Check all options/channels
2. Close the dialog, and go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager
Search for Java package,
Select sun-java-sdk, and install the package,
3. Read and accept Sun Java JRE agreement,
4. Finally, test the java application using console, Applications->Accesories->Terminal
And that’s all, you can run and compile your java program using Ubuntu Linux, have a lot of fun!
Tags: ubuntu, linux, java, sun, java sdk, jdk, java 2, java 5, java runtime, debian
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Installing Java Runtime and SDK has been made easier with Ubuntu Linux. Here’s a quick tip to install Java 5 SDK or Runtime in Ubuntu Linux.
1. First, go to System->Administration->Software Properties,
Check all options/channels
2. Close the dialog, and go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager
Search for Java package,
Select sun-java-sdk, and install the package,
3. Read and accept Sun Java JRE agreement,
4. Finally, test the java application using console, Applications->Accesories->Terminal
And that’s all, you can run and compile your java program using Ubuntu Linux, have a lot of fun!
Tags: ubuntu, linux, java, sun, java sdk, jdk, java 2, java 5, java runtime, debian
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I’ve a friend of mine complained about how Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distro boots slowly compared to Microsoft Windows. I told him this is because Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distro tend start services that generally safe for average users.
He then told me about how he can customise Windows XP startup process and disable the services that he don’t use. Actually there’s a way to do that in Ubuntu too. Just go to System->Administration->Services, and disable whatever services that you don’t need .
However power users might find that the Services control panel in Ubuntu is very limited. For those who felt that way may try and remove the symbolic links inside /etc/rc5.d/ directory.
Warning
Caution should be taken while playing around with the init scripts because it may make your system unbootable.
To do this, you just need to delete the associated service startup file that begin with ‘S’ inside /etc/rc5.d/, for example if you want to disable bluetooth services you just need to delete the ‘S25bluez-utils’ file like this :
# sudo rm /etc/rc5.d/S25bluez-utils
Please refer to Speed Up Ubuntu Boot Process article, for more information about this method.
p/s: personally, i only disable services that i’m really sure that I don’t use. You may follow the advice given in the link, just hope that you dont over-optimise it, might be bad for your daily usage.
Tags: ubuntu, boot, windows xp, services, linux, booting, debian, gnu/linux
I’ve a friend of mine complained about how Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distro boots slowly compared to Microsoft Windows. I told him this is because Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distro tend start services that generally safe for average users.
He then told me about how he can customise Windows XP startup process and disable the services that he don’t use. Actually there’s a way to do that in Ubuntu too. Just go to System->Administration->Services, and disable whatever services that you don’t need .
However power users might find that the Services control panel in Ubuntu is very limited. For those who felt that way may try and remove the symbolic links inside /etc/rc5.d/ directory.
Warning
Caution should be taken while playing around with the init scripts because it may make your system unbootable.
To do this, you just need to delete the associated service startup file that begin with ‘S’ inside /etc/rc5.d/, for example if you want to disable bluetooth services you just need to delete the ‘S25bluez-utils’ file like this :
# sudo rm /etc/rc5.d/S25bluez-utils
Please refer to Speed Up Ubuntu Boot Process article, for more information about this method.
p/s: personally, i only disable services that i’m really sure that I don’t use. You may follow the advice given in the link, just hope that you dont over-optimise it, might be bad for your daily usage.
Tags: ubuntu, boot, windows xp, services, linux, booting, debian, gnu/linux
I don’t know if you already heard about this, but the Ubuntu project is giving you a chance to localise your favorite GNU/Linux applications to your native language. To get involve, all you need to do is register a Launchpad.net account and proceed to Ubuntu Edgy Eft translation page.
From there you can choose which ubuntu apps that you want to localise. The current Malay localisation is about 25% and increasing steadily.
Translation is easy enough, you will be given a list of application to translate and it’s up to you to translate parts that you felt easy to translate with. In addition, you’ll be rewarded ‘karma’ for each translation you made.
Additionally, if you’re involved in localising Ubuntu, then you should add yourself in [aizatto.com] to make it easier for people to reach you. The Malaysian Ubuntu team also has its own IRC channel #ubuntu-my at irc.freenode.net server, feel free to drop by anytime you like, we usually hang around there during .my night-time.
OK, i guess that’s all for now. I’m going to continue translating Ubuntu apps
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I don’t know if you already heard about this, but the Ubuntu project is giving you a chance to localise your favorite GNU/Linux applications to your native language. To get involve, all you need to do is register a Launchpad.net account and proceed to Ubuntu Edgy Eft translation page.
From there you can choose which ubuntu apps that you want to localise. The current Malay localisation is about 25% and increasing steadily.
Translation is easy enough, you will be given a list of application to translate and it’s up to you to translate parts that you felt easy to translate with. In addition, you’ll be rewarded ‘karma’ for each translation you made.
Additionally, if you’re involved in localising Ubuntu, then you should add yourself in [aizatto.com] to make it easier for people to reach you. The Malaysian Ubuntu team also has its own IRC channel #ubuntu-my at irc.freenode.net server, feel free to drop by anytime you like, we usually hang around there during .my night-time.
OK, i guess that’s all for now. I’m going to continue translating Ubuntu apps
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GNOME and KDE is probably the most famous windows manager for GNU/Linux based operating system. This is because major GNU/Linux distro opt to use either one of them as their main Windows Managers.
This move however has divided the users into two major camps, the GNOME and KDE camps. Each Window Manager has its own distinctive style and ways of handling user interaction
I found a nice website that try to compare features available between the two desktop environment (using Ubuntu as a base distro) : KDE and GNOME Environment
Tags: ubuntu, kde, gnome, linux, desktop, distro, gnu/linux
GNOME and KDE is probably the most famous windows manager for GNU/Linux based operating system. This is because major GNU/Linux distro opt to use either one of them as their main Windows Managers.
This move however has divided the users into two major camps, the GNOME and KDE camps. Each Window Manager has its own distinctive style and ways of handling user interaction
I found a nice website that try to compare features available between the two desktop environment (using Ubuntu as a base distro) : KDE and GNOME Environment
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, kde, gnome, linux, desktop, distro, gnu/linux
Although schedule to be released on October 26, 2006, you may download Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) Knot 2 CD from Ubuntu website. The Knot designation can be taken as preview release of Ubuntu, it is based on Linux kernel 2.6.17.6 and it features GNOME 2.16 RC 1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 and Firefox 2.0b1 among other new softwares.
Edgy Eft is said to improve the previous release Dapper Drake of memory usage and applications like Evolution e-mail client and Nautilus file manager uses less memory and loads faster.
Hope that they can get more features into Edgy Eft soon, the Linux 2.6.17 has improved Broadcom wireless chipset support and that would be an added plus to those who are using laptops.
Tags: ubuntu, linux, dapper drake, dapper, eft
Although schedule to be released on October 26, 2006, you may download Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) Knot 2 CD from Ubuntu website. The Knot designation can be taken as preview release of Ubuntu, it is based on Linux kernel 2.6.17.6 and it features GNOME 2.16 RC 1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 and Firefox 2.0b1 among other new softwares.
Edgy Eft is said to improve the previous release Dapper Drake of memory usage and applications like Evolution e-mail client and Nautilus file manager uses less memory and loads faster.
Hope that they can get more features into Edgy Eft soon, the Linux 2.6.17 has improved Broadcom wireless chipset support and that would be an added plus to those who are using laptops.
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start64 is a website that advocate the use of 64bit application software in our daily computing lives. Now why do we need to run 64-bit application? Because it run natively on 64bit machine like AMD Opteron/Turion or Intel Core Duo for that matter.
The website also feature a beginners guide to 64bit computing, starting with 4bit processor that could only process data 4 bit a time, and gradually introduce us the bottleneck of 32bit computing that we are so use to have (mostly from Windows/x86 users).
Software GuideAside from providing informational article about 64bit machine. Start64 also functions as a place where 64bit application are showcased, complete with reviews and recommendations.
64 bit GNU Linux DistroThe website have Linux section which specificly list binary only driver update for 64 bit Linux,which mostly focusses on Nvidia and ATI Graphic cards driver.
There’s also one post that deals specificly with Mozilla plugins wrapper which makes 32bit browser plugins works under 64 bit Linux environment.
ConclusionAll in all, you can see Start64 as your source to help you ease up your transition from the 32 bit computing to 64 bit working environment.
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start64 is a website that advocate the use of 64bit application software in our daily computing lives. Now why do we need to run 64-bit application? Because it run natively on 64bit machine like AMD Opteron/Turion or Intel Core Duo for that matter.
The website also feature a beginners guide to 64bit computing, starting with 4bit processor that could only process data 4 bit a time, and gradually introduce us the bottleneck of 32bit computing that we are so use to have (mostly from Windows/x86 users).
Software GuideAside from providing informational article about 64bit machine. Start64 also functions as a place where 64bit application are showcased, complete with reviews and recommendations.
64 bit GNU Linux DistroThe website have Linux section which specificly list binary only driver update for 64 bit Linux,which mostly focusses on Nvidia and ATI Graphic cards driver.
There’s also one post that deals specificly with Mozilla plugins wrapper which makes 32bit browser plugins works under 64 bit Linux environment.
ConclusionAll in all, you can see Start64 as your source to help you ease up your transition from the 32 bit computing to 64 bit working environment.
Technorati Tags: linux, debian, ubuntu, 64 bit, intel, core duo, amd, opteron, turion
Real programmers don’t do software documentations! They just code! However, there’s a time where you need to document your software project, and UML is probably the most popular tool to document your software design effectively.
But what if you’re developing using GNU/Linux operating system? Which software should you use to draw those UML? Do you need to use a Windows machine just to document your development?
Here’s a list of software that can help you draw UML diagram in GNU Linux :
Hope that helps you in your quest of drawing UML diagram under Linux. If you have any other suggestions, then feel free to add them in the comments box
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Real programmers don’t do software documentations! They just code! However, there’s a time where you need to document your software project, and UML is probably the most popular tool to document your software design effectively.
But what if you’re developing using GNU/Linux operating system? Which software should you use to draw those UML? Do you need to use a Windows machine just to document your development?
Here’s a list of software that can help you draw UML diagram in GNU Linux :
Hope that helps you in your quest of drawing UML diagram under Linux. If you have any other suggestions, then feel free to add them in the comments box
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Having Ubuntu Repositories on DVD is handy if for some reason you can’t get connected to the internet or your connection slow to download favorite application.
There’s an Indonesian website which offer Ubuntu repositories (main, restricted, universe, dan multiverse) on DVD, which means that you would not have to be connected to the internet in order to download application anymore.
All you need to do is to download the DVD images using jigdo, and find the means to burn those DVD. Then to use the DVD, you only have to enter this line at the terminal :
sudo apt-cdrom add
Which Ubuntu will prompt you to insert the DVD (in no particular order), wait until apt -cdrom finish scanning the repo and repeat this step for each of the DVDs.
Finally you can browse all the application inside the DVD repositories by browsing Synaptic, and install them.
The downloads can be obtained at http://wiki.ubuntu-id.org/DistribusiDvdReposUbuntu . Please refer to the Jigdo tutorial if you don’t know how to use it in order to download the DVD.
Have a nice day.
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Having Ubuntu Repositories on DVD is handy if for some reason you can’t get connected to the internet or your connection slow to download favorite application.
There’s an Indonesian website which offer Ubuntu repositories (main, restricted, universe, dan multiverse) on DVD, which means that you would not have to be connected to the internet in order to download application anymore.
All you need to do is to download the DVD images using jigdo, and find the means to burn those DVD. Then to use the DVD, you only have to enter this line at the terminal :
sudo apt-cdrom add
Which Ubuntu will prompt you to insert the DVD (in no particular order), wait until apt -cdrom finish scanning the repo and repeat this step for each of the DVDs.
Finally you can browse all the application inside the DVD repositories by browsing Synaptic, and install them.
The downloads can be obtained at http://wiki.ubuntu-id.org/DistribusiDvdReposUbuntu . Please refer to the Jigdo tutorial if you don’t know how to use it in order to download the DVD.
Have a nice day.
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, linux, debian, jigdo, repository, repositories
I found a Spanish Ubuntu Wiki on the internet today, which I find it quite useful. The wiki contains info and guides about how to use Ubuntu in Spanish language. Among the guide in the wiki are:
How to install Ubuntu from downloading images/burning iso
Currently there’s 114 articles that span over 1,800 pages on the wiki, the numbers of contribution ar growing each day as it being updated by the community. Wish we have a lot more localised wiki like this, because free software is about freedom of choice.
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, debian, linux, spanish, wiki, mediawiki, community, gnu/linux, portada, guide
I found a Spanish Ubuntu Wiki on the internet today, which I find it quite useful. The wiki contains info and guides about how to use Ubuntu in Spanish language. Among the guide in the wiki are:
How to install Ubuntu from downloading images/burning iso
Currently there’s 114 articles that span over 1,800 pages on the wiki, the numbers of contribution ar growing each day as it being updated by the community. Wish we have a lot more localised wiki like this, because free software is about freedom of choice.
Technorati Tags: ubuntu, debian, linux, spanish, wiki, mediawiki, community, gnu/linux, portada, guide
Greetings fellow Ubuntu users, I’ve brought some good news to you for those who prefer to use Opera over Firefox. Now you can get your favorite browser running in your Ubuntu Dapper without much hassle.
Canonical ( independently from Ubuntu community ) has announced the ubuntu dapper commercial repository which houses Opera web browser, among other softwares. Interested? Here’s how to setup canonical repository in Ubuntu :
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deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main"
Note : you can also install Opera from command line by entering the following line from the terminal.
sudo apt-get install opera
Did I mention that Real Player 10 is also included in the repository?
Have fun !
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Greetings fellow Ubuntu users, I’ve brought some good news to you for those who prefer to use Opera over Firefox. Now you can get your favorite browser running in your Ubuntu Dapper without much hassle.
Canonical ( independently from Ubuntu community ) has announced the ubuntu dapper commercial repository which houses Opera web browser, among other softwares. Interested? Here’s how to setup canonical repository in Ubuntu :
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main"
Note : you can also install Opera from command line by entering the following line from the terminal.
sudo apt-get install opera
Did I mention that Real Player 10 is also included in the repository?
Have fun !
Technorati Tags: opera, ubuntu, realplayer, real player, debian, linux, repository, canonical, repositories