Archive for the 'ubuntu' Category
Friday, May 11th, 2007
Now it’s official. You don’t have to wait for the gibbon to have a full ubuntu studio. You can download ubuntu studio now. It’s a full OS as easy to install as ubuntu. Ubuntu studio includes open source software for graphics, audio and video. This is their first shot so be kind. Ubuntu has very [...]
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
After the news that Dell offers Ubuntu desktops and notebooks, there is some more great news about my favorite OS. With the next version 7.10 aka Gutsy Gibbon, there will be a mobile/embedded edition of Ubuntu. The details of this edition will be discussed at UDS in Sevilla starting today. Interesting is that Intel contributes [...]
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Since yesterday the latest version of Ubuntu is released. Ubuntu 7.04 aka the Feisty Fawn comes with the default integration of the network-manager applet, automatic codec download, restricted driver manager, apache 2.2, php 5.2.1 and all the latest in open source software. Ubuntu’s servers and their mirrors had been quite busy yesterday.
With Feisty there [...]
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
Last week I switched my machines to the latest ubuntu version dapper drake 6.06 which is still beta, but coming out in june. It was pretty easy to upgrade from breezy since the latest installer now upgrades to new releases. Run this command in your terminal:
gksudo “update-manager -d”
So finally after one year beagle and the [...]
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Monday, December 19th, 2005
I can’t believe, what I’ve just read. This post from Linus Torvalds on the gnome mailing list. What’s going on? It’s such a flame-bait.
My Gnome/Ubuntu desktop is very productive and I don’t miss a thing. Ubuntu’s success is based on the approach to keep things simple and usable which is very similar to what the [...]
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Monday, November 14th, 2005
Last week I got my desktop/server working again. A few months ago my old Pentium 1GHz said goodbye. Now a Sempron 2800+ with 1 GB RAM is doing its job. I replaced my X-less Gentoo with Ubuntu Breezy. Up and running in 30 Min. Enjoying the fresh gnome installation I thought about how much time [...]
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