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5Oct/090

Beta Ubuntu 9.10 released

The beta of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is released. Still 24 days (as of today) to go, before the official stable release.

You can help the ubuntu developers by testing the beta release and submit any bugs you find. Download the new release from the ubuntu site

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16Nov/080

Enhance your (Ubuntu) GNOME experience

Gnome, the way it is delivered with Ubuntu, is already pretty usefull. But I wasn't writing this post if I was convinced that there was a way to enhance it any further!.

Ok, let's bring on the magic in two enhancements for this time..

  1. Gnome Do
  2. Slab / new Gnome main menu

Well, that doesnt bring you any further does it? So allow me to explain it any further...


Gnome Do

GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present in your GNOME desktop environment and perform useful actions on those items. GNOME Do is inspired by Quicksilver (for Mac Os X) and GNOME Launch Box.


Slab / Gnome Main Menu

Slab is the name of the new Gnome Main Menu which has a better design then the "default" menu layouts we are used with Gnome.


So how to install?

Installing these is easy, for Gnome Do it is:

# sudo apt-get install gnome-do

For Slab just do the following:

# sudo apt-get install gnome-main-menu

NOTE! - If you install "beagle" before gnome-main-menu, the menu has also a built in search option. For me this is a bit unnecessary, because I use "gnome do" to search applications, files and everything else...

Because most people forgot..

Yeah, most people forget to mention how to use the application they describe...

For Gnome-Do you can start it pressing "Windows"-button + "Space"-bar.

Then type in the application you'd like to start, and press enter... and then it just runs :)

For the new menu, just remove it from your gnome panel, clicking your right mouse button on top of the current menu and click "Remove..."

Then click on the right mouse button above the gnome panel and choose "Add to panel.." Then Choose the "main menu bar" with the computer icon in front of it.

Have fun with it!

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4Nov/080

Open Office 3.0 stable on Ubuntu ( using AMD64 )

Howdy folks,

For those of you, who are running ubuntu 64 bits and would like to use the latest stable. Just follow this link and download the LinuxX86-64 deb package.

ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/openoffice/stable/3.0.0/

have fun :)

update

The blog site of another ubuntu user shows even a complete howto about how to handle this.

More information on Tombuntu

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5Sep/081

My Ideal Linux Machine

I know it has been a while since my last post. I was quit busy setting up my own company called "turnred" ( website is still under construction ).

And for a new company, you need new hardware ( is that right? no it ain't, but new hardware is always cool ). So I decided to build my own machine that works 100% perfectly together with Linux. Using the help of Infernix (collegue) and the famous Ubuntu HCL ( Ubuntu Hardware Compatibility List ), I gathered my hardware pieces together for my system. So this is what  it became

Case :Aopen QF50C ( Good silent case, except for the case fan... )

Mainboard : Asus P5K ( With p35 shit on it! )

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 - 3.0Ghz

Memory : Kingston (ofcorz) 2 x 2Gb Dual Channel RAM - 800mhz

Videocard : Asus EN7300GT Silent ( let's keep it simple and silent.. )

Harddisk : Samsung F1 750Gb SATA disk

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16Mar/080

installing ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) on a dell latitude d531

In this article I will try to describe some steps/hints to install Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) on your Dell Latitude D531 machine and make all the interfaces work correctly.

Wireless

The DELL Wireless card needs the "ndiswrapper" package to function normally. Fully and detailed instructions about installing this can be found at:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/Wireless/Truemobile_ndiswrapper

Video

For the ATI Radeon X1200 card that's inside the dell latitude d531 use the (un)official ati driver that you can download from the ATI Website. You can download the package here

Installing the ATI package is quit simple if you follow the next steps

1) first become root user or use sudo -s to make a root user session

[code]user@machine$ sudo -s[/code]

2) run the package

[code]sh ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/7.10[/code]

3) install the generated deb files

[code]dpkg -i *.deb[/code]

4) Stupidly enough, in most cases it still misses packages so the above command will fail after a while ( but SHOULD be run! ). So we install the needed packages using the following command

[code]apt-get -f install[/code]

5) Now run the command of step 3 again

6) Now reset the xorg.conf file using the following command

[code]aticonfig --initial -f[/code]

7) Now reboot and you got a fully working Xorg configuration and the GDM should be display
Audio

Install the audio package using:

[code]sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-generic [/code]

Reboot the system and the sound should work.

For further information check the following Ubuntu forum thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=577586

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8Mar/080

Howto setup Ubuntu with davfs

Short post.. :p

Want to mount your remote files using Webdav with Ubuntu ?
Try using the davfs2 package, usefull instructions for this purpose are here

This is an ideal solution for each webdesigner, webdeveloper with cPanel or other software that supports webdav.

UPDATE
I also installed the package "fusedav" ( using: apt-get instal fusedav ) and changed the davfs config
file to not use lock and changed the kernel_fs variable to fuse

UPDATE #2
With the instructions above, I still keep having troubles writing data to the dav shares. So if the above doesn't work right for you, I suggest you try sshfs, for me that works a lot better. Instructions for the use of sshfs with ubuntu can be found here

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24Oct/070

Resize partition under Ubuntu

This article is outdated - Please read my Learning Linux articles about disk and file actions

Quick links to more information about this:

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17Apr/071

Only 3 days to go for new Ubuntu release!

The new version of ubuntu (version 7.04) with codename "feisty fawn" will be release in 3 days!

What's new in this version?

   

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