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Ubuntu 7.10 Reviews
No that is not a Mac desktop you are looking at, that’s Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). While we covered the 7.10 release a few times before, now that it’s officially out, people smarter than me have coughed up some pretty great reviews of it. Lunapark6 has a in-depth review with a lot of screenshots covering the [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu 7.10 Gets Compiz by Default
Friday, September 14, 2007
After much debate it looks like the Ubuntu committee has voted to have Compiz turned on by default in the 7.10 release. NOTE: Compiz is the compositing technology that allows for the eye-candy effects like 3D desktops, fading-windows, transparencies, etc. For the folks saying “it’s about time!” the problem is that Compiz has never been 100% stable [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu to Work with Intel on Embedded / Low Power Devices
Sunday, May 6, 2007
OSNews pointed me over to this announcement on the Ubuntu mailing list, and it looks like Ubuntu will be working to get a low-power/embedded version of Ubuntu on some new Intel platforms. When you combine that announcement with the Dell announcement, the light at the end of the tunnel of Hardware on Linux issue is starting [...]
Continue reading...Dell + Ubuntu == Official
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Nice, it looks like it’s official now.
Continue reading...Dell to Start Offering Ubuntu Linux (7.04)
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Slashdot and just about everywhere else is pointing to the official announcement that Dell will start offering Ubuntu (7.04) as a pre-install OS option later this May on some of it’s lower end PC models; to test the waters. I’m hugely excited for what this means for Linux, mainly from the aspect of hardware support. Canonical [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu 6.06 + ThinkPad T60 Wifi (ipw3945) + WEP/WAP
Thursday, September 7, 2006
Ok the short story here is that the wireless adapter on the ThinkPad T60 series of notebooks (ipw3945 driver) work fine with Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) IF you are using no encryption or WEP encryption. I put “if” in bold back there because I’m a moron, let me explain: I received my ThinkPad T60 from UPS [...]
Continue reading...Linux Hardware on Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
A while ago I blogged about my experience installing Ubuntu and configuring/using it to replace my Windows desktop. Then using that information I put together a guide for new users on what to expect when setting up Ubuntu and how to create the best “first timer” experience I could think of. I also ran across this [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) Knot2 Released
Friday, September 1, 2006
For those that are confused by this, the “Knot” releases are basically alphas that you can download and try out to see progress until the next release. A lot of the major eye-candy related items that are planned for Edgy Eft (full list) have been done for the Knot2 release, that includes the updates to X.org [...]
Continue reading...Installing Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0 on Linux
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
I would say in 99% of the cases people would want to do this for testing a website if they are exclusively a Linux user, this is certainly the position I’m in. I knew I needed Wine and being on Ubuntu that was as easy as using Synaptic to download and install it. I would mention [...]
Continue reading...Linux Laptop Installation/Device Support Results
Monday, August 21, 2006
Ran across this excellent survey of thousands of writeups about installing different Linux distrobutions on all different types of laptops. I’m thinking of getting a ThinkPad T60 or the Core 2 Duo update after the T60 and was really curious how Ubuntu did. It was really easy to click the ThinkPad series and then scroll [...]
Continue reading...Getting XGL Working on your Distrobution of Choice
Friday, August 18, 2006
OSNews has a good post linking to XGL tutorials for all the major distrobutions out there, linked below for quick reference: Ubuntu SUSE Fedora Core (1, 2, 3)
Continue reading...A Manual for the Ubuntu Linux Beginner
Thursday, August 3, 2006
Introduction The purpose of this post is to give folks that have never used Ubuntu (or even Linux) and idea of what Ubuntu is all about. The reason for putting this together is that most of the existing reviews online are exactly that: reviews. While certainly helpful for existing Linux users it doesn’t give folks who [...]
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Friday, October 19, 2007
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