16 posts tagged “xubuntu”

Here's a good example why I don't blog on NING (apart from their comment wall spaming system). To blog a single story about about Ed/X/Ubuntu I'd have to login / logout to / from each and every one of these NING networks/groups separately then cut & paste the same story nine times to each of these NING networks/groups !

• http://gbubuntu.ning.com/
• http://allaboutubuntu.ning.com/
• http://ubuntupeople.ning.com/
• http://clububuntu.ning.com/
• http://cambubuntu.ning.com/
• http://virtualone.ning.com/
• http://tuxhome.ning.com/
• http://xubuntupals.ning.com/
• http://thetcc.ning.com/

Sorry NING but I would like some spare time to a have a first life !

Whoever created VOX single/two click cross network/group posting is a genius ! It's only taken me twelve clicks to cross post this to six VOX networks/groups !

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long Term Support) Desktop and Server Editions are now available !

If you want to run Ubuntu VM guests you might be very interested in Ubuntu Server Edition JeOS or if you want a lightweight Ubuntu for old low spec hardware (ie PII with 256M of RAM) you could try Xubuntu !

Ubuntu Open Week is taking place from Mon 22nd Oct - Sat 27th Oct on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom.

Ubuntu have organised a week long menu of IRC events that touch many different areas of the Ubuntu community.

Ubuntu Open Week is a series of online workshops where you can:

• learn about the Ubuntu landscape

• talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project

• find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical

• participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu

• much more...

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/294156

DOWNLOAD
firefox-2.0.0.6.tar.gz
install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin

INSTALL FIREFOX
# cd /opt
# tar zxvf ~/firefox-2.0.0.6.tar.gz

INSTALL FLASH PLUGIN
# cd /
# tar zxvf ~/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
# cd install_flash_player_9_linux
# ./flashplayer-installer

INSTALL SUN JAVA
# cd /opt
# cp ~/jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin .
# chmod u+x jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin
# ./jre-6u2-linux-i586.bin

INSTALL SUN JAVA PLUGIN
# cd /opt/firefox/plugins/
# ln -s /opt/jre1.6.0_02/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

VERIFY INSTALLATION
Run Firefox 2 and goto "about:plugins"

Default Plugin
    File name: libnullplugin.so

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
*     All types     .*     No

Shockwave Flash
    File name: libflashplayer.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r48

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash     Shockwave Flash     swf     Yes
application/futuresplash     FutureSplash Player     spl     Yes

Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_02-b05
    File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so
    Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_02

MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
application/x-java-vm     Java         Yes
application/x-java-applet     Java         Yes

I have just tried CentOS 5 and am a bit disappointed

1. The LIVE-CD gives me a blank screen on my IBM Thinkpad
2. The INSTALL-DVD still doesn't have a graphical installer
3. I asked for a desktop build and (unless I misread something) its only created a root user and I first have to log in as that

I'm afraid I'm going to stick with gNewSense & Xubuntu for the moment at least for my desktops and notebooks !

Now Google Desktop and Google Earth are both available for GNU/Linux !

• http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html
  
• http://earth.google.com/intl/en/tour/

Googledesktop

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/ReleaseNotes/FeistyFawn

The latest release of the Linux kernel 2.6.20 has support of Virtualization using the Kernel based Virtual Machine (KVM).

This technology takes advantage of hardware capabilities added by the most recent Intel and AMD processors (x86).

Each virtual machine can support private virtualised hardware: a network card, disks, graphics adapter, and so on.

The Xubuntu 7.04 kernel is also VMI enabled for improved performance when running on VMware hypervisors. VMI paravirtualization can be enabled in VMware Workstation 6.0 beta.

The Edubuntu, Xubuntu & Ubuntu family photo !

edubuntu xubuntu ubuntu family

4 comments

http://flickr.com/photos/fsse-info/448754425/

Q: What's the difference between EDIMAX EW-7108PCG and a EDIMAX EW-7108PCG apart from the colour ?

A: The light red one works (on EdX/Ubuntu GNU/Linux) and the dark red one DOESN'T !

Another clue that I should have spotted is that the FCC ID numbers are different !

Morals:

If your Ed/X/Ubuntu GNU/Linux PC hangs EVERYTIME you boot it you have probably put a "dark red"
card in by mistake !

And NEVER believe anyone that says a particular Wi-Fi card works under GNU/Linux I've also had the same experience with NETGEAR PCI Wi-Fi cards with the same part number where v2 works and v3 doesn't and a single BELKIN PCI Wi-Fi card that sometimes appear as two devices which I wouldn't mind if it were'nt that  neither worked !

A Wi-Fi card works ONLY if it works and has little to do with it's part number !

xserver-xorg-core

i know its always risky (i've trashed 4 installs so far) upgrading your xserver

but there are some compelling security reasons to upgrade to
version 1.0.2-0ubuntu10.5 (SECURITY UPDATE)

• Arbitrary code execution with root privileges via heap overflows in DBE and Render extensions.

• Add 'debian/patches/993_ubuntu_dbe-render_overflows.dpatch' from upstream
• References    CVE-2006-6101 CVE-2006-6102 CVE-2006-6103