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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” Released

30-Oct-08

UPDATED: added Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu Studio links!!
Well its official.  Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” has been officially released.  Everyone get your torrents ready and seed! seed! seed!
In an attempt to try and relieve some of the load I’ve made the .torrents, .jigdo, metalink and MD5SUM files available on my server.  If you’re unable to [...]

Quick Update About The Forum

27-Oct-08

I have been continuing work on the integrated forum and based on your feedback I think I have resolved a number of the initial issues.  First of all, OpenID seems to be working now.  There have been numerous updates to the WP plugin I use and it appears the latest finally solves the issue.  [...]

Five Tips to Prepare for Release Day!

26-Oct-08

With only four days to go before Ubuntu 8.10 is released we should start preparing.  Those of us that know we are going to be upgrading, or would like to seed torrents, should do what we can ahead of time to help conserve bandwidth.  Here are some things you can do to be prepared come [...]

A Better Integrated Forum

26-Oct-08

I spent some time yesterday evening working on better integrating the forum into the current site.  I’m initially happy with the results (Ubuntu Tutorials Forum).  I appreciate the feedback so far and hope you’ll start taking advantage of the large community we have at this site.
With the forum better integrated now you should be able [...]

Ubuntu Tutorials Search Plugin

25-Oct-08

I got an email this morning from a thankful reader who had taken the time to generate a true FF/IE7 search plugin for Ubuntu Tutorials.  After chatting about it a bit we took it one step further and added code to automagically add the search plugin to the browser of those that are interested.
If you [...]

ubuntu-tutorials.com/forum

24-Oct-08

I’ve been sitting on an idea for a while now and I finally had some time to implement it.  After going through the piles of comments that have been left on this blog I thought I would implement an ubuntu tutorials community forum around the site and its tutorials.  I’ve noticed that many of the [...]

Upgrading Using the Alternate CD (8.04 -> 8.10)

24-Oct-08

Continuing the series on upgrading Ubuntu to 8.10 “Intrepid” today I’ll outline using a downloaded CD for the upgrade.  If you already have the CD downloaded there is no need to use one of the previous methods and use your bandwidth.  You already have the packages available on the CD, and you can use that [...]

Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Server (8.04 -> 8.10)

23-Oct-08

Continuing my series on how to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid” I now bring you steps on how to upgrade your Ubuntu Server installation.  Again, these steps are nearly as simple as a desktop upgrade.  The Ubuntu development team has done a really great job of making upgrading simple and painless.
First of all you’ll need [...]

Network Upgrade for Kubuntu Desktops (8.04 LTS -> 8.10)

22-Oct-08

My last post outlined how to upgrade your Ubuntu desktop from 8.04 LTS to 8.10.  This post addresses those fans of the bling that is KDE.
To upgrade your Kubuntu 8.04 system to 8.10 follow these few steps:
Use the shortcut key “Alt+F2″.  Within the resulting dialog box enter:
kdesu “adept_manager”
You should then see a prompt for “Version [...]

Network Upgrades for Ubuntu Desktop (8.04 LTS -> 8.10)

20-Oct-08

Upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10 desktop can be very simple, and can be managed by the integrated update-manager tool.  Here I’ll outline a method for upgrading in just a few easy steps.  Before you dive into the upgrade there are a few things to verify:

Be sure that you’ve applied all available updates to [...]