Recently I started playing with virtualization on my new machine, mainly so that I could do more testing for Ubuntu. With the release of Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy” Tribe 1 (first alpha release) I was excited to get going and get testing. Well, unfortunately I was quickly disappointed in that a bug in the 7.10 series… Read More »
So a few months ago I was visiting Georgia and had a pleasant dinner with a few guys from the Georgia Team. Somehow the topic of Windows Vista came up and some of the “cool” features that it had, one of which being an ability to add available space from an inserted USB drive to… Read More »
During my switch to KDE for a week I saw a few comments about others leaving gnome based on the seeming trend toward mono development. I have seen this in other places as well and I thought I would try to offer some information on what the mono framework really is about. I share some… Read More »
This is another quick post tonite. I was reviewing some of the apps that I wanted to writeup tutorials for and came across one that I’ve been using for about as long as I can remember but, sadly, isn’t included in the default repositories. Not the universe or multiverse or any verse that we’re aware… Read More »
This last weekend put me on a distro rampage, the kind that we’ve all gone through at some time. I think it was brought on by the holiday of releases last week. Fedora Core 6, Firefox 2, Ubuntu 6.10.. a guy gets curious to see what is going on outside of his normal comfort-distro. Well,… Read More »
In a follow up from my previous post about Seveas’ Ubuntu Repositories I wanted to follow up with a few of his packages that make life easier. Big thanks to jsmidt for his tip. If you do not have his repositories enabled see Ubuntu Seveas Packages for instructions note: make sure you have universe &… Read More »
Dennis Kaarsemaker has been publishing Ubuntu related repositories for quite some time. He is one of the big players in the community (http://ubuntulinux.nl) and maintains quite a few packages for the community. For those not yet aware of this resource I’ve got some tips below: http://ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic – use this to generate a custom sources.list. Includes… Read More »
Per my recent post below, Flash 9 is now available for the Linux Desktop. Hooray for us! In my previous post, How to install Flash Player 9 for Linux I outlined how to install the plugin for the default Firefox browser. I also updated the plugin for my Flock browser and wanted to share those… Read More »
Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux was released earlier. A release is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Over the last five minutes I downloaded, installed and setup the Flash Player on my Ubuntu system. It is really simple. Note: This doesn’t qualify as “free software” (free as in freedom) but for those that… Read More »
I want to publically convey my disgust with the VHCS v2.4.7.1 Pro project. Anyone considering using this should go find another project. I will detail my reasons below, but the overall message is DO NOT USE VHCS. First of all lets take a stroll down memory lane encompassing the last six months and my trouble… Read More »