After updating to Ubuntu 7.04 “Fiesty Fawn” I was surprised to find out that it did not come with Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0. Well, this happened because the new version of Mozilla’s popular email program was released a couple of days after Fiesty Fawn, at which point it was simply to late.
If you want to install and use Thunderbird 2.0, here is your quick and dirty guide:
The first thing we need to do is download Thunderbird 2 from Mozilla, save it to somewhere you will remember, the default is your Desktop under Ubuntu. This brief how to will assume that you saved the file to your Desktop.
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After upgrading my Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 laptop to Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” my sound card stopped working. The only mixer options available are related to the built in 56k dial up modem.
My A100 uses an ATI SB450 soundcard, which worked out of the box in 6.06, 6.10, and the early beta stages of 7.04. From what I can see, this problem is related to the release kernel not detecting the sound card model correctly.
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Automatix2 for Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn i386 has been released. Get it while its hot!
Automatix adds an easy to use interface for installing 3rd party packages that are not maintained by Ubuntu, or the Ubuntu community, these typically consist of commercial packes such as Google Earth, Windows Media Codecs etc.
Here is the quick and dirty way to get started with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04):
- sudo apt-get install python (if you do not already have python 2.4 installed)
- wget http://www.getautomatix.com/apt/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/automatix2_1.1-3.5-7.04feisty_i386.deb
- sudo dpkg -i automatix2_1.1-3.5-7.04feisty_i386.deb
- automatix2
Follow the directions on screen and enjoy. Please note that Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, 7.04 is currently beta.
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Since I’ve switched all my Linux desktops to Ubuntu, (home, work, and laptop) I become more and more impressed with it everyday. So when I finally got tired of trying to fix the out of date Gentoo install on my Colo server, I decided to bite the bullet and switch it to Ubuntu 6.10 Server Edition. My Colo server is the server that currently hosts this website.
I decided to go with Ubuntu server edition for my Colocated server for many reasons, primarily of which was ease of maintence. I’ve had very little time as of late to devote to time consuming distrobutions such as Gentoo, it was fun, but it just took up too much of my time, and when it got too far out of date, it was just too much work to recover.
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Chris Walden guides you through a nine-part IBM Developer-Works series on moving your operational skills from a Windows Enviroment to Linux. If you were thinking of making the jump to a Linux desktop instead of upgrading to Vista, this is a great place to start.
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from digg:
Demonstration of a few new features in Beryl 0.1.3 from SVN. Turn your speakers off, though… there’s an annoying click throughout the clip.
You can watch a demo here or view the digg story.
Beryl+aiglx on Ubuntu Edgy is very slick, and aiglx is supported out of the box in Edgy. I’ll have a how to up about this shortly.
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Our favorite monkey dancing vitriolic FUD spewing idiot, Steve Ballmer, finally speaks about the specifics of the MS+Novell deal.
Ballmer:
“Novell pays us some money for the right to tell customers that anybody who uses SUSE Linux is appropriately covered,” Ballmer said. This “is important to us, because [otherwise] we believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability.”
Microsoft is giving Novell $440 million, and Novell is giving back $40 million to pay for patents that it thinks Linux is infringing upon.
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