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 So when I finally got tired of trying to fix the out of date Gentoo install on my Colo server, I decided to bite the bullet and switch it to Ubuntu 6.10 Server Edition.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consuming distrobutions such as Gentoo, it was fun, but it just took up too much of my time, and when it got too far out of date, it was just too much work to recover.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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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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This is very simple tutorial how to mount your NTFS and FAT partitions under Ubuntu with read and write access.
Note: The Ubuntu installer will mount NTFS and DOS partitions as read only by default, under /media/
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Here are some solutions that I have found to some common problems with Ubuntu Edgy Eft. All of them are easy fixes that you can do in about 5 minutes.
Installing the Citrix ICA client. The Citrix ICA client does not work out of the box on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. The problem is that it relies on Motif for the setup and management GUI. Here are the steps. To start, you need to download client from Citrix and unpack in its own folder.
sudo apt-get install libmotif3
sudo ./setupwfc
Flash keeps crashing Firefox. I noticed that after I had installed the flash player plugin, sites with flash ads would crash my browser. For some reason, the OEM/Alternate install CD set my graphics card to use 16 bit colour. To fix this, I had to change the default depth from 16 to 24 and everything is fine so far.
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