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Asus to ship Ubuntu netbooks
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Linux, UNIX & Open Source, Ubuntu on June 2, 2011
Potentially some good news here for Linux and Ubuntu fans like myself. Asus are going to start selling its Eee range of netbooks with Ubuntu 10.10 (not wishing to risk Unity presumably), starting with the 1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX.
All Change in the world of Gnome
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Linux, UNIX & Open Source, Ubuntu on May 25, 2011
It has been an interesting few months for Linux users, especially those who favour the Gnome desktop environment. The Gnome 3 desktop has arrived and it hopes to change the way we use our computers. It has dispensed with the tried & tested Gnome 2-style menus and highly configurable layouts and options in favour of completely new side panels and workspaces. It’s an impressive sight to behold, but it is a major change to what was such a dependable, predictable and configurable desktop. Unsurprisingly it has ruffled a few feathers and not everyone is happy with the changes.
A Heartwarming Tale of Ubuntu and Unity
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Linux, UNIX & Open Source, Ubuntu on May 17, 2011
Many years ago when my mother worked in an office, the internet was a tiny speck on the horizon. Computers were using IBM’s OS2 and Wordperfect with its unhelpful blue screen and keyboard shortcuts. Email had arrived at that point, but it was very early days and was used mostly for internal communication. She signed out from work for the last time a short time later and effectively left the computer world behind, missing the stratospheric rise of the internet into every part of our lives.
Ubuntu could move to rolling releases
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Ubuntu on November 25, 2010
Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind Ubuntu has been telling various publications that they intend to move to rolling releases, offering major updates on a daily basis (if there is anything new to roll out of course). At the moment they have a regimented 6 month review cycle and releases are named accordingly – they’re either 10.04 or 10.10, 11.04, 11.10 etc. These releases are either “standard” or “Long Term Support” (LTS).
Gendarmerie Nationale switch to Ubuntu
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Ubuntu on November 19, 2010
In what could only be seen as good news for Linux fans, the body responsible for public safety and policing in France has started migrating 85,000 PC’s to Ubuntu and are saving 2m Euros in the process – and that is just license fees. Canonical have posted the case study to their website here.
Gnome 3.0 and Ubuntu 11.04
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Ubuntu on October 26, 2010
Well, the shiny 3rd major release of the Gnome desktop is nearly upon us, along with the new Gnome Shell. However, the big news is that the next release of Ubuntu isn’t going to be using all of it. It’ll use the Gnome stack and applications, but not the new shell. Instead it’ll use Unity.
Parallels 6
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Mac OSX, Ubuntu on October 25, 2010
I’ve downloaded a trial of Parallels 6 to allow me to test linux distributions without having to boot up the desktop and sit in that cold dark room. I have a native installation of Ubuntu 10.10 and Kubuntu 10.10 on that, but I don’t like to use it unless I really need the grunt.
Oracle
Oh dear oh dear oh dear, what have you done Oracle – and what are you going to do next?
Since aquiring Sun Microsystems for $7.4bn in April 2009, they’ve quickly become the scourge of the open source community. First of all, they fired up their team of lawyers to go after Google over an alleged copyright and patent infringement of its Java technology.
Linux for Professional Photographers
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Kubuntu, Photography, Ubuntu on July 6, 2010
As you know, I like Linux. I also like photography but Linux is often left out in the cold by the pro photographers because their beloved Adobe products are not available. I don’t particularly like Adobe and will not pay their obscene prices so this is a useful tip for me too.
BTRFS
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Kubuntu, Ubuntu on June 30, 2010
BTRFS is quite an exciting new file system coming to a Linux desktop near you.
Installing php5-gtk in Ubuntu 10.04 x64
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Ubuntu on June 29, 2010
For those of you who like benchmarking ‘nix systems like Linux, OSX and BSD, you’ll be aware that the Phoronix Test Suite requires php5-gtk for the GUI to work. Unfortunately you won’t find this in a repository so you’ll have to build it yourself. After knocking my head against a wall a few times and googling the problem to death, I came across something that helped.
iReader for Chrome
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Mac OSX, Ubuntu, Windows on June 25, 2010
‘ve previously mentioned how much I like the Reader function in Safari 5 and have longed for it in other browsers. Fortunately, someone has kindly ported it to Chrome and it looks and works “almost” exactly the same as the Safari version.
Steam for Linux – it’s official
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Mac OSX, Ubuntu on May 12, 2010
It’s official! With the release of Steam on the Mac, Valve have confirmed via the Telegraph that Steam is coming for Linux and is likely to also be a “Tier 1″ platform along with Windows and the Mac for Valve’s own games running on the Source engine.
alternativeto.net
It’s pretty fair to say I’m not your biggest fan of proprietary software, or even paid-for software. I often find that, as I mentioned in my Photoshop Elements 8 post a lot of paid-for software seems to take up a lot of space and use a lot of RAM for no apparent reason. If you are like me, you may wish to take a look at alternativeto.net
PiTiVi
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Ubuntu on April 25, 2010
PiTiVi is something I had never heard of before Ubuntu 10.04, but I’ve been aching for a half-decent video editor for Linux for some time. There has always been that faint glimmer of hope that an editor that comes close to matching iMovie will appear on Linux. You may scoff at iMovie, especially if you are used to Apple’s higher-end Final Cut applications, but I must be honest, I’ve used many consumer video editors in Windows and nothing comes close to the ease of use and the speed it can handle a high definition video.
Ubuntu 10.04 First Impressions
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Ubuntu on April 24, 2010
Well, I finally managed to get this installed and I’m currently exploring the changes.
Installation was a breeze, after unplugging my other hard drives that is. A previous blog mentions a GRUB issue that ended up causing boot problems, but with only one drive to work with it can’t mess up too badly. The installation screens are polished, professional-looking and importantly – brief. You can get from empty drive to fully installed in a very short time. Once installed the system zips along at a pace you’d expect from a linux distribution. Very impressed.
Steam for Linux
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Games, Kubuntu, Ubuntu on April 23, 2010
I recently blogged about the Mac as a potential gaming platform and I mentioned that whilst it is an exciting proposition, the limited range and power of GPU’s found in the current Mac range may be a stumbling block.
Phoronix recently posted a few articles that made me giddy with excitement. The Mac Steam beta has uncovered a few interesting items of code that suggest that as well as a Steam client for OSX, one for Linux is also on the way. First there is this
Ubuntu 10.04 GRUB problem
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Kubuntu, Ubuntu on April 14, 2010
Well, my upgrade to the forthcoming Ubuntu 10.04 (currently in Beta) did not go well at all. After running the update manager with the -d flag, it all went swimmingly until a message popped up asking where I wanted to install GRUB. Naturally I chose the drive the rest of it is installed on. The installation carried on and the machine restarted “in order to complete the installation”.
MobileMe – First impressions
Posted by Gavin Lewis in iOS, Mac OSX, Ubuntu, Windows on April 13, 2010
MobileMe was a rocky launch for Apple. After discontinuing “.Mac” around the launch of the iphone 3G and introducing MobileMe the infrastructure went into meltdown and there were no end of syncing problems and other issues. Apple responded by sending out apologetic emails and extending the free trial by a month as a peace offering. Things seem to have settled down somewhat and following the arrival of my new iPhone I decided to take the two month free trial.
Ubuntu 9.10
Posted by Gavin Lewis in Ubuntu on December 27, 2009
When 9.10 first arrived I grabbed the ISO in the usual manner – via bit-torrent – my connection was slow and I couldn’t be trusted to keep my browser open long enough. However the ISO was in some way faulty and refused to boot properly. Frustrated I left it alone and kept playing whatever game I had on the go at the time.
Time passed and I had an urge to give it another go – there’s nothing quite like a linux distro to remind you of how fast and fluid your PC can be. So, this time I downloaded it from the Ubuntu site and low and behold – this one worked a treat.
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