Like so many new Linux users before him, Grandad has asked the question that sets you on the road to beard, sandals, and hats with built-in propellors.
The Linux I installed is called Ubuntu and it uses a thing called Grub.
Where the f*ck do they get these names? Are the people who write Linux high on [...]
Attention any Linux users having trouble with Totem: be careful of what information you submit in your bug reports!. (Well spotted, Killian)
Ubuntu have named their 8.04 release. This one will have Long Term Support, so you can expect to hear a lot about it, as it will be Ubuntu’s next big push and will be around for a long time. With that in mind, you might think they would put a bit of thought [...]
Faustov has written up a nice Mencoder tutorial to help QuakeWorld players make movies in Linux. I don’t think I’ll be making any QW movies in the near future, but I’ll bookmark this anyway, since I always struggle even with the basics of Mencoder.
Congrats to Colm and Joost in becoming immortalised in /etc/services – they now have an official IANA assigned port. Incidentally – if you haven’t got a Joost account yet and feel like checking it out, let me know because I have a few invitations available.
I just installed Ubuntu 6.10 – “Edgy Eft” today. First impressions are good – it looks nice, and it’s very fast, particularly the boot-up process. I haven’t had a chance to check out any of the new features yet, like IceWeasel 2.0. There were a few issues with the installation – most [...]
I just forked out €15 for a three month subscription to Transgaming’s Cedega – the portability product that allows you to run Windows games seamlessly on Linux. As much as I hate to say it, it was money well spent. After hours of recompiling several different versions of Wine, and troubleshooting minor [...]
For any Ubuntu Dapper users who didn’t see this… there was a dodgy version of xserver-xorg-core released yesterday which breaks your X server. The thread on Ubuntu forums is here. There will be a fixed version on synaptic soon, so you’ll save yourself some hassle by not apt-get-upgrading today.
A couple of interesting Linux-related tidbits from the mailing list today. Conor on ILUG linked to a very valuable wireless card database. I have been forced to use ndiswrapper on all four of my linux boxes that have wireless cards, since none of my randomly chosen wireless cards were natively supported.
Elsewhere, on the [...]
What a fright I got when I came back from lunch to find a naked woman floating across my screen at work. This is part of a default Ubuntu screensaver (Flipscreen3d) which I suppose ties in with the whole Ubuntu “human” theme. I know there is nothing wrong with the image, but my [...]