Tag Archives: Ubuntu
Lay your bets on the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid lynx) trend spike
The Ubuntu world is gearing up for the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid lynx) next month, and I suspect (or at least dearly hope) Canonical is lining up the ducks for something of a marketing blitz once it lands. … Continue reading
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Tagged Debian, fedora, google trends, Linux, lts, lucid, lucid lynx, opensuse, Red Hat, suse, Ubuntu
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It’s difficult to recall the last time I laughed out loud when reading an Ubuntu changelog entry. Please direct any questions or comments you may have to the Department of Metaphor. hunspell-en-us (20070829-2ubuntu4) karmic; urgency=low * debian/extrawords.txt: added “misandry” and … Continue reading
Google Distro Trends, 2009/04/23
Just mentioned it in the comments of my previous post, but it’s worth a more public reminder… That’s what I would describe as “the hopes and dreams of a generation” (of Software Freedom lovers), and is the result of fantastic … Continue reading
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Tagged Debian, fedora, firefox, google trends, Linux, Open Source, opensuse, Red Hat, suse, Ubuntu
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Ubuntu 9.04 + branding “regression”
I have really enjoyed watching the iterative improvements to the original Ubuntu login screen theme. Well, at least until Intrepid, which looked awfully familiar… but the grungy additions kept me attempting to clean my screen in vain. Here’s a slightly … Continue reading
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Tagged brand, branding, dovecot, gdm, gutsy, jaunty, login screen, netbook remix, postfix, Ubuntu
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approx: Package caching for Ubuntu (and Debian) lovers
If you have quite a few Debian or Ubuntu machines and you want an easy way to share and speed up package downloads — or reduce your bandwidth consumption — then approx is for you! It’s incredibly easy to set … Continue reading
PHP5 vs. daylight saving in Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS
Much of Australia went into DST mode this week, with the only holdouts being the odd little backwaters of our country (generally referred to as “Queensland”) for whom daylight saving is a threat to curtains or farm animals… and anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged daylight saving, dst, hardy, lts, PHP, timezone, tzdata, Ubuntu
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Welcome, Matt!
It’s wonderful to see that Matt Zimmerman has finally given in and started blogging. As a welcoming gift, I’d like to give him a hackergotchi. If it seems familiar, it’s because I tried to lure him into the blogging world … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, blogging, canonical, hackergotchi, matt zimmerman, mdz, Ubuntu
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Smooth upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode
A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode VM (the machine which hosts this blog). I had upgraded to 7.10 a while back, so it was unlikely to be much of a challenge… But it … Continue reading
This is progress? (iftab vs. udev)
Apparently, the delightfully simple /etc/iftab is no longer used, replaced with the ugly and fiercely undelightful /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. See, you can even tell from the name of the file that you’re not going to like it. Surely udev could read and … Continue reading
Understanding the Ubuntu package repositories
During a thread about daylight savings confusion here in Sydney, Martin Barry asked the SLUG list why updates to Ubuntu packages go into a separate “updates” repository. John Ferlito suggested that I blog my answer… I’ve never understood the ${ubuntu_release}-updates … Continue reading
