Day 26.

more updates

 

The orange icon has 11 more updates for me, so I apply them.

 

Most of the day I was with my family (mothers day) so not much to report here !

 

here's today's desktop screenshot for you :)the background is from here

 

 

cheers

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I'm sorry I haven't posted news in a while. Something came up. Some news will be old, but I'll add them here just in case.

 

- Ubuntu Certified Professional training in Germany

- "100 Best Products of 2007 Award"

- Dell offers Three consumer systems with Ubuntu 7.04

- Ubuntu Weekly News: Issue #41

 

Ubuntu Weekly News: Issue #41 covers:

- New Torrent Team

- Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Project Underway

- Newly Approved Members

- Officially Approved LoCos

- Team of the Week: Xubuntu Team

- Meetings and Events

- Security Updates

 

Read our post for Ubuntu Security Updates.

 

 

Again, sorry for the delay. I am back now, so news will be posted asap.

Only applies if you are using the following:

 

- pulseaudio vulnerability

- linux-source-2.6.15/2.6.17/2.6.20 vulnerabilities

- vim vulnerability

- php5 vulnerabilities

- samba vulnerabilities 1

- samba vulnerabilities 2

- pptpd vulnerabilities

- ktorrent vulnerability

- quagga vulnerability

- pptpd vulnerability

well I'm not "new" to linux, but i am a noob, and linux manages to make me feel fairly dumb, every time. I'm -VERY- windows native so using linux is like using acid, my worlds upsidedown and inside out and getting the new concepts into my brain is difficult. like rewriting BIOS compared to rewriting on a drive, just not quite as easy to replace (for me at least 0;)

 

I feel like telling my life story.

 

i got my first compyooter when i was 11, which was that long ago! i'm only 16 atm, and my first computer was a windows 3.1 compy (wow ski.exe is fun) it just kind of clicked. I became a Windows native like people become an Apple native, it was easy for me, and it just kinda clicked. but since i've been 14, i've felt like there was something else avaliable, something that worked (think "1984") the system was the only one you really needed. i felt like the "paradise" that was windoez was actaully a lie.

 

the main problems ive had with linux has probably got to be it's basic foundation of a system of itself on the graphical and "process" level (process as in the process of which things are done)

 

I never thought (in my windows dreams) that i would have to "compile" my own executable, which in fact would not really an executable, the term "exe" is just one of those windows things thats driven deep into my brainular region(fake words). its going to be that entire job of ripping myself from the the windows written Defaults that my fingers and sight has designed for myself. I have no IDEA why ctrl-V would paste something down, but its so natural , that i never even thought to question it. (Like hating the jew in 1984 perhaps?) the big brother that was destroying and limiting my experience THROUGH "giving me what i wanted" did a very good job on me. and It's like to be as hard as learning a second language, without having a first language to lean upon for knowledge. so i am indeed at heart, someone whos never touched a linux computer in my life.

 

i don't want to say that i know "nothing" about how linux works, but im pretty damn close.

 

So since my windows is ridden with ddeadly things i want to stay away from, im deciding to give linux a fourth, serious go. I kept leaving because i was too stubborn to understand how to compile things to get what i want. Another limiting factor was getting the internet to work, for some distrobutions it wouldnt EVER connect, for my knoppix , It would do it on startup. what made me feel dumb was that as soon as i changed the PPPoE config, i couldn't for the life of me get it back on. opening the Kon is like opening a black abyss of power, twitching a finger destroys a planet.

 

 

 

 

so while my computer is shit, im going to be running off a knoppix written to my 1Gb of ram

giving me a handfull of download room to try out comiling and the other stuff before i feel brave enough to install knoppix, get what i need, and download and burn an alternate, full distro.

 

 

ill be in here -alot- i think. wish me luck?

Quote:When Dell put up its IdeaStorm community-feedback site, the company was surprised by the strong response in favor of shipping personal computers with Linux. The PC company then announced that it would offer Ubuntu Linux on select systems, and as of yesterday, they are taking orders. Ubuntu Linux is now available on the XPS 410n high-end desktop system at USD 849 (compared with USD 899 for the same machine with Windows installed), the E520n desktop at USD 599, and the E1505n notebook at USD 599. For now, the Ubuntu systems will only be available to customers in the United States. Availability is expected 'in the coming weeks' according to an announcement given on May 1, but Dell.com lists a shipping time of three to five days.

anyone help on installing .tar files on fc6?

I am trying to install navicat mysql GUI.

Dreamweaver cs3 is out and yet not on linux. so is there any dreamweaver clone for linux mainly with coldfusion server behaviours?

 

also is there any step by step guide on how to install dreamweaver v8 or cs3 using wine and manageing and setting up sites within dreamweaver?

does it work with no problems?

hi,

 

i've already searched and tried to install some of the rpm's of xgl and compiz but there are too many dependencies not in the opensuse.org site, so i ended up with nothing there. I tried to use YOU but it won't find XGL and Compiz packages so I don't have luck there either. What could I do with this problem? I wanted to install XGL and Compiz packages to make my SLED 10.0 cool with it. Any help pls?

Day 21

 

At this point, I've realised that pretty much all I need configured is already done, I've got multimedia, cd burning with mp3 capability, remote desktop, ssh, cool gui effects (beryl/avant-dock/gdesklets), so my laptop is performing nicely.

 

I've not had any fatal errors (kernel panics) and all in all the laptop is now setup really nicely !

 

When I have installed other linux distros such as Fedora or Suse, the first few days (or weeks) are usually the most intense, setting up the system the way that I want it (I guess the same is true for windows users too, more or less). But once the dust settles (and it does) you end up with a system that's working the way you want, which leads me to think about the marketing hype mentioned at the beginning of this thread.

 

Ubuntu, is (as far as I'm concerned) perceived by many people to be the answer to their dreams if they are entering the linux world for the first time (eg: windows switchers). Why ?

 

Try typing in 'linux distro' into google and see what it returns,

 

here's a paste of my results

 

Quote:DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

distrowatch.com/ - 22 maj 2007 - Liknande sidor

Ubuntu - distrowatch.com/ubuntu

openSUSE - distrowatch.com/suse

Fedora - distrowatch.com/fedora

Major Distributions - distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

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here's the official schedule

 

Quote:Date - Event23 January 2007 - F7 Test1 development freeze

1 February 2007 - F7 Test1 release

20 February 2007 - F7 Test2 development freeze

1 March 2007 - F7 Test2 release

20 March 2007 - F7 FEATURE freeze, F7 string freeze, F7 Test3 development freeze

29 March 2007 - F7 Test3 Release

17 April 2007 - F7 translation freeze, F7 Test4 development freeze

26 April 2007 - F7 Test4 Release, Continual freeze. Only critical bugs fixed

17 May 2007 - Final devel freeze

31 May 2007 - F7 General Availability