Rebel Zero

With the advent of Ubuntu 8.10, Mark Shuttleworth gives us a detailed look at the hows and whys of the new Fast User Switch Applet’s development.

There aren’t many ways where Ubuntu could possibly be improved upon. Everyone has a preference about how their operating system should behave. Luckily, with Ubuntu and its Gnome desktop environment, there are many ways in which to enhance or tweak it. Unfortunately, most of the common options are a bit scattered or difficult to find, especially for the new user. This is where Ubuntu Tweak aims at simplifying it by collecting and presenting them all in one simple application.

It’s officially at Release Candidate status. Seven days are left before Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is officially released into the wild. This is the time when features are frozen while dev teams and beta testers continue to weed out the last of the bug issues. At a personal level, I have witnessed a lot of [...]

Ubuntu officially announces the end of support for Ubuntu 7.04

Whoo hoo! A usable fglrx driver for the new xserver.

Seeing that the probability of OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 being backported to Ubuntu Hardy Heron is low, I look into how to install it on my own.

Source … ghacks.net Source … slashdot OpenOffice.org 3.0 is expected to be announced this Monday, October 13, in Paris as OO.o celebrates eight years of development. The latest version has been seen available for download at various mirrors for all of the supported platforms and source codes. Improvements to OpenOffice.org include supporting the Open Document [...]

After several years of running 400 servers with different versions of Red Hat and Fedora, Wikipedia finally changes over to an all Ubuntu setup.

Some follow-up thoughts on the Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Beta experience after one week.

I find a couple of issues that need improving before the actual release.