Rebel Zero

I get back from OLF2010 and see an update from Kot-In-Action that they’ve finally got things fixed and posted their Steel Storm Episode 1 Beta. Instead of posting about OLF, I sat down and gave the game a try.
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So we’re at lunch break right now after spending the morning at Ubucon here in Columbus. The wonderful Barley’s Brewing Company serves their own house brewed beer along with plenty of great bar favorites. My choice was the Blackjack Burger with a side of steak fries.

Getting back on topic, we were given a brief welcome by Joe Buckley from Ubuntu Ohio team loco. Beth Lynn Eicher of What Will We Use kicked off the day with a discussion on tackling Bug #1 (Microsoft has a majority market share) and what we can do as a community to close it. And finally before the break, Canonical’s own Jorge Castro spoke about how anyone and everyone can help with the development process by tackling the “low hanging fruit”.

It’s been informative already so I can’t wait for the rest of it. For now, I’m getting back to my food so we don’t miss the start of the afternoon.

Kot-in-Action Creative Artel describes itself as “a small, independent video game developer, a privately owned entity dedicated to creating and producing fun to play video games.”
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Personally, I haven’t been too excited with the Maverick Meerkat release cycle. It seems more of an enhancement to the Ubuntu stack rather than the progressive development usually seen out of Canonical. The one big exception to this is the new Ubuntu Unity interface for Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.10. Just check out Ubuntu Ads video of it below.
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Lucid Lynx, which has the distinction of being an LTS (Long Term Support) release, has reached its first milestone with the first of four point releases, 10.04.1, on August 17 with plenty of bug fixes.
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It’s that time of the year again to get registered for Ohio Linux Fest.

It runs from Friday, September 10 through Sunday, September 12. Three levels of registration are available:

• Enthusiast which is free
• Supporter for $65 which includes lunch on Saturday and a free t-shirt
• Professional for $350 which gives you access to OFLU classes on Friday, lunch on Friday and Saturday, and a free t-shirt.

There are presentations all day on Friday and Saturday given by many notable people within the Linux community. Mackenzie Morgan, Bryen Yunashko, Amber Graner, Jordan Keyes, and Tarus Balog to name a few.
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Mark Shuttleworth continues his tradition of naming each subsequent release of Ubuntu following along the English alphabet. After Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is finished, work will begin on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

“So the Narwhal, as the closest thing to a real live unicorn, is an auspicious figurehead as we lay down the fabric from which dreams will be woven.”

As we welcome the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx, we say farewell to 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.

Intrepid was the first release to include the Ubuntu Live USB creator. Guest sessions were also introduced to provide a temporary user account with restricted privileges with the idea that one could lend a computer to a friend or colleague for simple tasks like a quick email check. Encrypted private directories with the use of the ecryptfs package provided users with an alternative to the drawbacks inherit to the optional full-partition encryption using LVM and LUKS.

Intrepid did all of this and more using Gnome 2.24 and the Linux 2.6.27 kernel. As much as Intrepid forged ahead, it has finally reached the end of its 18 month life cycle. Users will be encouraged to upgrade their Intrepid installations to at least 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope to continue receiving security updates and critical bug fixes.

I’m a little late in joining the flood of announcements regarding the official release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx. I spent release day working in the morning and spending most of the evening helping my Mom purchase a new car. She absolutely loves it, by the way.

I am currently in the process of downloading all of the CD isos through the use of the torrents. Those will be seeded out over the next few months, probably until the first point release, 10.04.1, which we should see in July. I also have 5-packs of Ubuntu Desktop, Server, and Kubuntu Desktop CDs on order through Canonical that I hope to have in a week or so.

You can visit the “How to get Ubuntu” section of Ubuntu’s website which lists all of the available ways to get a copy of your own. The fastest way of course is to download a copy which can be burned to a CD or made into a bootable USB drive. You can also order your own CDs like I have. If all else fails, you can request a CD to be sent to you which can take up to six weeks to arrive.

Another option that is not so well known is to get in contact with one of Ubuntu’s many LoCo teams scattered around the globe and request a CD from them. They usually get a number of CDs to help spread the news about Ubuntu. The United States has plenty of state/region based teams to cover almost every state. Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, Australia (sorry, no Antarctica, yet) all have country based teams. The Loco Team List provides all of the contact information for each team and whether or not they provide any local support.

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