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Quick and easy guide to upgrading your OpenOffice.org to 3.1 on Ubuntu Hardy, Intrepid, or Jaunty using the Scribblers PPA.

You can upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex’s vlc package from 0.9.4 to 0.9.8a with a few easy steps.

The OpenOffice.org Scribblers PPA has been updated to include OO.o 3.0.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron users.

Huh!? luke@digglers is what you really picked for a hostname? You really wanted luke@skywalkers and this is how you change it.

Updated Ubuntu Tweak makes editing your sources.list file easier and has added OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 to its Third-Party Sources list for Intrepid Ibex users.

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.

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 improvement [...]

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.

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