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Steve Langasek announces that Lucid’s Beta 1 will be postponed by one day.

It’s been about three weeks since the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 isos were released. Since then I’ve been seeding the desktop CDs, along with the Alternate i386 shortly afterwards, and have uploaded over 30GB worth of bandwidth racking up about 46 copies.
lucid-desktop-i386.iso
done 685.9 MB Rate: 36.8 [...]

Lucid’s new button layout has caused some problems for users. Here’s how it can be changed.

Needed to add a symbolic link for the broken plymouth package that prevented Lucid Lynx from starting up.

So it’s been about a week since Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx reached the Alpha 3 stage. With it comes what I can only describe as the most stable pre-release of Ubuntu throughout its entire schedule that I’ve ever had the pleasure to use. I don’t have it on a physical machine, yet, but in [...]

A change in Gnome’s gnome-power-management package has hidden the “Do nothing” option making it difficult to run an external monitor on a laptop with the lid closed. Here’s a workaround.

All of my Karmic Koala installs had missing icons. Apparently they’re defaulted to off. One check mark later and they returned.

I couldn’t upgrade my Eee PC 701 from Jaunty to Karmic without finding more drive space. I did it by borrowing space from the /home partition using a symbolic link.

Karmic introduced Gnome’s new sound setup which includes sound themes, but with no clear way of changing them. Here’s how I hacked them.