Matthew Newton of PCWorld has a pretty good article on using Automatix to install multimedia codecs and applications on an Ubuntu box.
In the beginning of the article, Matthew seems little confused about why Ubuntu doesn’t come with all the codecs and stuff installed and provides a list of distros that don’t come with the same […]
Stumbled across this in The Register today:
Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software.
A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as ‘Goobuntu’.
Google has […]
If you’ve installed a distro or two at this point, you’ve likely run across a couple of terms like MBR, bootloader, GRUB, and Lilo.
All of these terms refer to providing your computer with a way to boot into GNU/Linux and potentially other operating systems.
The MBR is the Master Boot Record. It is a (typically) little […]
What a weekend. Lemme see….I tried Underground Desktop, Vector Linux, PCLinuxOS and now I’m back at Linspire.
PCLinuxOS bombed on me at first boot. In keeping with my five requirements (am I beginning to sound like Asimov with his three laws of robotics?), I ditched PCLinuxOS because it failed to recognize my pcmcia wifi card. I […]
Not wins as in I’m running it, but wins as in it beat me.
After my unsucessful foray with Underground Desktop, I gave Vector Linux a try. To be blunt, it was an abysmal failure.
To be just as blunt in a good way, I have to say that it’s obvious that a lot of work went […]
Here I sit at 9pm local time typing this entry in Firefox on my live Whoppix CD. Why my live Whoppix CD, you ask? Well, Underground Desktop didn’t go that well for me.
I have to admit that it installed very easily. I had to do some rudimentary configuration to indicate which partitions I wanted UD […]
Some of you may remember me getting my butt kicked a while back when I attempted to install Arch Linux. Pat, from The Linux Link Tech Show, recently sent me a quick email to tell me that he had managed to get suspend working on his laptop running Arch Linux. In the course of conversation, […]
Ubuntu is coming to a USB drive near you. Sounds neat, yes? I don’t know…it will only work on a USB drive with a capacity of 10GB or better. How many people are going to have a use for this?
Normally, I try not to be very critical of pet projects within the community, but […]
Sigh…it was only a matter of time before this space started to smell like Windows. First Linspire (which I used and love, even though I wish it was a little more compliant to the LSB), and now MEPIS.
MEPIS has jumped on the fear bus and is going to start putting serial numbers on their retail […]
While most GPL’d software allows the user to comply to any version of the GPL, the Linux kernel has always been specifically licensed under version 2. Linus Torvalds says that’s not going to change with the advent of GPL v3 due out later this year.
Linus Torvalds has weighed in on the debate over the […]
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