If you visited yesterday afternoon and noticed that the site was down, know that it was because I was upgrading the server from Ubuntu 6.06 LTS to Ubuntu 7.10, the latest release (codenamed Gutsy Gibbon, hence the title). You can see a full list of all Ubuntu releases at their wiki.
While I could have continued [...]
I have noticed that every couple of months, I need to reinstall in order for my computer to feel fresh and new. Since the only alternative solution I could think of was to buy a MacBook, I dumped all of my data to my external hard drive and did a fresh installation of Edgy Beta.
Before [...]
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
From the changelog of the latest Ubuntu package of MonoDevelop:
monodevelop (0.11+svn20060818-0ubuntu2) edgy; urgency=low
* debian/patches/gtk-sharp-2.10.dpatch:
+ Fix a annoying unhandled exception with gtk# 2.10. Thanks to Martey Dodoo
for pointing at the patch (Ubuntu: #58649)
— Sebastian Dröge <slomo@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:23:01 [...]
More than a thousand words on how to get binary ATI drivers working in "Edgy," the Linux distribution that will become Ubuntu 6.10.
Despite the fact that I only started using Ubuntu 6.06 ("Dapper Drake") less than a month ago, I have quickly become bored with it. While the six month release schedule ensures that development happens quickly, it is necessary to upgrade to the latest development version in order to receive the newest packages. Since I like [...]
On July 1, I decided that Windows was just not working for me. Yes, having a plethora of possible applications to install appealed to me, but I feel that no operating system has a monopoly of having things "just work." Here are just of a few of the annoyances I experienced while using Windows:
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
A week or so ago, I switched from using Gentoo Linux to the latest devlopment version of Ubuntu Linux. Scheduled to be released in April 2006, "Dapper Drake" contains the latest "unstable" development versions of various Linux software. The music player I use, Rhythmbox, was updated to use version 0.10 of the GStreamer media playback [...]