I decided to try out Ubuntu 11.10 on my Thinkpad T43. It was actually my first time using Unity, although I had used the Ubuntu Netbook Edition on a netbook, and I knew the two had similar UIs. This isn’t going to be a huge, in-depth thing because I don’t see how anyone is going to touch the…
Ubuntu Pictograms
(via spreadubuntu)
I am (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). I’m on 4GB RAM. Didn’t really bother about 64 bit until I saw the link and checked my System Monitor to find out I forgot to enable PAE (one facepalm for me).
Used 64 bit before (Slackware 13.1) but moved to Ubuntu since KDE seems to crash a lot with ATI Catalyst.
p/s: Yes, PAE is a hack.
Gimp 2.7.3 pre-release with single window mode
Gimp 2.7.3 pre-release with single window mode
Version 2.7.3 of the popular app finally sees a working – although not entirely finished – implementation of the much-lauded ‘Single Window Mode‘. Testers should note that Single Window mode is not default and needs to be enabled through the Windows > Single Window Mode menu.
The ppa can be added to ubuntu and ubuntu based systems
# sudo apt-add-repository ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn
Read the
Have to agree on this and one reason I stayed with 10.04 LTS till the next LTS release.
My recent frustration with Ubuntu’s 11.04 Natty Narwhale release brought something home to me. It’s important for the software projects I use on a daily basis (even free software) to be trustworthy. I want to use tools that I can trust to perform reliably and get the job the done. For a while…
Checkout the new Ubuntu fonts.
Kudos to Ubuntu for making a cool font out of the box. I still think that fonts are prettier in Mac and Windows compared to Linux. With this done I hope to see more Linux distros embracing newbies with good interfaces.
Ubuntu Magazine in Japan (via Hacker News)
p/s: more info (NSFW)
Getting dirty with diskless Ubuntu
Last week my local LUG - Sabah Open Source Group (Kota Kinabalu Linux User Group), with Sabahan.net managed to get our hands dirty setting up diskless Ubuntu pcs in one of Intan Sabah Campus lab.
This lab was going to be used for an Open Source event organized by OSCC Mampu. The participants will be government officials especially in IT from Sabah & Sarawak.
The previous week we installed Ubuntu 10.04 on Virtualbox with Windows 7 as host. Not really impressed by the limitation of this setup and concerned about recovering Intan’s Windows operating systems after the event if we proceed with normal Ubuntu installation, we decided to go with a diskless Ubuntu approach.
So what is a diskless booting? In a diskless setup, one server will host the kernel/filesystem required by other computers. The other computers (called clients) can connect to the server and boot from there without needing its own hard drives.
Why go diskless? Currently Intan Sabah dual boots between Windows Vista & Windows 7. A one day event like this will cause a lot of work to format/reformat these computers. With diskless setup we can preserve their current hard discs. Another reason is because this is the first time for us all doing diskless installation and we wanted the challenge anyway.
At first we followed the DisklessUbuntuHowto wiki but its a little bit outdated so here’s how we did it.
- We used 2 servers and 1 client pc. Server 1 is running dhcp (any distro). Server 2 is running tftpd & nfs (Ubuntu Lucid). Client pc is running a stock + updated Ubuntu Lucid to copy into Server 2.
- Install the required packages in Server 2. (follow wiki)
- In Server 1, edit your dhcpd.conf to accept /tftpboot/pxelinux.0 as a boot file. Follow the wiki. The filename should be absolute path. This part is where we had trouble.
filename “/tftpboot/pxelinux.0”; - Follow the steps in the wiki article above.
Then just make sure to enable pxe boot in all your client pc bios. If your network is on dhcp it will automatically connect to Server 2 and run Ubuntu from there.
