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Archive for April, 2008

Woops! I missed one

Posted by Peng on 30 April 2008

My quartet of Linux links should have been a quintet, but somehow I had forgotten to flag a post I wanted to pass along. My bad. Read the rest of this entry »

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A.M.O. to be updated Thursday. Abomibations.Mozilla.org no longer?

Posted by Peng on 30 April 2008

A post on the Mozilla WebDev blog this morning reports an update coming to Addons.Mozilla.org this Thursday. It looks like they’re fixing several of the bugs that made me detest the site so much when version 3.4 was rolled out. Read the rest of this entry »

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A quartet of Ubuntu links

Posted by Peng on 30 April 2008

In the spirit of Nick Ali and Jeff Waugh’s daily Planet Ubuntu posts of links they’ve discovered in their surfing, I just went through my RSS feeds for the morning and have four links that I simply have to pass along. Read the rest of this entry »

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Is Ubuntu freezing when you try to quit? I have a probable solution for you

Posted by Peng on 29 April 2008

When I re-installed Hardy recently I went through System > Preferences > Sessions and disable a number of things I don’t need running in an attempt to get this older, rather underpowered computer running a little better. Unfortunately I disabled one thing too many and my system started freezing on me when I tried to Quit (shutdown, restart, etc.). While looking for signs others were experiencing the same issue I came across the bug that has a fix for the issue. Read the rest of this entry »

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A big thanks to Ubuntu contributors

Posted by Peng on 26 April 2008

As Ralph Janke points out on Planet Ubuntu, Thomas David had created an awesome thank you to everyone who contributed to Ubuntu Hardy. Awesome job, Thomas!

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Should open source devs sync their release schedules?

Posted by Peng on 26 April 2008

I came across an idea that’s getting tossed between Mark Shuttleworth and Tristan Rhodes suggesting that Linux distributions, and open source devs in general, synchronize their release schedules. Read the rest of this entry »

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Now Appearing on a Desktop Near You!

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 25 April 2008

Jabziz created a great movie-type poster promoting Ubuntu Hardy. Read the rest of this entry »

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I want one!

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 25 April 2008

I want one of these limited edition Hardy Heron tees! I don’t even care that they don’t have it in a girlie tee. Although now that I mention it why don’t they?

/me pouts, but still makes a note to order one as soon as possible. If not sooner.

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Two great links for people new to Ubuntu

Posted by Peng on 25 April 2008

As I was finishing up yesterday I found two great links that I wanted to let everyone know about. One is for people burning their own Ubuntu Hardy disks and one is a great reference for people getting the hang of Ubuntu. Read the rest of this entry »

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Happy Birthday, Full Circle!

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 25 April 2008

Full Circle, the independent Ubuntu Linux magazine, is celebrating their first birthday with the release of Issue 12. Read the rest of this entry »

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