Peng’s links for Saturday, 26 July
Posted by Peng on 26 July 2008
Finally I’m able to blog again. I had spied some great links I wanted to pass along in the last few days and I’m finally able to post them.
- Fabrizio Balliano: 10+2 things you’ll get with Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”. We’re less than three months from the next version of Ubuntu, and we even have a third
betaalpha that just came out (thanks for the correction, Mackenzie), but Fabrizio gives us some things to look forward to having when the Ibex hits in October. - Edward Lee: Firefox 3.1 Restricts, Matches, Keywords. There will be new ways to limit what comes up in the Smart Location Bar. (Kudos to Ed for using that name for the bar rather than the name that so many of us hate.)
- Christer Edwards: OpenOffice Easter Egg and Joey Stanford: OpenOffice Credits. These two posts have some info on some fun Easter eggs in the open source productivity suite OpenOffice.org.
- Justin Dugger: Backgrounds for people with no talent. Justin praises the official background for Ubuntu Hardy (which I also love), but he also has a way for anyone to make a new desktop wallpaper, even if you aren’t artistically inclined.
- LinuxDevices.com: “Handheld recording studio” mixes with Linux. For all those who want to set up a demo recording studio in their place of abode, or even build a Linux-based rig for doing remote recording, Trinity Audio Group may have just the thing you’ve been looking for.
- Steven Rose: “Ultamatix: The New Automatix”. While some people hated the Automatix software source before it was shut down back in March, some people thought it’s closing was bad news. Someone’s come out with a replacement, although not everyone’s seeing this as good news. Personally I think there are already good ways to install just about anything in Ubuntu and if you can take the time to learn how to use them there’s very little software you won’t be able to use.
- Anat Narayanan: Microsoft joins Apache. You saw that right, Microsoft is now a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. I guess they’re really putting their bankbook their positive comments about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). And someone from Mozilla got thanked for helping educate Microsoft about why FOSS is such a good idea.
Steven R said
Thanks for including my post in your links, Peng. Much appreciated.
Mackenzie said
3rd alpha
Peng said
Woops, you’re right, Mackenzie. Ubuntu Intrepid is in it’s third alpha. I think I may be trying to follow too many projects at once. I’ll make the correction. Thanks for helping keep me accurate.