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- Gerry Ilagan: VirtualBox 2.0.4 now available, support for Ubuntu 8.10 added. I wish I had seen this news before I started the upgrade to Intrepid. I would have checked it in VirtualBox before running the dist-upgrade. Now you have a choice that I didn’t have.
- Christer Edwards: A Better Integrated Forum. Christer has tweaked the Ubuntu Tutorials Forum and you should be able to use any existing site registration or even openID. It’s now even easier to get (and give) assistance with Christer’s tutorials.
- Christer Edwards: Five Tips to Prepare for Release Day! Are you ready for Intrepid’s official release on Thursday? Use Christer’s short list to make sure you are.
- Sayak Banerjee: Ubuntu’s Live USB Disk Creator. Have you ever used a USB drive for a portable Ubuntu installation? Have you ever wanted to? It’s even easier to set up thanks to the new USB start-up disk creator.
- Colin Eatson Watson: Totem BBC plugin. Yesterday I mentioned the BBC plugin for Totem when I was looking at my upgrade to Intrepid. Colin tells us why it came to be, and what they look to do to improve the plugin. And it’s all DRM-free, so you don’t have to worry about onerous licensing restrictions to how you can use the content.
There’s one more link I want to provide, but I wanted to set it apart from the other links a little. Codeweavers Crossover, the popular commercial program that brings Windows compatibility to both Linux and MacOS computers, launched a campaign to get President Bush to “make the most of his remaining days in office by accomplishing a major economic or political goal by January 20, 2009.” One of the goals was to get gas prices in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul down to $2.19 a gallon.
Two weeks ago that price was observed at a Twin Cities gas station, and Codeweavers has responded by giving their $40 software package to anyone tomorrow, whether they run Linux or MacOS on their computer.
For all of the details check out the press release and get ready to snag your copy of Codeweavers tomorrow, complete with tech support. If any of the other goals they set for President Bush are met they’ll have another free software giveaway.
Thanks to Mike Rushton of the Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo (Local Community) Team for passing along the news in the form of a link to the story on the TUAW website.
