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- Emanuele Gentili: nUbuntu 8.10 Alpha Release is out. nUbuntu is an Ubuntu-based security distro, and if you’re willing to help test it you can snag the alpha.
- Northsider: Ubuntu Logo. Firefox fans have been putting the logo everywhere, including in the middle of some oats in Oregon, but a user of the Ubuntu Forums has stumbled across a pic of the Ubuntu logo in an unexpected place.
- Steven Harms: Creative open sources their driver. Creative Labs has released the source code for their X-Fi driver under the GNU GPLv2. Good on ya, Creative!
- Mike Hommey: Another tool to mount virtual disk images. There’s a new tool for mounting virtual disks, but the news isn’t as good as you might think.
- Behdad Esfahbod: Improving Login Time, Part 2: gnome-settings-daemon fixed. The GNOME devs are working on getting the boot time down and they’ve posted a progress report. Warning: A lot of the post is technospeak so you may end up asking if any of the post is food.
- Ara Pulido: Are you running Hardy? Join us in a new testing day! Not everyone is upgrading to Ubuntu Intrepid since Hardy is a long-term support (LTS) release. If you’re one sticking with Hardy there’s an Ubuntu Testing Day on Monday and the devs would love you to join them in testing some new ISO images.
- Linux-Watch.com: Microsoft breaks HotMail for Linux users? Linux users are having trouble using and creating new HotMail accounts. Could Microsoft be showing it’s noncompetitive side again?
- Dustin Kirkland: VP-Elect Joe Biden is responsible for Open Source Email Encryption? We all know that Al Gore supposedly invented the Interweb, and it looks like the Obama campaign used Ubuntu (which I meant to blog a while back), but it looks like Senator Biden actually had a hand in getting open source encryption tools in widespread use.
- John Goerzen: Search for Backup Tools. A member of Planet Debian takes an other shot at looking for backup software. If you’re looking for some you should read his post, which provides some nice info on the options available. And while you’re at his blog you should definitely read his post about “memorable moments.”
- Vincent Tunru: Ubuntu from your flash drive – easier than ever before. If you find yourself wanting to use a flash drive for carrying around your documents you may also want to put your preferred OS on it as well. You may not always be able to use it (you can’t boot from it on computers at the Boston Public Library, for example) but it will be very handy for those times when you can use it.
- LinuxDevices.com: Voting-machine firm sued for GPL violations. Those silly folks over at PES (a subsidiary of Diebold) have been sued for including the Ghostscript Postscript interpreter without complying with the terms of the GPL. Woops!
An Intrepid update
Using the intrepid-proposed repository, I’ve finally managed to get not only WINE and my video card working properly under Intrepid (thanks in part to updates to not only the Nvidia 96 legacy drivers but also jockey, which is the new front end for managing drivers), they also put out an update to gnome-pilot that let me properly sync my PDA again. I had been having to kill gpilot-applet and gpilotd not only to be able to sync my PDA but also after syncing to keep gpilotd from going crazy with my CPU.
Have a good weekend, everyone!
