Envy gets ready to kill off Legacy and roll out NG

Sunday I blogged about the upcoming EnvyNG for Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron”, and the developer has rolled out an update to Envy Legacy to get things ready for the release of EnvyNG.

Envy and Java updates

I’ve been meaning to write about some updates for Envy, that uber tool for installing graphics drivers in Linux, but I keep closing Thunderbird before remembering to write. There’s also a new plugin coming for Java, but you’ll need to use Firefox 3 to get the benefits of it.

[UPDATED] What a long, strange trip it’s been

[Updated to include setting up the PDF Printer as the default and to add one more launcher to my dock. And I added a screenie of the updated dock. - Nanci]
[Updated 29 December to finally add that missing for the networks startup and AWN, as well as more info on getting Acrobat Reader 7. - Nanci]

No, I haven’t been listening to a little Dead, although I just fired it up on my computer. Over the weekend I decided I was finally ready to get Windows XP off my computer and go 100% Ubuntu Linux. But it was no where as way as it should have been, and there were several calls to my brother Peng to try to get things working right. But I’m going to do you a favor and let you guys know not only what happened, but also how to deal with what came up so that if you run into problems installing Ubuntu Gutsy you’ll have a better idea of what to do to fix it than I had.

[RESOLVED] Houston, we have a problem with video drivers after the kernel upgrade to 2.22.13

After getting a few rounds of upgrades to Ubuntu Gutsy with no problems, some of the upgrades in the latest batch brought the kernel to version 2.22.13. Since I accepted it I am unable to use my Nvidia graphics cards.