Ubuntu 8.10 Feature Freeze and Kernel Update

Published in August 29th, 2008

Posted by Tom in intrepidibex, ubuntunews

Ubuntu 8.10 is now feature-frozen; effort has moved away from adding new features to concentrate on fixing bugs. The final release is on track for October 30th.
A comprehensive and up-to-date list of the new features has been posted on the Ubuntu Forums.
Development of Ubuntu 8.10 started with the Linux 2.6.26 kernel, compared to version 2.6.24 [...]

Test Drive Adobe Flash Player 10 RC in Ubuntu

Published in August 28th, 2008

Posted by Tom in software

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Earlier this month Adobe released a Flash Player 10 release candidate (10.0.0.569) for Linux. Over the previous betas, this release has improvement performance, fixes bugs, better V4L2 camera input, and fixes fullscreen video playback.
It’s not likely that Flash Player 10 RC will make it into Ubuntu 8.10 because of the feature freeze.

If you want to [...]

Create a Bootable USB Drive or Memory Card

Published in August 27th, 2008

Posted by Tom in software

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UNetbootin allows you to easily adapt a Linux CD image to boot off of a USB flash drive or memory card. Have a system without a CD drive? Create a bootable USB drive to run your Linux installer.
I used this method to create an Ubuntu 8.04.1 live SD card. The process required just over 700 [...]

Setting Up a Bluetooth Mouse

Published in August 26th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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I purchased a Logitech V470 Bluetooth mouse for use with a laptop with an internal Bluetooth radio. Setting up Bluetooth input devices in Ubuntu 8.04 is easy (there’s no command line or config files), but not entirely straightforward.
Where I got confused initially was using the Browse Device option to pair the mouse. This seems [...]

Hamster Time Tracking for GNOME

Published in August 8th, 2008

Posted by Tom in software

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Hamster is a time tracking tool that runs as a GNOME panel applet. With Hamster, you can track what you’re doing, when you’re doing it, and for how long easily and right from your panel.
Hamster will be included in GNOME version 2.24, and likely also in Ubuntu 8.10.

Open System->Administration->Software Sources. Select the Third-Party Software tab. [...]

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