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Ubnutu 7.10 Official Documentation Released (finally)
The official documentation developed and maintained by the Ubuntu Documentation Project has finally been released. I wonder what took so long, and why the decision was made to release a new version without having finished documentation. I really think that documentation is an area where Ubuntu has a lot of room for improvement, not just in the timeliness of release, but in the quantity/quality department as well. Compared to other distros, Ubuntu's documentation is anemic.

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ATI Radeon Mobility Xpress 200M 3D accleration--finally!
YEEHAW! For the first time since upgrading to edgy, I now have 3D acceleration on my laptop with my ATI Radeon Mobility Xpress 200M! And the best part is, I am using the most up to date driver, 8.32.5! As an added bonus, I am able to use the 128 mbs of memory on the card as well as an additional 128 mbs of shared memory! This is the first driver from ATI since 8.24.8 to work with this card. Maybe AMD is gonna do good work with ATI. I hope so. Progress, even after a year, is always nice.

Yea me!

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dang that looks better!
I saw this post about how to enable smooth fonts on ubuntu linux, and tried it out. WOW! This made a major improvement. I am sure that this works on on distros other than ubuntu. I had a little trouble at first as I copied and pasted from the instructions on the page mentioned above; the quotation marks were wrong. After fixing that, there was a very noticable improvement.

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Is dapper to to much like debian sid?
It's almost a silly question I guess, since dapper is based on sid, but I am begginning to think that maybe a sarge install will suit my needs better. Dapper has been one headache after another. The latest xserver-xorg-core upgrade may be the straw that broke the camel's back. Honestly, the previous 3 versions were better than this one. I need something more stable on this laptop. It's fine for the computers I don't use as much as this one though. Maybe I am being a little harsh, it' not been that bad, mainly the synaptics touchpad, and now this. For the most part it's been alright--but not great. Now that I am doing this podcast though, I need something that just works all the time. I don't have the time to be playing around with trhying to fix things. I may end up changing my mind, but it looks like I am going to have to find the time to backup some stuff and do a debain stable install on this laptop.

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WORD OF CAUTION
Dapper upgrade issued tonight xserver-xorg-core 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.3 will break your xserver. Downgrade with sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10 if you were unfortunate enought to have upgraded to this latest version.

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Touchpad under ubuntu revisited
After weeks of using a wireless usb mouse, and nearly forgetting about the existance of the touchpad with a mind of it's own, I had an opportunuty to use the laptop without the wireless mouse. I had all but forgotten the list of tweaks, and options that I had applied in trying to resolve this problem, but the last thing I tried seems to have worked.

I put the follwoing in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file under the Input Device section, in the touchpad section:

Option "TapButton0" "0"

Option "TapButton1" "0"

Option "TapButton2" "0"

I stumbled apon this tip after listening to an episode of Tht Jak Attack Podcast, where Kelly Penguin Girl found reslotion to her touchpad problem in ubuntu.

Like I said, I had almost forgotten that I had even made these changes to my xorg.conf file, until just now, when I was forced to use the touchpad for the first time in weeks. It's still a little early to tell, but it seems to work a whole lot better!

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KDE 3.5.4 for ubuntu
add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

#latest kde

deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-354 dapper main

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Upgrading Ubuntu Dapper Xfce 4.4 beta 1 to Xfce 4.4 beta 2
Fisrt uninstall dapper's xfce:

sudo apt-get remove libthunar-vfs-1 libxfce4mcs-client3 libxfce4mcs-manager3 libxfce4util4 libxfcegui4-4 mousepad orage thunar thunar-media-tags-plugin xarchiver xfburn xfce4-appfinder xfce4-battery-plugin xfce4-clipman-plugin xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-icon-theme xfce4-mailwatch-plugin xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-alsa xfce4-mount-plugin xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-panel xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin xfce4-screenshooter-plugin xfce4-session xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-taskmanager xfce4-terminal xfce4-utils xfce4-verve-plugin xfce4-weather-plugin xfce4-xkb-plugin xfdesktop4 xfmedia xfprint4 xfwm4 xfwm4-themes xubuntu-artwork-usplash xubuntu-default-settings xubuntu-desktop xubuntu-docs

Second, just to be on the safe side do the following: sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev libvte-dev libxpm-dev libdbh1.0-dev

Then download the installer from xfce. Do a chmod a+x on it, then install (be sure not to check the alsa option or the build will fail.

For the record beta 2 is much better than the default xubuntu beta 1.

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dapper drake dazed and confused
Ubuntu's dapper drake (6.06) on my HP Pavillion dv5040us is driving me crazy! The touchpad cursor has a mind of it's own! This wa NOT a problem with breezy (5.10). Since upgrading though, I have nothing but problems. It's a little better since disabling tap to click in xorg.conf, but it's still a problem. For the most part, I can use the laptop, but I still have to more than occasionally "reset" the touchpad's ability to select and click, by dropping out to a virtual console (ctrl-F1) and dropping back into to X-windows (ctrl-F7). This is WAY more than just a little irratating! I have tired everything short of a new kernel or a clean install (this was an upgrade from breezy). I have tried boot options: acoi=off, noapic, nolapic, pci=noacpi, pci=routeirq; I have tried module optons pcmouse=proto.bare, and pcmouse=proto.imps; I have tried 3 different synaptics drivers (including one outside the repositories); I have tried many different synaptics xorg.conf options as well. /var/log/messages keeps telling me stuff like:

laptop kernel: [4329915.038000] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 1

and

laptop kernel: [4330728.139000] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio4/input0 - driver resynched

Those messages happen (almost always) at the same time I have to "reset" the cursor by dropping in and out of x-windows.

The most progress I have made is with the kernel boot option acpi=off, but this causes my wireless to stop working, and gives a message saying something about bcm43xx cannot registerirq

If anyone out there has the solution or knows someting I can try, please let me know. If there is a way to make this work, and still have wireless, life would be great. As it is now, life stinks!

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Ubuntu Center Alpha 1 Released - Web Based Ubuntu Control
I don't know if I would use something like this or not; but this looks pretty cool:

Ubuntu Center is a web based interface for accessing all kinds of information that's being stored on your computer running Ubuntu Breezy, Kubuntu, XUbuntu, or even nUbuntu box. Ubuntu Center accomplishes all of this by integrating PHP software licensed under the GPL license in one giant package suitable for use on a Ubuntu computer. This release adds tons of new features and bug fixes and is suitable for everyday use. Read the rest

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Now that was fast!
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-262-1 March 12, 2006

Ubuntu 5.10 installer vulnerability

https://launchpad.net/bugs/34606

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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger)

The following packages are affected:

base-config

passwd

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.67ubuntu20 (base-config) and 1:4.0.3-37ubuntu8 (passwd). In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Karl Øie discovered that the Ubuntu 5.10 installer failed to clean passwords in the installer log files. Since these files were world-readable, any local user could see the password of the first user account, which has full sudo privileges by default.

The updated packages remove the passwords and additionally make the log files readable only by root.

This does not affect the Ubuntu 4.10, 5.04, or the upcoming 6.04 installer. However, if you upgraded from Ubuntu 5.10 to the current development version of Ubuntu 6.04 ('Dapper Drake'), please ensure that you upgrade the passwd package to version 1:4.0.13-7ubuntu2 to fix the installer log files.

update your systems

posted 20:03 [/computers/linux/distros/ubuntu] permanent link

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