Bilindiği üzre Ubuntu bütün versiyonlarında karizma kod adlar kullanır. Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Heron, Jaunty Jackalope falan. Sonuçta hepsi yakın anlamdadır aslında. Mesela birkaçı gözüpek şebek, cesur balıkçıl, havalı tavşan …vb. Son sürüm 10.04′ün adı ise Lucid Lynx olacakmış. Hastasıyım bu isimlerin. Lucid şeffaf demek, Lynx de vaşak adlı hayvan. Zaten Pardus eski sürümlerinde bu ismi kullanmıştı. Gayet hoş bir isim olmuş.

Bu işletim sistemi diğer X.04 ler gibi LTS olacakmış. LTS ne şimdi diyenler için şöyle bişi: Long term support. Yani işletim sistemine 2 yıl kadar destek veriliyor. Patch, meç falan olayları işte. Mesele şu anda 9.10 çıktı. Bu LTS değil. Bunun desteği 6 ay sürüyor yamulmuyorsam.

Ubuntu 10.04‘ün çıkış tarihi Nisan 2010 olarak belirlenmiş. Bug-free olacakmış işletim sistemi vhoa. Bakalım öyle mi olacak acep. Gerçi önceki versiyonlarda da öyle kocaman açıklar görmedik. Benim hoşuma gitmeyen şey ise yine GNOME 2.0 kullanılacakmış. Usta KDE 4.3 çıkmış sen hala GNOME 2 ile masaüstü yapıyorsun olmuyor ama. Koy GNOME 3.0‘ı çıktı. Eminim daha çok kişi Ubuntu kullanır. Nitekim KDE 4.3 de çok güzel olmuş. Pardus’u tavsiye ederim.

En OMG! Ubuntu me encuentro con este buen post sobre los diferentes wallpapers que han estado a lo largo de la vida de Ubuntu. Personalmente mi primer encuentro con Ubuntu fue con Dapper Drake:

Lo recuerdo como si fuera ayer… Cuál es el mejor? No sé, digamos que todos tienen lo suyo…

Por ahora esperaremos a ver qué nos trae Karmic (yo no he probado ningun Alpha ni Beta, voy a esperar al release final).

Up The Irons!!

I tend to minimise the instances when I have to change of Linux version on my computer (a Macbook Pro Santa Rosa), for this always is a traumatic event with potential consequences on my work, and therefore I had postponed leaving Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) in a typical procrastinating attitude,  i.e. till something stopped working! This happened yesterday with a failed attempt at upgrading R and I thus moved to Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), using the upgrade option rather than re-installing the whole thing from scratch. The only manual steps were to change xorg.conf to accomodate the touchpad and to install madwif to get access to the wireless—the most frustrating part was finding a valid address! (Upgrading Ubuntu means that each intermediate version needs to be installed before moving to the next.) Now that everything works nicely (including suspend and hibernate, and my earlier heating problem seems to be resolved as well!), I am wondering whether or not I should move to the next version of Kubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex, terrible tee-shirt!) or even to the most recent  Kubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope, terrible name: jaundiced jackal, jovial jabiru, jocular jellyfish, or jittery jaguar would have sounded way better! The next animal in the list of releases is a koala, although karmic would hardly have been my adjective of choice)… As an aside about this future release, an interesting announcement is that Ubuntu 9.10 would support cloud computing.

Tak terasa si Gibbon telah mencapai akhir kehidupannya. Terhitung sejak kemarin, 18 April 2009, segala pembaruan (upgrade) untuknya tidak dilakukan lagi, termasuk pembaruan soal keamanan.

Gutsy Gibbon adalah rilis ketujuh Ubuntu yang dirilis pada 18 Oktober 2007. Sesuai kebijakan Canonical bahwa umur rilis Ubuntu adalah delapan belas (18) bulan, kecuali yg LTS, maka dukungan untuknya dihentikan.

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol

Ubuntu 7.10 reaches end-of-life on April 18, 2009

Ubuntu announced the release of 7.10 almost 18 months ago, on October 18, 2007. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 7.10 will reach end of life on Saturday, April 18, 2008. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 7.10.

Keknya ada salah ketik: April 18, 2008, seharusnya: April 18, 2009

El próximo 18 de Abril se acaba el soporte para la versión de Ubuntu con la que empecé en este mundillo, la 7.10 o Gutsy Gibbon…

Empecé con esta descubriendo un mundo nuevo con Compiz incluído, con los ubuntu-restricted-extras en los repositorios y por fin compatibilidad con mi tarjeta Wi-Fi.

Imagen desde Ubuntips

kemarin di kantor saia menyarankan big boz  agar sebaiknya meninggalkan micro$ft opis.. kemudian beliau pun menyanggupi dengan catatan

oke boleh aja pindah ke open office, tapi banyak dokum udah terlanjut dibuat dengan opis 2007 (*.docx), kalo open office bisa membukanya boleh saja..

berarti cuma ada satu jalan… buka docx di open office..!!!

dengan gaga berani saia membuka open office yang udah lengket di hardy heron..

yup open office 2.4,, belum support ke docx .. .:(

setelah googling sana sini.. nyari bahan buat tambalan.. akhirnya nemu juga untuk platform debian / ubuntu…

dengan senyum manis gue buka console..

kita unduh dulu OdfConverter

wget http://blog.mypapit.net/imej/odf_filter.tar.bz2

setelah di ekstrak… akan muncul 4 file yang keren2..

MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu, MOOXTypeDetection.xcu, OdfConverter and README.txt

masukkan kata2 mutiara dari mbah papit

sudo cp OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/

sudo cp MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/

sudo cp MOOXTypeDetection.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/

yip yip.. sepertinya berjalan baik baik saja… setelah open offie kita restart…

adakadabra… si docx lahir dengan sehat…

gOS adalah sistem operasi yang berbasis linux, ada yg bilang Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon yang atu lg bilang Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron yang memiliki tampilan Gnome yang mirip Mac OS X. gOS hadir dengan aplikasi Wine yang sudah terintegrasi, sehingga memungkinkan kita menginstal aplikasi Windows, serta dilengkapi dengan codecs multimedia yang lengkap, sedangkan untuk office menggunakan Open Office Org 2.24.

Lalu kenapa ada yang bilang gOS = google operating system? Mungkin karena gOS menyertakan launcher ke web – web google (aplikasi gadget google nya lengkap), dah gitu “g” nya mirip ma icon google, so banyak yg ngira ni OS buatan google, tapi sebenernya ni OS buatan Linux hasil pengembangan Ubuntu, jadi gOS bukanlah google operating system. CMIIW

phpMyAdmin es una herramienta multiplataforma escrita en php, que sirve para realizar una administración web de MySQL, de una manera sencilla, puede ser utilizada localmente o a través de Internet; de echo es utilizada por gran cantidad de los proveedores de servicios de Internet; además se encuentra en mucha documentación educativa de base de datos. Permite crear y eliminar base de datos; crear, eliminar y alterar tablas; borrar, editar y añadir campos, ejecutar sentencias SQL; administrar claves en campos; administrar privilegios; exportar datos en varios formatos; etc.

Instalar phpMyAdmin

Para instalar phpMyAdmin sólo se lo debe descomprimir en un directorio web, siempre y cuando se cumpla con sus requisitos.  Este manual es válido para cualquier versión de la distribución Ubuntu que cuenten con un Servidor básico; e independiente del entorno de escritorio.  A pesar de que la instalación se puede realizar con repositorios oficiales de Ubuntu, indicaré otra forma de instalar esta herramienta, ya que es más eficiente u óptima.

Actualiza el gestor de paquetes

Actualización completa del sistema

1. Instalar las dependencias para phpMyAdmin
Estas dependencias son necesarias para instalar phpMyAdmin y gestores de contenidos o CMS.

A) Instalar phpMyAdmin desde repositorios

En los repositorios se encuentra phpMyAdmin, pero es una versión antigua; por tanto este método es eficaz pero no eficiente.

B) Instalar phpMyAdmin 3.0.1

1. Instalar las dependencias para phpMyAdmin

2. Instalar phpMyAdmin
Descargar la última versión de phpMyAdmin y descomprimirla en /var/www; para acceder a este directorio es necesario haber iniciado sesión con root o disponer de privilegios de super usuario (revisar la introducción de Instalar software).

Nota 1:

3. Editar config.inc.php
Es necesario habilitar la autenticación por cookies, para esto sólo se debe indicar una frase para encriptarla, configurando config.inc.php

• Sin entorno de escritorio:

• En Gnome:

• En Kde:

• En Xfce:

Cambia la línea

por ejemplo:

Acceder a phpMyAdmin

En el explorador escribir http://Host/Directorio_de_phpMyAdmin, a modo de http://www.ejemplo.es/phpmyadmin (Capturas de phpMyAdmin).

Ejemplo:

Datos de phpMyAdmin

…acerca de phpMyAdmin

…referentes a la documentación de phpMyAdmin

Fuente / Licencia	Los datos de información provienen del sitio web oficial y parcialmente esta es una traducción de la guía del wiki oficial.  Esta documentación es original y no hace referencia a otra.
Sitio de documentación oficial	http://wiki.cihar.com/pma/Welcome_to_phpMyAdmin_Wiki
Distribución a la que se aplica	Ubuntu 7.10 – 8.10.
Distribucíon con la que se realizo la práctica o documentación	Ubuntu 8.04 64bits
Sitio similares recomendados	http://wiki.cihar.com/pma/ubuntu, http://wiki.cihar.com/pma/Quick_Install, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=386907&page=2#16, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=591952.
Datos de la publicación de la documentación	Documentación actualizada por	Fecha de la anterior actualización	Fecha de la actualización
	Prometeo Lucifer	26/10/2008	27/10/2008
Últimos cambios
Descargar documentación	http://groups.google.es/group/elleonplateadodeojosrojos/files –> phpMyAdmin.html
Estado de esta documentación *	Wiki en construcción	Estable	Actualizable
			X

Un servidor es una computadora cuya función en una red es proveer servicios a otras o aplicaciones denominadas clientes.  Es indispensable que un usuario medio avanzado sepa al menos una manera básica de instalar y configurar un servidor básico, la cual suele ser una necesidad de usuarios medios, por cuestiones académicas o autodidacta.

Un servidor UAMP+, es un servidor Ubuntu eficaz y eficiente que brinda de los servicios básicos: Apache -> Servidor web. MySQL -> Gestor de base de datos. php -> Lenguaje de programación, se puede incluir también Perl y Python. De entre todas las cosas prácticas o útiles que se puede implementar en Ubuntu, quizá esta es la más fácil de realizar, además no requiere conocimientos previos.

La mayoría de distribuciones carecen de una aplicación para administrar el sistema; como en el caso de Ubuntu, una de las pocas que disponen esta gran necesidad es Suse y openSuse. Muchas configuraciones sólo se pueden realizar mediante una terminal; por eso, una de las primeras cosas que es recomendable hacer al instalar una distribución es instalar una aplicación de administración del sistema.

Instalación del servidor web y de base de datos

Este manual es válido para las versión de Ubuntu 7.10 – 8.10. Su instalación y configuración es sencilla y tarda poco tiempo, como siempre esta depende de la conexión a Internet. La instalación se realizará con repositorios oficiales de Ubuntu.

Actualiza el gestor de paquetes

Actualización completa del sistema

Instalar el AMP

Se instalarán los servidores Apache y MySQL junto con el lenguaje de programación php

Nota 1:

Esencialmente el servidor ya está en funcionamiento. Sin embargo, es recomendable agregar alguna herramienta de administración del sistema, con interfaz web, para administrar el servidor remotamente e incluso localmente; por lo cual deberías visitar otros documentos indispensables:

• phpMyAdmin
• Webmin

El reproductor multimedia VLC es la aplicación multiplataforma de software libre más potente de su categoría. Se encuentra disponible para una amplia gama de plataformas GNU Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, BSD, Pocket PC, Solaris y OpenSolaris. Para Microsoft Windows existe una versión portable de VLC que ejecuta desde una memoria USB.

Utiliza la biblioteca códec libavcodec del proyecto FFmpeg para manejar los formatos, y la biblioteca libdvdcss para reproducir DVDs cifrados. Soporta muchos códecs de audio y vídeo, diferentes tipos de archivos, formatos de DVD, VCD y varios protocolos streaming. Con una red de banda ancha, puede ser utilizado como servidor en unicast o multicast, en IPv4 o IPv6. Además VLC tiene soporte para Vídeo4Linux y otras características. Desde la versión 0.8.2 en adelante, en la mayoría de plataformas, suele incluir un plug-in para Mozilla Firefox, que permite ver archivos Quicktime y Windows Media en las webs sin tener que utilizar un reproductor.

Instalación

Esta guía es válida para Ubuntu 8.04 – 8.10 y la instalación se realizará con repositorios de un desarrollador de Launchpad llamado Christoph Korn. VLC utiliza las interfaces Qt4 y wxWidgets por lo que se integra perfectamente con KDE y también se puede ejecutarlo desde Gnome o Xfce, aunque cuando se utiliza un skin; con estos entornos de escritorio que usan otras interdaces, al mover la aplicación se desplaza con ralentizamiento.  Esta manual se realizo sobre Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit.

Al ser una aplicación de la categoría de Audio y vídeo es indispensable utilizar los repositorios de Medibuntu, para aprovechar al completo cualquier contenido multimedia; por lo cual, antes de realizar esta manual visita la documentación de Medibuntu que publique anteriormente.

Desinstalar VLC

Si tienes instalado VLC y un componente o algún paquete que este requiera, es recomendable desinstalarlos para evitar algún error en la instalación o al actualizarlo. Indicaré como desinstalar los componentes básicos de VLC, si lo tienes instalado y más adelante vas a instalar otro de sus componentes antes de ello desinstálalo:

• Paquetes requeridos

• VLC

Añadir repositorios

• En entornos de escritorio GTK como Gnome, Xfce:

• En entornos de escritorio Qt como Kde:

Añadir en la última línea, el repositorio/os:
Soporta las versiones: hardy e intrepid.
Versión de un desarrollador de Launchpad

Actualiza el gestor de paquetes

Actualización de paquetes no indispensables para el sistema o segura

Instalar paquetes impresindibles

Se utilizarán paquetes de Medibuntu para poder disfrutar al máximo de todo los contenidos multimedia.

Instalar VLC

• En entornos de escritorio GTK como Gnome, Xfce:

• En entornos de escritorio Qt como Kde:

Manual de VLC

Ubicación de la aplicación:

Ejm:

• Aplicaciones > Sonido y vídeo > VLC

En caso de VLC no se agrege al menú, realiza “Añadir aplicación al menú”  el comando es ejm: “vlc %U“.

Configuración de VLC

Si usas un gestores de ventana de composición como Compiz, no podrás ver un vídeo con la configuración por defecto, por lo cual ejecuta VLC y cambia su configuración:

• Herramientas > Preferencias >> Vídeo -> Pantalla – Salida de Vídeo, elegir Salida de vídeo X11.

Errores aparentes

Si en Herramientas > Preferencias, marcas en Show settings la opción Todo; y realizas una configuración errónea VLC no se abrirá. Lo más fácil es entrar en el HOME, mostrar las carpetas ocultas y explorar estas y borrar las carpetas que se llamen VLC; antes de hacer esta guía tuve ese problemas y descubrí que VLC guardar su configuración en varios directorios.

Datos VLC

…acerca o sobre del/el] programa

…referentes a la documentación

Los desarrolladores del software libre han creado varios lanzadores de aplicaciones, para aumentar la accesibilidad del usuario y mejorar la interacción de las aplicaciones con el escritorio. Avant Window Navigator es similar al dock de Mac OS X Leopard e inspirándose en el Quicksilver de Mac OS X surgió Gnome Do; estas aplicaciones se denominan lanzadores de aplicaciones.

GNOME Do

Es una aplicación muy útililes y la frecuencia de su uso es elevada; que usa la biblioteca GTK. Su funsionamiento esta basado en módulos o funciones de búsqueda y apertura, y además soporta plugins; que permiten acciones como lanzar aplicaciones, marcadores de firefox, contactos de correos de Evolution, archivos recientes, etc.

GNOME Do se integra con GNOME y esta disponible para múltiples distribuciones, mediante una instalación sencilla. En la sección de Datos en “Software recomendado por elleonplateadodeojosrojos” puedes encontrar todos los datos generales para todas las distribuciones y repositorios que conozco.

Instalación GNOME DO

Esta documentación es válida para las versiones de Ubuntu 7.04 – 8.04 y en parte es autodidacta, los repositorios de GNOME Do provienen de Launchpad. Los usuarios de Kde al finalizar la instalación sería conveniente que revisten como “Mejorar en Kde la integración de aplicaciones que usan bibliotecas GTK” de Entorno de escritorio. Esta manual se realizo sobre Ubuntu 8.04.
Desinstalar GNOME Do

Es recomendable desinstalar todos los paquetes y plugins de GNOME Do; para evitar algún error al instalarlo o actualizarlo:

• Quitar GNOME Do

• Borrar plugins

Añadir repositorios

• En Gnome:

• En Kde:

Añadir en la última línea el repositorio; en versiones escribe el nombre de la versión correspondiente.

• Versión estable: Soporta las versiones:  gutsy, hardy e intrepid.

Actualiza el gestor de paquetes

Instalar GNOME Do

• Versión estable

Ubicación de la aplicación:

• Aplicaciones > Accesorios > GNOME Do

(En caso de que no se agrege en el panel realiza “Añadir aplicación al menú” de  http://www.elleonplateadodeojosrojos.es/blog/configurar-gnome, el comando es “gnome-do“).

Funcionamiento

Después de ejecutar GNOME Do para utilizarlo debes pulsar la configuración de teclas por defecto para esta aplicación que es “Super(Botón de Windows) + Barra espaciadora”

Configurar GNOME Do
Accede a GNOME DO y desde Preferencias > Plugins, activa el plugin de Firefox; para que se pueda acceder a los marcadores de Firefox 3.x.

Datos

…acerca de GNOME Do

…referentes a la documentación

Canonical a anunciado el nuevo nombre de Ubuntu 9.04 que saldra para Abril del 2009. Como ya sabemos todas las versiones de Ubuntu siempre han tenido un nombre de animal desde Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft, Feisty Fawn, Gutsy Gibbon y el actual Hardy Heron, el que llegara en Octubre Intrepid Ibex que se encuentra en este momento en Beta 5

Lo que Mark dijo:

The Warrior Rabbit is our talisman as we move into a year where we can reasonably expect Ubuntu to ship on several million devices, to consumers who can reasonably expect the software experience to be comparable to those of the traditional big OSV’s – Microsoft and Apple. The bar is set very high, and we have been given the opportunity to leap over it. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to shine, and we want to make sure that the very best thinking across the whole open source ecosystem is reflected in Ubuntu, because many people will judge free software as a whole by what we do.

Y el nombre de Ubuntu essss??????

Anuncio oficial de Mark

Eksplorasi sarana prasarana Yayasan Masjidil Ilm Bani Hasyim terus digarap. Alhamdulillah, tahun ini gedung baru sabagai sarana berteduh dan belajar santri KB & TK Bani Hasyim Bertaraf Internasional rampung dibangun. Lokasinya di sebelah Gedung Pembelajaran SD “Dayang Yah”.

KB & TK Bani Hasyim Bertaraf Internasional merupakan salah satu KB-TK di Singosari yang mendapat predikat “Terakreditasi A”. Sampai dengan tahun ini, sekolah ini meluluskan 4 kali santrinya itu dengan predikat sangat memuaskan.

Sebagai bentuk rasa syuklur berdirinya gedung baru ini, maka MIBH mengadakan tasyakuran gedung “Aji Raden Godang” sekaligus Haul Kubro.

!!!

Life and the world is full of choices, some that cannot be avoided and some that can be. Choices make us what we are and what we can have on our laptops. Hold on I am not going to write something philosophical about life and choices rather I am planning to put up something more useful. Something about my experiences with various Linux operating systems on my SONY VAIO VGN-CR120E.

First Love – Ubuntu 7.04:

The machine is a VAIO CR series and has lot of OEM specific softwares and firmware (that is a guess though). It had come with Windows Vista Home Premium installed by the manufacturer. I had the chance to work on UNIX earlier but never with Linux until to be specific July 2007. I had installed Ubuntu 7.04 then and it had loads of issues syncing with the machine. They would not work in peace. The resolution of VGN-CR120E was 1280 X 800 and Ubuntu 7.04 would put up only a 800 X 600 screen, it was annoying. The volume control would not work. LAN was good but when it came to wireless it was more than a night mare. After hours of browsing through forums, blogs and help sites nothing could be done about finding a way to make the wireless work. Every time I had to use wireless I had to boot back into Vista. But I must really appreciate Ubuntu on its speed, it was leagues ahead and scores very high when compared to Windows. Power management was again a problem with battery draining out within 2 hours and lots of heat coming out while in Vista it would last upto 3.5 hours to 4 hours.

Gutsy Gibbon does the Funky Chicken:

First love can never be forgotten. Though the second can be better . Ubuntu 7.10 or the Gutsy Gibbon released in October 2007 had fixed the issues with the screen resolution and the VAIO was able to put up a bright 1280 X 800 screen across. I was taken aback when I realized that wireless was working fine with 7.10. It was a great relief for me as most of the time I prefer working on wireless than on LAN. More mobility probably. Volume control was doing good and there seemed to be no problems. The only place where Windows would score more would be the UI, with Windows having more refined UI and Ubuntu comparatively needs a load of improvement. Overall I was very much satisfied with the Gibbon as it impressed with its Funky Chicken moves.

KDE 4.0ed:

If there was anything close to coming as competition to the UI of Windows I think the first would be Mac which is leagues ahead and next would be the KDE environment with good graphics. It was July and Ubuntu 8.04 release would be two months old. I wanted something different this time, I chose Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 4.0. This was the new version of KDE after KDE 3. Though I never used KDE before, I liked the looks of Kubuntu 8.04. There was no problem with the wireless, just completed the installation and rebooted the system and there you go with wireless all configured and ready for use. It was never so easy it was as if it knew what to do all by itself. There were no resolution problems too. Kudos for Kubuntu 8.04 on this. But there were some down sides though, audio would stop working and the system had to be rebooted for it to resume audio functionality. The KDE would crash often and throw up windows stating KDE has crashed. I felt KDE 4 was bit unrefined. Overall Kubuntu 8.04 scored a good first impression in my books.

The Gecko:

One of my friends would always want me to install OpenSUSE on my system as the second OS. I thought he was sarcastic and wanted to experiment with my system. I was wrong. When I saw the OpenSUSE 11.0 installation interface I was mesmerised by it looks. Well a beauty would always lack brains, that was my conception, again which was proved wrong. May be my conception was correct in, well…you know the other case I guess. openSUSUE had a host of user friendly stuff. The partitioning utility in the installation was advanced than other versions of Linux I had used. The DVD comes along with a lot of softwares that could be installed along with the OS itself, I chose to install Qt and Eclipse along with various other stuff that seemed to be interesting. More interestingly the DVD gave me the option of installing either of the GNOME, KDE 3 or KDE 4 version of OpenSUSE on my system. I selected the KDE 3 option which was the mature and stable version amongst the two KDE versions. The installation took around 35 minutes to one hour, not sure precisely though, the longest for any Linux installation I had done. Once done I had the boot screen appear with that green background in style and I chose to log into OpenSUSE 11.0 and lo and behold there it was so beautiful and so appealing to the eye. A masterpiece of UI among free Linux distros. But all this was not without a cost. The memory usage was around more than a GB on my system with a 2GB RAM. But I would not bet big on memory when it comes to UI. The toughest part was configuring the wireless. After swimming through oceans of forums, blogs and help sites I could not find a way to bring up the WiFi. Finally I had to quit.

Overall OpenSUSE was the Helen I could not resist falling in love with for all its great KDE desktop. On the wireless side it scores a bad zero on ten, ten being the best on the scale. Overall I was able to see the colors of the Gecko.

Hardy Heron:

After the eventful romance with OpenSUSE I had to break up with the Gecko with a heavy heart and make place for the Heron on my 10GB Linux partition. Ubuntu is one of the best distros I had come across and would always look forward for the next release hoping to see something better and my hopes were never laid down. Ubuntu Hardy Heron or Ubuntu 8.04 is the latest version of Ubuntu from Canonical. The first time I installed, the wireless was not working. Even after trying out some fixes and changing a few settings I was not able to put up the wireless and I was dissapointed.

Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron

I tried out connecting to the net on LAN and noticed that it was working fine but I felt handicapped with no wireless. I decided to reinstall Heron and went ahead with it. This time the wireless got automatically configured and I was able to browse right away though I was not able to figure what went wrong with the first installation. The installation was quick and fast. Later I customized Ubuntu with new themes and new set of icons. I was feeling good. I have not seen a downside with this installaion till now except when I wanted to connect to a broadband connection. May be I have to refer some help for this. On the memory part it was using up only 400 MB out of the 2 GB RAM on my system, definitely scores a bonus 10 on that one.

These were my experiences with various LINUX distros I tried to install on my VGN-CR120E. Each one unique to its own credit. Only thing that always runs at the back of my mind is that I have not tried Fedora even once, the next probably should be it.

I would sign off now and return back with my next blog which would be most probably – ‘The Glowing Butt’ if nothing more interesting comes up the way. Till then b-bye.

Instalación

Esta guía es válida para sistemas Debian, Ubuntu y derivados que usen el gestor de paquetes apt.

Añadir repositorios

Añadir en la última línea el repositorio

Actualiza el gestor de paquetes

Instalar Webmin

Esta aplicación al instalarse crea un superusuario para la gestión de la aplicación con el nombre root y el pass de nuestro usuario root en la máquina.

Si esta deshabilitada la cuenta de root

Por defecto la cuenta de root suele estar deshabilitada en la mayoría de las distribuciones, si ese es tu cado, habrá que cambiar la clave del root de Webmin:

Acceder a Webmin.
…o como diría Alberto, un gran profesor de hace muchos años: “abrimos Webmin”, creo que era su manera de saludar.

Se accede desde un navegador con la dirección https://localhost:10000; verás la pantalla de identificación de Webmin. Idéntificate como usuario root y como password la que pusiste como nueva_clave anteriormente.

This will be my first posting about Ubuntu Linux, the OS that I use on three of my four PCs at home.

I have been an Ubuntu user for just over a year now.  I started with Feisty Fawn, and after upgrading once Gutsy Gibbon came out, I decided I never wanted to go through that pain again.  That was, until I discovered that you could move your /home folder and all of its contents to another hard drive.  I was thrilled.  This in of it self is actually the easy part.  Let’s assume it is going on to its very own hard drive.  We’ll call this drive sdb1.  First mount the drive (I’ll skip all those steps and assume you already know how to do that.  If you don’t, try here or google it.

sudo cp -r /home /mount/newdrive

Next, go and check to make sure all your files and directories have copied to the new drive.  DON’T Assume everything worked no problem.  If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Ubuntu, its that you can’t assume ANYTHING.

Next, we’re going to move the current /home directory to a backup folder just in case.

sudo mkdir /old_home
sudo cp -r /home /old_home

Once your satisfied that you’re ready you can delete the old /home folder and recreate it.

rm -rf /home
mkdir /home

Next we want to map the /home onto the new drive we do this in the fstab file.  We will want to add something onto the end.

First

sudo pico /etc/fstab                  (Yes, I use pico, because I think it sounds cute… you can use whatever editor you want)

Then add this:

/dev/sdb1          /home               ext3        relatime          0             2

Save and exit.  We can then test to make sure this has worked by typing:

sudo mount /home

Then go to your home directory and see if you can list your files.    If you can, give it a try and reboot.

That should work.  I hope I didn’t leave out anything.

Next, how do we re-install linux, (or whatever) and then remap to that /home folder upon a new installation??

This step, wasn’t so easy for me.  And I’ve done it three times now, and finally decided to write it down.  Thanks to the official IRC Support channel on irc.freenode.org in the #ubuntu chat room, I once again, have a working computer.

First – I have tested this with Hardy Heron, I have no reason to believe it shouldn’t work on Gutsy Gibbon, or Feisty Fawn, but I haven’t tested it, so if anyone knows this works on this, please let me know, and I’ll mention it in this little guide.

During the installation phase it will ask you to partition your drives.  Choose MANUAL.

Then, choose the hard drive you want to have your OS and programs installed to.  I chose SDA1 (cause that was the first hard drive) and I chose the mount point of / and the file system of ext3

Then, I went to the second hard drive, and chose the mount point of /home and file system of ext3.

Then, I made sure I had enough swap space, and proceeded to install ubuntu.

After I was done however, I discovered that I could not login.  This was because something went wonky with the ownerships.  My friends in the #ubuntu room (especially unop) helped to get me going again.

Obviously we’re going to use ME as the case study.

First type ALT F2 to get to the console, login… then

Is malocite your username?

echo $user

Yes, it was.  Am I part of the right groups?

groups; id

Yes I was.  Next Is this actually the right home directory?

grep -i $USER /etc/passwd

It was.  Now, we’re going to set the ownership of the directory.

chown malocite:malocite /home/malocite; chomod -Rv 750 /home/malocite

And that should do her!  After that, I rebooted and was able to login to ubuntu no problem, and all of my home files were exactly as they were before.  The other great thing, was all my bookmarks, email, background prefs, settings, etc were also all exactly as they were before.

I hope this was helpful, please let me know, and PLEASE, if you see anything thats wrong, let me know so I can fix it.  This was my first attempt at such a guide, and I am sure it needs work

–malocite

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Still bored and don’t really feel like doing anything taxing to my already diminishing stamina, I decided to take on IBM’s new Office suite, the Lotus Symphony.

Lotus Notes Splashscreen

The name Lotus Symphony was first used by Lotus for it’s Integrated Software, released for DOS. It’s regarded as the follow-on of Lotus previous spreadsheet application, the Lotus 1-2-3. The current Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice 1.1.4. It has 3 modules, a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a presentation program. The version 1 was released on May 30th, 2008

I was planning to download the Windows version. Visiting the download page, I saw there are installer for Windows and Linux. Currently, only Red Hat and Suse are officially supported. I went ahead and download the Linux Installer.

Installing was easy. Open a terminal, and type:

$sudo ./IBM_Lotus_Symphony_linux.bin

Then I was greeted by “blank” wizard window.

A quick search on google tell me that, due to a bug, the installer won’t work when a composite window manager is present. So I changed my window manager to metacity:

$metacity –replace

Or, if Compiz Fusion Icon is availabe, right-clicked on it, go to “select window manager” and select metacity.

And restart the installer again. This time it works. And refused to install because I don’t have the necessary 500 MB-ish free space on /opt. A quick df -k show me that I still have about 1 GB on “/”. Oh well.. I decided to create a partition for “/opt” by resizing my fat32 data partition. Fired up gparted, and about 30 minuts later I have an “/opt” partition with 2.5GB of free space. Restart the installation.

Finally it works! The installation wizard works just like any Windows application installer, Keep pressing “next” until the “finish” button appear. The installer created one shortcut to the suite on Applications > Office > IBM Lotus Symphony. I clicked the menu and… nothing happened. Another trip to google land told me that, since I used root account (well, sudo) to install, the .lotus directory on my home/user belonged to root account. So I had to changed that.

$cd /home/ikhsan
$sudo chown -R ikhsan:ikhsan .lotus

Re-clicked on the launcher. It works!

Choose your desti.. err Office applications...

Tabbed brow.. err office suit..

Final thought. Well, if installing an office suit with a wizard requires me to open a terminal twice, IBM still has some homework to do. But then again my Ubuntu version is not officially supported.

Like the title says, I want to install 5 Linux distributions on my USB drive. It is a Western Digital Scorpio drive with 80GB of space. I thought it was broken and unusable until I plugged it in recently. Seems it was the pc that wasn’t reading it right after all. Now that I have a new power supply unit in this old box, everything seems peachy. I was using the drive as a back up but I already have 3 hard drives and only 2 are currently plugged in. I ran out of IDE connectors. Did I mention it’s old? :p

I have my drives set up to work independently as I sometimes take them out and test them on other pc’s. I don’t need all of them to be hooked up just to boot up one drive or OS. I just invoke the BIOS Boot Menu using F11 during POST and pick the one I want. Simple and easy for me.

I used my GParted Live CD to make the partitions the way they are now. See image below. Shrunk my NTFS I use as a windows back up sometimes. Next up was 2 Gigs of swap then an extended 60GB partition for my /home and 5 partitions for the Linux distributions I want to try. Looks nice and organized and most importantly – it works fine.

I got the torrent from LinuxMint.com and got some rest while waiting for it to finish. Burned it at the lowest possible speed using the simple CD writer in Linux Ubuntu 8.04, my primary distribution. I had some issues booting up the Live CD. I got an “(initramfs)” prompt instead of a regular desktop. Using the Compatibility Mode, I found out that it was some error with it not detecting the floppy and SCSI devices. I used the Live CD troubleshooting guide provided by nice people in the Mint Forums. Pressed F6 during splash, pressed tab, deleted “quiet splash–” and entered “all_generic_ide”. That worked and let me into the Live environment. I liked what I saw, was curious and proceeded.

The installation was smooth. My first boot was met with the famous Grub Error 17 and 18. The reason being how the BIOS and the Live CD arranged the drives. In the Live CD, the usb drive was third and my BIOS read it as the first drive. The solution was to edit the menu.lst and change all references to (hd2,4) to (hd0,4), which is where my Mint is.

Tried again and here I am posting the results. Four more distributions to go. I’ve narrowed down my choices based on release date, number of packages and most important is the community or support. I did not include Linux Ubuntu since I’m already using that and it has its own hard drive in my pc. The list goes:

• ArchLinux – 10/07/2007 with 15,000 packages
• Debian – 04/08/2007 with 26,000 packages
• Fedora – 05/13/2008 with 8,000 packages
• Mandriva – 04/09/2008 with 16,000 packages
• Sabayon – 09/07/2007 with 12,000 packages
• Sidux – 04/12/2008 with 22,950 packages
• [Simply]MEPIS – 12/23/2007 with 20,000 packages

*data is based on http://en.wikipedia.org

I wanted the distribution to be recent, within the last year or 2 years, so I wouldn’t be learning something that’s at the end of its life cycle. I wanted as much packages as possible because… just because. I’m still a beginner and still have a lot to learn. Now I have not looked into the community or support sites for these distributions yet. Well, I went into Debian once but for after reading some threads, I felt unwelcome because of my choice of OS – Ubuntu. I will give it another go and keep an open mind.

That’s about it for today. The rest is yet to be determined. Hopefully, I’ll get more information in a few days and start installing a 2nd OS on my USB drive. Until then…

Change of plans. Instead of a using only Ubuntu, I’ve decided to add other Linux flavors. I’m currently downloading Linux Mint 5 Elyssa. I still have space for more Linux distributions in my 80GB Western Digital Scorpio drive. I like the Mint philosophy about ease of use. Maybe as I progress and learn more, I’ll look into non-Debian based distributions. Aside from usability, my biggest issue will be community support. Mint has the same positive and helpful community that I like in Ubuntu. I’ve only been to their parent’s forum once and it felt kinda hostile. I was disappointed since it came highly recommended by my fellow Ubuntu users. But I’ll give it another look. Like everything else in life – gotta learn the roots.

I have an NTFS partition in my WD Scorpio that I’ve already backed up into my Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron installation. I’m experiencing a lil sentimentality and hesitation in wiping it off the drive. There’s still plenty of space though. I can shrink the NTFS and use the rest for swap, /home and an extended partition to house the distributions I would try.

I have another concern. These distributions usually have their own bootloader. Although I don’t really use Grub that much as I use my hard drives independently by choosing which one to boot in the BIOS Boot Menu, that won’t be possible in this planned drive. I guess I can pick only the ones that use Grub but I’m not sure how much variety that would give me. I’ll have to look into that in the days that come. For now, looks like my partitions are set. Will try Mint first on my USB drive and go from there. Good luck to me.

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