Thunar is the default file manager for Xubuntu’s Xfce desktop environment, and is as stable in Ubuntu as the default app, Nautilus (especially since Xfce uses a lot from Gnome anyway). In many ways, you can’t tell the two programs apart, but for a time Thunar was way ahead of Gnome’s file manager. That’s not just because of advanced features like custom actions you could add, but because of the various views you could have. For example, for newbies tentatively moving away from Windows, the Tree view in the side pane is assuringly similar to Windows Explorer.

While Nautilus has certainly caught up, with being able to add to context menus via actions, and 6 different views for the side pane, Thunar is still worth installing because you can get the best of both worlds. You can leave Nautilus with the Places pane on the left and “Icon View” (thumbnails) on the right, and for when you want to browse via a Tree pane with “Compact List” icons (“List View” in Windows Explorer), you can open Thunar.

Also, unlike with Nautilus, you can still access the defined shortcuts (usually available via the left pane) while in Tree view by clicking a button at the end of the address bar. If you are thinking Thunar might be good to have as a backup in case Nautilus is having problems (which it is), but prefer it to look like Nautilus, then you can always change things back to how you like them (change the Tree pane to Shortcuts).

If you like this idea, but are thinking the icons in “Compact List” view are too small, you can always make them bigger (seen above), via the View menu, or zoom with your scroll wheel.

If you look at the pics, you’ll see some minor differences between the two file managers. Firstly, while Thunar uses the same icons for toolbar buttons that Nautilus does (they both get them from the current icon theme), Thunar’s are bigger (which I personally like). You’ll also note from the second pic that in your home folder (and elsewhere), hidden folders and files are listed first.

Other things worth mentioning are the differences between thumbnails and folder settings between the two, and that the Thunar context (right-click) menu will probably have less entries than you’re used to (though you should get “Open Terminal Here“ by default, while with Nautilus you have to install a package to get “Open in Terminal“).

Lastly, since the Information pane in Nautilus is rather useless right now when it comes to info, you can use Thunar to get more info at a glance than Nautilus can offer. For example, when you’re in your ~/Pictures folder and what to know the size in pixels of certain images, you generally need to right-click each file and view the info via Properties > Image. But with Thunar, all you have to do is click each file and look at the bottom to the info displayed on the status bar (which can be enabled via the View menu if it is missing).

So you could even do what I did: set up Thunar to display over-sized icons in “Icons” view, and then create a panel launcher to have your ~/Pictures folder open in Thunar (the command for such a launcher would be: thunar /home/yourusername/Pictures). That way, you don’t have to mess with icon size in Nautilus, but still get really large thumbnails of all your pictures, as well as info on dimensions presented in the status bar.

To install Thunar, as well as select some plugins for installation, simply search for “thunar” in Synaptic. Or you can install the program and all related plugins via the terminal:

sudo apt-get install thunar thunar-media-tags-plugin thunar-volman thunar-thumbnailers thunar-archive-plugin

To get more info about the plugins, simply paste their names (individually) into the Quick search field in Synaptic.

The default “view” in both Nautilus and Thunar file managers is the “Icon“ or thumbnail view, which you can of course change if ever you want via the View menu. If you’re happy with thumbnails, but they’re too big for your liking, or you actually want to make them larger, like in your ~/Pictures folder, hold the Ctrl button while you zoom in or out with your mouse scroll wheel.

In Nautilus (the default file manager in Ubuntu), you can make the thumbnails of pics rather huge, like only 2 fitting in each row, and the icons for any folders in there won’t be too large. On top of that, the change will only be recorded in the folder you’re in, so you can have most of your folders displaying thumbnails at the default size, have a few where the thumbnails are quite small, and then have huge thumbnails for folders like ~/Pictures.

In Thunar (Xubuntu’s default file manager), you can only go so big, and in your ~/Pictures folder the icons for any folders in there might actually look bigger than the thumbnails for pics; also, do that to one folder, and it is a global change (ie: it happens to the rest).

Well, I had to see what all the fuss was about. The award-winning, super-easy KDE interface for Linux is indeed beautiful, versatile, and powerful. Major eye candy! It has some way-cool applications which have become my favorites for the job they do, replacing their Gnome equivalents. But KDE is, at least on my ‘puter, a resource hog. I know I said “lightweight is over-rated,” but there are limits to how heavy I’m willing to go. KDE is great for newbies, but I’ve learned enough to make even the most spartan of Desktops “newbie-friendly.” So it’s back to Xfce for this kid.

Yesterday, after spending some hours to get all development eviroment set, I have managed to finish the installation of the good and old Xubuntu 9.04.

It’s a bit faster than the 9.10 and so far, no errors what so ever. Next step, wait for the next stable release for Xubuntu and check out some forums before the upgrade.

La réponse à un possesseur IMac 500

Bonjour,
Il semblerait que ce soit possible ; pour ce faire , il faudrait télécharger un premier fichier .iso (LIVE), le graver sur un Cd, booter sur ce cd (Je ne connais pas MAC…. on parle d’une touche C pour booter sur un cd).
Se contenter d’un bureau léger : XFCE!
Si la reconnaissance de la carte graphique et si la connexion se font , il n’y a aucune raison pour qu’une installation définitive ne puisse pas se faire!
Je tenterais en premier : Xubuntu
xubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy Heron ICI
C’est une version stable et LST (supportée à long terme)!Choisir : XFCE
LIRE les liens annexes!
Par ailleurs Mint et Elive fontionnent bien sur de vieux PC!

Un site intéressant!

Bonne journée!

I have been working with Xubuntu for a while now and so far it has worked wonders at a point which I haven’t used Windows for months.

About 2 weeks ago I have upgraded my current Xubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 and this has become my biggest mistake ever.

Since the upgrade this is the kind of errors that I have been getting:

• Skype doesn’t have any more sounds or can’t find mic
• Applications Bar gone
• Turning off or rebooting fails drastically making a hardware shutdown and power up necessary
• And the latest, my XServer is gone (all the user interface that looks like Windows)  and with it the login screen (everything now is terminal)

From all the troubles so far, the Xserver is by far the worst. Since it is gone I haven’t been able to run it using my user and to execute it I have to run everything as root.

After making a short trip to Windows and checking Google to find some solution at least for the XServer, I could manage to make the everything come back, but all using root.

If you are about to upgrade → DONT – This can be my best advise for you.

But if you are finding yourself in the same position that I was today then this is what you should do (you should be seeing only terminal at your screen):

1. execute display – if your x-server have a problem, then it will warn you about
2. now execute startx – this will start the xserver and all display options for your user. If you can see your Desktop, yeay, nothing more is necessary, otherwise you will need to run it as root (sudo startx)

Now is waiting for a good release of Xubuntu to solve this issues or reinstall everything from scratch.

   De când aşteptam eu să treacă şi ZevenOS-ul pe tanti Koala (m-am tot jucat cu versiunile anterioare despre care am scris pe aici pe blog)! Acum ai un look and feel de BeOS combinat cu noile trăsături din Ubuntu 9.10 – ce poate fi mai bun ? Au şi un tool pentru customizare, dar cred că-l instalez aşa cum e şi îl customizez după – dacă reuşesc şi să-i bag un KDE 4.3.3 mă pot declara mulţumit . Principalele trăsături ale versiunii de faţă sunt următoarele:

* a completely new audio subsystem (pulseaudio)
* the switch from HAL to Device-Kit
* Magi-Kit a standard application management layer
* Remaster-Kit for easy iso remastering
* Encode & SUPER Encode an all in all multimedia converting app
* MAGI 2 an application launcher/installer and configuration center
* The typical BeOS like look has been improved with changes to the Deskbar , Icon Theme and GTK-Theme
* Disk-Manager now supports auto-detection of BFS(BeOS) partitions and allows to mount them .

As I posted previously I am in the process of taking the plunge into the new Ubuntu 9.10. More accurately I am taking on Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Xubuntu has been my primary operating system for some time now, but a few months ago I installed Kubuntu on my fathers computer because of its “windows-like” feel. Due to this I decided to take on Kubuntu first so I felt comfortable when updating his system in a couple months. So lets have it, shall we?

The Good:

1. First and fore most this version of Kubuntu actually worked with my laptop. My laptop is an Everex gbook that uses a low power VIA processor and graphics. The last version had many install issues and I never did get it to work right, though the same version of Xubuntu worked fine.

2. Even on my system It feels much more snappy, I am excited to see how it will preform on my fathers full powered pc.

3. Flash installed easly and worked properly on the first try, a big improvement over the last version.

4. The widgets seem more stable this time around and do not randomly quit.

The Bad:

1. Kpackagekit is still crap. The gnome/xfce manager for downloading/updating seems faster, more intuitive, user friendly, and less prone to issues. I have a hard time finding packages in kpackagekit and a weird problem…

3. That weird problem is that the Mozilla Java plug-in broke my dependencies and now I get all these maddening alerts that fill my screen and obstruct its operation. You can follow my thread on this issue over at the Ubuntu Forums

4. The reminders are worse than Windows Vista! I literally had 46 reminders about this dependency issue waiting for me when I got home. One would have done the job. There should be a way to turn these things off.

So far for me its about 50/50 which is a vast improvement over the last version. I will keep you all posted, hopefully can solve these few issues and move on to Xubuntu soon

**Update** I fixed the Java plugin issues. Apparently the Java plugin in the repos breaks some dependencies. I used aptitude to remove that package and installed the sun-java.bin instead via the terminal and all seems fine now.

The new gdm used in Karmic (x)ubuntu is a nightmare. It uses extremely long time to load and as xfce4 uses it’s own wm there is no benefit from the extended load time. gdm is now gnome only, and should be replaced.

A replacement you can use is Slim. Slim is not bloatware like the new gdm and it is very fast. It lacks some of the functionality of the old gdm, but have a look and see if you like it.

I made a simple theme to use with xubuntu. You can download it from here if you like.

I really like Xubuntu (the Ubuntu Linux with interface xfce). It’s lighweight and fast, but still have all the good things I like with Linux – the logic filesystem, the great programs etc. It makes my laptop feel very fast, eventhough it 5 years old. That it is very pretty and secure does help a bit Starting Linux after working with Windows XP on this computer feels like getting out in fresh air after suffocating. All the things I use is just an apt-get away. Lovely. The wireless works out of the box, it doesn’t in Windows. I’m happy, really happy. Now I can get some work done! Oh, and I use Opera as browser

Those of us who live in Ethiopia complain about how much we have to pay for anything. We earn less than most of the world yet we are expected to pay more. Take the case of a car for example. Say it costs 10,000 dollars in the US. Same car would cost at least 30,000 dollars in Ethiopia. Until recently, there really weren’t any locally made alternatives to choose from either.

The same principle applies to almost anything a consumer can buy – electronics, books, telecommunication, clothes and even powdered milk. But when it comes to software, ahhh… we are lucky. Until the copyright law catches up to us. But knowing Ethiopia, that may still be several years away.

Even though pretty much any software I need is easily available in software galleries on every street in beautiful Addis (I am aware that this is true around the world as well), for reasons unknown I feel guilty when I use them. And that is why I began experimenting with open source and all that it has to offer.

Open source is not very well known in Ethiopia. I don’t have figures so I can’t really tell if it’s well known around the world either. But if the guy who fixes your computer gives you a pirated copy of software and it does the job you want, then why bother looking for an alternative? If you can have nice expensive software for less than 100 Birr, then…

Why on earth would you want to use open source software?

I’m not sure I can really answer this question but I’ll just explain why I personally like using it.

Common misconceptions

The general belief in Ethiopia is that open source software just doesn’t match commercial software. Though this is true to an extent, I must say that most open source software evolves quickly and some offer equivalents to commercial software.

I like to try my hand out at graphic design and a little 3D modelling. Inkscape and Blender offer features that meet my needs sufficiently. Of course, I don’t really push the envelope of graphic design but I believe that these two examples of excellent open source software can meet most needs.

Office needs are met nicely by OpenOffice though there still are some formatting issues that crop up from time to time.

There are kinks that need to be ironed out. But the beauty of open source software lies in the fact that you can be a part of ironing out the wrinkles. If you don’t like the look of those icons, you can say so. Or better yet, you can make your own set.

Some open source software has made it big. Firefox would be the prime example. You may already be using it.

I’m not really sure if open source software will ever be used by the majority of the Ethiopian computer-using population. But if we ever have to pay the actual, expensive costs of the sofware we use, open source is a good alternative that is quickly getting better.

Here’s a good list of open source alternatives to commercial software. Have some fun digging and let me know what your experiences or thoughts are.

My personal favourites

Updates:

I found this post by someone else who uses open source in Ethiopia. I guess there are users.

*Ubuntu Karmic Koala lleva una semana con nosotros y es tiempo de ver que ha traido consigo.

Como experiencia de usuario, parece haber mejorado bastante a la version anterior, siendo mas sencillo agregar repositorios, mejoras en cuanto a graficos (aunque parece que Fedora 12 lleva ventaja en ello) y que decir de aquellos que fueron decepcionados por Windows 7 y quieren probar un sistema potente y amigable.

Software Center y Ubuntu One son las aplicaciones mas destacadas por Canonical, y tiene por que, uno permitiria la instalacion de aplicaciones gratuitas y de paga en un futuro y el otro aprovecha el respaldo en linea, que ademas de archivos, puede sincronizar notas y marcadores. Algo que no obtienes en un sistema de paga.

Tambien sus variantes han conseguido un nuevo aire con esta actualizacion, Xubuntu (que he probado) ha mejorado adaptandose a lo que debe de ser, una distribucion ligera (bueno hasta que llegue Lubuntu). Los desarrolladores de Kubuntu se han propuesto implementar cambios y nuevas caracteristicas para hacer de Kubuntu una distribucion de calidad, el proyecto se llama TimeLord, entre esto buscara estar un paso atras de KDE en cuanto a desarrollo, integracion en las aplicaciones y mas, pueden leer el documento para mas detalles.

No todo es perfecto, y ciertamente Ubuntu tambien tiene sus fallas, y en ellas yo pondria la implementacion de GRUB2 y xsplash, el primero ha creado una oleada de posts acerca de su configuracion, fallas en la instalacion con otro sistemas, quizas algo normal cuando pasaun cambio como este. Y el otro es xsplash, que es bien sabido que este es parte del plan de booteo mas rapido para la proxima LTS de Ubuntu (más aqui).

Como conclusion final, Ubuntu, lo uses o no lo uses, es parte del mundo GNU/Linux, y cada dia gana mas usuarios que buscan una alternativa a otros sistemas, y parece que no han sido decepcionados con esta version.

Que opinan, que les parecio Karmic Koala.

EXTRA:
Asi deberia configurarse GRUB2
5 razones por que Ubuntu es mejor que Windows 7

Στην εκδοση xubuntu, στο splash screen υπαρχει ενα πολυ ωραιο animation με πυγολαμπιδες… σιγουρα πολυ πιο ωραιο (για τα δικα μου γουστα) σε σχεση με την απλη μπαρα του ubuntu. Για να την αλλαξετε, κατεβαστε τα απαραιτητα αρχεια, απο εδω:

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=114875

Μετα ανοιξτε τον nautilus με δικαιωματα root και πηγαινετε στο φακελο:

/usr/share/images/xsplash

Κρατηστε ενα backup των αρχειων με ονομα throbber* και αντιγραψτε εδω, αυτα που κατεβασατε. Καντε ενα reboot και ειστε ετοιμοι…

Ubuntu nelle sue diverse varianti (Kubuntu e Xubuntu le più note) è senza dubbio la distribuzione GNU/Linux che ha fatto più proseliti, soprattutto tra i newbie, per la sua estrema semplicità d’uso e per il suo “parco” software vastissimo.

Per Kubuntu potete visitare il sito dove è postato l’annuncio ufficiale di rilascio ed un (breve tour) che illustra le caratteristiche salienti di questa versione. Il sito per il download è questo.

In modo simile anche per Xubuntu potete leggere l’annuncio, visualizzare un breve tour grafico e quindi passare al download.

Su Kubuntu in versione live vengono riconosciute e montate le eventuali partizioni windows presenti, così fin da subito si ha la possibilità di aprire i propri file per testare le applicazioni presenti in questa distribuzione, non invece su Xubuntu.

La scelta di Kubuntu è adatta all’utente che sa quello che fa, quella di Xubuntu è invece adatta all’utente che preferisce non correre il rischio di rovinare il file system preesistente sul pc.

Dopo una rapida “esplorazione” ci si renderà conto che non è possibile visualizzare correttamente siti con contenuto flash, come ad esempio YouTube, e nemmeno potersi godere i propri file musicali ed i propri filmati.

Karmic Koala infatti non include i principali codecs audio e video (nemmeno flash) e nemmeno driver proprietari, quali ad esempio quelli della scheda video.

Ciò potrebbe far scoraggiare l’utente che sia avvicina per la prima volta al mondo GNU/Linux, ma occorre sottolineare che bastano pochi interventi perché Karmic Koala diventi perfettamente “usabile”.

I filmati che vi propongo servono soltanto a mostrare l’impatto visivo di queste due distribuzioni e fare una carrellata dei principali software che mettono fin da subito a disposizione.

Le durate dei filmati non corrispondono a quelle reali, infatti prima di postarli ho preferito cancellare i “tempi morti” di durata eccessiva, anche perché per la registrazione mi sono servito di macchine virtuali che non emulano a dovere le caratteristiche hardware dei pc in circolazione.

Kubuntu

L’ambiente desktop è KDE 4.3.2 ed il kernel 2.6.31.14.generic.

Ecco una breve rassegna dei software inclusi (cito solo quelli di uso più comune):

• navigazione web: Konqueror
• posta elettronica: KMail
• chat: Kopete, Quassel IRC
• torrent: KTorrent
• ufficio: OpenOffice.org, Okular (visore di svariati tipi di documenti)
• grafica: Gwenview (viewer)
• audio: Amarok
• video: Dragon Player
• CD burning: K3b
• navigazione file: Dolphin

Xubuntu

L’ambiente desktop è Xfce 4.6.1 ed il kernel è 2.6.31-14-generic

Ecco una breve rassegna dei software inclusi (cito solo quelli di uso più comune):

• navigazione web: Firefox
• posta elettronica: Thunderbird
• chat: Pidgin, XChat IRC
• torrent: Transmission
• ufficio: Abiword, Gnumeric
• grafica: Ristretto (viewer), Gimp (editor)
• audio: Exaile
• video: Totem
• CD burning: Brasero
• navigazione file: Thunar

Gli altri programmi possono essere scaricati ad installazione ultimata.

Kubuntu e Xubuntu sono senza dubbio delle ottime distribuzioni (adatte soprattutto a chi proviene da windows) e le consiglio caldamente. Da quanto vi ho appena descritto, è chiaro che un intervento, seppur minimo, dell’utente è richiesto perché il sistema si adatti alle nostre esigenze.

Ubuntu 9.10 and all of its cousins came out just recently and from what I am seeing it looks like a good release, especially for the KDE derivative Kubuntu. With the previous version I had a lot of trouble with the new package manager and Flash when building a system for members of my family. I am hoping with this update I can fix those problems.

So this Friday I will update my laptop to the latest Xubuntu and partition out some space for the new Kubuntu to kick the tires before trying it on my families computer. I’ll be sure to keep you all up to date on how it goes and with my final verdict.

Wow, there are a zillion-and-a-half threads in the Linux forums about the relentless pursuit of “lightweight” distros, applications, desktop environments, and window managers. This versus that, which is lighter, which is better.

Almost from my first week as a Linux user (last March), I’ve been bombarded with “lighter, faster, less bloated” until I thought I must really be missing something wonderful using “fat, bloated vanilla Ubuntu.” Well, I thought, I only have 512 of RAM. Maybe I should look into this, even though Ubuntu is way better and way faster than WinXP ever was. So my quest began the same week as Jaunty was released.

Crunchbang was awesome! Stark beauty belying incredible Ubuntu-power. U-Lite was wicked fast and pretty, but out-of-date (Hardy) and didn’t pick up some of my hardware. My own minimal Ubuntu / LXDE mixture, “Robin’s Remix“ was even faster than Crunchbang for some reason.

But y’know what? None were that noticeably faster than “plain vanilla Ubuntu.” I certainly had room for them all on my 80-gig hard drive (but never installed any side-by side). A little teeny weenie bit faster on some applications (but not others), no harder on my Celeron processor than any of the super-ultralight minimalist mixtures.

I suppose everyone who has a computer that is more than a year old thinks it’s ancient and won’t run the latest “bloated” Ubuntu or KDE or whatever.

But unless the darn thing is 10 years old or something, “plain vanilla” Ubuntu will pro’lly run just fine on it! My Xubuntu 9.10 disk arrived today and it’s flawless, pretty, powerful, and fast on my poor old decrepit, weak, sickly, has-been Dell Dimension with it’s scant 512 megs of RAM. Is it “bloated?” Well, maybe in the ‘buntu effort to “be all things to all users” the term might apply, because here and there it has a pre-installed application that does the same thing that another pre-installed one does. So it gives me a choice. Is that “bloat?” Only if I run both at the same time. But it’s nice to play with new ones sometimes.

All I’m say’n is that I got so caught up in the pursuit of more lightweight, less bloat, faster speed, and low resource requirements that I sorta forgot what I quit Windows for!

I just want to run applications, not the operating system.

But I lost alot of time (and data, being a n00b) in this vain pursuit which turned out not to matter at all in the big picture. I’m just about right back where I started, and I’m more than content. Except that I feel a little cheated. That oughtto teach me to quit following every little fad that comes along. Lightweight is over-rated. And contentment is way under-rated.

Yes, Linux is amazingly customizable. We tweak it because we can.  That’s cool, and it’s fun! But I think I got so caught up in the obsessive quest for “lightweight Linux” that I missed the boat in other areas that matter just as much to a non-geeky boy like me.

Instalación.

Arranque:

Una vez adentro.

Sin más las conclusiones.

El pasado jueves 29 de octubre, la firma Canonical puso a disposición del público la versión final de su sistema operativo Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” (Koala Kármico). La distribución hizo su aparición en simultáneo con otros miembros de la familia ubuntera como Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu y Ubuntu Studio, obviamente todos en su versión 9.10.

La instalación del sistema operativo se lleva a cabo en el mismo lapso de tiempo al que nos tienen acostumbrados las distribuciones anteriores, es decir, entre 15 y 20 minutos aproximadamente, dependiendo del equipo. Nuevamente, la instalación limpia ocupa unos 3,5 GB del disco rígido y emplea por defecto el sistema de archivos ext4.

Si empleados una configuración multiboot, observaremos al bootloader GRUB 1,97, quien dará paso a la carga del sistema operativo. Con respecto al tiempo de booteo, los tiempos arrojados fueron de 30″ aproximadamente en un Intel Core2Duo T6600 con 3 GB DDR2 de RAM y de 45″ para un Intel Celeron 550 con 2 GB DDR2 de RAM, ambos con discos SATA de 5400 RPM. No obstante, donde efectivamente se destaca Ubuntu “Karmic” es en el tiempo de apagado, donde logró tiempos gratamente sorprendentes de 4″ y 6″ en los equipos anteriormente descriptos.

Mención aparte merecen los drivers para las GPU Intel, donde se cumplieron las promesas y la aceleración 3D funciona a la perfección y sin necesidad de ninguna intervención manual a archivo de configuración alguno.

En lo relativo al apartado gráfico, se incluyeron algunas mejoras. Tanto la bootscreen como la pantalla de inicio de sesión se renovaron otorgando a Ubuntu un renovado aire en estos aspectos y el set de íconos incluido por defecto se halla más refinado que en versiones anteriores.

En cuanto al software incluido en la plataforma, cabe mencionar que se reemplazó el cliente Pidgin por Empathy, está presente OpenOffice 3.1 y la versión del navegador Firefox es la 3.5. Se cuenta también con la inclusión de Ubuntu One, el cliente para la plataforma de cloud computing de Canonical y la utilidad “Agregar o quitar software”, accesible desde el menú “Aplicaciones”, fue reemplazada por el “Centro de software de Ubuntu”, que realiza la misma tarea.

Destacados:

• Sistema de archivos ext4
• Drivers Intel
• Tiempos de arranque y apagado

Mirrors de descarga:

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Kubuntu 9.10
• Xubuntu 9.10
• Edubuntu 9.10
• Mythbuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu Studio 9.10

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Once again ubuntu failed on me. After the new upgrade to 9.10 the broadcom network card is no longer supported. Some of the cards are not supported at all, other is just not supported as standard. Several fixes have been posted, but at this point i am back to my backup-copy of ***dows. I really hate doing this and i hate using ***dows, but let me asure you, this is only a temporary solution to my problem. The poll about what new type of Ubuntu i am going to use is still going good. Submit your opinion in the poll in the last post or in a comment below.
Do i hate not being able to complain about free and opensource software when it doesn’t work? YES! Do i have to wait and be patient? Seems like it.

If you haven’t noticed my friend Frank has made his own blog, check it out – link is in the blogroll!

Have a good day
– Sommer

On October 29th, 2009, Ubuntu 9.10 (codenamed “Karmic Koala”) was released. This is the 11th release of the Linux distribution, and it may just be one of the best.

With this release of the Linux distribution, users will likely notice improved stability, along with a great selection of new desktop wallpapers and a slightly revamped theme. This is what the main desktop looks like:

There’s also some new applications included with this release. One of the most notable would be the new Ubuntu Software Center, which I reviewed a little while back. The Ubuntu Software Center can install, uninstall, and search for applications available for the Linux distribution.

In addition to Ubuntu Software Center, Ubuntu 9.10 also ships with the Ubuntu One client, as well as a disk management utility. For more information about Ubuntu One you can read the review I posted a few months back here.  For the disk management utility, it allows you to modify, add, and remove partitions on your hard drive(s). In addition to working with hard drives, you can also erase CDs and DVDs (provided that the media supports it), and burn ISO images to disk. Here’s what it looks like:

If you’re an Ubuntu user, or are familiar with it, you’ll probably notice on the above screenshot that the window border is different. Instead of the more orange-like border seen with earlier releases, it’s now the dark brown color found above. You can still easily switch the window border to one of the other pre-installed ones. For those who aren’t aware, you can download more window borders and like-items from sites like http://gnome-look.org and http://art.gnome.org.

As for the new wallpapers, they all look pretty nice. The screenshot below is of the wallpaper selection tool, in which you can see a thumbnail of all of the new wallpapers. If you can’t find a wallpaper you like, the sites listed above for window borders also have a wide variety of wallpapers.

The release is slightly buggy right now, but I’d imagine that most of the major issues will be fixed over the coming weeks.  Whether you’ll be upgrading or doing a clean install, it’s a very good idea to test your system using the Ubuntu 9.10 live CD to make sure all of your hardware and things like that don’t have any major issues.

For more information about all of the new features and improvements in Ubuntu 9.10, you can read the technical overview here. And if you’re looking for more screenshots, I’ve uploaded some to a set on Flickr, which can be found here: http://bit.ly/MdhWu.

Jeg begynner med skjermbildene, her er standard oppsett når du har en fersk installasjon , klikk for større bilde :

Standard Karmic

Deretter kommer mine skjermbilder, klikk for større bilde :

Min desktop1

Min desktop2

Min desktop3

Med modifikasjoner ang tema

Som du ser kan det gjøres, uten store modifikasjoner til noe meget flashy.

Utover dette har Ubuntu Karmic Koala tatt vare på gode funksjoner fra tidligere utgivelser og opprettholdt brukervennligheten. Ubuntu gir deg et enkelt system (hvis du vil) som er lett og intuitivt å bruke. Og skulle du ha problemer finnes det nesten garantert en løsning på nettet. Bruk google for alt det er verdt. Det er dokumentasjon, wiki’er og IRC kanaler der man kan få hjelp. Jeg hjelper gjerne til så godt jeg kan, se Om Meg seksjonen, for å komme i kontakt med meg.

Har du en eldre maskin, en “low-end” pc, vil jeg anbefale Xubuntu. Et derivat av Ubuntu som er lettere for eldre maskinvare å kjøre. Last ned Xubuntu her.

Men min Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz med litt over 700 MB ram og et relativt gammelt skjermkort, med 256 MB ram, kjører Ubuntu med alle effekter slått på, uten problemer.

Den eneste bakdelen med å kjøre linux nå for tiden er at f.eks TV2 sumo med sin silverlight plugin, ikke funker. Men for meg har ikke det så mye å si. Hvis du ikke er avhengig av en “gamer” pc eller spesifik programvare som kun funker til Windows eller Mac , og f.eks bare skal surfe , se på youtube videoer , bruke facebook , sjekke mail og chatte, er dette noe for deg(som regel funker alle webaserte applikasjoner). Det er også virusfritt og veldig stabilt(dette igjen betyr at din pc slipper å kjøre tunge antivirus programmer og spyware programmer som stjeler ressurser). Og nå tilbyr OpenOffice en kjempegod office-pakke som kan måle seg med Microsoft Office, og den bruker selvsagt bare åpne formater. Denne pakken kan du også laste ned til Windows som et gratis alternativ til MS Office, last ned her.

Så for å konkludere, er jeg meget fornøyd så langt.

Med dette takker jeg for meg for denne gang.

-thomas

Hace 2 días  salio la versión final de Ubuntu 9.10 y todas sus derivadas (Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, etc).
Entre las novedades que mas me gustaron y les veo gran utilidad es Ubuntu One, el echo de que implementen la nube y el share entre nubes esta genial.
Otra cosa es UXA al menos en mi tarjeta de vídeo intel si se nota una diferencia, aun que siempre le quito el compiz ahora si corre de lo lindo.
No hay que olvidarse el siempre cambio de diseño, cada vez ta mas guapo xD.
Y ya para finalizar he irme a dormir el grub2 y el ext4 por defecto si aceleran mucho el tiempo de boot.

La verdad después del Deception Ibex, el Koala Kármico se lleva un 9, dirán que soy muy exigente pero el único detalle es que Canonical tiene que prevenirse mejor cada cambio de versión, los repositorios se saturan de manera exagerada y bajar un simple JRE toma horas!!

Y en cuanto a Xubuntu mi versión favorita, ahora me quedo debiendo, prácticamente no cambio nada. =/

Les recomiendo que bajen sus ISOS desde Torrents.  Ubuntu Xubuntu Kubuntu

Ubuntu 9.10 >>> Windows 7 //Cagado de la risa!

Parole Media Player

La dernière version 0.1.91 vient tout juste de sortir, et vous pouvez aussi récupérer les sources git.

Pour l’instant j’ai créé un paquet tout simple pour karmic disponible dans mon PPA Xfce :

parole 0.1.91-1 pour i386
parole 0.1.91-1 pour amd64
parole 0.1.91-1 pour lpia

[En] : Parole is a media player comparable to totem, using Gstreamer framework and written by Ali Abdallah for the Xfce desktop.

The new version 0.1.91 is out, and you can also get the git sources.

I created a simple package for karmic available in my Xfce PPA :

parole 0.1.91-1 for i386
parole 0.1.91-1 for amd64
parole 0.1.91-1 for lpia