New year come again..
been there, done that. nothing special :p
Congratulations to fenris and nbliang for being the new Ubuntu Members
I would like to extend my congratulations to nbliang and fenris for them being officially accepted as Ubuntu Members. Hope that I’m going to see lots of contribution from both of you.
Linux Kernel Hacking Lessons from LinuxChix
Those who are interested in understanding the Linux Kernel, and wants to be a Linux Kernel Developer might find this website interesting as a stating point, the LinuxChix Kernel Hacking Lessons.
Structured in an easy to follow lessons, the whole online course designed to make you familiar with the kernel development tools, linux system calls and the overview of the kernel source code structure. The course comes in 10 lessons which you may find it interesting as it offers simplified explanation and practical examples :
- Lesson #0: Check for Materials
- Lesson #1: Get the Kernel Source
- Lesson #2: Configure Your Kernel
- Lesson #3: Compile Your Kernel
- Lesson #4: Boot Your New kernel
- Lesson #5: Your First printk
- Lesson #6: Overview of the Kernel Source
- Lesson #7: Understanding System Calls
- Lesson #8: Your First kernel Module
- Lesson #9: Creating, Applying and Submitting Patches
Visit LinuxChix Kernel Hacking Lessons. for more information.
FunPidgin – a fork of Pidgin Instant Messenger
I found out today that Pidgin project has been forked, using the name FunPidgin. In addition of the stock Pidgin features, FunPidgin offers :
- “Text area manual sizing” a plugin by Artemy Kapitula that allows manual resizing of the entry area
- An option to set the size of the buddy icons displayed in the chat window.
- An option to let the window manager place new windows.
- Two different ways of seeing that your buddies are typing.
- An optional send button for Tablet PC users
I’m not going to elaborate the reason behind the fork as you can read it on the internet. But personally I think FunPidgin wouldn’t last long if they continue to make major changes from its parent project.
Currently FunPidgin is available from FunPidgin Sourceforge Project Website
I’ve Upgraded Upgraded to WordPress 2.5!
Finally after spending some precious time procrastinating, I finally upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5. New features that I immediately found helpful are :
- Multiple file upload
- Clean interface design
- Administrative panel loads faster
- Easier for me to load up media files (video, audio, photos)
This could mean that I’ll be posting more regularly. Btw, sorry for the hiatus, I’ll be updating this blog more regularly after this.
Minibuntu – the tiny, minimalist Ubuntu-based distribution
Ubuntu has gained enormous popularity, since Canonical first released Ubuntu back in 2004. There were a lot of Ubuntu spin-off along the way including Ubuntu Christian edition, Ubuntu studio, Embun, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Muslim Edition, Linux Mint, gOS and many more. Some of it made its way as the officially supported Ubuntu version by Canonical.
Now comes yet another Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, named Minibuntu. What set itself apart from other distro is, it does not come with a window manager, instead it boots straight into command-line interface bash prompt.
This makes minibuntu suitable for acting as a rescue and emergency Linux boot CD, eventhough the main intention of minibuntu is to help others to create another Linux distribution based on Ubuntu using either UCK or Reconstructor.
To me, Miniubuntu is a nice distro as it provide a starting point for creating a new and customised Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.
Minibuntu can be downloaded from its official website, and is only available for i386 platform only (at this time of writing).