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Linus Torvalds has announced Linux kernel 3.0-rc1, this marks the end of 2.6.x series line which has 40 releases since late 2003.
To mark this event, Con Kolivas has made a tarball archive (163MB) of all 2.6.x releases available for download. The archive uses lrzip compression which can be installed from the standard Ubuntu apt-get repository.
Note that the size of of the archive after decompression would reach 10.3 GB!
Happy downloading, and hello Linux 3.0!
Apache2 web server will almost always display this information message :
"Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified name"
when it is first started in Ubuntu and Debian server.
The reason behind this message is because the web server fails to find the suitable domain name in the system.
How to remove the message
First, you need to edit “/etc/hosts” file and put your server name of choice in the file. For example:
127.0.0.1 server.mylocal
Then you need to add “ServerName” directive in the “/etc/apache2/apache2.conf” file.
ServerName server.mylocal
Finally, restart the web server for the changes to take effect. You will notice that the information message is gone now.
$ sudo service apache2 restart
udev-notify enables hardware notification on desktop whenever devices are plugged to the computer. It provides a convenient way for users to get visual feedback on whether the devices has been successfully recognized by the computer or otherwise.
udev-notify is known to be compatible with Debian and Ubuntu (to some extend Fedora 15) under GNOME and XFCE. udev-notify display the type,name and model of the device connected and recognized by the computer on the desktop.
Installing udev-notify
echo "deb http://download.learnfree.eu/repository/skss / #SKSS" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget http://download.learnfree.eu/repository/skss/repo.pub.asc -q -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install udev-notify
And you may try plugging in devices to your computer to see if it works!
Imagination is GTK+ 2 application which enables you to create professional DVD Photo Slideshow. Imagination contains many transition effects that can turn your photo collection into breathtaking multimedia presentation.
Imagination can output video in various video format and codec supported by FFMPEG including (but not limited to) :
* FLV
* MPEG
* AVI (various codec)
* MKV
* OGG Theora
Imagination is included in Ubuntu repository and can be easily installed using Synaptic or apt-get to install it
Guake is a fancy Quake-like terminal which lets you access it by using a hotkey (user-customizable). Unobtrusive, Guake slides down from the top of the screen, and can be used while running other desktop applications, providing you with a quick access to the console.
Guake is available from Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora repository or can be downloaded from Guake’s Official Website
Ok, security issues aside, but combined with Cloud Computing and high speed internet, I guess the future is indeed on the web.
Gtk+ broadway demo from Alexander Larsson on Vimeo.
Short demo of the new Gtk+ broadway backend which displays
remotely into a html5 browser.
More information from:
WebUpd8