Category: Ubuntu/Debian

Stuff about Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux

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Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft unavailable for Ship It

With the release of Ubuntu Edgy Eft is approaching (October 26, 2006), I’ve a not so great news to those who are used to get free Ubuntu CDs from ShipIt. Canonical has no plan to make Edgy Eft available on Ship It as Dapper Drake is a long supported release.

So for those who wanted to get Ubuntu Edgy Eft, you can always try the old fashion way by downloading the ISO from Ubuntu Download website and/or buy it from your local cd store.

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[tags]ubuntu,edgy eft, dapper drake, debian, linux, distro, gnu/linux [/tags]

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Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Announced

With the official release date of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) approching, Mark Shuttleworth announced the name of the next release of Ubuntu due in April. The release will be named Feisty Fawn “in the spirit of a young deer that sets out to explore a world that is new and exciting”.

Unlike Edgy Eft which have a slightly short development cycle, the Feisty Fawn returned to its six-month development cycle with focussed improvement on multimedia application and desktop effects, improved laptop support and and aggressive adoption of emerging desktop technologies.

Meanwhile, stay tuned for the final release? of Ubuntu Edgy Eft due on 26th October 2006, with faster startup process!

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[tags]ubuntu,debian,linux,edgy eft,distro,shuttleworth[/tags]

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Read and Write NTFS filesystem with Ubuntu Linux

This is one of the most popular questions that, previously i would suggest using the native NTFS linux kernel driver, but the driver itself only has a limited write support.

The best way to enable writing to NTFS partition is with the ntfs-3g userland driver. It uses the fuse driver and although still in BETA, tests proven that the driver really works for writing into ntfs partition.

For Ubuntu users, all you need to do is follow the instruction given in this website : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ntfs-3g

I’ve tried it, and it worked perfectly with my machine, no need to depend to intermediate FAT32 partitions to transfer files from Linux. But one? word of advice, although it seems to work, you still need to keep in my that the developers of ntfs-3g driver still consider it in BETA release, so be advice and don’t rough it up too much :p

[tags]linux,ubuntu,debian,ntfs,fuse,kernel,linux kernel,filesystem,filesystems[/tags]

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Install Java 5 SDK and Java JRE in Ubuntu

Installing Java Runtime and SDK has been made easier with Ubuntu Linux. Here’s a quick tip to install Java 5 SDK or Runtime in Ubuntu Linux.

1. First, go to System->Administration->Software Properties,

Check all options/channels

2. Close the dialog, and go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager

Search for Java package,

Select sun-java-sdk, and install the package,

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Howto Speed Up Ubuntu Booting process

I’ve a friend of mine complained about how Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distro boots slowly compared to Microsoft Windows. I told him this is because Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distro tend start services that generally safe for average users.

He then told me about how he can customise Windows XP startup process and disable the services that he don’t use. Actually there’s a way to do that in Ubuntu too. Just go to System->Administration->Services, and disable whatever services that you don’t need .

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Linux DVD Ripping with Thoggen

Thoggen is an application that lets you create backup of your favorite DVD. Thoggen feature an easy to use interface that is very friendly even to those who never rip a DVD before.


Thoggen accepts input from DVDs or VOB file, and then you can select your desired settings for the movies, either by quality of the video or the size of the final result (typically one would like 695MB as it would fit a CD).

Beside that, you can also use thoggen to crop the dimension of the video in order to make it smaller.

Thoggen is available in universe repository for Ubuntu users.

Thoggen website : http://thoggen.net/

[tags]thoggen,dvd,dvd ripping, rip dvd, multimedia, dmca, libdvdcss[/tags]