First Look at Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope - Ubuntu 9.04 For me, Jaunty has been a very positive experience. I downloaded it through a torrent and burned it to a CD, then booted it on my laptop, a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4487, then in a dual boot configuration with Vista and Hardy. From the first it worked almost flawlessly. The first thing I looked for was wireless support. When I first tried Ubuntu from a Hardy Live CD, I was also able to see these networks, but since I had WEP enabled was of course unable to connect to the network. With Jaunty I was able to enter my encryption key and access the internet through wireless from the Live CD. Since I'm quite experienced with partitioning operations (I substantially rewrote this Ubuntu Community Wiki page: [help.ubuntu.com] ), I chose the manual partitioning method. The installation went without a hitch. Once in the installation, I ran Update Manager, which only had 8 updates - I think it was 4 each for Firefox and Xulrunner - then launched Synaptic PM and installed Restricted Extras.
World of Warcraft on Ubuntu This how-to is for installing and playing World of Warcraft (WoW) using Wine under Ubuntu. Wine is a free open source implementation of the proprietary Win32 API, and attempts to enable Windows applications and games to run on Unix-like operating systems. World of Warcraft can also be played under Ubuntu by using the Wine based CrossOver Games, Cedega and PlayOnLinux. This how-to, however, does not address these. In Linux, Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) facilitates faster graphics rendering, so before you begin the installation you should check whether DRI is enabled. glxinfo | grep rendering You should see an output similar to this: direct rendering: Yes If this line says No, it means that graphics data will not be passed directly to the graphics hardware, thus significantly reducing speed at which WoW will run. Note: Even if you do have DRI, it still might not be enough to run WoW successfully. Installing Wine You can easily install Wine through the repositories. winecfg Install Audio
Wubi - Ubuntu Installer for Windows DellMini9 As this Laptop was originally sold with Ubuntu 8.04, Justification exists to keep this page. Status For installation, as of Ubuntu 11.10, (and possibly earlier) the Desktop ISO put onto liveUSB fails to load, This may have something to do with the unusual half-mini pci express ssd not being detected properly. As some of these shipped with 4gb halfminipcie ssd storage, one may need to use the alternate-cd image for installation, as the desktop version will say there is not enough disk space, but there really is(was) Also, everything after the 8.04 that came with your mini, you will need a wired connection to the internet to get the broadcom wifi working, as this is not included on the LiveCD. The Ubuntu 10.04 LTS version was the last version that had innovative screen space saving features. 10.10 on have unity by default. IMPORTANT: If you are having hardware issues, please contact Dell directly. Specifications and documentation Bug reporting and answers tracker Forums and mailing lists Sound
Linux Foundation picks "We're Linux" video finalists Microsoft and Apple have been spending millions of dollars on sleek advertising campaigns. Linux, on the other hand is an operating system maintained by a worldwide network of volunteers. Nobody's really promoting it as a desktop operating system other than enthusiasts spreading news by word of mouth. So the Linux Foundation decided to put together a video contest asking some of those enthusiasts to develop their own ads. The video at the top of this post wins my vote for the funniest of the bunch. [via OStatic] Tags: ads, linux, opensource, videos Tectonic » Install OpenOffice.org 3.0 on Ubuntu Unless you’ve been in an isolation chamber, you’ve probably noticed that OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released yesterday. It’s been a while in the coming and now the latest version of our favourite, and most affordable, office suite is here. If you’re running Ubuntu (or another .deb-based OS) then you’re in luck. Debian versions of OOo are now available on most download sites (SA-based users check out these mirrors for a download) and installing OOo 3.0 is fairly straightforward. We explain: First, remove your existing version of OpenOffice.org: sudo apt-get remove openoffice* Next, download a copy of OpenOffice.org 3.0 (OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz worked for us) and extract the download: tar -zxvf OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz That will create a directory called something like OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358. Switch into the DEBS directory in that directory: cd OOO300_m9_native_packed-1_en-US.9358/DEBS/ sudo dpkg -i *.deb That will do the trick.
Creating a bootable USB Ophcrack Ophcrack is an open source Windows password cracking utility that uses rainbow tables to find passwords. It can be run from Windows, Linux or Live CD. The following tutorial explains how to install and boot Ophcrack from a portable USB device. Since the Live CD version (running from a SLAX now SliTaz core) is already available, creating USB Ophcrack is similar to converting any other Live Linux CD to USB and now they even offer their own tazusb.exe installer. Ophcrack Desktop Screenshot Distribution Home Page: Minimum Flash Drive Capacity: 512MB Persistent Feature: No – Doesn't need to be Tools used to create USB Ophcrack: Windows Computer (Windows XP is used here)512 MB or larger portable device (USB stick)Ophcrack XP or Vista Live CD and tazusb.exe Download a Ophcrack Vista or XP Live CD ISOInsert your USB Flash DriveDownload and run tazusb.exe then follow the onscreen instructionsReboot your PC and set your BIOS boot menu to boot from the USB device
Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 If you want to know whether your release is EOL please have a look at the following resources: These guides assumes that the user knows his way on the terminal, as no graphical tools are used. This said, the steps for executing all the commands are actually copy/pasteable so everyone, from beginner to advanced user running EOL releases of Ubuntu can execute the upgrade(s). In case of problems you should be aware that most (if not all) of the releases which are mentioned in this guide are UNSUPPORTED, and getting help may be a bit tricky since most of us have already upgraded to a more recent version of Ubuntu. Why upgrade Why should you upgrade instead of performing a clean install of a supported version? The scientific approach. Also, if your computer cannot start a live USB for whatever reason, and all you have is a Dapper Drake installation disc, then there's no other choice: you have to download the updates and install them from within Ubuntu. The last reason is more a flame. Note Bugs:
Tiny, Super-fast Linux distro Moblin V2 alpha 2 released Late in January of this year I installed Moblin on my MSI Wind U100 netbook. At the time, it wasn't officially supported by the distro and my wireless wouldn't connect, so I ended up removing it. In a little under two months, the team has released alpha 2 which - among other things - includes full-on support for the Wind. The update also includes the 2.26.29-rc7 kernel, XFCE version 4.6, the Gnome 2.26 release candidate, and drivers for additional wireless and wired lan adapters. There are still a few apps missing that other similar distributions include by default, like Skype or an instant messaging client like Pidgin. Those of you curious enough to try it out can download an ISO image or the ready-to-run VMWare machine. Tags: instant-on, intel, linux, moblin, netbook, opensource, osupdates
Change Your Forgotten Windows Password with the Linux System Rescue CD :: the How-To Geek So far in our series we’ve covered how to reset your Windows password with the Ultimate Boot CD, but if you are a little more technical you might want to simply use the excellent System Rescue CD, which is based on Linux. Note that if you are using standard Windows encryption for your files, resetting the password will permanently disable access to those files. In that case you should crack the password, which is something we’ll cover in an upcoming article. If you are an Ubuntu user and forgot your password, we’ve covered how to do that as well, either the easy way with the grub menu or alternately with the live cd. Creating the System Rescue CD Before you can do anything else, you’ll need to download a copy of the System Rescue CD and burn the ISO image to disc. If you are using ImgBurn, click the Write image file to disc button… Click the File button near Source and then pick the ISO file, then click the Burn button near the bottom. Download the System Rescue CD from sysresccd.org