The Release Candidate (read: almost finished) version of everybody’s favorite Ubuntu-based Linux distro is up for grabs! Most improvements are highlighted on the Linux Mint blog where you will also find download instructions. Some new features that I particularly like: The Mint menu highlights newly installed apps and has GTK themes support The Update Manager displays [...]
Listening to a review of the new Ubuntu release I could not help but notice the amount of hype Shuttleworth’s little distribution can generate. Can you feel it? The buzz is orders of magnitude greater than with any new major distro release. I’ve criticized Ubuntu in the past, but there is no denying that Ubuntu [...]
Ndiswrapper Usage instructions here. Efforts to open source wireless card drivers are finally paying off, especially with Broadcom’s recent announcement. But until the software reaches ready-to-deploy status, we will often stumble upon a broken wireless connection on a new install. Well, ndiswrapper attempts to solve this issue by letting you use non-native .INF device drivers, [...]
UPDATE 5/31/2010 – thanks to bibitte This script is not valid anymore (well it works, but there is a newer, better method). use this PPA repository, you can see instructions here: http://code.google.com/p/gma500/wiki/PPARepository A little heads up to every angry Intel GMA 500, “Poulsbo” chip-powered netbook owner who has not been following this great thread on [...]
I am writing this now because Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is still in beta and we can help, by letting Canonical know what is wrong with the distribution before the stable release hits the “markets”. Open source is not a democracy, but companies use beta versions to do “field testing”, right? We all want to make [...]
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