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Gliders, Italy and Androids
What an incredible summer and it is funny how it all started. I found myself without a job at the end of April. A week or two later I started a crazy schedule of fencing, archery and hiking amongst the usual day-to-days at home. I even got to try out some serious tree climbing and…
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Beautifying the Boot – GRUB2 & Plymouth Themes in Ubuntu 10.04
I like eyecandy especially when it comes to my Linux workstation. I was pleasantly surprised when I first booted up my fresh install of Kubuntu 10.04. However after installing the NVIDIA drivers (Sigh. NVIDIA when will you learn? Open sourcing your drivers is not going to kill you.), I lost the pretty Kubuntu splash screen. …
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Old is the New New
Or at least it seems that way. After all the fun that was summer, it looks like I will be going back my old pace of life and digs. So does that mean? First of all, no real changes in my life at the present. The world changes around me. I feel like I am…
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MeeGo 1.0 and Maemo5 PR 1.2 Released
While I was busy with the randomness of life, awesomeness hit the world of mobile Linux. Maemo5 PR 1.2 Released For all you proud owners of Nokia N900s, go and upgrade to the recently released PR 1.2 update for Maemo5. This update really, really improved the performance of the phone. Better multimedia playback, faster browsing…
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Migrating to openSUSE
If you’ve followed my dents on identi.ca, you may have noticed that I asked people for their recommendations for a good KDE4 Linux distribution. Well after a bit of thought I decided that I would move away from Kubuntu to openSUSE. Why the change? KDE4 is the desktop environment that gets all the attention and…
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We have a Go for MeeGo
6 days after I blog that the MeeGo project should start with a release of MeeGo as a first step… well they do exactly that. Now before everyone goes off and tries to flash their nifty Nokia N900, please don’t. This first release is just the underlying stack, without any GUI elements. As in if…
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Nokia N900 – The Penguin Has Landed
You may have noticed that I’ve dropped off the side of the Internet somewhat. Life can get busy at times, especially for someone who sometimes gets muddled up with time management and priorities. Another compelling reason for this is that I recently bought a Nokia N900. And I’m still getting used to incorporating it into…
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News – Google Chrome for Linux, Thunderbird 3.0 & Malware for Ubuntu
Dorian is currently concentrating on writing and getting things ready for Christmas. So in the meantime, here are some new stories to tide you over: Google releases Google Chrome for Linux. The fine folks at Mozilla release Thunderbird 3.0 The first major malware attack against Ubuntu users has happened. I guess that confirms that Ubuntu…
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Tech News – Canonical Bringing Music to Ubuntu, LH Strikes Again & Affero GPL Can’t Fix the Cloud
Canonical Launching a Music Store? Rumours on the world wild web point to the possibility of Canonical building an iTunes-like music store. Works for U thinks such a move would add another viable revenue stream for Canonical, even if it seems to stretch the resources of the firm. If this music store comes to Ubuntu,…
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News – Chromium OS is Here
Chromium OS is Here Google just announced their Chromium OS project. This will act as the open source precursor to Chrome OS. And the folks at Canonical are helping Google build it. Exciting times ahead, especially for netbooks users and cloud computing advocates. Thanks to the 451 Group‘s Matthew Aslett team for posting about this.