May 01 2008
The HowToForge site have released a step by step tutorial for the perfect Ubuntu 8.04 desktop setup. I’ve used their tutorials extensively over the last few years, and this one is just as good as the others and includes tips that you wouldn’t normally think of when installing Ubuntu. The Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu 8.04 […]
Apr 30 2008
Virtual PC is infamous for it’s inability to support Linux installations. There are always hacks required to get through the installation, but once installed your Linux machine should work fine. So I wasn’t completely surprised when I ran into issues while trying to install the latest server version of Ubuntu 8.04. A quick Google search […]
Apr 25 2008
I’ve been following Ubuntu since it’s inception in 2005 with Warty Warthog which was labelled 4.10. Each year since then they’ve released two versions a year – one in April and one in October – and this is where the version number comes from. For example, the 8 in 8.04 is from the year 2008, […]
Nov 02 2007
While I was away on holiday, Ubuntu released the latest version of their desktop operating system: Ubuntu 7.10. I had last tried the 7.4 release on my new notebook without much luck as the hardware was a lot newer than the operating system. I wasn’t too hopeful of having much luck installing 7.10 either on […]
May 11 2007
The latest derivative of Ubuntu has just been released – this one is called Ubuntu Studio and comes preloaded with audio, video and graphics editing applications. The website is worth checking – even just to see how cool it looks – but it’s just been Dugg so may be a bit sluggish for a while. […]