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As we are allready enjoying the current Ubuntu Release, Jaunty Jackalope, the Ubuntu developers are already working on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

Karmic Koala, as Shuttleworth announced on February 20th, is expected to be released on October 29th. Mark Shuttleworth allready anticipates some facts about the new release that continues the tradition of the extraordinary named Ubuntu releases.

Some of the features for Ubuntu 9.10, the developers are working on, are:

• Improve the starting time
• New graphical boot system
• Improvements in the integration of Moblin technologies for Netbook
• New graphical interface
• Extension of the suspend/wake up function for the Server edition

As we are used to, Ubuntu provides us a new release every six month, and keeps us updated at all times by improving the exisiting systems and developing new softwares continually.

The Developing Schedule for Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala is allready published and the key-dates are:

• May 14th : Alpha 1
• June 11th: Alpha 2
• July 23th: Alpha 3
• Agust 13th: Alpha 4
• September 3rd: Alpha 5
• September 17th: Alpha 6
• October 1st: Beta 1
• October 22nd: Release Candidate
• October 29th: Final Release!!

We are allready anxious, to get to know the Koala, are you?

In the latest Ubuntu Release, Ubuntu 9.04, that has just been published, our favourite music player Amarok 1.4 has been updated to its successor 2.0. To be honest, Amarok 2 has been restyled quiet a lot, although it works perfectly. So, if anybody wants to get the older version back, here you'll find how to do it.
You'll need to execute the following three commands in a terminal:

1. echo -e "\n## amarok 1.4 \ndeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main\ndeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install amarok14

You'll notice, that the first line is going to add an repository to the list. It's because of this add, that Ubuntu will show you a warning, while executing the second line, telling you that one of the repositories couldn't be verified. To solve this problem, you can read the following tutorial which we wrote some weeks ago, explaining how to solve the GPG error of launchpad.net.

Now you're ready to enjoy Amarok, as you were used to...








Post - Update:

To install Amarok 1.4 on Ubuntu 9.04 you should use the following instructions...

1. echo -e "\n## amarok 1.4 \ndeb http://ppa.launchpad.net/surfed/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install amarok14

Thanks to Vitor!

Just a few hours missing for the new Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 Release!

Today we're going to talk once again about an old known and wide topic:  remote administration. Which, fortunately, is well-developed for GNU/Linux. Though there are several ways to achieving the remote administration on a Ubuntu running computer, such as Secure Shell (SSH) or remote desktop softwares (VINO or VNC, FreeNX), we're really into Webmin, a remote administration software based on the world wide Web, and thats what we are going to talk in this post about. But before starting we'll need to make use of two more tools, that you may already know from our site: Read the rest of this entry »

Considering, that lots of people are interested in showing what they are listening to, while chatting , we decided to make a tutorial explaining how to achieve this in 3 of the most famous and most used instant messaging softwares (chat softwares) on Ubuntu.

First we'll see how to configure Pidgin, to view what we're listening to, because its a software installed by default on Ubuntu and no doubt, that it is one of the most used instant messaging softwares. Read the rest of this entry »