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Some time ago, it was really complicated to get installed Ubuntu on a USB Stick or Pendrive, but now Ubuntu has a tool to realize the installation for us...

How? Easy! We only need to have a  Ubuntu CD Image, which we can download from the download section of the oficial Ubuntu site, then we enter the "System" menu, and enter the submenu "administration" and look for the  "USB boot disc creator" entrie.
Once we started the creater, we need to specify the path of our CD Image, we've downloaded before, and insert the pendrive, finally we need to determine how much space we want to assign to Ubuntu and how much space it'll can use to save our files on the pendrive. Also we can choose between saving our session information on the pendrive, or discard them every time we close the session (like a liveCD), enabling the field "Session information will be lost, less you save manually".

Once we finished, we start the installation by clicking on   "Create boot disc" button. This process will take some time, so here are some ideas what you can do while installation is in progress:

• Suscribe to the ubuntu-blog.com feed
• Prepare yourself a coffee.
• Leave a comment on ubuntu-blog.com

Someone said stealing?

As you know, one of our best friends Wikipedia helps us frequently with definitions. This time he told us that ext4 or fourth extended filesystem is a journaling file system developed as the successor to ext3. It was born as a series of backward compatible extensions to add to ext3 64-bit storage limits and other performance improvements. However, other Linux kernel developers opposed accepting extensions to ext3 for stability reasons, and proposed to fork the source code of ext3, rename it as ext4, and do all the development there, without affecting the current ext3 users.

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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!