1 May 2008

The perfect Ubuntu 8.04 setup

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 2:11 pm

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 LTS [...]

30 April 2008

Installing Ubuntu 8.04 Server on Virtual PC 2007

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 9:53 pm

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 lead [...]

25 April 2008

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron – First impressions

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 11:25 pm

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, [...]

2 November 2007

Ubuntu 7.10 is a real contender

Filed under: Infrastructure — Tags: , , , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 8:09 am

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 my [...]

11 May 2007

Ubuntu Studio just released

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — Stuart Maxwell @ 9:31 pm

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.
Ubuntu [...]