‘A’ Update 8.08.a

Posted by as ubuntu, update, version

Inspired by the version numbers of Ubuntu releases I planned to have a similar version number for every update I do to my blog. ( now is that a good idea or a bad one.? )

The official name of an Ubuntu release is “Ubuntu X.YY” with X representing the year (minus 2000) and YY representing the month of eventual release within in that year.

Me being pretty jobless started doing random stuff for my

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August 7, 2008 | Filed Under ubuntu, update, version | Comments Off 

Best buys this season: The ELCOT Student Laptop

Posted by imdonatello as Acer, Dell, ELCOT, Product, SUSE, laptop, linux, students, ubuntu

The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu has started this year’s sale of inexpensive laptops with preloaded Linux (SUSE Linux Enterprise) for students studying in Tamil Nadu. There have been many press releases, for example, see this one. The laptop is said to be procured from Dell or Acer.
The high capacity version of the ELCOT laptop […]

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July 8, 2008 | Filed Under Acer, Dell, ELCOT, Product, SUSE, laptop, linux, students, ubuntu | Comments Off 

ubuntu 8.04

Posted by Arvind as Open Source, hardy hernon, linux, ubuntu

Finally i recovered my computer and installed ubuntu 8.04. I wanted to recover my computer because 1) it was full of junk and 2) because most of my space was allocated to my windows partition and I wanted most of my space to be allocated to my linux partition. Well anyways enough of […]

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June 3, 2008 | Filed Under Open Source, hardy hernon, linux, ubuntu | Comments Off 

Compiz Fusion on Inspiron 1525

Posted by aptbot as Compiz Fusion, Inspiron 1525, linux, ubuntu

Dell’s Inspiron 1525 laptop has ” Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller” display controller..
u can see this by typing command:
lspci | grep Display
this display controller is black listed in compiz fusion..i have compiz-fusion installed on my laptop with UBUNTU gutsy-gibbon..and i couldn’t enable the effects..so what to do..??? I just modified ” /usr/bin/compiz […]

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May 15, 2008 | Filed Under Compiz Fusion, Inspiron 1525, linux, ubuntu | Comments Off 

Ubuntu Hardy Heron is almost out!

Posted by imdonatello as NITT, debmirror, hardy heron, linux, repositories, ubuntu

The release candidate is available! Keeping with its trend to stay on the edge, the release candidate comes with Firefox 3 beta 5 (the last beta version had Beta 4)! Four days to go for the final release, and we at NITT are already getting ready to download the repositories for local usage (we don’t […]

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April 20, 2008 | Filed Under NITT, debmirror, hardy heron, linux, repositories, ubuntu | Comments Off