Category: Technology
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Hello Hardy Heron
How appropriate this is, approximately one year after making the leap to Ubuntu I find myself finally upgrading to the latest release, 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron. This has been much applauded by many as being the best and essentially simplest version of Ubuntu to use and install. Many of the features within it will be…
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Heron Soars
Ubuntu have released the first updated release to Hardy Heron LTS, this being 8.04.1. As with the last LTS (Long Term Support) version of Ubuntu there were releases along its life to include all relevant security updates and upgrades. Basically so that once you were finished installing your brand new OS you then do not…
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Intrepid Dates
Here are the dates for the testing & release schedule for the next release of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. June 26th – Alpha 1July 10th – Alpha 2July 24th – Alpha 3August 14th – Alpha 4August 28th – Feature FreezeSeptember 4th – Alpha 5September 18th – Alpha 6September 15th – Beta FreezeOctober 2nd – Beta…
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Firefox 3…Rise Of The Fox
After 3 long years of development and being in beta testing since last November, while introducing some 15,000 improvements we finally will have the latest release of Firefox! Firefox 3 is due for release on June 17th and they are hoping to break a Guinness World Record by having the most downloads of new software…
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8.04 – Just Around The Corner
Hardy Heron is about to land but what should we expect from this new Long Term Support (LTS) version? Well the following link should hopefully be a good start: Introduction to Hardy Heron So for me the best aspects will be finally having Evolution and Google Calendar sync ability. Since about November I have relied…
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Evolving Ubuntu, The Intrepid Ibex
I have only just heard…Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) is not here in its final release version yet but the next version has been announced: Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex As you can guess, it will be released in October 2008 (hence 8.10)…or I should say it is planned to be 8.10 as anything can happen…
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A Hardy Heron Is Inbound
Ubuntu 8.04 ‘Hardy Heron’ is on the way! The clock is ticking and we will soon have the latest and arguably best operating system available! It is only up to the user how it looks and feels. No ‘required’ upgrades of your hardware to run it. No strings unless you want them. No contracts. No…
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Dead Dragons & Broken Monkies
Much to my disappointment my experience of Kubuntu was sort lived and rather painful. Everything had gone very well up until the updates had finished downloading. After restarting I could no longer connect to the net with my USB modem no matter what I tried. After deciding to go back to Ubuntu I made a…
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Chasing The Dragon
In this case the dragon being the mascot of KDE (the K Desktop Enviroment). Or the gears behind Kubuntu. One of the official Ubuntu distributions. Or as Kubuntu better explains “Kubuntu is one the variants available from the Ubuntu project. Our Kubuntu CDs are made up of Ubuntu’s base plus KDE. You can get exactly…
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Sony Ericsson W810i & Ubuntu
Straight off, no the Sony Ericsson W810i will not play .ogg music files. If it was a symbian phone then it would be possible with a quick download of an application. So woe was I when I began the process of converting my music library to mp3 format. I know, feel dirty for doing it,…
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