Configure gedit for documentation
I’ve been maintaining the gedit documentation since the run-up to the gedit 3.0 release, and doing so has helped me to get to know some of the ins-and-outs of the program. What can I say, it’s one of the perks of writing documentation – you get to know the software that you’re documenting. With that, [...]
Help for Ubuntu 11.04 – We are working on it
Trying to write documentation for both Gnome 3 and Ubuntu 11.04 had many of the documentation contributors a bit strapped for time, but we are making progress on user help for 11.04. Here is a quick peek at what we are doing: Click to play This is all done with Mallard and Yelp. KDE, you [...]
Dear Yahoo!
Dear Yahoo! Welcome to Ubuntu! As a regular contributor to the Ubuntu project, I think it’s great that you are partnering with Canonical. Because of the agreement you signed, Canonical will be able to hire more people to work on Free software. Also, your contributions will help Ubuntu continue offering their OS at no cost [...]
Thunar 1.1.0 – Native support for remote filesystems
Update: The updated version of Thunar with network share support will be included as part of Xfce 4.8, sure to be featured by all of the distributions that ship Xfce (e.g., Fedora 15, Xubuntu 11.04, OpenSUSE 11.4, and many others). Congratulations to Jannis Pohlmann on the release of Thunar 1.1.0! For those who don’t know, [...]
Notes on UbuntuOne
I recently posted a couple of ‘dents onto identi.ca regarding UbuntuOne, but wanted to follow-up with some more complete thoughts. In thinking about UbuntuOne, there are a number of factors involved; it involves the need to build a sustainable business, trademark issues, and the level of one’s own comfort with using non-free software. To me, [...]
Xfce 4.6 is released!
Hot off of the presses comes a release announcement marking the final release of Xfce 4.6! from Stephan Arts <stephan@xfce.org> date Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM subject Xfce 4.6.0 Released!!! After more than two years of development, Xfce 4.6.0 has just been released. Xfce 4.6 features a new configuration backend, a new [...]
8.04 reasons why Ubuntu and Kubuntu users should consider using Xubuntu
With the successful Beta release of Xubuntu 8.04, I got to thinking of some of the qualities that have always drawn me back to using Xubuntu. I know that people have spirited feelings about their desktops of choice in the Linux world, but I thought I’d present a few reasons (8.04 reasons, to be exact) [...]
Xubuntu News
The Xubuntu documentation for 8.04 is done, and the doc-centered folks are now working on updating the wiki. There are still quite a few holes in it for now, but we’re working fairly quickly. I like the new menu bar. It makes it easy to get around. Also, I know it’s not much notice, but [...]
“Xubuntu Feisty Fawn is the bomb”
Tonight I went to a couple of Linux-related events after work, and I’m glad I made it out. I first went to an initial set-up meeting for a Chicago Gnome user group. We had some informal discussions about Gnome, and what a Gnome user group might be and do in the city. Kevin is leading [...]
Ok, instead of Apt on CD
How about replicating an installed package list this way: dpkg –get-selections | grep ‘[[:space:]]install$’ | awk ‘{print $1}’ > packagelist.txt on the old machine, then: sudo apt-get -u install `cat packagelist.txt` on new machine, That should work. Only disadvantage is that you’d have to download the installed packages from the ‘net onto the new machine, [...]
