Get Xfce 4.4.2 on Xubuntu Gutsy Gibbon or Feisty Fawn
Do you want to have the latest Xfce features and bugfixes without upgrading to the Xubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) development release? Sure, we all do, but did you know that you can get Xfce 4.4.2 on Xubuntu Gutsy Gibbon or Feisty Fawn just by using the Xubuntu team’s Personal Package Archive [1]? Neato. Here’s how [...]
Packaging: it might be helpful – even for documentors
Fellow Chicagolander, nixternal, provided the Ubuntu-Chicago local community team with a few links to packaging-related articles that are available from some Debian and Kubuntu websites: 1) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#policy 2) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#devref 3) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide 4) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PackagingGuide 5) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PbuilderHowto 6) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PackagingGuide/Lists/DocumentationResources He sent them out to the mailing list in advance of a packaging session that’s being held this [...]
Room for Improvement
Both this article and this article note how Ubuntu’s documentation needs to be better than it is. The first article describes (in the last point on the second page) that we should do more content scraping from the unofficial documentation (with permission) to improve our docs. We receive lots of requests for mentorship, so there [...]
Xubuntu documentation for version 8.04, the Hardy Heron
The Ubuntu documentation team has recently migrated all flavors of *Ubuntu documentation from Subversion over to Bazaar. There are now separate branch repositories for each of the flavors, and instructions on how to download the repositories (and how to submit your changes) are up on the Ubuntu wiki. Thanks to Matthew East and a few [...]
Xubuntu testing, a need to share the load
I have been coordinating the ISO testing for Xubuntu since February of this year, and while it has really helped me to learn more about the release cycle, I am going to be changing jobs soon, and will not have as much free time. I’m also trying to contribute more to Xubuntu documentation, and that [...]
Updates to my website
After thinking things through for a while, I finally got around to making a few updates to j1m.net. Previously I had everything over on j1m.net/chi-ubuntu, but I’m moving my posting activities over to the root page of my site. I’m still working on Xubuntu (quite a bit), and I’m still a member of the Ubuntu-Chicago [...]
What’s going on?
Things have been pretty hectic lately. It seems like there’s always too much to do in Chicago in the summertime. I’m excited about what is in store, though. Freddy Martinez and I have been working on Xubuntu documentation, basing it largely off of Ubuntu’s Feisty documentation, and we have to submit our first set of [...]
Installation pains – Free Geek Chicago
I volunteered at Free Geek Chicago again on Sunday, and spent much of my day trying to get Xubuntu Feisty Fawn to install on some rather unique hardware. It didn’t go so well. The machine in question was a PII with 256mb of RAM, and two SCSI hard drives – one 8gb and one 4gb [...]
“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, [...]
