Tag: Ubuntu

  • 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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  • 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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  • Falling Foul of the Monkey

    It is a about time I come clean and share my experience with Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). As you will have guessed from the tone of my previous posts I have been very impressed with the Ubuntu OS since moving over (completely) a few months ago. So it was with great excitement that I began…

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  • It’s Brewing Up

    Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Beta is available to download from today, with the final version due for release October 18th. What does Gutsy Gibbon do better then Feisty Fawn? Well the complete outline can be found by CLICKING HERE. The most exciting (for me) is the installation of ‘Compiz‘ as standard for handling 3D Desktop…

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