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5:38
How can You help Polar Bears and Penguins help Linux?
» Linux Geeks United (Polar Bears and Penguins)How can You help Polar Bears and Penguins help Linux?
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17:30
The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 245
» The Linux Link Tech ShowListener Call-in - Vulcanridr, Verbal, Scott Davilla, Gorkon - MythTV, AppleTV, eeePC, security
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12:34
Linux Mint 5 Elyssa - BETA 032 released
» The Linux Mint BlogAfter many sleepless nights and a lot of work I am delighted to announce that the first release candidate for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa was released and that it is now available for download. A lot of changes and improvements were made since Daryna so make sure to read the “What’s new in Elyssa” section of the Release Notes.
Links: Release Notes & Download mirrors
Please report bugs here in the forums: [www.linuxmint.com]
I would like to thank the team for the hard work put into this, Exploder for his responsiveness and for all the testing he’s done over the week-end and Jernau, the artist who signed 100% of the artwork used in this released. Many thanks also to Carlos who’s still working on improving various parts of the website and to Kronophage who is rapidly adding applications to the Software Portal.
Have fun with the first ISO of Elyssa and don’t hesitate to send us comments and feedback.
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2:00
Not One Cent
» LugRadioJono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- To celebrate the one hundredth episode of LugRadio, we name one hundred cool things that the open source community have achieved, one for each of our shows. Keep it up, everyone. We're really proud. (1.55)
- The Gobuntu "Experiment" Has Failed -- well, that's how Aq feels about it. With no Gobuntu 8.04 official release, what does this mean for advocates of absolute software freedom, and do they have a leg to stand on? (4.20)
- Evolution, the Gnome mail client, is much maligned (not least by being compared to Microsoft Outlook). Is it really as bad as all that? (39.32)
- A quick reminder that although LugRadio Live in the USA is over, the original and best LugRadio Live right here in the UK is happening on July 19th and 20th in Wolverhampton -- submit your talks and requests for exhibition space! (66.57)
- Your emails, including abuse about the end of the show, complaints of us being like an uncomfortable famliy dinner, and a note about the team's love for Sony's products of greatness (67.58)
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11:16
Call for testers for EnvyNG
» Alberto MiloneIt’s been a month since my last blog post. EnvyNG was included in Hardy but it had a few problems and I have worked to fix them. I can’t upload such fixes since Hardy is a stable release. This means that all the updates will have to be tested before they are moved to the stable repositories. This is why I need your help. The more users test the fixes the sooner we can get them into stable.
Special Thanks:
All this wouldn’t have been possible without the amazing support of Martin Pitt, who guided me and helped me with the SRU (Stable Release Update). He has spent a lot of time on EnvyNG, gave me a lot of extremely useful suggestions, therefore I can say that you should really thank Martin for this release.Timo Aaltonen brought bugs #212648, #186382, #118605 to my attention and suggested the solution. In case you don’t know it already, he’s one of the guys who take care of Ubuntu’s restricted modules. Keep up the good work, Timo!
A stripped down list of Changes:
envyng-core (1.1.1ubuntu15) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
* Fix (LP: #224004) Update NVIDIA compatibility list.
* Fix (LP: #221304) Use the new l-r-m-envy packages now.
* Install -envy packages instead of the ones in main
* Hide FutureWarning caused by python-apt
* xorgconfig2 now ignores sections which are not relevant in xorg.conf
linux-restricted-modules-envy-2.6.24 (2.6.24.500-500.28) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
* Fix (LP: #228649) xorg-driver-fglrx-dev conflicted with
xorg-driver-fglrx
* Sync with the fixes in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (2.6.24.12-17.36)
* nvidia: Do not divert libwfb.so, because if the xserver provides one
it should be used. This caused at least problems with some websites
crashing on certain pages (see #212648), and pink shadows with compiz.
(see: #186382)
* fglrx: Patch authatieventsd.sh to search for xauth files in
/var/run/xauth/. Otherwise the session would freeze on logout for KDM
users. Thanks Ilja Pavkovic! (see: #118605)
* Remove previous diversions of libwfb.so in the postinst. Thanks Timo
Aaltonen.
* Make sure that any previous module of fglrx and nvidia built by DKMS are
removed before the new module is built and installed.
* Use -envy so as not to conflict with Ubuntu's lrm
* Add fglrx driver 8.4
Envyng-core will also fix the problem which prevented the QT interface from working properly.
EnvyNG now relies on its own packages (available in multiverse) therefore you will have to install the driver from EnvyNG again so that the correct packages are installed. If you don’t do it you will keep using Ubuntu’s default restricted modules. Of course DKMS, CUDA, etc. are back in my packages.
The latest release of ATI’s proprietary driver (8.4) is also available and contains a patch which should fix bug #118605 (which doesn’t solve the problem on my computer though).
How to test it:
You will have to enable the hardy-proposed repositories (Go to System/Administration/Software Sources/Updates and select “Proposed Updates (hardy-proposed)”) and upgrade to envyng-core (1.1.1ubuntu15), then launch EnvyNG and install the drivers.Where to report:
If you have problems with EnvyNG (e.g. if EnvyNG crashes during the installation of the driver) you can report them here.If you have problems with the drivers which EnvyNG installed you can report them here.
You can simply add a comment to one of the bugreports which you will find at these links if your problems are related to those reports or if you just want to confirm that either EnvyNG or the drivers work well for you (this will really help us).
If you want you can use this model to report:
Used EnvyNG (yes/no):
Worked with Ubuntu’s default restricted modules (yes/no):
Graphic card model:
Problem (solved/otherwise describe the problem):Example:
If it works for you:Used EnvyNG: yes
Worked with Ubuntu’s default restricted modules (yes/no): yes
Graphic card model: Geforce 7300GT
Problem: solvedOR if it doesn’t solve the problem
Used EnvyNG: yes
Worked with Ubuntu’s default restricted modules (yes/no): yes
Graphic card model: Geforce 7300GT
Problem: NVIDIA driver 169.12 still freezes my computer when I visit this website…NOTE:
I’m working on this Bug too.
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15:48
CNR
» The Linux Mint BlogCNR is now available for Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna. It’s free, it doesn’t require any registration and the client is open-source. To install it, install the “cnr-client” package from the Daryna repositories. You should then be able to install software from the CNR.com web portal.
The main advantage of CNR over APT and mintInstall is that it can handle commercial software and integrate transactions. For this reason it represents a nice addition to the Linux Mint desktop.
Links:
— Press Release: [www.linspire.com]
— CNR.com: http://www.cnr.com/
Questions and comments are welcome.
Note: Support for the upcoming Linux Mint 5 Elyssa will follow shortly.
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17:29
User Guide & Release Notes on the Start Page
» The Linux Mint BlogWith each stable release of Linux Mint come two very important documents. The first one is the user guide. It’s a downloadable PDF eBook of about 100 pages which explains various aspects of Linux Mint. It starts with explanations on how to install Linux Mint, then it details how the Linux Mint tools work and how to make the best out of the desktop. It’s easy to read and covers both simple and advanced topics. It also gives details on the specificities of Linux Mint so no matter how experimented you are with Linux, you will definitely learn a few things by reading this guide.
The guide is currently available in English, in French and in Italian directly from the Start page. If you’re not using Linux Mint or if you start page is set to a custom address, you can download these guides from our download mirrors:
The Release Notes consist of a web page which details information about a particular release. Release notes are mostly written for users of the previous release which are about to install a new release. They go through the new features and innovations of the new release, known issues that users should be aware of, and upgrade instructions may users decide to upgrade rather performing a fresh install. Linux Mint Release Notes are usually easy to read and interesting from a user’s point of view as they don’t only provide relevant information but also insist on new tools and features. For instance, by reading the release notes a user could get to know about a newly added console tool which wasn’t present in the last version nor documented in the user guide.
Linux Mint is indeed easy to use but not all its innovations and features always catch the attention of the user. If you like using Linux Mint and if you would like to know more about your desktop you should take the time to read both the User Guide and the Release Notes. For Mint users to make the best out of Mint the start page now links to these documents.
So happy reading everyone, and many thanks to Carlos Porto for this redesign on the start page.
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15:20
AcetoneISO2: The CD/DVD image manipulator for Linux
» Shane Joe LazarAccording to the AcetoneISO2 website,AcetoneISO2, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO2 will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other things. Everything will be done inside a handy GUI.
Their website as of now does not offer a .deb package for Ubuntu and I wanted to try it out so I compiled and built a .deb package for Ubuntu 'Hardy Heron'. My .deb package can be downloaded from here.
** Users who are to use AcetoneISO2 should be added to the group 'fuse'
This is done with the command:
sudo addgroup *your-username* fuse
(example: "sudo addgroup johndoe fuse")
The only downside I can see to this application is that it depends on Qt libraries which means that it will be a rather big download including dependencies. Otherwise, the interface is simple to use and makes mounting of the more dubious image formats a breeze. However, it did not mount the DAA format the reason for which I installed this program. Some other functions include image encrypting and compression, md5sum file creation and verification, converting from other formats (including Mac OS images) to ISO, floppy drive emulation and Video/DVD ripping and encoding.
The project's homepage is [www.acetoneiso.netsons.org].
P.S. The obligatory disclaimer: Use this package at your own risk!
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17:30
The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 244
» The Linux Link Tech ShowSpecial Guest Steve McIntyre - Debian Project Leader; RSS, centralized or decentralized applications; rsync; MythTv and Tivo, GTA IV
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15:29
Elyssa build #031
» The Linux Mint BlogThe latest ISO of Elyssa was 675MB and as it passed all basic tests I uploaded it for the team to test. Exploder is currently trying his best to find problems with it, and Husse and Wes are also giving him a hand. I won’t go through the changes as we’re getting really close to a public BETA release. I’ll document them within the release notes instead.
So far 12 points were risen. I don’t think any of them are real showstoppers. I’m waiting on some clarification and further testing on some of these points and also keeping an eye on the release of Firefox 3 RC1 (which I’d love to be present in the BETA instead of Firefox 3 Beta 5).
If everything goes fine we’re only a few days away from the first public Linux Mint 5 BETA.
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3:11
The Linux Action Show! Season 8 Episode 7 - OGG
» The Linux Action Show
This week on, The Linux Action Show!Slackware has rocked a BIG new release and we tell you all about it, ready to click on your BIG face? GOOD, this new login manager is just for you! We cover the Pidgin fork and discuss Adobe’s big BIG announcement.
THEN - We give you our Linux Fest Northwest roundup!
PLUS - We announce our big, big, BIG news!
This episode brought to you by awesome folks over at GoDaddy.com: Save 10% on any order at GoDaddy.com!
All this week on, The Linux Action Show!
This weeks links:
Hybrid Mini PC Phone, Runs Linux
Linux Fest Northwest ‘08 on Vimeo
Video Download: The Linux Action Show Visits Linux Fest Northwest (Ogg listed under All Files)
LinuxFest Northwest Pictures over at our flickr Photostream
Slackware 12.1 Released
Ubuntu’s OpenGL face browser will bring bling to GDM
Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork
Jungle Disk 2.0 Beta Released!
Adobe’s Open Screen Project: Write Once, Flash Everywhere
Hans Reiser Found Guilty of MurderPlease Join our ALL NEW forum!
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Please be sure to use this feed for The Linux Action Show - MP3, for the OGG version of the show, Please us this feed.
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19:50
Season 8, Episode 7 - Slightly Delayed
» The Linux Action Show
Season 8 Episode 7 will be slightly delayed while we work on a few big big BIG things announced in the episode. As a treat here is the high definition video we took at Linux Fest Northwest 2008:
An OGG version is listed under “All Files” on the left had side of the page - That’s just where archive.org sticks them.The h.264 though not OGG, we’d recommend you download. It’s a smaller file (720p) and most systems are going to be able to play it back best vs. the 1080i OGG.
A full size Flash version (still great quality) is located here:
[www.vimeo.com]Stay tunned Episode 7 will be out after a short delay!
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17:30
The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 243
» The Linux Link Tech ShowWindows Crash Radio Ep. 3, then the real stuff - Mythtv, slackware 12.x, mythtv, hardy, eeePc
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13:34
IRC Quizz AllStars Table - April 2008
» The Linux Mint BlogSo here we are, April is almost over and after a tough competition here’s what the All Stars table looks like:
1 Kronophage — 2.773 pts, 23 games. * Congrats! *
2 MeansWell — 2.064 pts, 19 games.
3 oOp — 0.620 pts, 6 games.
4 Pulpie — 0.491 pts, 3 games.
5 BlakeBird — 0.488 pts, 4 games.
6 Max — 0.321 pts, 3 games.
7 Marco — 0.278 pts, 3 games.
8 Toby_ — 0.194 pts, 2 games.
9 kancerman — 0.155 pts, 1 games.
10 sick — 0.131 pts, 1 games.
There were 14 users playing 69 games.Congratulations to Kronophage. He was 3rd last month and is at the top of the table this month.
The Quizz bot will reset the stats on the 1st of May. If you haven’t joined the Quizz yet, it’s very easy:
- In Linux Mint: open up Xchat-Gnome (or Konversation) then when it’s connected join the #pimpmymint channel.
- On other platforms: Launch your favorite IRC client, connect to the irc.spotchat.org server and join the #pimpmymint channel.Note: Make sure to register your nickname with Nickserv so that the Quizz bot can remember you the next time you log in
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2:33
Elyssa build #017
» The Linux Mint BlogWe’re at build #017 already and it’s been a very long week end. I’m exhausted
But the progress so far has been very good and the ISO is looking great. Firefox 3 and pulseaudio were included. Amarok was replaced by Rhythmbox. Brasero was added and Transmission version 1.11 is to be included. An upstream bug in Rhythmbox was fixed for Jamendo to be supported and the functionality of pulseaudio was extended by adding support for Flash and the Pulse Audio Device Chooser. The multimedia system selector was also made visible.
PPPOE was added.
The software portal is 1/4 full and now counts 228 applications for Elyssa (thanks to Kronophage for this).
Support for MP3 encoding was added (previous versions of Mint only came with MP3 decoding).
Gnome was tweaked: Images can now be applied as wallpapers from the context menu and folders can be opened as root. When opening a folder as root, XFE is used instead of nautilus. A warning is given, the title of the window mentions “Root” and XFE looks different enough for users not to forget that they have a root window open
We’re now on a 2.6.24-16-generic kernel with CFS (completely fair scheduler) and with Gnome 2.22. The ISO is about 694MB large and fits on a CD.
As always there’s no ETA or release date planned. It will be released when ready, but as Hardy is out and I can see a lot of people are anxious to know when Elyssa will be out.. looking at what’s done and what’s left on our roadmap it’s reasonable to think we’ll be in a position to release a public BETA in about two weeks. Of course things happen and as any other edition the Main Edition will have to be tested by Exploder so don’t take my word for it, this is only an estimation.
Note on compatibility: A compatibility mode was added as a new boot entry, featuring nosplash, noapic, noacpi and irqpoll. Also, the light edition will come with grub instead of gfxgrub and without pulseaudio. We’ll make it very easy for Light Edition users to add codecs through a single mint file so the Light Edition will also act as an easy workaround for people whose computers have compatibility issues with gfxgrub.
Note on the start page and search plugin: I reviewed the TOS and looked at this in details. I’m afraid there isn’t much we can do to improve the layout of the search results. The google images plugin was given a distinct icon to differentiate it from the search one. Start pages were assigned on a per-release, eventually per-edition basis so we can provide users with more relevant information (user guide, links to release notes and bug report places, security warnings..etc). We’re starting to use google analytics also so I’ll be able to give more accurate stats about the Linux Mint user base for each release/edition. Info on why we’re modifying the search plugin and how to revert to the default one will be covered in the user guide, which will be accessible from the default start page.
That’s about it.. there are also visual improvements in the terminal and a great isolinux theme but I’ll keep that as a surprise
A lot more is to come but I don’t see anything that could wrong at this stage. I’ll post more news as I go along. -
16:21
The Start of Elyssa KDE
» The Linux Mint BlogWell I have started on the Elyssa KDE Beta’s using the new Hardy base. My first Beta is up and running live in a virtual machine and it is all looking great so far. I think that since there is not much of a change in KDE 3 (3.5.8 to 3.5.9) that this will speed up development for me. I see the big slow down being porting the mint applications to Qt3. Well I had better get back to work.
Cheers Boo
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0:19
Latest news
» The Linux Mint BlogAfter a long period of preparation and work on the mint tools we’re now entering phase 2: the migration towards the newly released Hardy base. Work has begun and the very first BETA of Elyssa was built today. Of course it’s highly unstable at this stage, it doesn’t fit on a CD and it’s full of rough edges. Things look very promising though and we should expect a first public BETA release within 2 weeks. We’ve had 6 months to think about this and almost everything is ready to be included so we should have a very smooth release.
Also, Octy and the Italian community translated the Daryna User Guide. The document should soon become available on all official mirrors.
Finally, Kronophage is working on the software portal and adding a lot of applications in it. The Elyssa section already features 145 applications. When finished the portal should contain around 1000 apps. Each application will feature a screenshot and we’re planning on using the same authentication system for both this portal and an upcoming home-made Brainstorm clone to encourage people to post comments, reviews and ideas online.
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16:03
The success in Linux
» Linux Geeks United (Polar Bears and Penguins)The success in Linux
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17:30
The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 242
» The Linux Link Tech ShowListener call-in episode, MythTv and other goodness, hardy heron, System 76
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2:02
mintMenu 3.3 - Mint 5
» The Linux Mint BlogA lot of work has been put into mintMenu. In Elyssa this tool now comes in 16 different languages, with a configuration screen, improved drag & drop support in favorites, less delay and less memory usage. Each application also features a little context menu which can be used to automatically launch it at startup.
It’s also now possible to uninstall any application present in the menu by simply righ-clicking on it and selecting “uninstall”. A dialog box appears with the related packages and dependencies. This complements the easy installation of software provided by mintInstall and the software portal.
Finally, the “Other” and “System Tools” categories were merged into “Administration”. This makes the menu more compact and avoids the need for a scrollbar in the category pane.
Lars Peter Clausen, the main developer for mintMenu, is also porting this application from python to C. Although it was too late to include the C version in Elyssa, Lars’ latest version is very close to being stable and should hit the repositories some time after the release of Elyssa. The main advantage of porting mintMenu to C is a further reduction of the memory usage and extra speed gains both at startup and during the runtime.
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2:00
LugRadio Live USA 2008
» LugRadioJono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things while in the glorious land of America in the LugRadio Live USA 2008 live recording. This show includes:- Screw you, stupid users (hurriedly retitled to account for children in the audience): is there a point at which it's reasonable to say that software cannot be simplified further and that if some users can't grasp it, it's just not for them? Can free software meet every user's need -- can any software meet every user's need? Or is it reasonable to say that some people are just not suited for computers? (2.30) [Discuss this segment in the LugRadio forums]
- Our chance to reward some of the people at LugRadio Live USA: the roflcopter award, a birthday for the youngest member, a Dice raffle, the best exhibition at LRL USA, the person who sent the most people to the show, Jorge Castro's Miguel de Icaza impression. and Kynan Dent from Google in a dress (17.33)
- Is American culture too litigious, and is this affecting the free software community's ability to do things in the USA? How the fear of falling foul of the legal framework affected the organisation of LugRadio Live, and comments from the audience about whether this is widespread and what we, as a community, can do about it (34.17) [Discuss this segment in the LugRadio forums]
A big thanks to our sponsors, Dice, LinuxQuestions, and Linux Pro Magazine, and a huge extra thanks to our main sponsor Google for making LugRadio Live USA happen! Thanks also to Mike Evans for all the brilliant design work done for the event; it looked great, and that's Mike's work.
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7:36
The Linux Action Show! Season 8 Episode 6 - OGG
» The Linux Action ShowThis week on, The Linux Action Show!
Red Hat drops a desktop related bomb that relates to their future plans relating to desktop LINUX, WE DISCUSS! HP Has a new eeePC competitor that they expect big, big sales from - Another super awesome Linux laptop? Okay by me.
We give you some follow up coverage on the new VMware beta, and discuss the controversial Open Source Terrorism!!!
THEN -
We review the Linux based Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, and we take bundle of your questions!
GoDaddy.com has a discount offer for our listeners: $6.95 .COM domain names at GoDaddy.com!
This weeks links:
Contact Air, runs Linux Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough VIA Announces Open Source Driver Initiative HP Unveils Small Commercial Linux Laptop openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta Release Notes Nokia Demo Pictures @LAS Flickr PageLinux Fest Northwest! Meet up with Bryan and Chris!
Want to embrace your inner geek? Then check out CastaBlasta, the boys mix tech, gaming, science fiction, geek reviews, and amazing stories in a way that’s funnier than it should be in this twice a month Show, get a good dose of top nerdertainment! Take a listen at CastaBlasta.com!
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You can find the OGG version of every episode here.
Download The Linux Action Show! Season 8 Episode 6 - OGG
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13:58
The Linux Action Show! Season 8 Episode 6 - OGG
» The Linux Action ShowThis week on, The Linux Action Show!
Red Hat drops a desktop related bomb that relates to their future plans relating to desktop LINUX, WE DISCUSS! HP Has a new eeePC competitor that they expect big, big sales from - Another super awesome Linux laptop? Okay by me.
We give you some follow up coverage on the new VMware beta, and discuss the controversial Open Source Terrorism!!!
THEN -
We review the Linux based Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, and we take bundle of your questions!
GoDaddy.com has a discount offer for our listeners: $6.95 .COM domain names at GoDaddy.com!
This weeks links:
Contact Air, runs Linux Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough VIA Announces Open Source Driver Initiative HP Unveils Small Commercial Linux Laptop openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1 VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta Release Notes Nokia Demo Pictures @LAS Flickr Page Linux Fest Northwest! Meet up with Bryan and Chris!Want to embrace your inner geek? Then check out CastaBlasta, the boys mix tech, gaming, science fiction, geek reviews, and amazing stories in a way that’s funnier than it should be in this twice a month Show, get a good dose of top nerdertainment! Take a listen at CastaBlasta.com!
Note:
You can find the OGG version of every episode here.
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12:19
Default artwork - Mint 5
» The Linux Mint BlogWe’ve experimented with Aurora GTK engines and created some futuristic themes. We’ve looked at Carbon and made something a lot of people liked but although a few themes ended up looking great we still haven’t found anything to replace the default artwork. So we’re now taking a different approach which consists of improving the Daryna artwork by making subtle changes to it. Have a look below and please give us as much feedback as possible on this.
This is how widgets (”widget” means graphical element. Buttons, progress bars, combos are widgets for instance) looked like in Daryna:
This is how these same widgets look like after we made some changes:
And these are the changes we made:
To illustrate the differences, here is mintUpdate running with the Daryna look:
And here is how it looks like with the changes:
I’m personally happy about the sliders taken from Clearlooks. That’s definitely an improvement IMHO. I’m not sure whether I prefer the gradients or the original for the tabbed folders. I like the lighter blue and the additional contrast but I’m afraid there’s too much contrast in the newer theme.. I also like the dotted separation between columns in the mintUpdate table. Finally, the highlighting (especially on the buttons) looks like a wave and that’s fine, but now that the contrast shows that more in detail, maybe we can opt for a straight highlight instead. Oh.. and note how widgets are still rounded, but not as much as before.
Please tell us what you think. Not just whether you like it or not, but in detail what you think is better, what you think isn’t, and why and how you would improve it. Don’t hesitate to save these pictures locally so you can quickly look at them and compare them in fullscreen mode.
PS: Other themes will be available as alternative choices, installed by default also.
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16:55
Daryna user guide in French
» The Linux Mint BlogThe user guide for Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna was translated into French by Kronophage (who also happens to lead the IRC Quizz all-stars table for this month). The document is available here: [ftp.heanet.ie]
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16:48
Apologies for the downtime
» The Linux Mint BlogThe Linux Mint web server was down for periods of time today and yesterday. I would like to apologize for this. The first problem occured after a library update broke the bindings used by Apache and we had to recompile the HTTP server. I personally blame Gentoo for this although Michael K. (the server admin) disagrees with me on this one. The second problem occured after I decided to add news on the start page. With every visit on this page trigerring a PHP generated RSS request and consequently database connections the server went down pretty fast. We found 33GB of logs had been generated overnight… Michael reminded me I hadn’t been very smart on this one and the news on the start page are now generated by a separated script.
It can be quite worrying for Mint users when linuxmint.com goes down as not only do the website, the forums, the software portal and the wiki go down, but that also breaks the start page, the repositories and mintUpdate from working correctly. Starting with Elyssa the repositories and mintUpdate will migrate to the file server. A company website will also be available and distinct from linuxmint.com so users have a place to go and to find news in case downtimes happen again.
Sorry for the downtime and let’s hope it won’t happen again anytime soon.
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20:51
Language support - Mint 5
» The Linux Mint BlogIn Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna the mint tools were only in English. We’ve worked on this and internationalized these tools. The community then translated them and we’re now in a position to say that Linux Mint 5 Elyssa will fully support the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, “Brazilian” (as in pt_BR), Russian, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
10 other languages (Bulgarian, Danish, Greek, Irish (gaelic), Norwegian “no”, Norwegian “nb”, Dutch, Portuguese (pt_PT), Slovak and Serbian) are also partially supported. For these languages some of the tools were not translated yet.
Other languages are also supported by the system (as in previous versions of Linux Mint) but with the mint tools in English.
If your language is not fully supported don’t hesitate to translate the tools yourself. It’s easy and you can do this directly from the Linux Mint forums: [www.linuxmint.com]
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17:30
The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 241
» The Linux Link Tech ShowSpecial Guests Chess Griffin and Troels. Linux Reality, Chess Griffin, MythTv, Linspire, Apple, Patents, PcBSD, BSDs
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16:06
Default theme
» Mint Connection (John)The carbon theme (which could be the default theme in LinuxMint 5) has two huge advantages according to Clem:- It looks pro.
- A lot of space is gained on the screen (the widgets take much less and that leaves more space for content). In particular the difference is impressive in mintMenu and in Firefox.
Click here to see the carbon theme and tell us what you think by answering the poll
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13:55
Same Cloud, bigger Sky
» Linux Geeks United (Polar Bears and Penguins)Same Cloud, bigger Sky
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0:31
News on the Start Page
» The Linux Mint BlogOur most talented artist, Carlos Porto, hit again! This time he redesigned the Linux Mint Start Page to include the 3 latest stories from the Linux Mint blog. Not only does the result look great but we’re hoping it will bring news from the team to Linux Mint users who would not necessarily know about the blog.
Note: Carlos also designed the Mint logo, the website, the forum theme and the software portal.
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15:00
Episode 3 - "Revenge Of Cinelerra" - April 13, 2008
» Open NewsNew show format, now in HD, Cinelerra Tutorial #4 Rendering and Transcoding, guy makes music with his hands.
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15:00
“Linux” and “Linux Mint”
» The Linux Mint BlogThe Linux Mark Institute (LMI) is the exclusive licensor of the Linux trademark on behalf of its owner, Linus Torvalds. For “Linux Mint” to protect its name and be recognized as a trademark we had to get the approval of the LMI so we could use the term “Linux”.
The LMI approved Linux Mint for sublicensing and we can now use the following marks:
- Linux Mint
- LinuxMint
- linuxmint
This approval covers both the distribution itself (downloadable ISOs) and the product associated with it (CDs, DVDs, merchandising, sticks, computers, devices..). It is also perpetual and applies worlwide.
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16:17
Google-izing the network world
» Linux Geeks United (Polar Bears and Penguins)Google-izing the network world
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17:30
The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 240
» The Linux Link Tech ShowSpecial Guest Larry from Lindependence 2008, eeePC goodness and baddness, Linc on security
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16:15
Updates for EnvyNG and Envy Legacy
» Alberto MiloneI’m working on EnvyNG every day. I’m fixing as many bugs as possible. Here’s a list of what’s changed in EnvyNG and Envy Legacy:
Improvements in EnvyNG-core:
* New connection detection method (based on Network Manager)
* Update compatibility list
* Update translations
* Use unicode (utf-8) for the translators' names
* Use an additional xorg.conf parser in order to set the default colour depth
EnvyNG checks the availability of an Internet Connection either by asking Network Manager (through dbus) or (if you don’t use network manager) by using only Python’s “urllib2″. This solves Bug 211620.
The latest update of EnvyNG-core includes an additional xorg.conf parser which should finally solve the problem with ATI cards which don’t have a “defaultdepth” option set in xorg.conf. This made the Xserver crash (at times?) since the fglrx driver assumed that the default colour depth was 8bit.
Improvements in EnvyNG-qt:
* The links in the about dialog can be selected with the mouse cursor
* Fix complete dialog showed up when restart dialog should have
* About dialog can expand now
* Fix if both EnvyNG-qt and -gtk are installed, -qt should be the one which is launched on KDEImprovements in EnvyNG-gtk:
* GTK filechooser points to /home by defaultBugfixes in Envy Legacy:
* Fix Bug #210392 in classes
* Catch exception in classes.restorenvfolder()
* Add "n/a" to dkms blacklist so the unofficially dkms is not installed
on Debian Lenny (Lenny is still unsupported)Should you find other bugs, please report them to me.
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2:00
The Soul That Died
» LugRadioJono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things. This show includes:- Scrum, the project methodology, is from the Agile Programming stable; a brief explanation of it and whether it's worthwhile (3.15) [Talk about how you run software projects in the LugRadio forums]
- Dave Neary talks about the Libre Graphics Meeting, what it's for, and how the LGM team are looking for donations to make this meeting happen -- you can donate to help them! (21.50)
- The egoless desktop -- does the open source community have an advantage over the proprietary world because we don't have to push the names of each project? Is it just as important to have people have loyalty to a particular piece of software even if there's no revenue stream? How vital are brands in the free software world? (38.10) [Discuss this topic in the LugRadio forums]
- LugRadio Live 2008 USA is this Saturday! One final reminder: if you want to go, you can pre-register for a ticket, and remember that there are some really cool prizes on offer if you recommend more friends to buy a ticket than anyone else does! See you all on Saturday... (62.28)
- Your feedback and emails! This week, including Flash mp3 players, stories about how you got into free software, Emacs, conferences, and the state of Linux in Thailand (70.00)
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23:14
The Linux Action Show! Season 8 Episode 5 - OGG
» The Linux Action Show
This week on, The Linux Action Show!9,000 new Linux desktops, YEAH WE COVER THAT! How ever you cut the numbers, Linux desktop usage is up, we discuss! The new version of VMware Workstation is rocking great new features, we cover them. Sun and Canonical announce their plans to love one another, the Epiphany web browser project drops a bomb, and Adobe makes some major Desktop Linux moves!
Then we interview the founder of Fluendo
PLUS - We take a batch of your questions, and give you the run down on the upcoming Linux events!
Those cats at GoDaddy.com have an offer for YOU! Check it out: Take $5 off any order of $30 or more at GoDaddy.com!
All this week on, The Linux Action Show!
This week’s links:
Motorola’s 1600 MING 2, Runs Linux Epiphany Switches to WebKit Adobe Joins Linux Foundation, Develops AIR for Linux Sun and Canonical to bring Ubuntu 8.04 to x86 Servers Workstation 6.5 Beta 1 - Now with 100% more Unity! Linux desktop market share is up as much as 61 percent, study finds 9000 PCs in Swiss schools will switch to Ubuntu only Fluendo Codec Packs Flumotion Flumotion - Streaming Platform Elisa Project LugRadio Live USA 2008Linux Fest Northwest! Meet up with Bryan and Chris!
Want to embrace your inner geek? Then check out CastaBlasta, the boys mix tech, gaming, science fiction, geek reviews, and amazing stories in a way that’s funnier than it should be in this twice a month Show, get a good dose of top nerdertainment! Take a listen at CastaBlasta.com!
Note:
You can find the OGG version of every episode here.
Download The Linux Action Show! Season 8 Episode 5 - OGG
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The Linux Action Show! Season 8 Episode 5 - OGG
» The Linux Action ShowThis week on, The Linux Action Show!9,000 new Linux desktops, YEAH WE COVER THAT! How ever you cut the numbers, Linux desktop usage is up, we discuss! The new version of VMware Workstation is rocking great new features, we cover them. Sun and Canonical announce their plans to love one another, the Epiphany web browser project drops a bomb, and Adobe makes some major Desktop Linux moves!
Then we interview the founder of Fluendo
PLUS - We take a batch of your questions, and give you the run down on the upcoming Linux events!
Those cats at GoDaddy.com have an offer for YOU! Check it out: Take $5 off any order of $30 or more at GoDaddy.com!
All this week on, The Linux Action Show!
This week’s links:
Motorola’s 1600 MING 2, Runs Linux Epiphany Switches to WebKit Adobe Joins Linux Foundation, Develops AIR for Linux Sun and Canonical to bring Ubuntu 8.04 to x86 Servers Workstation 6.5 Beta 1 - Now with 100% more Unity! Linux desktop market share is up as much as 61 percent, study finds 9000 PCs in Swiss schools will switch to Ubuntu only Fluendo Codec Packs Flumotion Flumotion - Streaming Platform Elisa Project LugRadio Live USA 2008 Linux Fest Northwest! Meet up with Bryan and Chris!
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12:29
KDE Elyssa Update
» The Linux Mint BlogA quick update on my progress of KDE Elyssa.
So far I have cleaned up KDE Daryna in an effort to reduce it to a CD size with the main applications like Open Office still installed, but this does not look possible. I posted about suggestions for new or different applications and got some good and helpful responses, but keep them coming if there are any more. I have spent a lot of time looking at a new theme for KDE Elyssa, a brighter one for sure. There has also been lots of great wallpapers posted in the forums lately so go have a look.
The next step is to do some alpha builds using my cut down Daryna and the Ubuntu 8.04 beta and then the RC. These alpha builds help find bugs/problems before the full Ubuntu 8.04 is released. I will also start building up my cut down Daryna with some of the old applications and some of the new ones suggested too.
Cheers Boo
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18:38
A new repository and another mini-call for translations
» Alberto MiloneI’ve set up a new PPA repository for Hardy containing EnvyNG 1.1.0. The repository includes a new version of the three packages with a few bugfixes.
Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list so as to be sure to get always the latest release of EnvyNG :
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/envyng-hardy/ubuntu hardy mainUpdate your list of packages:
sudo apt-get updateand then, for the textual installer, type:
sudo apt-get install envyng-coreor for the GTK GUI:
sudo apt-get install envyng-gtkor for the QT4 GUI::
sudo apt-get install envyng-qtI have followed your suggestions and I’ve fixed a few inconsistencies in the QT4 interface, therefore I need you help again with the translations for just 1 word (”Cancel”). I’ve tried to use what Rosetta suggested as alternative translations from other packages (i.e. firefox 3) therefore some translations will look like they are complete but please check that everything’s ok even in such case.
Thanks again.
P.S. please keep reporting bugs so that I can fix them ASAP.
EDIT: I had posted the wrong repository. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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17:30
The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 239
» The Linux Link Tech ShowSpecial Guest Kevin Hennrikson - Director of Engineering for Zimbra
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13:34
A brand new server
» The Linux Mint BlogThanks to all the people who made donations, thanks to our sponsors who help us financially on a monthly basis and thanks to the income generated through ads we’re now in a much more comfortable position than we were a year ago and as our community and our needs have grown it was time we invested in a second server. So we went ahead with Michael from lintelligence.de (which you probably know as “d00p”) and bought a brand new machine which we’re now using for file hosting.
The server we were using so far is now fully dedicated to web hosting and supports our website, our forums, and all the services under www.linuxmint.com.
On the new server we’ve migrated the upload service used by the maintainers to upload the ISOs, the rsync service which lets our mirrors synchronize with our releases and importantly enough, we’ve also migrated our repositories. Of course, in order not to break anything the Daryna (and previous release) repositories are still at the same place, but starting with Elyssa we’ll be using [packages.linuxmint.com] instead.
The main advantage that this new server brings to us is that the web server (forums, website..etc) is consequently faster since it doesn’t have to deal with the mirrors, the downloads/uploads of ISOs, and soon enough the repositories anymore. It’s now fully dedicated to only one thing: Web hosting. The same thing goes for the second server as well, since it doesn’t have to deal with community web services, the file serving and the repositories will also be faster.
The other advantage of doing this is that in case of downtime only some of the services are down. So if the repositories are down and mintUpdate can’t do its job, we can still access the forums and the website, and vice-versa.
I’d like to thank the community for financially supporting us. Whether it’s through ads, sponsors or donations, Linux Mint is a project which funds come 100% from its community. This lets us focus on the distribution itself without spending time on developping associated salable products or services (Powerpacks, support..etc). It also lets us invest now and then like we did now with this new server and this is very positive.
The future will tell if this income coming from the community will be enough for Mint to grow into a full limited company and to start hiring. As we’re setting up a business here in Ireland new challenges will arise (12% corporation taxe, 20% VAT, 40% income tax, administrative paperwork..etc) but we’re also confident that the release of Elyssa will push Linux Mint to even higher grounds, increase the size of its community and hopefully let us be the 100% community funded project we’ve been so far.
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18:01
EnvyNG 1.1.0 is now available - please test it
» Alberto MiloneHere is a new release of EnvyNG (which supports only Ubuntu Hardy). EnvyNG 1.1.0 is made up of 3 packages:
- envyng-core (which contains the main program + the textual interface)
- envyng-gtk (which contains the new GTK interface for GNOME, XFCE, etc. users)
- envyng-qt (which contains the new QT4 interface for KDE users)
Brief Explanation
If you install only envyng-core you will have only the textual interface which (currently) has less features than the 2 GUIs.If you want to install either envyng-gtk or envyng-qt you will have to install envyng-core first.
New Features
The 2 GUIs now enable you to:1) Install and save the packages with the driver to a folder
2) simply download the packages without installing anything (this will be useful if you want to install such packages on a computer which is not connected to the Internet)EnvyNG relies upon my PPA repository (the packages are no longer built locally), therefore every time a new driver is released I will only have to update my repository and you won’t have to install a new release of EnvyNG. You will receive the update via update manager. The packages use DKMS (i.e. you won’t have to reinstall the driver for each kernel you have since this is done automatically), do not conflict with Ubuntu’s linux-restricted-modules, do not cause problems during dist-upgrades since they can be overwritten by Ubuntu’s official packages (if they provide a driver which is newer than the ones in my repository or if the kernel is upgraded, say, from 2.6.24 to 2.6.25, ABI bumps won’t do anything).
Translations
There was a problem with Launchpad therefore I wasn’t able to upload all your translations in time (but I promise I will ASAP). Thanks again for your translations.Instructions
Please read point A of the FAQ before you install EnvyNG (so that the old EnvyNG doesn’t conflict with version 1.1.0)Testers
Please test the packages and let me know if there are problems.Credits
As I said in the past, I would have never done all this alone. I would like to thank all the Ubuntu developers who helped me, all the artists who participated in the artwork contest, and the translators. And special thanks to Carlos Perelló Marín who helped me with Rosetta.
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17:26
Je vous demande pardon.
» Linuxmintfr (Natal)Bonjour à tous,
Je vous demande pardon du fonds du cÅ“ur, car c’est vrai que ça fait un moment que je n’ai pas donné de nouvelles. J’étais un peu en manque de temps c’est derniers jours, puis pour dire la vérité, je pensais que personne ne lisaient ce blog. Mais un gentil commentaire de Phil, ma motivé. Je vais donc essayer d’être un leader pour la communauté francaise désolé d’employer ce bien grands mots
. Ce que je veux dire par là , c’est que j’ai vraiment envie d’aider la communauté Mint comme je le peux. Sinon j’aurais aimer savoir si le design vous plaît, ou si il est trop vert? Je vais très vite me remettre au travail, en attendant vous pouvez me découvrir sur mon blog personnel. Qui vous plaira j’espère.
FR: Mon blog
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14:37
A few updates
» Alberto MiloneI’m still trying to get over the stress of graduating, dreaming (every night!) of having yet to do exams in order to graduate doesn’t help though. I’m working on my projects at a slower pace, fixing a few bugs here and there before the release of EnvyNG. I have designed a new system for URandR and I hope to write some real code soon.
Today I have fixed a nasty bug in the old EnvyNG which affected automatic hardware detection with the following ATI cards:
['ATI FireGL V7300', 'ATI FireGL V7350', 'ATI FireGL V7350 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL V3400 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL V7300 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL V5200', 'ATI FireGL V3300 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL Z1 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL X3-256 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL X1 Secondary', 'ATI FireMV 2200 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL V3200', 'ATI FireGL X3-256', 'ATI FireGL Z1', 'ATI FireGL V5200 Secondary', 'ATI Mobility FireGL V5200', 'ATI FireGL X1', 'ATI FireMV 2200', 'ATI FireGL V3100', 'ATI FireGL V3300', 'ATI FireMV 2200 PCI', 'ATI FireMV 2200 PCI Secondary', 'ATI FireGL 8800', 'ATI Mobility FireGL V5000', 'ATI Mobility FireGL V5000', 'ATI Mobility FireGL V5250', 'ATI Mobility FireGL V7200', 'ATI FireGL V5100', 'ATI Mobility FireGL V3100', 'ATI Mobility FireGL V7100', 'ATI Mobility FireGL V3200', 'ATI FireGL V7200 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL T2 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL V7200 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL T2', 'ATI Mobility FireGL T2/T2e', 'ATI Mobility FireGL V5100', 'ATI FireGL V5100 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL V7100 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL V3100 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL X2-256/X2-256t Secondary', 'ATI FireGL V5000', 'ATI FireGL V3300', 'ATI FireGL V5000 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL V7200', 'ATI FireGL V3200 Secondary', 'ATI FireGL X2-256/X2-256t', 'ATI FireGL V7200', 'ATI FireGL V3400', 'ATI FireGL V7100']It’s all fixed in EnvyNG’s new release.
As regards the translations for EnvyNG 1.1.0, you’re doing an amazing job. Thank you all. One thing that I’ve noticed though is that a few translators are having problems with the translation of the word “Main”, maybe because it’s a rather generic word which doesn’t make much sense out a context. Here is screenshot which hopefully will make things a bit clearer (”Main” is the label of the 1st tab):
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17:15
Pay the penguin
» Linux Geeks United (Polar Bears and Penguins)Pay the penguin -
17:15
Pay the penguin
» Linux Geeks United (Polar Bears and Penguins)Pay the penguin
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15:02
Full Circle Magazine - Issue 11
» The Linux Mint BlogFull Circle is a free monthly PDF magazine about Ubuntu. It’s always of very high quality and very nice to read. The last edition of Full Circle (Issue #11) talks about us and makes a comparison between Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
Link: http://dl.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue11_en.pdf
Although the article is nice I would like to point out a few mistakes made by the author and add a few comments for the readers:
- The problem with codecs is not that they might be “illegal” in some countries, but that they might give reasons for people to make patents threats in some countries. So for instance, if you’re in the USA you’re not breaking the law by downloading the Main Edition, but if you happen to be a company or a magazine which is using or distributing Linux Mint Main Edition you’re taking a risk because patent owners can potentially make a case against you. So for this reason, we also provide another version of Linux Mint, called the Light Edition, which comes free of all patented technologies.
- MintDisk was great back in the times when distributions didn’t come with Read/Write access to NTFS. Now, it’s basically obsolete only for early Mint users to remember how great a tool it was and how unnecessary it has become. Same thing with mintConfig (although it’s still used by the XFCE Edition), it was great back in the times when Gnome didn’t have a control center… but it does now, so there’s no much need for MintConfig anymore. These tools were very popular in Bianca and Cassandra but they’re not even present in the current Daryna and they’re now discontinued as better alternatives have now been adopted. The 3 most popular Mint tools at the moment are mintMenu, mintUpdate and mintInstall.
- We’re very likely to support X86_64 in the upcoming Linux Mint 5 Elyssa. All mint tools were repackaged to be platform agnostic ([packages.linuxmint.com]) so they should now work fine under 64bit and we’re planning to support both i386 and X86_64 in the future. The reason for this is not that we believe in better performance under X86_64 (we don’t) but simply to ensure that Linux Mint 5 (which is an LTS release) will stay compatible with most people’s hardware over the next three years… and guess how much RAM people will have in 3 years? Probably more than 4GB.
To conclude, I would like to thank Full Circle for mentioning us. It’s a very nice magazine and it’s great to see them talk about Mint.
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11:31
IRC Quizz AllStars Table - March 2008
» The Linux Mint BlogSo here we are, March is almost over and after a tough competition here’s what the All Stars table looks like:
1 blahblahx — 0.447 pts, 4 games. * Congrats! *
2 clem — 0.376 pts, 3 games.
3 Kronophage — 0.344 pts, 4 games.
4 GuttaMan — 0.294 pts, 3 games.
5 TheFishy — 0.213 pts, 2 games.
6 yoz-y — 0.187 pts, 1 games.
7 Zwopper — 0.113 pts, 1 games.
8 FastZ — 0.105 pts, 1 games.
9 RedJak — 0.103 pts, 1 games.
10 Catze — 0.076 pts, 1 games.Congratulations to BlahblahX. Being at the top requires a lot of skills (time, luck, a bit of knowledge…etc)
I guess the Quizz bot will reset the stats on the 1st of April.If you haven’t joined the Quizz yet, it’s very easy:
- In Linux Mint: open up Xchat-Gnome (or Konversation) then when it’s connected join the #pimpmymint channel.
- On other platforms: Launch your favorite IRC client, connect to the irc.spotchat.org server and join the #pimpmymint channel.Note: Make sure to register your nickname with Nickserv so that the Quizz bot can remember you the next time you log in
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16:48
Call for translations (for EnvyNG 1.1.0)
» Alberto MiloneDear users of EnvyNG,
if you want to help to translate EnvyNG (1.1.0) into your native language you can contribute by using Rosetta’s web interface.The Italian translation is complete.
As regards the EnvyNG 1.1.0, it will no longer build the packages locally but will rely on my repository so that you won’t have to install all those dependencies anymore. This means that when a new driver is released you will only have to wait for me to update my repository (rather than having to install a new release of EnvyNG).
EnvyNG 1.1.0 is ready (but I haven’t released it yet), therefore the sooner the translations are available, the better.
Thanks in advance for your help.
P.S. the %s symbol must be left as it is.
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15:42
A quick update for Envy Legacy
» Alberto MiloneIf you were affected by this bug in the ATI installer on Ubuntu 64bit, the new release of Envy Legacy (envy_0.9.10-0ubuntu8) fixes it.
EDIT: please try envy_0.9.10-0ubuntu9 instead
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16:30
The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 238
» The Linux Link Tech ShowSpecial Guest Bruce Perens - OSI, Microsoft and OpenSource, Bruce's bid for OSI Board. Erin on the eeePC. SSHFS vs Samba vs NFS - a cursory look.
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1:08
Carbon - Mint 5
» The Linux Mint BlogI’d like to get everybody’s opinion on this:
As you can see it looks far more professional (shall I say boring?) than the theme we’re currently using. It’s all grey and squary looking but it has two huge advantages:
- It looks pro.
- A lot of