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• November 24, 2007
• 18:15

  The Linux Action Show! Episode 67 - OGG

   » ‎ LAS (podcast)

  Enclosure: [download]

  This week on, The Linux Action Show!
  The one Laptop per child Buy one Give one program is seeing great results, we cover the Linux foundation’s desktop user survey, we give you the 411 on Ubuntu’s new JeOS, and we go over E.A.’s GREAT news.
  THEN –
  We review Fedora 8 – PLUS SO MUCH MORE!

  Check out this great deal: Save 10% on any order at GoDaddy.com!

  All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

  This weeks links:

  Archos 604, runs Linux
  OLPC Give One, Get One program extended — averaging $2M sales per day
  Linux Foundation’s Desktop Linux Survey Results
  Canonical to Provide Optimized Ubuntu OS Layer for VMware Virtual Appliances
  PC-BSD Distribution Agreement with Fry’s Electronics
  Electronic Arts Inc. announced the company will donate the original SimCityâ„¢
  Fedora 8 sees strong adoption in first week
  Oracle Is Latest To Take On VMware
  Google’s Android OS early look SDK now available

  Hey! NEW NOTES:

  1. The Linux Action Show! strongly encourages the OGG format, it is a smaller download, that sounds better!
  

  2. You can find the OGG version of every episode here.
  
  3. Comments for this weeks show can be made in the forum, comments are turned off on the main page, we look forward to hearing from you!

  4. Looking for the HQ version of the show? The High Quality Ogg Feed and the Regular Ogg Feed have been merged into one amazing ACTION feed! The regular OGG feed is now in stereo with a higher bit rate, but with the same great size!

  
  Download The Linux Action Show! Episode 67 - OGG
  

• 12:40

  Envy 0.9.9 the new AMD driver and a few notes…

   » ‎ Alberto Milone

  Envy Release Notes

  • Desktop Effects with NVIDIA cards
  ∘ Try to enable the Desktop effects, let Restricted Drivers Manager install the driver again, then (don’t reboot) use Envy again and finally reboot.

  • The ATI module couldn’t be loaded at times.
  ∘ usually a depmod -ae solved the problem but I’ve tried to fix the problem.
  ∘ I even managed to get the driver to work on Gutsy’s livecd (I had to log out and log in after the installation of the driver instead of rebooting, which I couldn’t do, but I warmly recommend you to reboot). The desktop effects worked also on the livecd (they were a bit slow though).

  • The new ATI driver is available in Envy

  • NVIDIA’s new BETA driver is not included in this release.
  ∘ I might release an unstable version of Envy for this. Later…

  • Envy no longer depends on “nvidia-xconfig” to set up your xorg.conf
  ∘ Envy has its own Xorg parser now.

  • The list of ATI/AMD cards has been updated
  ∘ Radeon HD cards should be automatically detected.

  • You can either use Envy or Restricted Drivers Manager. Please don’t use them together.
  ∘ Should you decide to use Restricted Drivers Manager after using Envy you will have to undo what Envy did, by typing:
  ∘ sudo envy –uninstall-all

  P.S. I’ll set up the repositories as soon as I have the time. In the meantime you can get Envy here.