Forgoing The Commonplace, Hello Ubuntu!

The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04, bringing with it the earliest new features for the next version of Ubuntu.

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FBReader is an e-book reader. It currently works on the Sharp Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM, Nokia Internet Tablet (Maemo platform), Archos PMA430, Motorola E680i/A780/A1200 smartphones, PepperPad 3, Asus Eee PC,IRex iLiad, UMPC, and desktop computers running Linux, Windows XP/Vista, or FreeBSD. It supports several e-book
formats: epub, plucker, palmdoc, zTXT, HTML, CHM, fb2, TCR (psion text),OEB,OpenReader, RTF, non-DRM'ed Mobipocket, and plain text.

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With all the talk of the new theme I was thinking I'd make a blog post of all the Ubuntu wallpapers over time, then as I was looking for them, I found a website doing just that (at least up to 8.10). I praised Hardy's wallpaper when it was first revealed (but erm, not the final version…). That was the last Ubuntu wallpaper I liked though (just as well I guess—I switched to Kubuntu for Jaunty without bothering with Intrepid).

Leading up to that, Gutsy had a lovely wallpaper that looked to me like chocolate-coloured silk draped gracefully across the screen. One of my cousins said it looked to her like delicious chocolate mousse (and asked for a spoon) when I replaced her Mac's wallpaper with it.

And before that, Feisty and Edgy…well, I didn't like their default wallpapers, but they had the same alternate wallpaper which I'd forgotten about until now, and which I really liked at the time (and still do).

This one looks like melted dark chocolate to me. Anyone got a strawberry? Hmm, maybe it's good that the new wallpaper looks like a bruise. I wouldn't be wanting to eat my desktop…

Which release had your favourite wallpaper?

TestDrive is a project that makes it very easy to download and run the latest daily Ubuntu development snapshot in a virtual machine. Actually, it can be configured to download and run any URL-access ISO in a virtual machine.

But the primary goal is to provide a very simple method for allowing non-technical Ubuntu users to test and provide feedback on the current Ubuntu release under development.
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Yesterday in #ubuntu, someone asked, "I am still confused about this. Everything claims that dist-upgrade actually *upgrades* distributions...can someone please clear this up for me"

So I told them:

<maco> apt-get dist-upgrade differs from apt-get upgrade in that it will remove obsolete packages and add new dependencies, while apt-get upgrade will not. this is necessary when upgrading from one distro release to another, but it is not the *only* time it is necessary. thus, in aptitude, dist-upgrade has been renamed to full-upgrade
<maco> apt-get dist-upgrade will only change you from one release to another if you've modified /etc/apt/sources.list to point to a newer release, but this method of upgrading is not recommended

They also asked "and if i do want to upgrade the distribution (not that i do), how do i go about that?" to which I responded:

<maco> the recommended way to change distro releases is sudo do-release-upgrade

They said it was the best explanation in the shortest amount of text, so I'm posting it here, hoping it'll make it easier for people to find. By the way, man apt-get does explain all this…just in slightly more technical terms.

Remastersys is a tool that can be used to do 2 things with an existing Klikit or Ubuntu or derivative installation.It can make a full system backup including personal data to a live cd or dvd that you can use anywhere and install. It can make a distributable copy you can share with friends. This will not have any of your personal user data in it.

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…if this is the sort of email you're intending to send:

Subject: I had no idea that hot girls liked linux
Body: Are there more of you? I mean how does that happen? How does a good looking female put off their social life to the point where they can actually use ubuntu without ripping their eyes out?

Seriously, I don't want to hear it. Just think about it for one minute. What does appearance have to do with technical ability? Why do all the good looking men involved in K/X/Ubuntu put time into their favourite distro that could otherwise be spent on their social life? My answer's not going to be any different than theirs! And for that matter, why should it be social life or Ubuntu? Consider that many of the developers are friends with each other.

Also, isn't that being a little mean to Ubuntu? I mean, yeah, it's not as awesome as Kubuntu, but.…still… (joking!)

And yes, that's an actual email I received today. Ugh. Including his name and email address here is /very/ tempting, but it'd also be unethical, so I won't.

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The qBittorrent project was started in March 2006 to create a lightweight but featureful BitTorrent client that would be multi-platform and very easy to use.qBittorrent v2 is the closest open source (GNU GPL v2 license) equivalent to µtorrent. qBittorrent is based on Qt4 toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar.

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This quick script that generates an xml which can be consumed by the backgrounds config. This script was created by ozhoo in ubuntuforums http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1344787.

First you need to open wallpaper.sh file

gksudo gedit /usr/bin/wallpaper.sh

Copy and paste the following script


#!/bin/bash
#
# usage:./wallpaper.sh background_dir_1 background_dir_2 background_dir_3
#
# description: simply generate a backgrounds xml that can be consumed by gnome's background configuration
#
# author: ubuntuforums.org username 'ozhoo'
#
# note: only looks for .JPG and .jpg files

# output file
FILENAME=backgrounds.xml

# start time
YEAR=2009
MONTH=08
DAY=01
HOUR=00
MINUTE=00
SECOND=00

# time to show background (seconds)
WALLDURATION=900.0

# transition time (seconds)
TRANSDURATION=5.0

# script specifics
DIRS=$*
T1="echo -e \t"
T2="echo -e \t\t"

echo "" > "$FILENAME"
${T1}"" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${YEAR}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${MONTH}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${DAY}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${HOUR}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${MINUTE}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${SECOND}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T1}"" >> "$FILENAME"

get_first()
{
for d in $DIRS; do
find "$d"|grep -i .jpg|while read j; do
echo "$j"
break
done
break
done
}

FIRST="$(get_first)"

${T1}"" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${WALLDURATION}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${FIRST}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T1}"" >> "$FILENAME"
${T1}"" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${TRANSDURATION}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${FIRST}" >> "$FILENAME"

for d in $DIRS; do
find "$d"|grep -i .jpg|while read j; do
if [ "$j" == "$FIRST" ]; then
continue
else
${T2}"${j}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T1}"" >> "$FILENAME"
${T1}"" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${WALLDURATION}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${j}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T1}"" >> "$FILENAME"
${T1}"" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${TRANSDURATION}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T2}"${j}" >> "$FILENAME"
fi
done
done

${T2}"${FIRST}" >> "$FILENAME"
${T1}"" >> "$FILENAME"
echo "" >> "$FILENAME"

Save and exit the file.

Now you need to give excute permissions for your script

chmod +x wallpaper.sh

Using this script

/usr/bin/wallpaper.sh background_dir_1 background_dir_2 background_dir_3

Note:- This script only looks for .JPG and .jpg files

DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX.The people who inspired digiKam's design are the photographers like you who want to view, manage, edit, enhance, organize, tag, and share photographs under Linux systems.

You can check digikam new feaures from here

Open terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/extra

Update the source list

sudo apt-get update

Install digikam 1.0

sudo apt-get install digikam

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In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache,MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.

The LAMP option means you don’t have to install and integrate each of the four separate LAMP components, a process which can take hours and requires someone who is skilled in the installation and configuration of the individual applications. Instead, you get increased security, reduced time-to-install, and reduced risk of misconfiguration, all of which results in a lower cost of ownership.New pre-configured installation options have been added to the Ubuntu Server Cloud computing server,cloud computing node and PostgreSQL Database options join existing Mail Server, Open SSH Server,Samba File Server, Print Server, Tomcat Java Server,Virtual Machine Host,Manual Package selection,LAMP and DNS options for pre-configured installations, easing the deployment of common server configurations.

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