Daviey

Came across this digg posting.

Ubuntu.com has an image in the top left hand corner, showing one of the characters wearing a ‘Dell’ T-Shirt.

As one ‘digger’ said, “I think its rather cool. Linux is not just for nerds any longer.”

On another note, according to This blog posting - Ubuntu/Dell laptops might be available from tomorrow.  Let’s hope!

I decided to re-install feisty on my ‘lapdog’. Shouldn’t be that hard eh?

I think it is important to re-install now and then, if only to bug/gotcha spot - so you can still help people with installation problems. (Also my laptop was running very hot, and lack of ACPI hooks left me unsure how to fix it).

I always try to dual boot Ubuntu, with the other partition being a safe install - it was edgy, so I thought I’d blast that partition away. This way I can keep my existing feisty install for production.

Here are the steps I followed, to do a Fresh install of feisty:
Step

1. Burn feisty ISO to cd
2. Install
3. Reboot and realise you installed the server edition.

Try again…

1. Download the correct ISO (Live version)
2. Burn the image
3. Install
4. X won’t start with my graphics card

Let’s try again..

1. Download the feisty alternate iso
2. Accidentally hit cancel and goto step1
3. Burn the cd
4. Realise you burnt the normal iso again by accident

Hit head against wall & find more blank cdr’s

1. Install
2. X still won’t start
3. Find ‘fglrx’ driver from apt’s cache in other partition
4. Wooo - now go to bed at silly o’clock.

I know I could have upgraded from the server to desktop edition, and reconfigure ‘xserver-xorg’ - but I didn’t want to. I wanted to ‘try’ and install from a ‘newbie’ perspective following the recommended steps. Ie, if Livecd fails - use alternate.

Now I know why not to do certain things when tired…

EDIT:
Bug well known - https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/89853

This pretty much slipped under the radar…

Red Hat have provided the FOSS community with ‘drop in replacements’ for the main fonts provided by ‘msttcorefonts’ (Arial, Times New Roman et al). They have done this “to say thank you to all our friends in the open source community for all you have done to make us successful.” Which is awfully nice. These fonts are provided under GPLv2 + 2 exceptions (not sure exactly why these are required).

Announcement: Here

There was an initial effort for packaging these for repository ‘Universe’ HERE - But from my understanding Debian’s font ‘task-force’ are also packaging it - but are concerned about a licensing issue that they are trying to deal with upstream (Red-Hat). So i’ll probably nuke my package.

 EDIT:
Although the package hasn’t been officially released due to the above problems.  Debian’s pre-released package is available here, It should work without any problems.  However, not being an official package the normal ‘health warning’ applies.

Well that settles it.

I’ve now joined the crazy ‘Web-2.0-unstable’ world.