bucketFountain » linux http://bucketfountain.com Delayed coverage from Wellington NZ Sat, 12 May 2012 05:34:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ubuntu Karmic Koala says “no worries mate” http://bucketfountain.com/2009/11/04/ubuntu-karmic-koala-says-no-worries-mate/ http://bucketfountain.com/2009/11/04/ubuntu-karmic-koala-says-no-worries-mate/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:52:03 +0000 ben http://bucketfountain.com/?p=962 At the weekend I installed Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10). My overall impression so far is positive: Karmic Koala continues the tradition set by Ubuntu releases of incremental improvement; it is evolutionary not revolutionary.

Most importantly it just works, with the exception of one issue I am having with resuming after the laptop has been suspended, but I will get to the bottom of that.

There are a number of reviews that list the main features, there’s a good summary at Ars and another on The Register.

Despite some reports of problems with the upgrade, I had no issues at all.

I’m not sure what to make of commentators comparing Ubuntu 9.10 to Windows 7, but I guess comparisons are inevitable as long as tech-writers have column inches to fill.

Some folks say that the look of the desktop in Karmic is cleaner and crisper. That’s true to an extent but to me it feels a little Mac-esque, although only a little – it is by no means aping the OSX look.

My verdict on Karmic after nearly a week is positive, and if you’ve never tried Linux download a live disk and give it go.

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Update: It turned out to be a little different, the script example in iceflatline needed to be tweaked slightly for my setup. The command

xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap

is a useful one – it pointed me to an error that was preventing the new binding from working. A useful article on Xmodmap can be found here.

]]> http://bucketfountain.com/2009/10/04/crunchbang-linux/feed/ 0 Nice change to Ubuntu 8.10 http://bucketfountain.com/2008/02/21/nice-change-to-ubuntu-810/ http://bucketfountain.com/2008/02/21/nice-change-to-ubuntu-810/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:48:37 +0000 ben http://bucketfountain.com/2008/02/21/nice-change-to-ubuntu-810/ Linux.com reports that “Brasero will replace Serpentine as the CD-writing utility in the upcoming April release of Ubuntu 8.10″. That’s a good thing, although I’ll still keep the totally awesome K3b

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]]> http://bucketfountain.com/2008/01/12/kde-4/feed/ 0 One of these things is not like the others…. http://bucketfountain.com/2007/12/01/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other/ http://bucketfountain.com/2007/12/01/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:51:35 +0000 ben http://bucketfountain.com/2007/12/01/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other/ Ubuntu and a Mac

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]]> http://bucketfountain.com/2007/10/10/not-that-im-sort-of-ubuntu-fanboy-but/feed/ 0 The Free Software song http://bucketfountain.com/2007/08/17/the-free-software-song/ http://bucketfountain.com/2007/08/17/the-free-software-song/#comments Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:46:32 +0000 ben http://bucketfountain.com/2007/08/17/the-free-software-song/ Having just watched Revolution OS for the umpteenth time, and finding that the words are freely distributable, for your reading pleasure here are the lyrics to RMS‘s Free Software Song:

[To the melody of Sadi Moma:]

Join us now and share the software;
You’ll be free, hackers, you’ll be free.
x2

Hoarders may get piles of money,
That is true, hackers, that is true.
But they cannot help their neighbors;
That’s not good, hackers, that’s not good.

When we have enough free software
At our call, hackers, at our call,
We’ll throw out those dirty licenses
Ever more, hackers, ever more.

Join us now and share the software;
You’ll be free, hackers, you’ll be free.
x2

You’ll find this on the Free Software Foundation’s site along with some recordings, including the obligatory death metal version.

Nudging Craig to do a recording of this.

]]> http://bucketfountain.com/2007/08/17/the-free-software-song/feed/ 0 YaKuake http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/18/yakuake/ http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/18/yakuake/#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 11:37:07 +0000 wakeme http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/18/yakuake/ I love YaKuake. Oooooohhhh yes it’s nice. Screenshots here.

]]> http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/18/yakuake/feed/ 0 BucketFountain search terms http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/03/bucketfountain-search-terms/ http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/03/bucketfountain-search-terms/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 08:56:50 +0000 wakeme http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/03/bucketfountain-search-terms/ The most interesting part of looking at site stats are the search terms people have used to find the site. Sometimes they’re lewd, sometimes they’re slightly odd, and sometimes people just need a hand with something. Take, for example, this poor chap:

dsl-g604t not connecting with windows vista

Oh dear! Well, on this happy occasion I’m glad I can guide this reader to a solution.

]]> http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/03/bucketfountain-search-terms/feed/ 0 Ubuntu Feisty lives up to its name http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/03/ubuntu-feisty-lives-up-to-its-name/ http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/03/ubuntu-feisty-lives-up-to-its-name/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 07:49:42 +0000 wakeme http://bucketfountain.com/2007/05/03/ubuntu-feisty-lives-up-to-its-name/ Which isn’t necessarily a good thing. It looks as though hoards of upgraders to Feisty are finding that they can no longer connect to wireless networks. One of my machines could not even connect down the wire…. Oh why didn’t I just stick with 6.10? Come back Edgy Eft!

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