Kubuntu 10.04 LTS Released Today

As I’m writing this my laptop is upgrading from 9.10 to the new 10.o4 LTS version of Kubuntu. Kubuntu released the new version today.(this also goes for Ubuntu and Edubuntu as well as Xubuntu).

Go here to download the new version or use the update manager to upgrade. Make sure you do all the updates on your current version of Kubuntu or Ubuntu first. This goed for 8.04 & 9.04 LTS releases and any other release in between.

Busy, Downtime Again, Server Move

It’s been awhile since my last post.  Next to being busy, there where problems again with my Dreamhost account.  That and the fact that Dreamhost started moving server around the beginning of November, causing more downtime, made me decide to move once again.

After only 6 months with Dreamhost I had all the downtime I can take.  I want people to be able to visit my blogs and Dreamhost stopped me from making that possible.  I canceled the Dreamhost PS and moved everything to a new VPS server hosted far far away from Dreamhost.

Karmic Koala 9.10 The First Alpha Is Here

Leaving the release of Jaunty Jackalope behind.  It’s time to welcome our new baby to the stage.  This new version will be called Karmic Koala and will carry version number 9.10.

Today Alpha One is released and traditionally this is only an alternate. No live cd’s yet.

The Karmic Koala Promise

For Karmic Koala the cloud concept will be worked out more and Canocial is promising an OS that will use near to zero watts when in  idle mode.  The look is said to change as well. A rumor has been started that the brown will finally be ditched. With a new smooth flicker free start-up and the new development kernel mode settings that it will bring, it might give us a totally new start-up environment.  With the new graphical boot, the login experience will also get a work over in its look.

Want To Boot Linux From A Flash Drive?

I have tried a lot of different Linux distro’s, they all have iso’s you can put on a CD. But this would take a crazy number of CD’s.  There are ways to put a distro on a USB flash drive yourself see pendrivelinux.com.  What if you just don’t want to bother with installing different pieces of software to get the USB flash drive to boot?

Took The Plunge Jaunty Jackalope Kubuntu 9.04 On Laptop

Introduction

After a problem with the Kubuntu update to KDE 4.2, the laptop reinstalled the desktop all together, I’m now running the first Jaunty Jackalope Beta.  I like contributing back to the community, most of you already know this see my articles and previous work in here.  Installing a beta version and using it on a production box does take some guts.

How Did It Go?

If you have ever installed a beta product of anything then you know that instability is almost a given.  I started the installation of Jaunty on a clean HDD on Friday.  Then decided to do the rest of my configuration over this past weekend.  I take a little longer setting up my own boxes because I am precise about how stuff is installed.