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.

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.

Get K3b To burn MP3′s

Update: Made changes below to offer solution for K3B in 9.10

“Mini How To” Get K3b To burn MP3′s

If you have used k3b before and tried to burn a audio CD from MP3′s then you know this doesn’t just work. You have to install some codecs to get this to work. Here is how:

Install the libk3b2-extracodecs like this:

sudo apt-get install libk3b2-extracodecs

For users of Kubuntu 9.10 use this:

Getting Flash And Java To Work On Kubuntu

Another installment of the series “The Move from Windows to Kubuntu is Smoother than You Think” was published on Bright Hub. This Part is titled “Making Your Kubuntu Installation Usable: Install Firefox Java And Flash” In this part I show the readers how to use perfect*buntu to install Java and Flash and perfect*buntu brings more to the table then that. Skype and Remastersys are also option for installation among others. Please support this blog and read my article on Bright Hub.

Thanks,
[mad]Berry

How To Get Atheros AR242x To Work on 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Updates

**02-24-2009** Instructions for fix after update to kernel 2.6.27-11-generic below.  This how to uses compat-wireless-2009-02-24.tar.bz2. It was tested on (K)Ubuntu 8.10 KDE 4.1.2. Kernel version 2.6.27-7-generic & 2.6.27-9-generic

For instructions on getting the AR242x to work on 8.04 click here.

Introduction

You could see this as part 3 in the series: How To Get Atheros AR242x Wireless To Work
It’s with disappointment that I have to report the following:

I started with a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.10, the reason for this is simple I wanted to make sure that nobody could say “you should have done a clean install”. On a clean install out of the box the AR242x doesn’t work.

What I Tried First

So I started to search for solutions. There a several solutions out there here is a quick list:

The last option worked the best for me so that is what I’ll go with for this how to. Let me clarify that ath_hal, ath5k and ath9k are all developed by madwifi so props to them for doing such a great job of developing the drivers that make wireless for the AR242x work under Linux.