mozilla-mplayer

Hi All,

Install mozilla-mplayer package to get an embedded mplayer to your firefox or iceweasel in Debian Lenny.

Tc,
Ananth Gouri

Fedora 13 Released

Hi All,

Fedora 13 was released around 2 days back IST.

Will be writing a review soon.

Tc,
Ananth Gouri

Unmount feature of Lucid Lynx

Hi All,

The unmount feature of Lucid Lynx - with Gnome 2.30 is just too good.

I had not got a chance to use Gnome 2.30 in Lenny.

Gnome 2.30 - say for example - you are listening to mp3 in your mp3 player or reading an ebook from your hard disk -

Next if you plan to shutdown your system - it clearly shows

1. For MP3 -  The player being used, the song being played
2. For ebook - The reader being used and the ebook being read

And then asks , "Do you still want to shutdown?"

Tc,
Ananth Gouri

Lupu

Hi All,

Puppy Linux 5.0 is released.

Since its base is from Ubuntu and Ubuntu's code name  being Lucid Lynx, Puppy Linux 5.0 code name is Lucid Puppy (LuPu).

The iso image file size is 128 Mb.

Tc,
Ananth S Gouri

Sound Quality in Lucid Lynx

Hi All,

I took a great decision of migrating from my Lenny to Lucid Lynx. Lucid Lynx is the source code name for ?buntu based distributions.

Now I know with the latest version of packages and that too with the stable versions of it... Its just awesome experience.

I am enjoying the quality of sound - with the Alsa base being 1.0.22 version.

I also split the sound thro a 2 stereo splitter b/w the 2.1 Inspire Creative and my smaller Creative speakers.

Tc,
Ananth Gouri

Power Management in Lucid Lynx

Hi All,

I could see 1 option missing in the power management section of Lucid Lynx.

"When the laptop lid is closed" most of the distros will have this option "Do Nothing"

Dont know if the developers forgot that option or what...

Tc,
Ananth Gouri

udev 145

Hi All,

udev - the one that is important for creating dev and also acts as a dynamic module loader [hotplug management daemon].

For udev above the version 145 we get an error stating "kernel has to be updated or remove this feature:
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED which is been set to Y

There has been a patch 2/8 where Linus signs off to rename it to just SYSFS and make use of the old .config file.

I know many would not have understood anything in this post.

Even I am working on this.

Will update you all soon when I properly get this working.

There are other solutions of full dist upgrade thro aptitude which has worked for some and not for many.

Lets see,
Ananth Gouri

Vector Linux

Hi All,

The classic version of Vector Linux 6.0 is released.

Check this out -> Vectorlinux.com

Tc,
Ananth Gouri

PCLinuxOS 2010

Hi All,

The OpenBox and the regular KDE version of PCLinuxOS 2010 is released.

Check it out -> PCLinuxOS.com

Tc,
Ananth Gouri

Gnome

Hi All,

Gnome 2.30 is out. Check out at Gnome.org

Tc,
Ananth Gouri

Cluster

Hi All,

Now Oracle based MySql has a new product (as far as I know and remember) called MySql Cluster and latest version being 7.1


Check This


And the next good part being - the downloads are still free and under OpenSource.


Enjoy and download a copy of yours now ;)


Tc,
Ananth Gouri

Epiphany and proxy

Hi All,

For the Epiphany browser to work under proxy - issue your proxy credentials in the Network Preferences.

Tc,
Ananth Gouri

Reconstructor

Hey All,

The below link helps you to rebuild your own version of Debian or Ubuntu.

https://build.reconstructor.org/

Try it out...

Copyright: linuxpoison.blogspot.com

GM,
Ananth Gouri

All codec support in ?bunutu 10.04

Hi All,

For the new 10.04 release of ?buntu(s) install these codecs to play what you want:

1. gstreamer all set plugins (bad, ugly)
2. libavcodec (unstripped versions)

Thats it :)
Ananth Gouri

?buntu synaptics v/s Debian synaptics

Hi All,

First of all Synaptics and Synaptic are 2 different applications.

Synaptic is the regular package manager in Debian.

Synaptics is the Touchpad application which makes use of your laptop touchpad.

The comparison now is the Debian synaptics' tapping does not work as in the recent ?buntu version :(

Hope you all understood what I meant.

Tc,
Ananth Gouri

Complicated Architectures and Distributions

Hi All,

As you all had recently read - I had mentioned about the latest releases of ?buntu.

And yday I downloaded Kubuntu 9.04 for 64 bit and day before yday I had downloaded Ubuntu 32 bit.

And I already had Debian 32  bit on my Laptop.

Today it was good to install both architectures on the same laptop and it was wow to see the difference.

Now I feel when I paid Rs. 500 for 5 Debian DVDs - I could have gone with the 64 bit ones only.

Dumb me and GN all,
Ananth Gouri

Releases

Hey All,

This post is just about the releases.

Ubuntu 10.04 is out.
Kubuntu 10.04 is out.
Xubuntu 10.04 is out.
Lubuntu 10.04 is out.
Edubuntu 10.04 is out.

Ubuntu Studio 10.04 is out.
Yoper XFCE, KDE 3.x and KDE 4.x is out.

Ufffff....

For rest of the things... DWatch

Take care,
Ananth Gouri

India Mirror

Hey All,

For the recent ?buntu releases - an Indian company called Honesty Net Solutions Pvt Ltd has provided a mirror.

I was extremely happy and keep up the great work guys...!!!

Cheers:)
Ananth Gouri