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