Linux: April 2006 Archives
The ICT Expo is on next Thursday and Friday in the RDS. I'll be there on the Friday for most of the day, as I am giving a talk in the afternoon on Open Source software in the enterprise.
If you're going to be around during the day let me know :)
Ken has setup a Frappr group for Irish Linux users (aka ILUGers)
Nice idea :)
Prior to the Blog Awards I took delivery of an iPod Nano to give to the winner. At the time I was sorely tempted to get a nano for myself, but I resisted.. at least for a while
Anyhow my personal iPod Nano arrived on Friday afternoon. It was shipped from Hong Kong, as I had it etched with the Blacknight Logo. It looks kind of like this:
Unfortunately I couldn't get the text bit onto it, so it's just the logo at the top, but even so it looks very cool.
Under Windows there is iTunes to manage your playlists and send files across to it, while on Linux I've been experimenting with gtkpod, which seems to be more functional than iTunes.
The next question, of course, is whether I want to put linux on it or not...
Unfortunately I couldn't get the text bit onto it, so it's just the logo at the top, but even so it looks very cool.
Under Windows there is iTunes to manage your playlists and send files across to it, while on Linux I've been experimenting with gtkpod, which seems to be more functional than iTunes.
The next question, of course, is whether I want to put linux on it or not...
The Ubuntu project's upcoming release - the dapper drake - is now in beta.
Over the last couple of days the various project teams have released beta versions of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu etc., so the clock is now ticking until final release.
The graphics are taking shape and there are probably lots of tweaks and changes under the hood. I am now seriously considering a fresh install on this desktop pc, as there seems to be a lot of junk leftover from old installs, tests and accumulated junk.
The codename for dapper +1 has been announced - The Edgy Eft
I'd love to know where they find some of these names :)
An Eft is a youthful newt, going through its first exploration of the rocky territory just outside the stream.Some of the planned additions sound very interesting:
So dream a little about Xen for virtualisation, Xgl/AIGLX and other wonderful wobbly window bits, the goodness of Network Manager, a first flirt with multiarch support for true mixed 32-bit and 64-bit computing on AMD64, the interesting possibilities of the SMART package manager... and other pieces of infrastructure which have appeared tantalisingly on the horizon.
