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Just after writing a positive review of Ubuntu Karmic Koala I noticed this piece on The Register: Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu’s Karmic Koala: Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the …continue reading Ubuntu Linux: the agony and the ecstasy I have an Ubuntu server performing various important duties including serving music for Squeezebox. It was humming along with version 9.04 of Ubuntu and the latest Logitech Squeezeboxserver; but a new version of Ubuntu, 9.10 or Karmic Koala, was released today and I hastened to install it. All went well – aside from a problem with …continue reading Ubuntu Karmic Koala breaks Squeezeboxserver Intel has announced its Atom Developer Program including a new app store. The idea is to encourage a flow of applications that are well suited to netbooks, rather than general desktop applications that tend to get pressed into service because they are there, but may not be well suited to the smaller screen and more …continue reading Intel gets into the App Store game – but where does Silverlight fit in? The London Stock Exchange has agreed to acquire MillenniumIT, and will be replacing its TradElect and Infolect systems with the MillenniumIT trading system. TradElect is based on Windows Server and .NET, and was created by Microsoft and Accenture. Microsoft used to use the LSE’s system as a showcase for .NET scalability, but while it proved …continue reading London Stock Exchange migrating from .NET to Oracle/UNIX platform Nokia has announced the N900 Internet Tablet running the Linux-based Maemo operating system. This is the latest in a series of Tablets (not to be confused with Microsoft’s Tablet PCs), but the first one to include “cellular features”, which means it can make and receive phone calls, though the press release hardly mentions it. This …continue reading Nokia announces N900, juggles three operating systems Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. says Google. So the gloves are off – not content with targeting Microsoft Exchange and Office with Google Apps, the company is now going for the whole piece, client operating system included. It’s not as new as all that, of …continue reading It’s war: Google announces Chrome OS I still love Ubuntu, but it’s hard to find much to enthuse about in the latest release, 9.04 also known as Jaunty Jackalope. As this post observes, most of the changes are under the hood, so users will not notice much difference from the previous release, Intrepid Ibex or 8.10. Well, there’s faster start-up, and …continue reading Ubuntu 9.04 not so jaunty I posted recently about a difficult Ubuntu upgrade, drawing the comment “What do you prefer to do on Linux that you don’t on Windows?” Today I patched the Debian server which runs this blog. APT upgraded the following applications: MySQL 5 Apache 2.2 Clam AntiVirus Time Zone data (tzdata) Some of these involve several packages, so 16 packages were updated. Bear …continue reading Reasons to love Linux #1: package management Yesterday I took a seminar with a small number of people from schools and colleges in the UK, who had purchasing responsibility for software. I talked about some of the history, differences between the products, the ISO standardisation wars, the ribbon, and the way Microsoft’s pricing escalates in order to charge the maximum to business users. …continue reading Microsoft Office vs OpenOffice.org in UK education I’m writing a piece on Ubuntu – makes a change from all that Windows at Microsoft’s PDC. I wanted to be up-to-date, so I upgraded my laptop from Hardy Heron (8.4) to Intrepid Ibex (8.10), released just yesterday. I followed the officially recommended procedure. Currently I only have a wi-fi connection, which is not ideal, but I reckoned it …continue reading A painful upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex |
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