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Well, I gave it a shot. I’ve been running Ubuntu Linux on my home rig for the last month and basically been productive. No dual-booting was allowed, I wanted total immersion. And ya know? In general it went very well. Ubuntu is certainly easy to install and configure and I can’t claim I ran into anything that I couldn’t do. Sure, sometimes I had to search the forums, but the answers are out there.

A couple months ago I discovered VirtualBox and its seamless mode. If you’re going to spend a lot of time in a virtual machine client, stuff like seamless mode makes it so much “smoother” in my opinion. Gives a nice integrated experience.

Hey Ubuntu folks: Have you seen the Dust theme? By default, I find it a bit dark, but if you grab the extensions there’s a “sand” variant that is very easy on the eyes. There is also a Firefox theme but that one is just too dark for me, had to switch back.

[I promise that I won't become a "linux only advocacy blog." However, as I'm in the process of converting, there may be a few more articles about it than normal -- it is my current bright and shiny object!]

I was preparing to reformat my machine last night and install Ubuntu 8.10. I made sure I had all my key data backed up to a USB drive and that I had Windows Server 2008 ready to install in Virtualbox so that I could continue my Windows development efforts. I also confirmed I had my newly acquired free CodeWeavers CrossOver license handy so that I could reload a couple Windows games.

Then I realized I was doing it wrong. See all that Windows stuff I just mentioned?

Ubuntu 8.10 release was announced this week. In somewhat related news I got my free license for CrossOver stuff this week too. Seems like it might finally be time for me to switch my home desktop back to Linux. No reason really, but I like the synchronicity of it all.

Desde hace un tiempo el sitio Ultimate Edition esa compilando una distribucion del popular sistema operativo basado en Linux, Ubuntu.   Al mismo lo llaman Ubuntu Ultimate Edition y la diferencia con su similar del sitio oficial de Ubuntu, es la adicion de software, fondos,  themes, iconos, pantallas de login y muchas otras cosas mas que nos permiten configurarlo de una manera muy, pero muy personal.

Desde que Microsoft sacó hace un año, su nuevo sistema operativo Windows Vista, fueron múltiples las decepciones de los usuarios en cuanto a la incompatibilidad del sistema operativo con algunas aplicaciones y accesorios que no presentaban ningún problema con Windows XP u otros sistemas operativos anteriores.

Here are two true statements:

1. My home computer, when running Vista, seems to lockup or crash when hibernating (I should probably try to fix that someday…)
2. I’ve been running Ubuntu via the Install in Windows option and sometimes, when attempting to start it, I get a funky error and no pretty UI

The funky error? A brief boot cycle and then I’m looking at something like:

Hmm… When using WordPress 2.5.2’s media uploads I can upload images from Firefox 3 when running Vista. But I can’t when running FF3 from Ubuntu. Last I checked they’re running the same extensions.

No luck from Opera/Linux either. With either case, I end up with an HTTP error.

Guess I have some research to do. Switching to Linux without Windows Live Writer is hard enough, but if I can’t upload images with the built-in editor it’ll sure get harder!

For the past week I’ve been using Ubuntu (via the Install Inside Windows option) almost full-time on my home machine. I’m digging it so far and am thinking I’ll re-install it as dual-boot to get a bit more performance (although it really runs quite well as the Windows Install as a perk of being on a Raptor hard drive).

I’ve had a few challenges along the way, but nothing too awful yet.

In this morning’s post I mentioned I was having some challenges with Ubuntu (Heron / 8.04) and my mouse. In short, after a few minutes the mouse would stop working.

Unplugging and plugging back in did nothing. Ctrl-alt-backspace would just hang instead of reset X. Very annoying.

I did some web searching with little inspiration until I found this very long bug report. In there I saw mention of updating the BIOS. As I had nothing to lose, I gave that a shot this evening.

It worked! I’ve been cheerfully dinking around with Ubuntu ever since and have yet to have my mouse do anything un-mousy.

I downloaded and burned^[1] the latest (as of this writing) Ubuntu ISO yesterday.  This is version 8.0.4 and has something new for installation options as compared to previous versions.

What’s new? Check it out:

See that second option? Install inside Windows. Ubuntu can be installed just like any “regular” Windows application. When you next reboot you see a new boot menu and can boot straight into Ubuntu.

Cairo-Dock es un dock similar al dock de Mac OS X, pero para Linux. Este dock es altamente configurable y tiene varios efectos gráficos muy llamativos.

La instalación de este dock no es muy dificil. Siguiendo los pasos que nos explican en Tombuntu, no tuve ningún inconveniente en instalarlo en una PC de pruebas, en donde tengo instalado Ubuntu.

Tal como les habíamos prometido, los comentarios sobre lo detalles de la realización de esta verdadera fiesta de amigos, fanáticos, entusiastas, expertos, geeks, o simplemente humanos que se acercaron y la hicieron posible.

Para empezar, los números, la parte dura de los datos, hubo un interesante incremento de asistentes.