Posts Tagged ‘Ubuntu’

Feature: Desktop dreams: Ubuntu 11.10 reviewed

Posted on October 23rd, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

Ubuntu 11.10, codenamed Oneiric Ocelot, prowled out of the development forest earlier this month. In our review of Ubuntu 11.04, released back in April, we took a close look at the strengths and weaknesses of the new Unity shell and compared it with GNOME 3.0. In this review, we’re going to revisit Unity to see how much progress it has made over the past six months. We will also take a close look at the updated Software Center user interface and the transition from Evolution to Thunderbird.

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Ubuntu technical board member proposes monthly Ubuntu release cycle

Posted on September 9th, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

Ubuntu Technical Board member Scott James Remnant has outlined a theoretical proposal for transitioning the popular Linux distribution to a rolling release model in which new stable versions would be issued every month. He has published his thoughts on the matter in a blog entry to encourage discussion.

Ubuntu currently adheres to a time-based release model with a six-month development cycle. A new version is released in April and October of every year. Ubuntu releases have an 18-month support lifespan, except for the biennial “long-term support” (LTS) releases which are updated on the desktop for three years and on the server for five years.

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Hackintosh – Dell Mini 9

Posted on May 24th, 2009 • Filed under Uncategorized • 2 Comments

I just finished hackintoshing my Dell mini 9. I’ve looked at methods described by a number of people, but settled on this method from mechdrew (Drew Mecham). It doesn’t require a Windows machine for USB formatting, or an external DVD drive. I just needed 2 USB drives, 1 for the OS X installer (I had a 5 license family pack) plus additional software from mechdrew’s download page, and the other drive for the 10.5.7 incremental update.

It’s pretty easy if you don’t do what I did. Make sure that second USB drive is inserted at the beginning of the process. I had to start all over again, but mechdrew’s instructions are very detailed and easy to follow. The only thing I didn’t understand from them, but became apparent during the process, was the command for booting in OS X safe mode. You should see “-x” on the screen. I followed his direction a little too literally and tried the command for “- -x”. That ain’t it.

Sleep works, Wifi works and seems to connect much faster than when I was running Ubuntu, and as far as I can tell…well, it just works. Thank you Drew Mecham!

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I found with my Hackintosh, and then read elsewhere, that one drawback is that keyboard shortcuts don’t work. It turned out to be an easy fix. Just go into System Preferences and select Keyboard & Mouse ->Keyboard -> Modifier Keys… Then change the selection for “Control Key” from “Control Key” to “Command”. It should look like this: