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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex packaged with LFY

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex packaged with LFY

I was wondering if I can download all different flavors of Ubuntu 8.10. It’s quite painful to download large files when BSNL starts drizzling with low speed bandwidth. Today when I reached home, I found my December copy of LFY (Linux for you) magazine on my...

UVCVideo and Cheese on Ubuntu 8.10

Something made me look into the new version of uvcvideo today. I’m not able to recall the exact link which reffered me to look into it. Might be some email update which stated that uvcvideo now supports more than 100 Cameras. But, I have been facing some issues...
Empathy amusement

Empathy amusement

Today, I forced myself to revisit and reuse Empathy, a simple messaging client for Linux with rich set of widgets. Just because, pidgin has been eating up resources and it was found to be hanging or taking too long to pull in the friends list during which my IM...
Ubuntu 8.10 – Remix launchers

Ubuntu 8.10 – Remix launchers

Need a cool PDA/Notebook look for your Ubuntu installation? Then try this Notebook launcher package. It fills in on top of your existing Ubuntu installlation and gives a cool look for the UI. In a terminal type: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list This will bring up your...
Ubuntu 8.10 Released

Ubuntu 8.10 Released

Ubuntu 8.10 just got released. Download the ISOs or the torrent: ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso. All the Ubuntu torrents are listed here. You can also upgrade your old Ubuntu installation right away. Press Alt+F2, and type update-manager -d Now click on the Update...