What to say about Ubuntu Hardy Heron?
I installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron, a “long term support” release which went final yesterday. It’s a tricky thing to assess. There are in general two things to say about Linux. First, you can take the line...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Subversion 1.5
The team behind the open source SCM (Software Configuration Management) tool Subversion released version 1.50 last month. Karl Fogel, president of the Subversion Corporation, says: Measuring by new...
View ArticleEee 901 problems – does Asus still care about Linux?
I am reviewing the Asus Eee PC 901, the one with the Intel Atom processor. Of course I asked to see the Linux version. In my view Linux is better suited than Windows for a device with limited storage;...
View ArticleA painful upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
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...
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Reasons to love Linux #1: package management
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...
View ArticleUbuntu 9.04 not so jaunty
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...
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Ubuntu Karmic Koala breaks Squeezeboxserver
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...
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Ubuntu Linux: the agony and the ecstasy
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...
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QCon London 2010 report: fix your code, adopt simplicity, cool .NET things
I’m just back from QCon London, a software development conference with an agile flavour that I enjoy because it is not vendor-specific. Conferences like this are energising; they make you re-examine...
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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx great as ever, no game changer
I’ve upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, and I’m using it to type this post. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is a “long term support” edition, making it suitable for businesses. The upgrade from Karmic, the...
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