Blogpost: Who ate that byte of apple?

Ganesh Venkateshwara writes about his experiences with Apple hardware and software on the iBook G4 and his eventual migration to Ubuntu Linux.

Out of enthusiasm and out of sheer curiosity, I wanted to own an Mac. So I got one, not a shiny new one, an old, but an equally shiny white, iBook G4. After about 5 months of continuous usage of the default OS that came with it (OSX 10.3 aka Panther), I bid it a farewell.

Full post at: http://tovganesh.blogspot.com/2009/05/who-ate-that-byte-of-apple.html

Bug #122948 in gnome-system-tools in Ubuntu

A new install of Ubuntu 8.04 which is a Long Term Support (LTS) almost always brings up the annoying Bug #223448 which is marked as a duplicate of Bug #122948.

But # 122948 was first reported on 2007-06-29!

There have been two releases, including the much-touted LTS release for 8.04, with the bug being silently carried forward, with it’s importance in Launchpad as Undecided.

Guess that’s what they mean by Long Term … waiting for Godot!

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS released

The second Long-Term Release (LTS) of Canonical’s GNU/Linux distribution is officially released. You can learn more about it here.

This version will receive updates for 3 years.

Ubuntu follows a regular 6-monthly release cycle.

The next release is scheduled for October 2008.

Ripping one’s guts out…

Dramatic title?

Perhaps so, but KDE 4 development seems to be following this paradigm to the fullest — enough to make Stephen King proud!

KDE 4 has a laudable goal of revitalizing the internals, making the underlying framework robust and extensible. This is a reworking of function, perfectly acceptably and a valid developmental goal. KDE 4 also went the bling-bling way of oooh– shiny new interface at the same time.

The result?

It’s a dog’s lunch at the moment, stretching developer resources and skewing schedules. Notwithstanding a grand launch of KDE 4.0 which is ready yet not ready for general consumption (go figure!). After all, we’re real software developers and not language lawyers!

This is not a commentary on the state of KDE 4, but rather on the simultaneous reworking of form and function which resulted in neither being complete for a general use… yet.

Of course, the oft-repeated refrain is… KDE 4 will rock with release 4.1!

Yeah. Right!

Replace KDE 4 in the above commentary with Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows or any but-it’s-going-to-change-computing-forever software system… the end-result is the same!

Ubuntu 8.04 beta released

Ubuntu 8.04 beta is now available for testing and bug-reporting.

Remember boys and girls, it’s a beta… and is not recommended to be used in production environments!

duh.