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.

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.

Do More to Achieve Less?

The kickoff menu in KDE-four-oh provides the following options to leave a session:

Let’s say we select Logout. This generates the following dialog:

It’s always good to have a choice, a second chance to change one’s mind. But it does seem slightly overkill asking confirmation for the options selected from the kickoff menu earlier.

While there are definitely valid use-cases for the End Session dialog (such as electing to terminate a KDE session from a Logout plasmoid), it’s just another annoyingly extra step in the workflow from the menu option. Perhaps a good configuration may be to provide an option to skip the reconfirmation dialog in the scenario discussed above.