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PTNET @ IRC

Se estão na PTNET não usem UTF-8 podem ser banidos…… eu fui um deles…

há com cada uma …

(Ou então continuem a usar como eu…)

Mais info em http://rafb.net/p/8yEDzs88.html

*Update*

Neste momento ao entrar na ptnet aparece o seguinte pedido:

- Por favor configure o seu cliente de irc para usar o ‘charset’ ISO-8859-1 -15 ou compativel

ai ai…

*Update 2 *

Adeus PTNET, estou no Freenode /server irc.freenode.org canal #ubuntu-pt

Categories: Uncategorized

GuiaUbuntuPT

Bem, já estava na hora de actualizar o site do GuiaUbuntuPT. Espero que gostem do novo look ( que é o base do Drupal )

Decidi ir pelo Drupal. É um CMS simples de usar e assim sempre é mais facil alterar alguma página e adicionar novas.

O Wiki continua na mesma com o MediaWiki :)

O Guia do Feisty está disponível, mas ainda não está totalmente em Português. Tem sido uma semana complicada , ver se despacho isso quando tiver tempo.

Bem acho que vou ver um filme e descansar.

Categories: Uncategorized

Wine & Cedega

Reading the latest Wine Weekly Newsletter 329, they talk about Cedega and its relationship with Wine. 

In the begin of the Cedega/Wine Benchmarks you can read:

  • Cedega’s core is based off the original Wine tree and was forked in 2002. There are several core components that no longer share a similarity with Wine as it exists today.
  • Transgaming has not actively contributed to Wine in about 5 years with the exception of a few patches (less than 5 a year.)

The article points also at THIS ARTICLE where the benchmark is done and.. Wine has a better performance that Cedega 6.0 :D

To read the WWM article :

http://www.winehq.org/?issue=329#Cedega%206.0%20&%20Wine%20Benchmarks 

Just use Wine and you be fine. If you wanna pay use CrossOver, they help Wine.

Wine’s latest version : 0.9.35

Wine in Ubuntu : PT

Categories: Linux, Ubuntu

UbuntuGuide PT

For the Portuguese Community

A tradução do Ubuntu Guide para PT vai começar, se quiseres ajudar na tradução regista-te no UbuntuGuide.org

O Guia vai ficar disponivel em:

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty_pt

Mais tarde irei adicionar ao GuiaUbuntuPT.org como mirror.

Até ja ;)

Categories: Ubuntu

Congrats for Ubuntu 7.04

The new Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn is out. Congrats to all who helped with the development.

It’s Great :D

Everything you need to know about this release is in the following pages:

Downloads :

Categories: Ubuntu

Ford South African Ad

I saw this at Morgan Collett’s blog.

According to this South AFrican site, ubuntu is a Zulu word that roughly translates as “humanity towards others”. In South Africa we hear it used all the time… “the spirit of ubuntu”, “philosophy of ubuntu”, “the ubuntu way”. Well my basic understanding of the concept is that it means working together to achieve common goals no matter your race, religion or creed.
Ford illustrates the meaning of ubuntu in this ad.

I’m still laughing :)

Categories: Comics, Ubuntu

Full Circle - The Ubuntu Magazine

Full Circle is a e-magazine about Ubuntu created and managed by the community.

Issue #0 : This is just a preview issue of whats to come. It contains ;

  • History of Ubuntu - from Warty to Feisty and
  • Ubuntu 7.04 - Feisty Fawn’s New Features

Have a idea for a article? submit it :)

Download : here

Projects Page : http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/

Categories: Ubuntu

Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”

Ubuntu 7.04 is not even out yet, and the planing of 7.10 has already started.

The next release will have the Code Name “Gutsy Gibbon” and has 7.04 it will not be LTS ( Long term suport ).

The release Schedule follows the normal schedule

A point of notice for 7.10 is that there is going to be a new branch ( like kubuntu/xubuntu/edubuntu ) but 100% Free software, following the guide of GnewSence.

“(…) no firmware, drivers,imagery, sounds, applications, or other content which do not include full source materials and come with full rights of modification, remixing and redistribution (…) “

This looks like a response to critics for having included proprietary drivers. Lets see what will be the result.

Having Composite by default also looks like an objective, now closer with the work already done in Feisty.

So, What is a Gibbon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbon

Announcement : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000276.html

Categories: Ubuntu

update-alternatives and GAlternatives

Here is a nice tool on the Debian system.

What is update-alternatives? Well the man page tells you this:

update-alternatives creates, removes, maintains and displays information about the symbolic links comprising the Debian alternatives system.
It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or similar functions to be installed on a single system at the same time. For example, many systems have several text editors installed at once. (…)
A generic name in the filesystem is shared by all files providing interchangeable functionality. (…) For example, if the text editors ed and nvi are both installed on the system, the alternatives system will cause the generic name /usr/bin/editor to refer to /usr/bin/nvi by default.

This means, for example, that if you have Epiphany Browser and Firefox installed on your system, but you want the default to be Epiphany, you just have to run the command “sudo update-alternatives –config x-www-browser” and chose Epiphany.

To get a list of the available optins you can config, run “ls -l /etc/alternatives”.

And while searching for info on update-alternatives I found Galternatives. It’s a GUI for update-alternatives, so a user can customize is system easily.

GAlternatives

To Install and Run:

  • sudo apt-get install galternatives
  • gksudo galternatives

More Info:

http://www.wlug.org.nz/update-alternatives(8)  (or “man update-alternatives”)

Categories: Ubuntu

Gaim is now Pidgin

Just saw this on Slashdot. It looks like due to legal dispute with AOL, the Project Gaim has decided to change their name to Pidgin. This dispute also prevented any other releases than the Betas. You can read more about it here.
The project is in migration to the new hosts.

Links:

Let’s see how development goes now, and hopefully we will see a Final release soon :)

I like Gaim, it light and fast. Ok it does not have all the “candy” that amsn suports, but I don’t need them.

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