Archive for 30 April 2007

PTNET @ IRC

30 April 2007

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 ...

GuiaUbuntuPT

28 April 2007

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 ...

Wine & Cedega

21 April 2007

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 ...

UbuntuGuide PT

20 April 2007

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 ;)

Congrats for Ubuntu 7.04

19 April 2007

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: Release Notes : http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/704 Tour : http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/704tour Tour Kubuntu : http://kubuntu.org/announcements/7.04-release.php Downloads :  http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/  http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu-releases/7.04/  http://pt.archive.ubuntu.com/releases/  http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/ubuntu/releases/  http://torrent.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/release/dvd/  http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/7.04/

Ford South African Ad

16 April 2007

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 ...

Full Circle - The Ubuntu Magazine

16 April 2007

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 ...

Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”

12 April 2007

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 ...

update-alternatives and GAlternatives

9 April 2007

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 ...

Gaim is now Pidgin

8 April 2007

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: http://www.pidgin.im/ http://developer.pidgin.im/  Let's ...