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“OK folks the long awaited Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course is ready, waiting and all yours for the taking!”

Oficial : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop-course

Mark Shuttleworth recently announced the release of the “Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop” Course. Created with the help of the community to create a complete course to help companies train their staff and so on.

Licensing under open terms (CC-BY-NC-SA) , check the Wiki for more info : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training

How to get the manuals ?
They are avalabe at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training : Student – Instructor

To get the latest version you need bazaar and dblatex to help create the pdf: bzr e dblatex

sudo apt-get install bzr dblatex

Get the source:

bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~billy-cina/ubuntu-desktop-course/ubuntu-desktop-course

cd ubuntu-desktop-course

Create the PDF:

Student Guide: make booksg
Instructor Guide: make book
Q&A for Student Guide: make questions

Have fun

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Before talking about this, my sugestion: DON’T INSTALL IT!

A software that can install/remove/update applications on Ubuntu without asking for the user’s password is a security risk…

The idea looks nice, I tried installing Opera with CNR and it install a DEBIAN file, meaning that the systems package manager could manage the package also. Lots of software available a click-away.

But I don’t recommend it for the reason I started with…

Just use the Official Ubuntu, Cannonical and Medibuntu Repositories and you will be fine

If you want to test it, do it at your own risk : CNR Client

*Edited*

For those you think that the software is installed in the /home you wrong:

~$ whereis opera
opera: /usr/bin/opera /usr/lib/opera /usr/share/opera

Emesene is a platform independent MSN Messenger client written in Python+GTK and distributed under the GNU GPLv2 license. The main idea is to make a client similar to the official client but with a simpler GUI and a nice look.

I’ve created a package of the latest emesene SVN rev999 1000 for those who want it.

• Get it HERE

Official WebPage : http://emesene.org

Help the emesene project, submit your thoughts and bugs in the emesene trac

*Updated*

Just packed revision 1000 thats fixes some bugs like notify that were in r999. Version 1.0 of emesene is planned for revision 1024.