Archive for the “Ubuntu” Category

On February 12 2010, version 1.7.0 of git was released. This version is currently available in my repository for both Jaunty and Karmic.
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A couple of weeks ago I changed the default browser on my Ubuntu Jaunty laptop from Firefox to Chrome. I had been using Chrome next to Firefox 3.6 for a while and I was willing to give it a shot for my every day browsing. Now that I have been usign it for a while I thought I would write up my experience, the good, the bad and, yes the cliché , the ugly.
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Previously I described how to compile your own Karmic kernel. In this follow up article I’ll describe how to update your custom build kernel after the Ubuntu developers released an updated version of the kernel.
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Ubuntu Karmic has been released to the public a few days ago and it’s time to write up a How To Compile a Kernel article. Only a few small changes have been made to the way we have compile a kernel for Ubuntu Karmic compared to Ubuntu Jaunty but they are significant enough for it’s own how-to.

I wrote this how to because my laptop has 4GB of internal memory and with the default kernel that ships with Ubuntu Karmic the entire 4GB is not addressed.

Lets get started building our own custom kernel for Ubuntu Karmic from scratch.
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Yesterday I upgraded one my laptops from Ubuntu Hardy to Ubuntu Jaunty. I never got around to upgrading this machine as it is one of my more important machines in my home network. It runs a mail server for sending all mail and POP for local mail (Postfix + Dovecot), DNS (Bind), Torrent seedbox, central syslog server.
After the upgrade, which didn’t really go smoothly but that is besides the point of this post, I was having problems on my work laptop browsing the net, my RSS feeder was acting up etc.
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