The project manager of the Getdeb project has decided to release the source of the website under GPL-3.

Getdeb is the #1 source for Ubuntu packages that haven’t made it into the upstream of the official Ubuntu repository.

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Finally my laptop arrived. It’s a Dell Inspiron 1720 with 4GB of memory. Currently I’m running Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) 32bits.

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If you install Samba on a Ubuntu Gutsy box and you are using the Networkmanager for your network settings you are very likely to encounter the following error message when you shutdown:
CIFS: VFS server not responding
CIFS: No response for cmd 114 mid 3

It’s a bug in Gutsy and it looks like it’s a bug in Hardy as well but there is a work around. Read the rest of this entry »

You didn’t even notice I was gone, I am sure, no biggie. The reason I have been gone was the fact Ubuntu on my laptop decided I mess it up to much and therefor went on strike :). GDM wouldn’t start any more and the error message I got, two of the actually were unreadable. Read the rest of this entry »

As some of you might know I create/update packages for Ubuntu for the GetDeb project. What the project tries to accomplish is supply updated or newly created packages that aren’t in the Ubuntu repository. Ubuntu is sometimes late with updates for packages, like the official repository still has Pidgin 2.2.1 while 2.3.1 has been out for quiet a while and maybe a few days after it’s release you could download the latest version on GetDeb. One of the reasons why Ubuntu hasn’t updated their version yet is because of the focus on the new release, Hardy, and because of all the patches they create themselves.

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