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- Intrepid Alpha 5 has been released since the podcast was done.
- Will update OO.o to 3.0 when its released, 3.0 will support Office 2007 file formats
- There are issues installing in VirtualBox
- Shutdown button really logs out user instead of shutting down computer
- Some Issues with manual partitioning + LVM, encrypting entire disk works
- Theme is messed up, picking Human-Murrine will fix it.
- Memory test falsely reports bad RAM.
- Atlanta Linux Fest update on scheduled demos
- Things getting a bit straightened out
- Virtualization
- dual booting
- IBM Symphony
- ssh/gpg
- gaming
- Fedora 10
- Dell Inspiron Mini 9 with Ubuntu released.
- Starts $349, 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, Ubuntu 8.04 + customized interface, 8.9", 1024x600, 512MB RAM, 4GB SSD
- Just costs $99 if you bought a Studio 15, XPS M1530 or XPS M1330 through Sept. 9th
- Sylvania to use Ubuntu Netbook Remix in their g line of notebooks.
- 1.6 ghz Atom, 512 MB RAM
- The 1 GB RAM version is available for pre-ordering at $449
- Review by Laptop Magazine thought the device itself was ok, but gave props to the Remix
- http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/sylvania-g-netbook-meso.aspx
- http://sylvaniacomputers.com/products.php?p=meso
- Canonical joins Linux Foundation
- Linux Foundation is a "nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux"
- Linux Foundation:
- Sponsors key developers like Linus
- Legal services
- Promotion
- Promotes standardization though Linux Standard Base
- Lots of sponsors like HP, IBM, Google, Dell, Adobe
- Also usual suspects like Red Hat, Novell
- Lots of Birthdays
- Linux birthday - Linus announced the existence of Linux on Usenet (comp.os.minix) on August 26th, 1991 (almost 17 years ago!)
- Debian birthday - First release was August 16th, 1993
- Ubuntu Developer Week
- Sessions included:
- How to package applications
- How to fix Ubuntu bugs
- Personal Package Archives
- IRC logs are available
- MS hires Jerry Seinfeld to promote Vista - YouTube video of ad
- Seinfeld will get paid up to $10M, part of a $300M ad campaign
- Also plan to use images of Will Ferrell and Chris Rock
- VirtualBox 2.0 (Personal Edition and OSE) came out today
- Hopefully will get put into the repos soon.
- new 64 bit guest support
- PlayDeb is gaming repo based on the apps on GetDeb.
- getdeb is a repo with apps that aren't in the official repos or more up to date versions.
- They don't follow a strict quality control process, still it shouldn't break anything on your system.
- PlayDeb games: Alien Arena, Battle of Wesnoth, Urban Terror, Wolfenstein
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