All modern Unix operating systems provide softwares as packages. I remember the good old times in the ’90s when you had to compile all the applications from their source code. Compiling source code has advantages: you enable only the features you need and perform configuration tweaks as you want. But
Tag: Ubuntu
Integrating OSVDB into Ubuntu/Unity
Recently I upgraded my laptop with the latest Ubuntu release (12.04-LTS). For a few releases, Ubuntu switched from Gnome to Unity and I’m happy to use it since the 11.04 version! I know that this choice has caused a lot of debates between the aficionados of both GUI but it
Ubuntu Will Introduce the “Social” Desktop?
Some news have been disclosed about the next release of Ubuntu called “Lucid Lynx“. This new distribution is logically planned for April 2010 and will introduce, amongst a long list of new features, the “desktop socialization”. Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, explained in an interview that the desktop will
Hello Karmic Koala!
Finally, I did it! I just upgraded my corporate laptop with the latest release of Ubuntu (9.10) aka “Karmic Koala”. Available for a few weeks, I preferred to wait for some holidays before the upgrade. First, because without laptop, I can’t work! In case of big issue, my off-days would
Just Switched to Ubuntu “Jaunty”
A lot has been written about Ubuntu “Jaunty” 9.04 since it has been released. My corporate laptop runs Ubuntu very smoothly. Unfortunately, since the last Nvidia drivers upgrade, I faced a nasty bug. I was running version ‘180-11’ but ‘180-44’ is officially available by default in the latest release. No