From: Sean Brewer ------------------------------------------------------ This is really cool: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/373024/canonical-puts-ubuntu-on-android-smartphones ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ Wayland is a proposed replacement for the hoary X display server system It has popped in one of those celeberty fan os's. http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/02/live-os-running-wayland-display-server.html ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ Kubuntu personnel no longer to be paid by Canonical. There is a call for more community development. http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/247708/canonical-aligns-kubuntu-community-flavor ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ one for the photographers. Corel introduces AfterShot Pro for $99 on Linux, Mac and Windows http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/11/corel-introduces-aftershot-pro-on-linux-mac-and-windows/ The other is a music production studio. "Bitwig is an international music software company based in Berlin. The company was founded in 2009 by a team of music enthusiasts with extensive experience in the music technology industry and a strong vision about new cutting-edge methods of music production, live performance and collaboration. The team includes many veterans who worked on Ableton Live, a popular software for professional music creation." http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/01/bitwig-professional-music-creation.html Sign up for the beta. http://bitwig.com/bitwig ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ I'm thinking of building a home media pc not sure if this will challange myth but it might be fun to try it. http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/how-to-install-ubuntu-tv-from-ppa.html ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ Could this move to tv & mobile mean less focuss on desktop? http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/372040/ubuntu-tv-unveiled ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ Next week in Las Vegas, Nevada the giant Consumer Electronics Show (CES) rolls into town. If you've ever attended CES, you know that it is a huge, glitzy affair, where everyone from Tom Cruise to tech executives can often be seen on Vegas stages and even walking the show floor. CES features everything from expensive concept cars to new computing devices. While there is only a small amount of information available at this time, Canonical will have a presence at CES, and will be showing a "concept device" there. We've been reporting on Canonical's plans to take Ubuntu to new devices. Could this concept be the first firm step in that direction? The Canonical blog features this short preview of the company's CES plans: . . . http://ostatic.com/blog/canonical-to-reveal-mystery-ubuntu-based-device-at-ces ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/ubuntu-linux-files-lands-on-apple-ios.html >From the 'Linux on the iPhone/iPad' files: Canonical has finally landed Linux on Apple's iOS kinda/sorta. A new Ubuntu Files app officially debuted in the AppStore today. This goes beyond the Ubuntu One Music app that has been available since last year providing Ubuntu One users with the ability to store and move files. It's a good idea and an obvious extension of Ubuntu One for files. For those that are already Ubuntu users on the desktop this one is a no-brainer. Ubuntu One in the larger context however faces competitive challenges against rivals such as box, dropbox and others that seem to come out of the woodwork every other day. Apple has it's own iCloud service too...but few of those services work on Linux. There is also OwnCloud, which is real open source goodness (Ubuntu One has a tonne of proprietary code) if you want to do it all yourself. OwnCloud doesn't have an iOS app yet though. The biggest challenge with all iOS syncing type apps is what they actually sync. For example, don't expect to be able to use Apple's Pages app to save and open docs from UbuntuOne. But hey with 5GB of free storage and easy syncing with an Ubuntu box, the new iOS Ubuntu Files app is likely going to only help Ubuntu grow its UbuntuOne user base, regardless of all the competitive pressures it faces. Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist ..more..

From: John Aldrich ------------------------------------------------------ So I have this Compaq Presario F750 that's been giving me occasional weird errors returning from suspend. I'm getting an error "ATA3: revalidation failed" and an error number, but I don't recall the error number. Doing a quick Google search I see that others have had similar problems, only they fail to boot. Mine will boot just fine, it's coming out of hibernation/suspension when I occasionally get that error. System is running KUbuntu 11.10 with kernel 3.0.0-14 ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ I have and old lime green iMac(i dubbed the crabapple) that I have run x on before. somewhere about when Ubuntu went chocolate the we started having issues with x. But before you haters start it is not ubuntu. I've been trying Debian squeeze now and getting the same problems. Screen goes black and power button yellow. Comes out of it when you switch to a cli tty. X messages state mach64 module not found. Some research shows that this is an issue on sparc and intel as well. Red Hat, arch it doesn't matter. So who the hell broke ATI support in the kernel? XORG is fickle & heathen god! ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ Due to combination of end of the License from Oracle & security issues. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/java-to-be-removed-from-ubuntu-uninstalled-from-user-machines/ ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ Yeah I just used the U word. ODM? http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/12/13/canonical-launches-new-unofficial-site-for-ubuntu-oemsodms/ ..more..

From: Sean Brewer ------------------------------------------------------ This is awesome. I've been running Spotify in Wine for a while now. Not having to rely on Wine is nice: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/spotify-on-linux-works-for-free-accounts-offers-15-million-tracks/ ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/22/171228/canonical-drops-couchdb-from-ubuntu-one was it a scale issue? ..more..

From: Dan Lyke ------------------------------------------------------ Claws-Mail is ticking me off. Undo in the message editor has been b0rk3n for years, and there are enough other quirks and strange lockups that I'm looking for alternatives. Charlene has gotten to the "hate" level for Evolution. I thought "Xubuntu defaults to Thunderbird, let's look at that!". Thunderbird lacks piping to external apps in its filtering, which means that I can't do basic things like "add everything this client sends me to a folder and commit it to a git repo". And Thunderbird also lacks a lot of basic polish. Their RSS client is abominable (though I could probably get along with it now that I've figured out its quirks), but there's a lot of stuff that seems like programmers implemented that way because of underlying architecture brokenness rather than user need: Why is the common operation 5 clicks and the uncommon operation 2? I'd hate to go back to Fetchmail, Perl scripts and Pine, but is that really the best email situation for GUI linux these days? Dan ..more..

From: Ryan Macy ------------------------------------------------------ I have a beast of a computer that runs ubuntu (current has windows 7 ultimate). It comes with two 22" monitors, logitech 3.1 sound system, wireless keyboard and mouse, and a printer. The monitors, processor, and motherboard all have 2 year warranties. 6 core amd cpu, 8gb ddr3 1600, ati 5770, water cooling, etc Im trying to get 1000-1200 out of it. Its a steal trust me, after I get it sold im selling my desk and chair, both new and in great condition. Thanks guys, Ryan ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ubuntu-linux-will-try-for-the-business-desktop/9806 ..more..

From: "Dr.D " ------------------------------------------------------ This may be a stupid question but did you look at the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file and see gateway and the newtwork are correct? Dr.D -----Original Message----- From: chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org [mailto:chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org] On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 10:45 AM To: CHUGALUG Subject: [Chugalug] Hosts file Ok, on my new (to me) KUbuntu notebook, I have a hosts file which lists the IP addresses of my local machines, including my Fedora box and my Windoze box. I am unable to ping either of those machines by name and "host" fails to resolve it. I copied and pasted the information from my hosts file on the Fedora box which DOES work. Any idea why the different behavior? Do I need to modify my network information on the Ubuntu laptop somehow? Thanks! ..more..

From: John Aldrich ------------------------------------------------------ Ok, on my new (to me) KUbuntu notebook, I have a hosts file which lists the IP addresses of my local machines, including my Fedora box and my Windoze box. I am unable to ping either of those machines by name and "host" fails to resolve it. I copied and pasted the information from my hosts file on the Fedora box which DOES work. Any idea why the different behavior? Do I need to modify my network information on the Ubuntu laptop somehow? Thanks! ..more..

From: Cameron Kilgore ------------------------------------------------------ Got this from ALE after inquiring why GTlib was down this weekend ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Watson, Keith Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [ale] ga tech mirror? To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts This was sent out at 16:10 10/18/2011 to a GT computer support staff mailing list. There has not been an update since then. ============= Begin Forward ============= For those of you that use (or have users that use) GTlib (aka {www,ftp,rsync}.gtlib.gatech.edu), it's down and running a filesystem check. It has eaten itself pretty throughly, and will likely be down for a while while I reconstruct the bits. For those of you depending on this for critical services, don't. ever. GTlib is not a production service. ============= End Forward ============= keith -- Keith R. Watson Georgia Institute of Technology IT Support professional Lead College of Computing keith.watson@cc.gatech.edu 801 Atlantic Drive NW (404) 385-7401 Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 > -----Original Message----- > From: ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] On Behalf Of Tim > Watts > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 14:16 > To: ale@ale.org > Subject: [ale] ga tech mirror? > > Anybody know what's going on with www.gtlib.gatech.edu? > > I've been using it as my ubuntu update mirror (lucid) for years but > since Friday it's been unreachable (can't ping or connect on port 80). > Is this a permanent thing? > > > ..more..