Today I installed Ubuntu 5.10 breezy badger on my home PC.
I did not fiddle around with it much. One observation I made was that the menu was slightly modified. I wanted to setup pppoeconfig to browse the net and I could not find the menu item for Terminal. It was in the accessories menu. Maybe this change is universal due to Gnome 2.10.1.
I was happy that all the drives were mounted by default and I could open a powerpoint presentation by just double clicking on the file in Linux.
I was not even aware that Oo could import the Powerpoint presentation in Impress.
Surely linux has come a long way. However I could not play a .wmv file in Totem.
Things to to do on Ubuntu
Play mp3 in XMMS (mp3 are not supported and are non free)
Play movies in totem and any other movie player
Open .rar files
Install Aureus
Run DOS emulation to play DOS games like (Digger,Paratruper,pacman etc)
play Games without emulation on linux
News
Flock the social browser has been launched. It integrates RSS and delicious into it.
Still in the beta stage I will download and try it
Friday, October 21, 2005
Sunday, October 16, 2005
XP up and running again
The problem i faced as mentioned in my earlier post did not need any research although I went about searching google and got loads of info.
It was just simple. I had tried the PC-BSD cd which I got with a magazine
It changed the partition type of /dev/hda1 (where windows is installed) to freebsd type. I logged into slack 10.1 and ran cfdisk which showd me this problem.
This is the reason Win XP was not able to read from the partition and gave an error.
I immediately changed it back to FAT32 wrote it to the disk and XP booted normally.
I am writing this from Ubuntu Hoary in mozilla firefox.
My plan is instead of downloading the Breezy iso from Win Xp I would like to do it from Hoary after doing all configs installing azureus etc..............
This will also be a good exposure to linux
It was just simple. I had tried the PC-BSD cd which I got with a magazine
It changed the partition type of /dev/hda1 (where windows is installed) to freebsd type. I logged into slack 10.1 and ran cfdisk which showd me this problem.
This is the reason Win XP was not able to read from the partition and gave an error.
I immediately changed it back to FAT32 wrote it to the disk and XP booted normally.
I am writing this from Ubuntu Hoary in mozilla firefox.
My plan is instead of downloading the Breezy iso from Win Xp I would like to do it from Hoary after doing all configs installing azureus etc..............
This will also be a good exposure to linux
Friday, October 14, 2005
Win XP halted, Researching problem
Today morning as usual I logged into my quadruple boot PC in Win XP.
(Oh to be open source truly. When will I log on to linux by default instead of Win XP for my daily activities???).
My son wanted to hear his songs (a daily ritual) for which I always go to Win XP and start winamp and play those randomly. He has 16 film songs in his own playlist mede by me. Well ran the same for an hour or so and shut it down.
When I was free for some time I again connected to the net thru Win XP browsed my usual sites
(e-mail,trading some porn) etc and then thought of tring out PC-BSD CD which came with the monthly Linux magazine. PC-BSD is still in beta stage. I just wanted to boot from the CD and see how it looked like and quit when asked for installation.
I found that PC-BSD was not perfect and the mouse seem to disappear. Clicking cancel on some dialog boxes did not have the desired effect and the dialog box remained on the screen.
So I quit and wanted to check my bank account online which I had forgotten before.
I rebooted and lo and behold after the initial Windows logo the blue screen with a message came up on the screen.
STOP:c000021a {Fatal system error} The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000003a
Now I can boot into all other Linux distros but not in to XP. Yeh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Google my friend listed some 689 results for this error but really no solution to the problem.
Everyone explains a different solution based on the error codes. So I am left to research on my own and to find a solution.
Even a boot into the safe mode gave a different STOP error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Researching..............
(Oh to be open source truly. When will I log on to linux by default instead of Win XP for my daily activities???).
My son wanted to hear his songs (a daily ritual) for which I always go to Win XP and start winamp and play those randomly. He has 16 film songs in his own playlist mede by me. Well ran the same for an hour or so and shut it down.
When I was free for some time I again connected to the net thru Win XP browsed my usual sites
(e-mail,trading some porn) etc and then thought of tring out PC-BSD CD which came with the monthly Linux magazine. PC-BSD is still in beta stage. I just wanted to boot from the CD and see how it looked like and quit when asked for installation.
I found that PC-BSD was not perfect and the mouse seem to disappear. Clicking cancel on some dialog boxes did not have the desired effect and the dialog box remained on the screen.
So I quit and wanted to check my bank account online which I had forgotten before.
I rebooted and lo and behold after the initial Windows logo the blue screen with a message came up on the screen.
STOP:c000021a {Fatal system error} The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000003a
Now I can boot into all other Linux distros but not in to XP. Yeh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Google my friend listed some 689 results for this error but really no solution to the problem.
Everyone explains a different solution based on the error codes. So I am left to research on my own and to find a solution.
Even a boot into the safe mode gave a different STOP error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Researching..............
Monday, October 10, 2005
Slackware 10.2 installed
Downloaded Slackware 10.2 and installed it on the partition which had Debian earlier.
I made it a full install. Slackware has abandoned Gnome so I have to use KDE.
Not experimented with it much.
Instead of Debian I thought of using Ubuntu which is a direct variant of Debian.
I have already installed Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog 5.04 on /dev/hdb5. Also downloaded a cool Slack wallpaper.
Waiting for the Ubuntu Breezy Badger release on 13/10/05. The same is already available as RC1 candidate.
Thinking of trying out Open SUSE.
Ubuntu seems to have clear directions and great support and also a great community.
So I have 2 distros (one with KDE only and one with Gnome only) -a unique combination.
I made it a full install. Slackware has abandoned Gnome so I have to use KDE.
Not experimented with it much.
Instead of Debian I thought of using Ubuntu which is a direct variant of Debian.
I have already installed Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog 5.04 on /dev/hdb5. Also downloaded a cool Slack wallpaper.
Waiting for the Ubuntu Breezy Badger release on 13/10/05. The same is already available as RC1 candidate.
Thinking of trying out Open SUSE.
Ubuntu seems to have clear directions and great support and also a great community.
So I have 2 distros (one with KDE only and one with Gnome only) -a unique combination.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
No progress on the programming front
Slackware 10.2 has been released. I downloaded the disk1 through torrent and currently am downloading the 2nd.
In my last post I had thought finally on concentrating on one topic of interest rather than flirting with multiple topics and zeroed in on Python. There is no progress after that.
Trying to find the ever evasive time. Although I get some time(2-3 hours daily) I have to utilise the same in household activities which are of utmost importance. Also those activities cannot be skipped permanently. Remaining time is spent with my kid who is just 2 years old.
Will try my level best to progress on this.
I am still writing this on Win Xp through Firefox 1.0.6 with the Noia theme and listening to Music on Winamp. Oh!! to be open source and use Linux.
I had an opportunity to use the laptop for a week in my office. It is a pretty old laptop but ran very well. Dell Lattitude C500 (800mhz,256mb RAM etc). I transferred images from my Nokia 3200 to the laptop through the infrared port and I was amazed at how fast it worked.
Dream of owning my own laptop running free os. It is a dream a laptops are very expensive in India than in any other country.
I observed that the top 10 distros listed of distrowatch based on the number of hits per day remain the same only changing positions and Ubuntu is the top distro overtaking Mandriva for a long time. The 10 distros are
Ubuntu,Mandriva,Suse,Debian,Slackware,Damn Small,Fedora,Koppix, Gentoo and Mepis
Links I frequent as of today
slashdot - really gives some great comments and news
del.icio.us
distrowatch
ubuntu forums -more recently
I have also subscribed to Ubuntu/Fedora/ Mumbai lug and Pune Lug in my Gmail for the past 6 months and sometimes there are interesting discussions aand also sometimes a question by me registers more than 25 replies.
Finally for a link to post on my blog Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu has clarified many aspects of Ubuntu and yes Breezy Badger will be released by 15th October.
Ubuntu status and clarifications
Adios Amigos
In my last post I had thought finally on concentrating on one topic of interest rather than flirting with multiple topics and zeroed in on Python. There is no progress after that.
Trying to find the ever evasive time. Although I get some time(2-3 hours daily) I have to utilise the same in household activities which are of utmost importance. Also those activities cannot be skipped permanently. Remaining time is spent with my kid who is just 2 years old.
Will try my level best to progress on this.
I am still writing this on Win Xp through Firefox 1.0.6 with the Noia theme and listening to Music on Winamp. Oh!! to be open source and use Linux.
I had an opportunity to use the laptop for a week in my office. It is a pretty old laptop but ran very well. Dell Lattitude C500 (800mhz,256mb RAM etc). I transferred images from my Nokia 3200 to the laptop through the infrared port and I was amazed at how fast it worked.
Dream of owning my own laptop running free os. It is a dream a laptops are very expensive in India than in any other country.
I observed that the top 10 distros listed of distrowatch based on the number of hits per day remain the same only changing positions and Ubuntu is the top distro overtaking Mandriva for a long time. The 10 distros are
Ubuntu,Mandriva,Suse,Debian,Slackware,Damn Small,Fedora,Koppix, Gentoo and Mepis
Links I frequent as of today
slashdot - really gives some great comments and news
del.icio.us
distrowatch
ubuntu forums -more recently
I have also subscribed to Ubuntu/Fedora/ Mumbai lug and Pune Lug in my Gmail for the past 6 months and sometimes there are interesting discussions aand also sometimes a question by me registers more than 25 replies.
Finally for a link to post on my blog Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu has clarified many aspects of Ubuntu and yes Breezy Badger will be released by 15th October.
Ubuntu status and clarifications
Adios Amigos
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