Update: Ubuntu 10.10

I haven't updated this blog in a while but Ubuntu 10.10 is released and is better than ever! I won't go into details about why it is better, just letting everyone know that I have tried it and it is great.

What I really want to talk about here is Lubuntu. It uses the recent LXDE desktop environment which is extremely fast and blows away the slugginsh XFCE which used to be known for it's speed. Lubuntu only needs 64MB of memory and will bring those really old computers back to life. It has Abiword and Gnumeric instead of the huge, memory stealing OpenOffice.org.

The whole OS starts in about 10 seconds on my average computer and almost everything starts instantly. It has PCManFM instead on the slow Nautilus but some people may like Nautilus better because of all the features that it has. It has Gpaint instead of GIMP, Google Chromium instead of Firefox and GMplayer which starts very fast.

OK, enough blabber, here's some screenshots:

A guide for users wanting to switch to Linux

I have created a guide for users that are planning to switch to Linux from Windows or just want to try it out.
In this guide I show you how to install and configure Ubuntu onto your computer and I have included a FAQ and some useful links in it too.

Since it is aimed at Windows users I have saved it as a Microsoft Word Document. Click here to download it. The file is about 1MB.

Note: On the eSnips site where the file is stored, the download link should be somewhere below the big iPaper Flash object.

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Beta Released

I downloaded the desktop ISO the second it appeared on the server (literally) as I was watching the files being uploaded live.

I am testing it now.

Great Utility for USB Linux

USB Linuxes are becoming very popular and it is now easy to install them.

I have tried some Ubuntu how-tos but none of the persistant one seem very easy and I am only willing to try persistant ones as they are very versatile.

On the other hand, I tried a utility from the Fedora website that automatically installs a Fedora release on to your USB stick.


You may select a already downloaded Live-CD ISO image or you can select from the list a release to be automatically downloaded for you. Then you select you USB device. After that you choose a size for the persistant image file, this will let you keep all changes made in the Fedora system so that next time you boot everything will still be there.

This utility runs on Windows and Linux:
Click here to download this utility.