It’s only been about thirty minutes since I posted this entry. Since then, I’ve been able to download and install (upgrade to) Ubuntu 7.10. Pretty quick, eh? Well, time to go play with the new distro and find out what all has changed.
Work has been extremely hectic lately, so hectic in fact that I never even noticed that Ubuntu 7.10 was released to the world. Guess it’s time to upgrade my Ubuntu system. For those of you like myself that are still running Ubuntu 6.06, you can download the latest version here.
Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Gobunt, and other Ubuntu 7.10 family products are also available for download.
In what will hopefully be a long line of applications for the Linux world, Google has released a version of Google Desktop for Linux. While it lacks support for widgets/gadgets, it will index just about everything on your system. OOo docs, man pages, media files, and more.
Good, now I’ll be able to install the PHP documentation and search it rather than having to visit PHP.net every time!
Hopefully we’ll get an update to Picasa in the near future, as well as a Linux version of Google Talk. Yes, I know GTalk is just jabber… it’s the GMail integration that I like most.
Linspire, Inc., which has a commercial Linux distro of the same name, has decided to release a free Linux distro, named Freespire. According to the Press Release, we’ll see the first beta of Freespire in August.
Kevin Carmony said the Freespire project has six major goals:
1) Provide users freedom of choice by making available a “free marketplace” for all Linux software, including proprietary, open source, free and commercial products, plus provide easy access to this marketplace with open sourced tools such as CNR and apt-get. When necessary for the user experience, include proprietary software as an option in the core distribution, which will always be available for download at no cost;
2) Offer a very easy-to-use, yet powerful, Linux distribution;
3) Provide exceptional “fit and finish” with a professional and polished operating system;
4) Create a Linux that can expand more broadly to the masses;
5) Create an active community of developers and users; and
6) Include worldwide language support. A more detailed discussion on the Freespire mission can be found at www.freespire.org/about/vision.
Came across a couple of Linux reviews I figured I’d post… First up is a review of RedHat’s Fedora Core 5 by Free-Bees. The next is a review of Ubuntu Linux Dapper Flight 5 (6.06) by Mad Penguin.
Over the last few days there have been a number of beta releases for various Linux (and BSD) distros, so I figured I’d just lump them into one post…
I think that was all of them.
Is Google planning it’s own version of Linux based off of the popular Ubuntu distro? That’s the rumor according to The Register.
Just saw this one the lists.ubuntu.com:
Colony CD 4 is ready. This is the fourth in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Breezy development cycle, as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Breezy.
The download is available here.
