Posts in category Distros
A Canonical Controversy
Remember these past few months where Ubuntu/Canonical’s contribution to Gnome (or lack thereof) was called into question and the topic was on the tip of every Linux news website tongue (see closing thoughts for info links)? Let’s throw some gasoline on that fire for your Friday!! It’s time for a Barbecue!
Today, Mark Shutt [...]
Midori, Flash, and Unity Linux 2010
I just took a look at how Unity Linux 2010.1 shapes up and found that the flashplayer plugin doesn’t work with the default browser which is Midori. Here’s a quick fix for getting flash to work with Midori on Unity 2010. First, install the flash-player-plugin (as root in terminal or use the gui):
smart install flash-player-plugin [...]
Ubuntu Names Their Desktop After Us?
I was quite surprised this morning whilst reading my RSS feeds to discover that Ubuntu has named their most recent ‘lite desktop‘ Unity. Surprised because we have our project, Unity Linux. Strange that both our ‘lightweight distribution and desktop’ and Ubuntu’s ‘lite desktop’ should share a name to [...]
Rethinking Home Servers
Since my first home-built server (a PI 75Mhz behemoth) I’ve used Red Hat based distributions as my home server. This lasted until around 2002-3 when I moved into a 4 bedroom house with 3 of my Air Force buddies and one of them wanted to learn Linux.
I knew from experience in the mid-nineties that Slackware was probably the most Unix-li [...]
Unity Linux Automates Build Process
The guys over at Unity Linux have created and developed a ‘build server’ that will allow the automation of package building in both 64bit and 32bit flavors. All the building is done in a chroot and then the package is automatically moved into the ‘Testing’ repository.
Very interesting stuff…much like what rMake [...]
What Is Unity Linux?
There’s been a lot of confusion about exactly what Unity Linux is.
I thought I’d talk today a bit about that. I’d like to talk a bit about what Unity uses for it’s ‘guts’. I’d also like to dispel some myths surrounding Unity. Lastly, I’d like to talk briefly about how Unity is doing all it c [...]