Progressive Coder
Whups.
I’ve been using QProcess from QT to spawn some SSH processes in glTail, and then just using exit(1) to quit while testing.
And on thursday evening, by server ran out of memory due to ~4000 SSH processes running. Guess I should find out how to properly quit a QT application instead of just exiting. [...]
Ubuntu 6.10 Released
Woot woot! Fire up those cd-burners and get installing!
Planning for Ubuntu 7.04 – the “Feisty Fawn”
> In that spirit, the release will be be code named “The Feisty Fawn”.
Nice one. =)
EdgyReleaseNotes – Ubuntu Wiki
Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) has reached Release Candidate 1. Woot!
I’ve been running it on my desktop machine for a few weeks, without any problems at all. The upgrade was almost smooth as well, just had a bit of python hassle.
I used the default Xorg 7.1 that ships with Edgy, and Compiz & friends from Quinnstorms Edgy repositories.
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
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ATI Proprietary Linux Release Notes
> Resolution of an XGL startup issue that prevented users from starting XGL on display :0. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22841
Woho. No more fiddling with :1 to get Xgl running. If only they would support bigger than 2048×2048 blits I could actually finally start using it at [...]
Angelic Penguins: SLED Menu For Ubuntu (Uslab) Now In Repo
Schweeet!
NOVELL: Novell Announces Next Generation Desktop: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 enables organization to gain flexibility in their IT infrastructure, have greater control of their environment, improve end-user security and dramatically reduce operational costs.
> It is the only enterprise-quality Linux desktop on the market designed for general-purpose business. Developed and backed [...]
Google Earth – Download
Google is continuing their Linux support with a release of Google Earth for both Linux and Mac OSX. First Picasa, now this. I’m pretty happy about all this, even though they use Wine to ease the porting.
My OS of choice has finally left beta and entered stable. Download Ubuntu 6.06 LTS here:
United States:
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/6.06/
Europe:
http://se.releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/ (Sweden)
http://fr.releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/ (France)
http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.06/ (All)
Rest of the World:
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