Progressive Coder
Emmy Huang: Yes, Virginia, there will be a Flash Player 9 for Linux
> Yes, Adobe is actively working on the Linux version of Flash Player 9. We expect to make a pre-release version available on Adobe Labs for early feedback and testing before the end of the year, with the full release expected in early [...]
The first release candidate version of Ubuntu Dapper Drake is available. The main focus of the RC is to test upgrading from Breezy Badger, and the process has been integrated into the update-manager. It does require a few hundred megabytes of downloading unless you grab the CD from one of the following mirrors:
United [...]
Picasa
Google has released Picasa for Linux, and even provides a .deb for Ubuntu. Installing it is as easy as downloading the archive from the above link, and typing the following in a terminal:
sudo dpkg -i /home/erlends/picasa_2.2.2820-5_i386.deb
It contains a copy of Wine and Gecko, so it comes at 21M, but it looks just like the windows [...]
Sun flirts with Ubuntu: ZDNet Australia: News: Software
> At JavaOne, both sides say they really like each other — suggesting a role for Ubuntu’s upcoming “Dapper Drake” operating system on Sun Microsystems’ servers.
> Ubuntu Linux got a ringing endorsement from Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Tuesday in San Francisco. In turn, Ubuntu project founder Mark [...]
Sun Recasts Java Licensing for GNU/Linux and OpenSolaris Communities
> SAN FRANCISCO, JAVAONE CONFERENCE, May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), the creator and leading advocate of Java™ technology, today announced that Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 5 is now available for redistribution by GNU/Linux and OpenSolaris(SM) operating system distributors under the new [...]
Go get it, you know you want to… Closing in on the stable release now, will be fun tracking Edgy Eft to get all the planned goodies as soon as possible.
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) Beta
Ubuntu 6.06 Long Term Support Beta is released. Whee. I’ve been running Dapper Drake for a few months now, with very few problems. I can wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone running Linux, or wanting to dabble with Linux. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more polished distribution which Just Works [...]
If you want to track Xgl & Compiz CVS, add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.beerorkid.com/compiz/ dapper main
deb http://xgl.compiz.info/ dapper main
The Dapper Universe repository has these packages as well, but they’re extremely old.
Install the required packages by typing the following in a terminal:
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I am royally impressed. I’ve been running Xgl + Compiz all day, and it’s only crashed on me while fiddling with xscreensaver. Other than that, it’s been pretty solid. If this keeps up, I’m bringing my spare nVidia card to work and installing it on my machine there. It’s eye-candy overload, and it looks bloody [...]
NOVELL: Xgl
> Novell is announcing its contribution of the Xgl graphics subsystem and the ‘Compiz ‘ compositing manager to the X.org project. These enhancements open up a whole world of hardware acceleration, fancy animation, separating hardware resolution from software resolution, and more. As a result, Linux desktops will become more usable, end-user productivity will increase, [...]