Up from now you can order free CDs of the next release of Ubuntu Linux named Dapper Drake (6.06 LTS) at ShipIt.
Shipping will start in early June and – according to experience – last four to six weeks (at least to Germany).
Leroy cleans up (OT: Leroy räumt auf) is a short movie (18 min.) by Armin Völckers. Leroy, an afro-german boy, and his Greek friend Dimmi walk through Berlin and reflect on the problems of being german.
One of the highlights of the movie are definitely the brothers of Eva (Leroy’s girl-friend) Hanno, Horst, Siegfried and Adolf (with dog Goebbels) who are skin-heads but made friends with Leroy. After the first boring minutes, the movie raises into a hunt of word jokes and allusions (“Goebbels! Do you want total war? Come on…”).
This is definetely a must see!
RWTH Aachen University is no longer listed at MeinProf.de. After reaching the second position in the “number of votes” highscore and leading various lists of top-rated professors and courses, the data protection officer of the university claimed the project to be illegal and limiting the professors’ rights.
As MeinProf.de is a non-profit student organisation, they decided to remove RWTH Aachen University from the project because they can’t afford a law suit.
As posted at Launchpad, Ubuntu Linux 5.10 has a security hole that might local users allow to gain root privileges using sudo. The password for the first user created during installation (who has sudo-priviliges by default) is stored in a plain-text file.
To protect your machine of getting hijacked by a local user you have two possibilites:
This problem is said to be fixed in Dapper (the next release of Ubuntu Linux) but there must a solution to fix this hole on all Breezy installation as this file will propably not be deleted on an upgrade to Dapper.
Listen is back! After some problems concerning the license, Listen, my favourite music browser and jukebox is back with a new version and even Audioscrobbler support.
Listen is free software written in Python for GNOME (GTKlib) and comes with a cutting-edge user interface and an amazing OSD.
Repositiories for easy installation on Ubuntu Linux (5.10 & 6.04) are provided, so check it out!
As postet at ubuntuusers.de Ubuntu Linux will be presented at this year’s CeBIT in hall 5 at booth F67/8.
The Ubuntu Deutschland e.V. will show Edubuntu and a prewiew of Dapper Drake (the new Ubuntu version to come in April). There will also be free Breezy Badger CDs, flyers and a suprise for all visitors.
DVD versions of Edubuntu and Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Userguide by Marcus Fischer are available against a small donation.
Today I found a nice litte program that allows you to minimize every program shown in Gnome’s Window List to the system tray. There’s support for other windowmanager like KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox and WindowMaker, too.
This powerful tool is named AllTray. A package for Ubuntu is provided, but I suggest compiling the latest version from source to avoid some annoying bugs.
Quadras is a very compact embedded PC powered by a Transmeta Crusoe CPU. It is sold by KWS Computersysteme GmbH and costs 565 Euro (+ taxes) with a 667 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM and a hard disk.
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) works like a charm, no matter if you take the live cd or install it on the hard disk. There were much more problems trying to use Knoppix or Kanotix.
I finally managed to get the built-in SD-card reader in my DELL Inspiron 6000 working and this should work for most other built-in card readers, too.
Before I start with the how-to, big thanks to the developers of the Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver and Mark Lindeman, who’s instructions were very helpful. Read the rest of this entry »
