The Ubuntu 8.10 Intrebid Ibex final release is here!

I recommend downloading the files via bittorrent. You can find the version that’s right for you HERE

Enjoy, happy downloading, and remember to seed your files to help others download as well!

Nick had to do the show solo and pulled it off nicely. I was on vacation but will be back for show #4. Great job Nick, aka (boredandblogging),  very informative. Some highlights, Mark Shuttleworth throws the gauntlet on Linux desktop, Ultamatix, Launchpad 2.0, and Ardour.

Check it out here!

For those who watch and like the linuxcrypt podcasts, don’t worry, we will resume shows starting next week. Joel and Eric have been on vacation so we haven’t put a show out for a couple weeks.

For more information on the new “Ubuntu Podcast” series, please bookmark the link below, and make sure to add the RSS to your readers. We welcome comments and suggestions, as well as live interactive feedback in our chat channel as we are streaming.

http://ubuntupodcast.net

Travis Watkins, Jono Bacon, James Westby, and others have been conducting interviews and posting them on the yourtube channel. Since there doesn’t seem to be any other resources available for streaming /flickr stream, this is the best we have thus far. This is an open invitation for Canonical to feel free to fly me out anytime to do photo / video / streaming media for the events

According to the Ubuntu Wiki the Hardy Heron 8.04 beta release is available. If you would like to download one of the images for the release, you can grab it from here. For those brave souls wanting and upgrade, you can find the upgrade instructions here on the Wiki as well.

So far my personal experience with Hardy Heron has been good. The last release I tried on my HP nc6400 laptop was the Alpha 5 release. I have been hoping for better power management features with the newer release as to extend the battery life from my laptop.

Some of the new features in the Hardy Heron release include:

Xorg 7.3

Linux kernel 2.6.24

GNOME 2.22

PolicyKit

PulseAudio

Firefox 3 Beta 4

Transmission

Vinagre

Brasero Upgrade

World Clock Applet

ActiveDirectory integration

And many others.. See a full list of exciting new features, updates and enhancements on the wiki page.

A number of LoCo teams face the problem that they run out of offical CDs from Canonical well before their allotment is due to be renewed; to aid these teams we wish to produce batches of CDs for each of the major ubuntu versions so we can distribute more freely without worrying that we will run out money.

Companies, Factories and Prices

For more information PLease visit the WIKI!

This is awesome.

~j

“sudo apt-get install openssh-server” (without quotes)

I just used openssh-server as it does not come installed out of the box with the 6.06 LTS release which is what I run on my server. Well, any package you try to install, it will inevitably lookto install it from the CD-ROM first because that’s the first source in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. This is an easy fix. All you need to do is open the file, comment out the cd-rom source, save and update. I will show you how. Just do the following from your console:

$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Use your down arrow key until your cursor is over the “d” for

Now, press the letter “i” this will put you in insert mode. Input a pound sign “#” to comment it out.

Then press the “ESC” on your keyboard, this will take you out of insert mode.

Then save the file, there are two ways to do this, I just press “SHIFT ZZ” So holding down the “shift” key, then I press the letter “z” twice.

The other method is to  press “ESC” then press “SHIFT :” then enter the letter “w” then a bang “!” To write the file

Now you want to run an update as you have changed the file, so run a

$ sudo apt-get update

Then you are good to go, it won’t look for a cd-rom anymore when you install applications via “apt-get install”.

~j

The latest releases of Ubuntu for desktop and server are available today for download. This release brings together the best of free and open source software delivered on a stable, easy to use and learn platform. Read the press releases or download it now.

Download, Install, Enjoy!