Gaim has a new name, Pidgin! Not just a new name, they also have a new look for their website, a new project URL (www.pidgin.im), a new mascot and many features.
Install Pidgin In Ubuntu
1. First step is to get pidgin source code, in your terminal
wget http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=235&filename=pidgin-2.0.0.tar.bz2
2. Then, install required development package.
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev [...]

Posted on May 6th, 2007 by SMD
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Yesterday, I wrote a post about how to install Qemu and KQemu in Ubuntu Linux. There’re more interesting things about Qemu. Let’s get started with basic usage of Qemu. Following example creates 2GB disk image for Fedora Core 6.
qemu-img create fc6.img 2G
Start Qemu with following command,
qemu -hda fc6.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d -m 256 -enable-audio [...]

Posted on May 4th, 2007 by SMD
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VMware server has been added to Canonical’s commercial software repository. In order to try it out, add the commercial repostiory through Add/Remove Programs and search for VMware. Or insert
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main
into your /etc/apt/sources.list. The package name is vmware-server. You’ll need to install app-install-data-commercial.
sudo apt-get install app-install-data-commercial
sudo apt-get install vmware-server
And it will install VMware [...]

Posted on May 3rd, 2007 by SMD
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If you note that the comment page in my blog has been added with I use Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) as an operating system. Getting VMWare Server to run on Ubuntu Feisty is a pain. There’s a reason I hate closed source software, on the whole it sucks.
What is Qemu? Qemu is an emulator. [...]

Posted on May 3rd, 2007 by SMD
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CNet-News is reporting that Dell will shortly announce a partnership with Canonical to offer Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) pre-loaded on desktops and notebooks. Last february, Dell has made a survey to gather feedback directly from consumers about what their favoruite distro.
More on CNet-News…
News on Dell…
Ubuntu Rox!

Posted on May 1st, 2007 by SMD
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After the release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I upgraded my Thinkpad. The simplest way to upgrade is to use Updater Manager (make sure you have “update-manager-core” to enable release upgrader). All seems to work, except for:
ACPI Module Running Slow
I found that it takes more than a minute to load ACPI modules and start hald daemon [...]

Posted on April 22nd, 2007 by SMD
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To all ubuntu fans, please clear your calendar on 19th April 2007. The next release of ubuntu (named Feisty Fawn) will be released this coming thursday.
Get ready to upgrade!

Posted on April 17th, 2007 by SMD
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Yeah! It’s a great news. Feisty Fawn (The next release of ubuntu) is to be available through ShipIt.
Go Ubuntu!

Posted on April 7th, 2007 by SMD
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