OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project has similar bug #1 with Ubuntu’s bug #1 OLPC’s bug #1 There isn’t a laptop in the hands of every child Ubuntu’s bug #1 Microsoft has a majority market share

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]