Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Ubuntu 16.04, 128-bit

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Julian
on Fri, July 25 2008
in Ubuntu and www
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I just read this blog post on ZDNet, where someone is running Ubuntu 16.04 in 2016 which features OpenOffice 6.2 and Firefox 8.

2016: “You’re watching the Linux Channel.” by ZDNet’s Jason Perlow — July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the day before. His morning double espresso with frothed skim [...]

Meta Package Marketplace

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Julian
on Wed, July 23 2008
in Ubuntu
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When people ask me what I like about Ubuntu, the first thing I’m going to mention is the avid community, the second thing is the ease of getting a complete desktop experience.


But people are different and so are their needs. One person may need fonts for illustrations, another person looks for applications to record and cut pod casts and yet another person may be trying to install all games of Kenta Cho. The Add/Remove Applications dialog being well-sorted, easy and ready to use for anyone, is definitely helping a lot not getting lost in the huge amount of software the repositories offer, waiting to be installed. The number of applications accessible this way grew steadily, and this led to one of the problems especially new users face: The overwhelming amount of software, not knowing what they need or want, precise but confusing descriptions and no signs of the usually omnipresent community besides those almost meaningless stars. This cries for change, this cries for community involvement.


My idea would be to create an easy way for users to create and submit meta packages in order to share them with other people on a digg-like website. KDE already got a somewhat similar feature where applications can download themes, emoticons or scripts from kde-look.org and kde-apps.org.

Other than the feature of KDE, this kind of meta package marketplace would enable users to create meta packages only linking software available in the official repositories. Downloading and installing those packages should be possible for anyone (as in person, not account, still requires sudo/root),  Submitting meta packages and participating in the voting and discussions would however require people to register an Account, maybe on Launchpad.


While the creation of, and discussion about those packages would require to go to a website, the installation and the browsing of the same should not. An Application replacing the classic Add/Remove application would fill the gap, maybe featuring tabs to change from the classic lists to the meta package marketplace. Entries of the meta packages should contain an description, the number of positive votes or rating, what packages are part of it and a link pointing to the respective entry on the website.

I’m not sure about the quality of this idea, but I just felt like writing it down.

Twitux looking for translators

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Julian
on Tue, July 22 2008
in Ubuntu and apps
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I’m sure many of you heard of Twitter, and if you’re using Twitter and you’re a Gnome user you probably heard of Twitux.

Twitux is pretty nifty little GTK client for the popular micro blogging service developed by Daniel Morales

Help to translate Twitux, the community needs you!

https://translations.launchpad.net/twitux

looking for a way to reduce noise

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Julian
on Sat, July 19 2008
in Ubuntu and real world
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They are coming!

I took this picture with my crappy cam and now I’m looking for a away to reduce some of the noise in this picture. I’m looking for an easy way, for a non-professional like me, to enhance this picture on Linux.

Good blog writing software for Linux or lack thereof

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Julian
on Thu, July 17 2008
in Ubuntu
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Has anyone ever noticed the lack of good blog writing software for linux? I know that ‘good’ is a relative term and some may be happy with the way it is now. I am not.
Right now there are two applications doing a somehow more or less good job: ScribeFire and BlogGTK.

scribefire1.jpeg

I already mentioned ScribeFire in my post about my favourite Firefox addons and it’s actually the application I use. I love cross platform applications and although this one needs Firefox to run it is what comes closest to what I need right now. Bad about it is that since Firefox mimics GTK the tabs look distorted in some weird way, and I’m not sure if this is related but the close buttons doesn’t work. There are other smaller bugs as well, but in the end it still does its job.

bloggtk1.jpg

BlogGTK is as the name suggests using GTK, I’d prefer something using QT4 but hey, I’m not a toolkit nazi. If it works I couldn’t care less about the toolkit. The problem is that it doesn’t work very well, at least not any more. The project has been dead for about 3 years and as it seems the Metablog or Wordpress API changed. Some functions don’t work, I can’t edit older posts, they just get published a second time, and I can’t access my categories.
The project just got resurrected recently and I’m waiting for the first snap shot of 2.0.

Still both applications in their current state are absolutely no match to applications like the Windows Live Writer.

I hope this will change in the future. *lookingoveratbloggtkdevelopment*