System76 release ultra portable laptop which pre-installed Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, for those who has a plan to buy a new laptop/notebook/netbook System76 Lemur ultra 14" could be your choice, here the specs and benchmark :

System76 Lemur Ultra

• Ultra Portable, Ultra Powerful
• Processor: 2nd Generation Intel Core i5 and i7 CPU's
• Core Logic: HM65 Chipset
• Display: 14.1" HD Widescreen LED Display (1366 x 768)
• Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000
• Memory: up to 8 GB DDR3 @ 1333 MHz
• Storage: up to 750 GB SATA II/III
• Touchpad: Multitouch with two finger scrolling
• Networking: Gigabit LAN (10/100/1000), WiFi
• Wireless: 802.11 bgn or Intel 802.11 abgn
• Ports: HDMI, VGA, 3 x USB 2.0, SD Card Reader
• Audio Ports: Headphone Jack, Microphone Jack
• Camera: Built-In 1.3 MP Webcam
• Security: Kensington® Lock
• Power Management: Suspend & Hibernate
• Battery: 6 Cell Lithium-Ion Battery Pack
• Power System: Full Range AC adapter 65W, AC in 100~240V, 50~60Hz, DC output 19V, 3.42A or 18.5V, 3.5A
• Dimensions: 13.38" x 9.37" x 0.98"~1.31" (WxDxH)
• Weight: 4.71 lbs. (2.13 kg.

As a self-educated person in Linux and open-source, reading e-books is one of my methods to learn Linux. There are a lot e-books on the Internet talking about Linux and other computer stuff, but getting them in one place is too difficult because they are spread at the certain place on the Internet. Today, I'd like to share my e-books collection in one place so you can browse and download it easily. My collection contains many kinds of e-books about Linux, open-source, programming, and another computer stuff.

The latest Full Circle Magazine issue #54 publishes the result of its readers polling about "What age do you think the average Linux user is?" and "What is your age?". According to the polling result, most of users said 20-29 years old is average Linux users and 30-39 years old is the age of most readers.

The book writer said:

There are total of 101 hacks in this book that will help you build a strong foundation in Linux. All the hacks in this book are explained with appropriate Linux command examples that are easy to follow.

This book contains 12 chapters. Hacks mentioned in 6 chapters are based on the articles that I’ve already posted on my blog. Hacks mentioned in rest of the 6 chapters are brand new.

I have created a bundle from Full Circle Magazine contains C/C++ Programming in Linux. By reading this bundle, you will know how to get started developing C/C++ application in Linux. This bundle covers how to set up your environment for C/C++ development including required libraries, create simple C/C++ application in Linux, etc.

Mozilla Thunderbird has replace an Evolution presence in Ubuntu (Since Ubuntu 11.04), there is nothing wrong with this replacement, this is only a policy of canonical to make a good movement for Ubuntu in the future (just like switching from Gnome Desktop to Unity).

Thunderbird 7.0.1 a default mail application in Ubuntu 11.10

Dead Cyborg is Sci-Fi based adventure game. Is is free to play, you can play it whenever you want but don't forget to donate if you like it :) It has an easy game play, there is no action just adventure. All you need to do is explore, search and think. Dead Cyborg is divided into episodes, each episode can be finished in 2 - 3 hours. When this article is written, Dead Cyborg has finished episode 1 and episode 2 is in 65% progress.

Wine has come to version 1.3.31, although it's still development release, you can install it over PPA. Use following to Install / Upgrade to Wine 1.3.31 via PPA for Ubuntu Oneiric, Natty, Lucid, Karmic, and Jaunty.

• sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
• sudo apt-get update &&sudo apt-get install wine1.3

• http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.3.31.tar.bz2

• BiDi text support in the single-line edit control.
• Support for StretchDIBits and AlphaBlend in the DIB engine.
• A number of audio fixes.
• VBScript improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

Typoo is a small application written with Gambas that can be used for boosting and or testing your typing speed. It is a language-independent application because it uses external text files loaded into Typoo and you have to type the loaded file.

Blender is professional Open Source 3D modelling suit that's runs in Ubuntu (which also available for windows), yesterday October 19th, 2011 The Blender Foundation and online developer community release Blender version 2.60, what changes inside ?

Blender 2.60 Splash Screen

Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. It’s based on Apple’s “Quicklook”. GNOME 3.2 have its own quick file previewer called gnome-sushi. You can install it by typing "sudo apt-get install gnome-sushi". But if you want to use Gloobus Preview instead because it supports more file types, you can install it on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot easily.

Turpial is Open Source twitter client application writes with python, though my opinion turpial is the best twitter client application ever which run in Ubuntu compared with Choqok, qtwit even gwibber. Turpial have good a appearance (some point having good icons), performance (you have a lot of setting inside), and User Friendly GUI that make us quickly to understand some function that available.

CoverGloobus version 1.7.3 released and available in PPA since 22 October 2011

CoverGloobus is great desktop goodies which lets us having audio player control in our desktop, CoverGloobus is seems like desktop widget which having access to some Audio Player such us Banshee, VLC, Clementine, Rhythmbox, Listen, and Songbird to control its current playing song (play, pause, skip forward, and skip backward). CoverGloobus come to version 1.7.3, add some features like progress bar, timer support, so download and update.  CoverGloobus is product of Gloobus-dev (a creator of Gloobus Preview) team.

Driver for Epson printers can be installed automatically on Ubuntu 11.04 (and later) when you plug your printer to computer. For many reasons, you are still using old-version of Ubuntu, you can still easily download and install various Epson printers driver for Ubuntu. There are a lot of supported printer models, here are some of them.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS codename 'Precise Pangolin' scheduled release at April 2012, Ubuntu 12.04 will become latest Ubuntu Long Term Support since Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. LTS (Long Term Support) means Ubuntu version which usually have 3 years technical support from connonical, especially for Ubuntu server edition it will be 5 years support. Read more information about LTS here.

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

Ubuntu 12.04 time support

We Feel so pleased yesterday when some visitor say that "Ubuntu 11.10 Works out of the box in MacBook Pro 5.4/5.5/6.4/8.1"   

After that, we google it to find more information, here summary of Install Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot in MacBook Pro.

Unlike Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot recognize almost all hardware of MacBook Pro and some of them works out of the box without any setting such us : VGA Intel HD, Multitouch Trackpad, FacetimeHD Camera, Sound, CardReader, Monitor brightness and Keyboard Bakclight. When I was looking for any reference on the net some errors that we encountered among others Bluetooth and MacBook Pro Wireless. Here some required setting to install Ubuntu 11.10 in Macbook Pro

Gwibber 3.4 plans to integrate with Google+ in ones of their services, this notes taken from Ken VanDine blog (creator of Gwibber).

Gwibber 3.4 will available in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin but we strongly hope that we can taste it in Ubuntu 11.10, with the new Gwibber client, there aren’t really many new “features” however it is important to note not all previous features made it in (Ken van dine says). Some working on progress that we can see in Gwibber 3.4 launchpad are :

• Add Google+ Service to Gwibber, Gwibber "Smooth scrolling",
• CPU usage shoots up when opening new tweet box, 
• Ability to post images & attachments to identi.ca & status.net, and
• Facebook send messages, user profiles, comments, and likes.

After installing the ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, may some people feel not so satisfied with the performance or appearances (Unity), Although this situation has occurred since Ubuntu 11.04 some of ubuntu user seems still unsatisfied although Unity now runs on top of Gnome 3 platform (GTK3). Some advice  to who are less satisfied with some Ubuntu change, "come on guys, all people do the change, let's change!", don't say that Gnome 2 is better ever.

When you run VirtualBox at the first time on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, you may get this following error message: "Failed to access the USB subsystem. VirtualBox is not currently allowed to access USB devices. You can change this by adding your user to the 'vboxusers' group. Please see the user manual for more detailed explanation."

Recently, I have wrote about how to limit apt-get download speed. Today, I'd like to show you cross-purposed applications called apt-fast and apt-proz. Both of them can boost your apt-get download speed by using such an engine, apt-fast use Axel engine and apt-proz use ProZilla engine. They can do parallel download, so as expected, your download speed is faster than usig reguler apt-get operation.

Apt-Fast

After Ubuntu 11.10 released now its turn of Mozilla Firefox to release thier product, yesterday Firefox development team release Firefox 10 Alpha 1 (nightly) and ready to download via FTP or install via PPA.

• Download Firefox 10 Alpha 1 (nightly build)

ProZilla is ncurses based download accelerator that supports parallel downloads, HTTP and FTP downloads with FTP search feature. FTP search means ProZilla can search fastest FTP mirror for faster download speed. Because it based on ncurses, ProZilla is lightweight download accelerator too.

VirtualBox is a virtualization application that can help you run any x86 and AMD64/Intel64 compatible operating system on host machine. VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a lot of guest operating systems such as (not limited to) Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. VirtualBox 4.1.4 is now available for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

Finally Ubuntu 11.10 Codenamed 'Oneiric Ocelot' has been officially released, the worlds most popular Linux operating system 'Ubuntu' has been released by canonical on 13 October 2011.

Ubuntu Linux logo

The latest version of Ubuntu Linux – Ubuntu 11.10 with codename 'Oneiric Ocelot' has been officially released at 13 October 2011

• Today is 13 Oct 2011 the day of Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' Final will be release, although it has been much discussed, moreover the Alpha, Beta, and Release Candidate the Final `stable` released of Ubuntu 11.10 still awaited by Ubuntu fans and OpenOurce enthusiast.

• Upgrading Ubuntu previous version to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric is quiet easy, you can do direct dist-upgrade from Ubuntu Software Center and wait until the proccess finish, this way is simplest way but need a mount of bandwidth. For the other way you can download the Ubuntu 11.10 ISO from following links, burn the ISO or place it in the USB FlashDrive then do fresh instalation or `offline` upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Ubuntu provide different iso for server and desktop of Ubuntu 11.10, also 32-bit or 64-bit architecture.

Unity is enabled by default on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, and the latest version Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot will enable Unity by default too. Does your hardware support Unity? How to check it? Please read the rest of the article to figure it out!

A Moment after Steve jobs pass away, people on social network, online mass media, much discuss about his role for the Apple and the World of Computing. Steve is the man who inspiring us to keep "foolish" and never stop to learn, but in this time we will not discuss it. For Mac OS (Family) user that want to learn Ubuntu certainly will seek for application which is closed to or equivalent to the application that usually they use in Mac OS. Ubuntu is an Operating System with contain of thousand applications that ready to install and choose freely through Ubuntu Software Center (just like Android with Android Market), regarding to this, here are list of Ubuntu application which have equivalent to some Popular Mac OS application.

Hii!! We found such interesting Ubuntu video from Youtube. As we can see from the title, we guest that this video has been prepared as Officially Ubuntu 11.10 Commercial video.

This video is contain a message, briefly a message about invitation to use Ubuntu that packaged with Simple language and `Awesome` Illustration, here's video what i mean :

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot does not have appearance properties so, we can't change GTK  theme's option and icon theme easily. Fortunately, there is such an application called dconf-tools that can be used to change some gnome appearance properties including gnome icon theme.

a while after Microsoft launched new OS Windows 8 `Beta` with actually using new Interface named Metro UI, many people feels love with it. The interface that feels fresh, functional, simple and good looking are very fascinating, and there is some concern about the fate of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot is it still boom as ever.

For Ubuntu User, you do not need to worry because you can taste the Metro UI atmosphere without leaving Ubuntu, kant-o on their Deviantart has made a theme/skin for conky which makes us feels have a Windows 8 in our desktop.

Conky Metro UI Style Screenshot

Hello everybody, have a nice weekend! Today I'd like to show you how to limit apt-get download speed. This trick is useful when you're sharing your Internet connection among your friends or family. With this trick, you can perform such apt operation (install or upgrade) without interrupting the other members of your network.

Since Ubuntu 10.10 Skype always available in every ubuntu official repository, even though there are always a choice for ubuntu user to download Skype from its official website, it's better for us to install Skype from a repository because it's has been adjusted with every Ubuntu release.

In this release, Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric has Improved handling of 32-bit compatibility on amd64 systems, in other word this mean `some package` may use a same library for 32-bit and 64-bit. 32-bit libraries will always be available at the same time as their 64-bit counterparts, even in the case of security updates, and users will only need to install those 32-bit libraries needed by the applications they have installed.

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Referencing to the http://people.canonical.com/~dpm/stats/ubuntu-11.10-translation-stats.html, Ubuntu 11.10 will available in 38 Languages (has been fully translated into 38 languages) and ready to shipped, Actually there was 220 language there but because of the limitations of the translator team that joined in Ubuntu Translator Team, at this time there's not possible for Ubuntu to provide ubuntu in all 220 Languages. So What languages ​​are available in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, is one of them is your language ?, you can check following links :

• Ubuntu Translation Page

Ubuntu 11.10 Available Languages

Gambas is a full-featured object language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. Gambas' architecture is inspired by Java. So Gambas is made up of: a compiler, an interpreter, an archiver, a scripter, a development environment, many extension components. Essentially, Gambas is a good starting point to build such application in Ubuntu/Linux, moreover there is a good free e-book that covers most important things about Gambas. It will teach you how to become Gambas Ninja! :p

Like what previously wrote in Install Ubuntu Natty in MacBook Pro some user found several problem with wireless (Broadcom BCM4331) so make their  system got freeze and need to be restart forcibly. That's Problem usually occur when we use ndiswrapper not only in MacBook Pro but also some laptop, I've experienced it in my former laptop Acer 4520.

Referencing to Raimar Sandner blog, there is a good news for us because we can use MacBook Pro 8.1 Wireless directly without Ndiswraper, so you can avoid a system freeze as before. To perform this, you need to compile the driver and patch the kernel, read following step to Fix MacBook Pro Wireless (Broadcom BCM4331) Problem issue in Ubuntu.

Install All Required Application
Before it's start, install your system with required application bellow :

sudo apt-get install build-essential automake make

Imagine you have a playlist on YouTube that contains hundreds of videos in it and you want to download them, what will you do? Do you really want to download them one by one? I think that's not a good idea. So, in this my first post, I'd like to show you how download all videos of YouTube playlist by simply type a few commands.

Evernote is great application that used by many people to collect, spread, make, or store information (photo, video, and notes) in Internet or just save the information to be opened next time. As well as Ubuntu One or Drop Box, Evernote also provide free storage for registered user but the difference is the storage that provide by Evernote only can accessed by Evernote client application to save information which has made ​​it, you can access information inside your account everywhere and anywhere through Evernote Client that available in Evernote Windows, Mac, IOS, or Android. Until now Evernote is available in Windows, Mac, IOS, Blackbery and Android but at this time not yet available in Linux or Ubuntu.

• Native 64-bit Support (Flash Player desktop) — Take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
• Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding (new for Flash Player) — Improve app responsiveness and deliver smoother animation by decoding images on initial load instead of on demand. Images are cached as needed.
• TLS Secure Sockets Support (new for Flash Player) — Enables secure communications for client/server applications.

Jockey is the tool that used in Ubuntu to manage 3rd party drivers, particularly proprietary driver what i mean is something like NVIDIA or ATI Graphic Drivers. Jockey available in GUI and Text mode, you can find exact function in both of them. To list what drivers jockey thinks are available for your hardware use jockey-text --list in terminal, see following example :

jockey-text --list

xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)

Obnam is simply backup application that closed to rsync which can  Backups data then store into local hard disks or online storage through the SSH SFTP protocol, Obnam make simple procedure backup and didn't need any supporting application unless SSH. Till now Obnam have come to version 0.23 and ready to install in Ubuntu via PPA, even though we call `functionality is does not replace Deja-dup`, Obnam is such interesting application to Developer for trying.

Obnam 0.23  Backup features
here'resome features that will you get in Obnam :

• Snapshot backups. Obnam is complated with snapshot features, you don't need to worry about full versus incremental backups, or rotate real or virtual tapes.
• Data de-duplication, across files, and backup generations. If the backup repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it will be re-used, even if it was in another file in an older backup generation. This way, you don't need to worry about moving around large files, or modifying them.
• Safe and secure backup using GnuPG.
• Push or pull operation, depending on what you need. You can run Obnam on the client, and push backups to the server, or on the server, and pull from the client over SFTP (just like Rsync).

• restore now complate with progress bar.
• fsck now has more useful progress reporting, and does more checking, including the integrity of the contents of file content.
• fsck now also checks the integrity of the B-trees in the repository, so that it is not necessary to run fsck-larch manually anymore. This works remotely as well, whereas fsck-larch only worked on B-trees on the local filesystem.
• force-lock now gives a warning if the client does not exist in the repository.
• Subcommands for encryption now give a warning if encryption key is not given.
• The --fsck-fix option will now instruct obnam backup fsck to try to fix problems found. For this release, it only means fixing B-tree missing node problems, but more will follow.
• SFTP protocol use has been optimized, which should result in some more speed. This also highlights the need to change obnam backup so it can do uploads in the background.