Ubuntu Buzz !: August 2011 : Unofficial Ubuntu Blog

ashar_oz Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 19:14

How to Fix Angry Birds Error in Chrome

Angry Birds is a puzzle video game developed by Rovio Mobile. Inspired primarily by a sketch of stylized wingless birds, the game was first released for Apple's iOS in December 2009, Now Angry Birds can be played in Android, Windows, and Google Chrome.

Running Angry Birds on Ubuntu

There is a good news (is not a new news) that ubuntu user now can play the most rocketed game that is not `Angry Birds`, moments ago chrome provide Angry birds to list of Chrome Game that ready to install and the other good news is it can be played offline.

Angry Birds Screenshot

ashar_oz Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 10:20

Download / Install GIMP 2.7.3 For Ubuntu

Finally GIMP 2.7.3 (unstable) has been released and ready to test, the most visible changes in this release are full single-window mode just like Photoshop which run on Windows, other enhancements contained on GIMP 2.7.3 are :

Support Layer Groups
Program administration
Enhancements in order to ‘on canvas’ textual content modifying
Addition of a ‘Lock Content’ switch in order to Levels,Channels and Path dialogs.
‘Rule of fifths’ crop guide overlay.

Install GIMP 2.7.3 in Ubuntu via PPA

To Install Ubuntu 9.10 as well as Ubuntu 11.04 via PPA, you can include this ’ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn’ to your Repository. This particular PPA isn't officially provide by GIMP. So, you should be thought about unstable.

To install GIMP 2.7.3 open a terminal window (press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy+paste the following line:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

If you have GIMP Installed in your ubuntu before, just add the PPA and upgrade GIMP using the Ubuntu Software Center or the Update Manager.

Download GIMP 2.7.3 via FTP
You can also download GIMP 2.7.3 directly via GIMP FTP bellow :

Download GIMP 2.7.3, here.
Download GIMP 2.7.3 release notes, here

ashar_oz Monday, August 22, 2011 at 10:58

Linux Then and Now [Linux Facts]

Celebrating 20 Years of Linux presence (1991 - 2011), Obviously Linux has running so far. a picture above give illustration of a journey of Linux (kernel) since 1991 till now, a part of image above tells us that Ubuntu now dominate a Linux user for 34% by July 2011 followed by Redhat/Fedora for 28%. Check the following interesting facts :

ashar_oz Friday, August 19, 2011 at 09:11

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Development Update

(this article is re-post from previous article that writen by dholbach in this article)

Last week we hit Feature Freeze. This is the big date that all developer dread the most. Now features and new upstream versions have to have landed, everything else will be a matter the release team has to decide upon. We are rushing towards release with UI Freeze and Beta Freeze coming up next week. Exciting times!

For this report I got an update from the Ubuntu Server team, written by Dave Walker.

What’s cooking in Ubuntu server land?

The Ubuntu Server Team has already had quite a busy cycle. Last cycle, openstack components were initially introduced. This cycle has seen them receive much more attention, and packaging of extra components that didn’t exist last cycle.

In addition, using Ubuntu Server to orchestrate deployments is something that has evolved this cycle. One of the most interesting parts is the use of cobbler for deployment.

Ensemble, which is now part of the server team has entered the archive this cycle. Originally, ensemble worked purely against the ec2 API to assist with cloud deployments. This cycle, support for provisioning bare-metal hardware using cobblers API has been achieved.

There are always areas where interested people can contribute to the server flavour. The development tasks that people can take on varies from bitesize trivial tasks, to larger undertaking depending on available time commitment and experience. The type of desired task also tends to vary depending on the stage of the development cycle.

The Ubuntu server team tracks these bugs for release. Please note, that anything unassigned or assigned to ‘Ubuntu Server Team’ is generally up for grabs.

Another crucial part of being part of the Ubuntu Server Team, is triaging incoming bugs. We generally follow this process. We also welcome testing of the development cd image, and server archive components. This is vital to help catch critical issues before release.

Ensemble is always interested in having formula contributions, which is another interesting way that people with experience in deploying workloads are welcomed to contribute.

All contributions to Ubuntu Server are appreciated, if you want to get more involved please join#ubuntu-server on freenode IRC and say hello, or more formally follow:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Membership

Thanks a lot Dave for the update! I’d like to add that if you’re interested in the Cloud and what’s happening there, make sure you visit http://cloud.ubuntu.com/! Also if you got excited about Ensemble and what it can do for you, have a look at existing formulas and requested formulas. Just join #ubuntu-ensemble if you need some help or want to meet the people behind this fantastic project.

If you’re interested in any other aspect of Ubuntu Oneiric, I’d refer you to the oneiric-changes mailing list and the big picture specification status overview instead. So what’s happening with the Ubuntu Desktop?

ashar_oz Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 10:02

Blender 2.59 Released with 140 Bug fixes

Finaly Blender 2.59 released, This is mostly a bug fix release with 140 fixes since 2.58a. Additions include improved keymap editing, 3D mouse support, some new addons and Node UI improvements. What's cool stuff inside ?, find in here

3D Mouse support "NDOF"
Blender is now built with support for 3D Connexion devices, for more natural control during view navigation and fly mode.

Custom Keymaps
User edited keymaps now no longer override the builtin keymaps entirely, but rather save only the difference and reapply those changes. This means they can stay better in sync when the builtin keymaps change.

Ivy Generator (Addon)
This tools adds the ability to "grow" curves over an existing mesh with the option of adding leaves and adjusting many parameters for the final result.

Grease Scatter (Addon)
Grease scatter was used for sintel to place objects around the ally, using grease pencil lines as a guide as to where to scatter objects.

And Many More
Find out what coll stuff else, visit Blender 2.59 Complate changelog, here.

ashar_oz Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 17:14

Upgrade / Install Firefox 6 Final via PPA

Finally Mozilla Firefox team has Officially release Firefox 6 Final trough this announcement and has been putted in mozillateam PPA, for those ubuntu user who have not tried yet, can Install/Upgrade to Firefox 6 through this way.

Mozilla Firefox 6 Final

Upgrade / Install Firefox 6 via PPA
Follow this step to upgrade/install Mozilla Firefox 6 Final to ubuntu :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

ashar_oz Monday, August 15, 2011 at 10:45

Download / Install Firefox 6 Final

Although Firefox 6 not yet release 'officialy' by Mozilla Firefox Team, Finaly Firefox 6 Final has been available in Mozilla Firefox FTP since 08/11/2011 and ready for download, you can test and install it in Linux / Ubuntu, download Firefox 6 through this link :

Download Firefox 6 for Linux/Ubuntu 32bit (tar.bz2) : here
Download Firefox 6 for Linux/Ubuntu 64bit (tar.bz2) : here
Download Firefox 6 for Mac : here
Download Firefox 6 for windows 32bit : here

For other version and operating system you can Mozilla Firefox official FTP page on following links :

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/6.0/

ashar_oz Friday, August 12, 2011 at 09:20

Thunderbird will Shipped Default in Ubuntu 11.10

Finally there is any certainty that mozilla thunderbird will become Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot default mail application replacing Evolution, this news also written by Mike Conley (Mozilla Thunderbird Staf) on his blog here.

Thunderbird will be the default e-mail client in Ubuntu Oneiric

Well, kinda, yeah. But the thing is, those first alphas were just to get a sense of how Thunderbird would work as the default client, and to gather feedback. At a moments notice, Canonical could have backed it out and switched it back to Evolution.

But they’ve given their thumbs up, and they’re fully on board.

ashar_oz Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 12:00

How to add Swap Space on Ubuntu

Swap space in Linux is used when the amount of physical memory (RAM) is full. If the system needs more memory resources and the RAM is full, inactive pages in memory are moved to the swap space.

Swap should equal 2x physical RAM for up to 2 GB of physical RAM, and then an additional 1x physical RAM for any amount above 2 GB, but never less than 32 MB. That's formula which usually used but in practice you do not need to allocated a Swap Space when you have RAM more than 5 GB unless you run a bloody busy server, don't waste your HDD space dude :D

ashar_oz at 10:14

20 Thing Should Know About Ubuntu

There are many interesting thing we can discuss about ubuntu, start from the story behind this project, a man behind ubuntu, desktop appearance, up to technical information about this Linux Distro. Talking of Ubuntu, have you know all things that mention below ?. For those who are seeking information about the ubuntu, here are 20 thing (at least) that should know of Ubuntu Linux Distro :

Ubuntu Is the Most popular Linux distribution right now (here). Distrowatch.com is such project/website which give observation on some linux distro trend and release, Distrowatch put ubuntu as the most popular distro on last 12 Month.
Ubuntu Founded by Mark shuttleworth under Cononical Ltd. Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2010, provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system. this man is the most meritorious people in ubuntu history.
How to spell Ubuntu : |oǒ'boǒntoō|. The word ubuntu has its origin in the Bantu languages of southern Africa. Ubuntu is seen as a classical African concept, here.
The name of ubuntu is maen humanity to others in English.
The Ubuntu Slogan is Linux for human beings.
Ubuntu's first release was in 20 October 2004, here.

ashar_oz Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10:03

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates : Linux kernel 3.0.0-8.10 Uploaded

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot development team has been uploaded a new Linux kernel 3.0.0-8.10 which will be a next candidate of Ubuntu 11.10 kernel (till next upload before it's release), The most notable changes of this kernel are as follows:

Rebase to v3.0.1
Enable missing IPv6 options
Ivy Bridge: KVM support for SMEP
Fix integer math bugs in panel fitting
Turn on extra EAPDs on Conexant codecs

For complate changelog can be check in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.0.0-8.10

ashar_oz Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 10:46

Install AVG Anti-Virus on Ubuntu / Linux

So far, Ubuntu / Linux still relatively safe from virus, so.., should we install some Anti-Virus on this OS ? the answer would depends on what's your needs. Regarding to the Standard ISO 9001 there is a rule that "required for us to install some Anti-Virus on Server", This rule also applies on Ubuntu / Linux Server.

AVG Anti-Virus is one of choice which can install in Ubuntu / Linux. a Free of AVG Anti-Virus for Linux is available for private and non-commercial use only, we can installed it and Update a Virus Database regularly free of charge. Here step by step to install AVG Anti-Virus on your Ubuntu / Linux :

ashar_oz Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 10:24

Ubuntu 11.04 on ASUS Eee Pad Transformer

Asus Eee Pad Transformers is one of fastest selling Android tablets which powered Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS. One of advantage using a Open Source OS (android) is we can install/uninstall disire application easily in line with upgrade its Installed OS. Taken from www.xda-developers.com forum, there is posible way to install Latest Ubuntu 11.04 on Asus Eee Pad Transformers running with Gnome Clasic, here some Video taken from Steven Barker (lilstevie) from xda-developers that showing us how it work.

ashar_oz Thursday, August 4, 2011 at 16:58

Download Ubuntu GamePack 11.04

Ubuntu GamePack 11.04 is a collection of 156 games that are packaged in 5 DVD which can play in Ubuntu Linux. Gamepack 11.04 consist of various genres of games which can install following its dependencies through DVDs, Yes .. all the games and its dependencies are in DVD GamePack 11.04 so we do not need an Internet connection to install the game we want. All we need is the operating system already installed Ubuntu 11.04 on a computer. Here are list of Game that available on each DVDs.

Ubuntu GamePack 11.04

ashar_oz at 11:23

Install Elementary OS Launcher (slingshot) on Unity

An Elementary OS launcher (slingshot) is application launcher like Mac OS application launcher which use in Elementary OS Distro (New Ubuntu Based Distro). First sight, slingshot seems like a application launcher that work on Unity but *in think Elementary OS Launcher has a better looks and appearance.

Elementary OS (Slingshot) Launcher

ashar_oz Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 11:10

What's Hot : Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #226

On this Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issue 226 talked about : New application switcher style landing on Unity (Alt-Tab), Ubuntu 11.10 Development update , Security updates for ubuntu 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04, Lubuntu is available on ISO for download, New ISO images available, 100 Best Free and High Quality Linux Games, Top ubuntu Brainstrom on this week and much more ..

ashar_oz Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 12:17

Ubuntu Multi-touch Gesture Support

Since ubuntu announced it's support for multitouch/multi gesture trackpad like it's write in here we're interested to try it on our new netbook which it's hardware was support multitouch.

One of my key goals for Ubuntu 11.04 has been to introduce full multitouch support through X.org. In technical terms, this means adding touch support to the XInput protocol. You may see others refer to multitouch in X.org as simply XInput 2.1. We hatched our plan back at UDS-N to push hard on developing the XInput 2.1 protocol and implementing it as best as possible in 11.04 [Chase Douglas]

As far as i know, Multitouch gesture is technology which bring by MacOS X in line with MacBook Pro, multitouch facilitates user to select, scroll, maximize, and minimize easily without using a mouse (CMIIW) except you can using some primitive touchpad function like drag, pinch/spread, flick, hold, rotate, and tap. This technology is very interesting and some poeple says that this is mouse killer.