Free Linux Tutorials

10th day of the 10th month in 10th year, Ubuntu released 10.10 , a perfect date to denotes geekiness  at its best 1010101010 Kidding aside, here’s the excerpt

Coming from the Meerkat department
Some time ago a group of hyper-intelligent pan dimensional beings decided to finally answer the great question of Life, The Universe and Everything. To this end, a small band of these Debians built an incredibly powerful distribution, Ubuntu. After this great computer programme had run (a very quick 3 million minutes…or 6 years) the answer was announced. The Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and
Everything is…42, and in its’ purest form 101010. Which suggests that what you really need to know is ‘What was the Question?’. The great distribution kindly pointed out that what the problem really was that no-one knew the question. Accordingly, the distribution designed a set of successors, marked by a circle of friends…to ultimately bring Unity to all things living…Ubuntu 10.10, to find the question to the ultimate answer.

The next big version of Ubuntu Linux OS has now arrived and if offers new exciting features for users like quicker boot speed on almost any machine, along with a social networking-oriented ” Me Menu”,Ubuntu Software Centre 2.0 for easier access to new software, and a slew of new cloud-based services courtesy of Ubuntu One — not to mention the Ubuntu One music store.
Ready for the ride. To see the technical overview, read more to ubuntu.com

In relation to this release, I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my laptop and no issues on wifi or audio of whatsoever using the linux generic, as reference to the previous release as I posted on my old post –>http://www.freelinuxtutorials.com/quick-tips-and-tricks/looping-soundno-audioslow-audio-playback-on-ubuntu/

Oct 29,2009

“The latest version of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) has been released. Offering numerous enhancements for both desktop and server environments, this release includes notable features like Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud images, the Ubuntu One “personal cloud”, and Linux kernel version 2.6.31. Please be sure to use a release mirror close to your geographic location to help reduce the stress on Ubuntu’s primary servers; using BitTorrent for downloads can help alleviate the load even more. If your organization has adequate network and server resources, please consider hosting a mirror as well.”

I’ve been working with the servers most of the time, and few days ago, i had free time to test ubuntu on one of my laptop, it’s not new but not too old either, it’s dual core MSI VR320 and guess what it’s kinda frustrating to have issues on this laptop upon installing ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04.

with 8.04, wifi (using WPA-PSK at home) is not working and sound is looping
with 9.04, wifi is ok but audio playback is damn too slow.

I’ll be trying 9.10 beta release this week and hopefully give you an update about it.

The Ubuntu  team has announced the beta release of Ubuntu 9.10  Desktop and Server editions, and the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Codenamed  “Karmic Koala”

Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition improves on the work of 9.04 to get you going  faster, with improved startup times and a streamlined boot experience.

Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition integrates Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud setup in the  installer and provides improvements to system security with AppArmor,
including an AppArmor profile for libvirtd to further isolate virtual  machines from the host system.

Step by Step Procedure

Step 1. Add 2 LAN cards to the Linux box. You need to have two(2) NICs, one for your private network and one for the public IP address

Step 2. Check if your networks cards are properly detected and installed. You can use the command “dmesg” to verify if it was recognized during the boot-up process

Sample output:
#dmesg |grep eth

e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfa061000, irq 177, MAC addr 00:10:DC:5E:A8:BF
e100: eth1: e100_probe: addr 0xfa060000, irq 185, MAC addr 00:10:DC:5E:A8:C0
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, half-duplex
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex

In this tutorial, we will be cloning PC desktop machines using an opensource tool called “G4U”.

g4u (“ghosting for unix”) is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs using FTP. The floppy/CD offers two functions. more details on –>   http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

These are the steps on adding additional hard drives on a pre-installed Linux server.

Drives will be detected and can be checked thru the “dmesg” command.

[root@localhost ~]#fdisk /dev/cciss/c0d1

press n to create partition, just use the default settings for it
press w to write exit

3.    Create ext3 filesystem

[root@localhost ~]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1

4.    Mount that drive to test but first create a directory where to mount it.

[root@localhost ~]#mkdir /data
[root@localhost ~]#mount -t auto /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /data

Linux.org presented one of the most detailed important events in the history of the Linux operating system development

1983
September    Richard M. Stallman announces the GNU Project, an attempt at creating a completely free operating system.

1984
January    Work begins on the GNU operating system

1985
October    Free Software Foundation established as a non-profit organization to promote the development of Free Software. Sponsors the GNU Project.

1987
January    Computer science professor Andrew Tannenbaum publishes the textbook Operating Systems: Design and Implementation which includes a copy of a teaching version of Unix called Minix.
December    Larry Wall releases version 1.0 of Perl