Today is April 24. And today, Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is released. The ubuntu site was down for couple hours. I couldn’t access is on 8 PM (GMT +7). It’s said Service Temporarily Unavailable. But now, 10 PM (GMT +7), the site is back online.
Welcome to the world, Hardy Heron!
We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user.
It’s released. Finally. I’ve been waiting forever. I’ve been using Hardy Heron beta in my notebook for almost a week now, and I’m very pleased with the upgrade, especially the Gnome 2.22.
Now the RC is coming, I’m pretty sure everything will be just fine. It’s time to upgrade my main box.
New Compiz Effect, Cube Cylinder. It’s not I will use it in my daily activity since I’m not into compiz effect things. But, it still great effect to be shown to all non linux user. I’ll try it when I have time.
(via planet compiz)
- Myth 1: “Linux is hard to install”
- Myth 2: “Linux does not recognize my hardware”
- Myth 3: “Linux is too complicated to use”
- Myth 4: “There are no applications available”
Funny. It’s been 6 years since the first time I used linux as my daily OS, and I always found windows is lot harder to install. Not to mention the default applications that come along with the installation. What do you get from default windows installation? nothing.
Jason Dyok wrote nice article entitled Why Use Linux?
For you who still unsure about using linux, you should read it.
Ever wondered where your favourite linux distro name comes from? Find yourself. Great list.
Have you ever wanted to mount your external drive, but your linux box refused it? Most likely it was caused by you forgot to unplug / disconnect your external drive while you were in windows. Apparently, windows didn’t unplug / disconnect your external drive when it was turned off.
The logic way is restarting to your windows box, then unplug / disconnect your external drive. But it sucks. Why would we need to go to windows? The right way is using ntfsfix.
ntfsfix
So, if your external drive is in /dev/sdb1, it would be,
ntfsfix /dev/hdb1
This is just a mod of elegant brit by fmrbpensador. All credits should go to him. I just recolor the theme to match my blankon desktop.
Blankon is ubuntu-based distribution developed by Indonesian.
Hardy Heron is on beta freeze now. I think I’ll upgrade my notebook as soon as it reaches beta. I want to be in the front liners 
Maybe you have some ideas that you think could improve ubuntu in the future? tell them!
Drastically Speed up your Linux System with Preload.
Preload is an “adaptive readahead daemon” that runs in the background of your system, and observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time. By using Preload, you can put unused RAM to good work, and improve the overall performance of your desktop system.
