The new Ubuntu 10.10 is released and available for download ! As usual, itt provides a lot of new features, a look and feel enhanced. Try it ! It takes just a few minutes to download from BitTorrent.

The new Ubuntu 10.04 is released and available for download ! It provides a lot of new features, a look and feel light and clean and a boot in less than 10s (on a Netbook with SSD drive)

Enjoy !

PS 11/18/2009 : I confirm, with the DVD install works like a charm !

It was working without problem for 6 months under Jaunty in 32 bits… and the install from scratch to 9.10 has been really easy ! Like for the previous one, it needs tweak configuration to achieve the proper use of the Ricoh r5u870 webcam and integrated fingerprint reader from Upek is not working at all. (It should indeed… If Sony would, Upek provides Linux drivers but this particular model integrates a modified firmware for Sony. It adds some crypto and only windows drivers from Sony know how to decrypt the stream. Maybe someone could break this to make it fonctionnal on Linux. Interoperability is a rule that Sony seems to ignore)

In short : Ubuntu 9.10 works wonderfully… I’m pretty excited to be able to say the same thing for the Wind netbook !

You’d better have to wait ! I’ve upgraded the netbook of my son this weekend and the result is not as good as it should…

Screen is flashing… USB peripherals are not working and the webcam is dead too…

Back to Jaunty 9.04 : it works fine…

More info

It’s very easy if you follow the rules in the good order

1. Download sources files of your software (for this example it could be drupal6 even if the binary package exists now…)
   1. drupal6_6.14-1.orig.tar.gz
   2. drupal6_6.14-1.diff.gz
   3. drupal6_6.14-1.dsc
2. Un-compress drupal6_6.14.orig.tar.gz
3. Un-compress drupal6_6.14.diff.gz
4. You’ll probably need some tools if it’s your first building package process :
   1. sudo apt-get install dpatch
   2. sudo apt-get install fakeroot
5. Run : patch -p1 < xxx.diff
6. Move the debian directory created in previous step into the folder created in step 2 (the one which contents the sources from *.orig.tar.gz, for this example it’s drupal-6.14) : mv debian drupal-6.14
7. Go into the sources directory : cd drupal-6.14
8. You’ll probably make debian/rules script executable… Run : chmod +x debian/rules
9. Then run : dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
10. That’s all ! You just have to install your new freshly compiled package. So, for our example it will be :
    1. cd ..
    2. sudo dpkg -i drupal6-6.14_all.deb

You know the way now…

Programming is fun and exciting but from time to time a game is good to relax ! So, I give you a free advice : play with the brilliant “World Of Goo” … For 13 euros 50 (20 dollars) you will play hours to solve enigma of this “puzzle game”. Honestly, it’s worth it ! It’s original even if “puzzle game” is a classical. What you have here is a game where interest and fun are more important than to “kill them all” boring concept… Levels are not so easy and require agility and brain efforts You will be quickly addict ! Moreover, developers have choosen to not protect this game against the copy (no DRM, no protection at all) : and even more, by buying one licence, you can download the Windows, Mac and Linux version (32 and 64 bits) !! Try it, and if you like it, support them by buying this cooooool game !

Instead of losing your money with Windows Seven… switch to Linux