Tag Archives: Ubuntu
Linköping Launchpad workshop
Posted by on April 11, 2010
Tomorrow evening, Monday that is, I will be hosting a Launchpad workshop in Linköping. It will be held together with “Dataföreningen” and their Ubuntu network. Primarily we will focus on using Launchpad for any (FOSS) project, while at the same time cover a few Ubuntu specific cases. See Driva projekt på launchpad (Swedish) for more [...]
ssh-agent without the Gnome keyring
Posted by on March 1, 2010
In a default Ubuntu, and probably any other modern Gnome based Linux desktop, the Gnome keyring takes the role of the ssh-agent. If this is not desirable you can tell the keyring not to do that by setting the gconf variable /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh to false. $ gconftool -s –type bool /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh false At the next login [...]
Ubuntu 10.04, Alfa 3
Posted by on February 27, 2010
Just installed the third alfa release of Ubuntu 10.04 (aka Lucid Lynx) on my Netbook, an Inspiron Mini 10v. So far nothing seems terrible broken. Of course, at this point so far merely consists of booting the system, connecting to the wireless, firing up the web browser, etc. Read more at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/alpha3 When trying out [...]
Announcing help.ubuntu-se.org
Posted by on September 30, 2009
One of the projects the Swedish Ubuntu LoCo has been working on this summer is a Swedish equivalent of the web site help.ubuntu.com. Being able to give someone a direct url to the (translated) documentation can sometimes help a lot. Hence I’m now very glad to be able to announce our very own… http://help.ubuntu-se.org/ At [...]
Ubuntu Bug Jam in Linköping
Posted by on September 19, 2009
The 3rd of October the Swedish Ubuntu LoCo will arrange a Bug Jam at Linköping University. This in correspondence with the Ubuntu Global Jam happening that weekend. See http://ubuntu-se.org/wiki/Global_Jam for more information. Also, happy Software Freedom Day everyone!
Hello Planet Ubuntu
Posted by on September 3, 2009
Being the newly elected Team Contact for the Swedish Ubuntu LoCo I figured this would be a good time to add my blog to Planet Ubuntu and, by doing that, introduce myself to the greater Ubuntu community. I’ve been a part of the Swedish LoCo since January 2008. Besides helping out with support, and a [...]
My rdiff-backup PPA
Posted by on January 31, 2009
For my personal backups I usually prefer to use rdiff-backup. Since current Ubuntu versions doesn’t provide any packages from the recent stable branch of rdiff-backup I nowdays like to create my own debs. Also, rdiff-backup tends to work best if you have the same version on both ends of the backup. At first I maintained [...]
APT::Install-Recommends
Posted by on January 24, 2009
Apparently Ubuntu now has APT::Install-Recommends set to True by default. This happened in version 8.10 (Intrepid) and it results in that packages marked as Recommended are now automatically installed kinda like dependencies. I guess that change can make sense on a desktop system, where it might be nice to by default provide the user with [...]
Ubuntu and OpenBSD
Posted by on November 10, 2008
Ubuntu and OpenBSD, two of my favorite operating systems, both released new versions a couple of weeks ago. Happening at basically the same time it made me think about how different they are, and that being part of the reason I like them so. On an Ubuntu system I can easily do pretty much anything [...]
Intrepid on Eee 900
Posted by on October 18, 2008
My Eee PC 900 now runs the beta version of Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10). So far pretty much everything seems to work right out of the box. It’s nice not having to depend on extra repositories, specially compiled modules and such.
