I am always on this lookout for new applications that I haven’t found yet, and here is a Wiki that has a lot of them:
Ubuntu Guide.org: Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
One thing I picked up from here was the Plymouth Themes. I found another article with a screenshot and video of the Solar Theme, and that struck my fancy.
Before upgrading my laptop to Ubuntu 10.04, I wanted to backup my data. I found this list of backup utilities:
TechRepublic: 10 outstanding Linux backup utilities
I chose to install sbackup, but it didn’t work so hot for me. It kicked off the process to start backing up, and I liked the interface the way I could choose what I wanted backed up. But, what I didn’t like is that the process ran in the background, and I couldn’t see any status of the backup or confirm that it was running. I thought for sure that I chose the destination as my external drive, but it began backing up to /var/backup instead, and it filled up my drive.
Once I found and deleted that backup, I ended up just using a GUI front-end to rsync. I think it was the grsync one. If you do a search for “rsync” in synaptic, you will see a number of options.
I ran across this funny article with some great linux-related artwork:
InfoWorld: The Linux funny bone: the best geek humor
The article shows different posters and such with Linux mascots making a point.
I have been following Jonathan Swartz, the CEO of Sun probably since they acquired MySQL. Now, that Oracle has purchased Sun, Jonathan has moved his blog. Here is the new link:
http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/
Here are a couple of posts that kind of describe the change:
In catching up on my RSS feeds, I found a flurry of articles about Google switching away from Windows because of the Chinese hack. This sounds exciting to me because it probably means that the Linux community will grow.
The articles say that Google employs more than 10,000 people. They have a choice of going to Apple, but surely a decent number of them will choose Linux. The other encouraging thing is that many of them are probably programmers. So, I would hope that this would mean more contributions to the desktop features of Linux.
Articles:
Possibly related?
I am always on the look out for lists of applications that might be useful. This list didn’t have a whole lot that was practical for me, but it still deserved a link:
InfoWorld: 7 open source innovations on the cutting edge
Also, here is another article that caught my fancy:
I ran across this InfoWorld article announcing a place for new Eclipse projects:
InfoWorld: Eclipse partners with Google on projects portal
So, you can check out the new portal here:
While we are at it, I also ran across this new tool for Eclipse from Google itself:
I came across this post about the Fedora naming process. Name origins are always interesting, and so, it is interesting to read how they choose their names for each version. Each version name has to have some sort of obscure relationship to the previous name.
You can read more about it and suggest your own idea here: Name suggestions for Fedora 14
I check today for the countdown, and I now see we have 21 days until Ubuntu 10.04! Unfortunately, I can’t use the Javascript version of the countdown on this site, and the static version still has the 9.10 version on it.
Also, while we are talking about it, I found an interesting article about new the release and the “Light” interface.
InfoWorld: Canonical’s desktop Linux OS fitted with new look and feel
I have seen this tool before, but I haven’t had a chance to use it until today. I wanted to backup my computer before I installed a new version on Linux on it. It was very easy to use.