Linux Mint

About

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.
Started in 2006, Linux Mint is now the 4th most widely used home operating system behind Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS and Canonical's Ubuntu.
Some of the reasons for the success of Linux Mint are:

• It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use.
• It's both free of cost and open source.
• It's community-driven. Users are encouraged to send feedback to the project so that their ideas can be used to improve Linux Mint.
• Based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and one of the best software managers.
• It's safe and reliable. Thanks to a conservative approach to software updates, a unique Update Manager and the robustness of its Linux architecture, Linux Mint requires very little maintenance (no regressions, no antivirus, no anti-spyware...etc).

Version

Version	Codename	Package base	Status

10	Julia	Ubuntu Maverick	Supported until April 2012.
9	Isadora	Lucid Lynx	Long term support release (LTS), supported until April 2013.
8	Helena	Ubuntu Karmic	Supported until April 2011.
7	Gloria	Ubuntu Jaunty	Supported until October 2010.
6	Felicia	Ubuntu Intrepid	Obsolete since April 2010.
5	Elyssa	Ubuntu Hardy	Long term support release (LTS), supported until April 2011.
	Debian	Debian Testing	Rolling
4.0	Daryna	Ubuntu Gutsy	Obsolete since April 2009.
3.1	Celena	Ubuntu Feisty	Obsolete since October 2008.
3.0	Cassandra	Ubuntu Feisty	Obsolete since October 2008.
2.2	Bianca	Ubuntu Edgy	Obsolete since April 2008.
2.1	Bea	Ubuntu Edgy	Obsolete since April 2008.
2.0	Barbara	Ubuntu Edgy	Obsolete since April 2008.
1.0 beta	Ada	Kubuntu Dapper	Obsolete. Unstable.

 

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Ubuntu 11.04 Release Schedule

Ubuntu release team, through Kate Stewart, announced today (February 11th) that the release schedule for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system has been changed. Therefore, there will be no Release Candidate version! It was replaced with a Beta 2 release, scheduled for April 14th, 2011.

Ubuntu 11.04 will have 3 Alpha releases and two Betas. Ubuntu 11.04 is dubbed Natty Narwhal, it will be the fourteen release of the Ubuntu operating system, and it will see the light of day on April 28th, 2011.

"After reviewing the plans at the end of this release, it was felt that a release candidate release on April 21st showing up just before the easter holiday would be a bit late."

"After discussing this with the key stakeholders and not getting any negative feedback from them or in the weekly release meetings, we're going to go ahead and add a Beta 2 for this release, and drop the Release Candidate from the Natty Schedule." - said Kate Stewart in the announcement.

This is the new release schedule for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system:

December 2nd, 2010 - Alpha 1 release

February 3rd, 2011 - Alpha 2 release

March 3rd, 2011 - Alpha 3 release

March 31st, 2011 - Beta 1 release

April 14th, 2011 - Beta 2 release

April 28th, 2011 - Final release of Ubuntu 11.04

As you can see, there is no Release Candidate version anymore, and the final release date was not affected. The third and last Alpha version of Ubuntu 11.04 will be available for testing on March 3rd, 2011. As usual, Softpedia will do a full coverage of the Ubuntu 11.04 development cycle.

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available from the network, and professional technical support from Canonical Ltd and hundreds of other companies around the world.

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Background Slide Show Di Ubuntu

Pasti kita sudah tahu kalau dalam ubuntu  ada slideshow background, yaitu cosmos. Coba check di System | Preferences | Appeareance. Kemudian buka tab Background. Disana ada banyak pilihan background yang ada. Kita bisa menambahkan atau mengurangi jumlahnya.

Coba lihat, disana ada cosmos sebagai salah satu pilihan background kita. Kalau diamati sejenak, tentunya cosmos ini berbeda dengan background yang lain, karena dibawahnya terdapat tanda segitiga dan saat cursor kita disana maka akan muncul teks seperti ini

Artinya kurang lebih seperti ini :

Cosmos adalah sebuah slideshow desktop background, dengan resolusi picture sebesar 1024 x 768 yang ada di folder /usr/share/background/cosmos

 Setelah tahu yang dimaksud, kemudian saya coba check ke lokasi di /usr/share/background/cosmos. Isinya adalah seperti ini :

Ada 9 buah file .jpg dan 1 file .xml.

Kita bisa simpulkan kalau 9 file .jpg tersebut adalah file yang digunakan sebagai sildeshow background  dan tentunya  bisa diganti dengan file yang lain. Nah yang mengatur itu adalah file background-1.xml.

Coba buka file background-1.xml tersebut, lihat isinya. Kemudian kita edit  menjadi  [ misal ] seperti ini :

Screenshot background-1.xml

Dengan merubah nama file asli menjadi file 1.jpg - 9.jpg yang sebelumnya kita copy ke folder /urs/share/background/cosmos maka file asli tadi akan digantikan dengan file 1.jpg - 9.jpg.

Tidak harus sama persis diatas, kita bisa saja merubah path dari file yang akan kita gunakan untuk slideshow background. Disini sebagai contoh saja biar lebih mudah.

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Tips Chat Yahoo Messenger Dari Website Dengan Empathy - Linux

Pernah diantara kita yang menggunakan linux mengalami kasus dengan chat yang menampilkan id yahoo messenger pada suatu website? Customer Service atau pemilik website misalnya?

Biasanya muncul yang seperti ini?

Alert

Untuk menghindari itu, saya biasanya langsung menusliskan id (yahoo) target yang akan muncul pada bagian bawah-kiri browser kita.

Pada Contact ID,  tuliskan user dimaksud. Caranya :

Buka empathy | Chat | New Conversation.

Tuliskan id yahoo tanpa "@" yang muncul dibagian bawah-kiri browser kita... hehe sorry Fred, ane pinjem id ente. Dan pada Account, pilih akun kita.

Atau terkadang bisa juga kita dibawa ke http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/?im=XXX  

Note : 

XXX akan secara otomatis terisi sebagai id yahoo messenger target kita

Coba deh...

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Flock, Award Winner For Social Media Browser

Built for Facebook & Twitter Stay Connected

Sebuah browser yang karena saya katro' baru saya kenal sekitar november kemarin dari laptop inspiron temen. Sempat tertarik dengan tampilannya yang seperti didesain khusus. Selang beberapa waktu saya cari tahu tentang browser ini. Eh ternyata ada juga versi untuk GNU/linux-nya. Buru-buru aja saya download, install dan test drive :D. Meski gak punya lagi akun di fb, tapi browser ini sering saya gunakan sebagai alternatif dari firefox.

Flock Browser

Flock bisa kita Download langsung dari situsnya, saat artikel ini ditulis, versinya adalah Flock 2.6.2

Installasi :

Setelah download selesai, ekstrack file tersebut dengan :

sudo tar xjf flock-2.6.2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 -C /opt

karena saya suka naruh program di folder /opt

Untuk mudah dalam menjalankan flock browser, sebaiknya kita bikin shortcut . Caranya dari desktop klick kanan mouse, pilih Create Launcher..

Create Launcher

Keterangan  

[ Name : Flock Browser | Command : /opt/flock/flock-browser | Icon : /opt/flock/icons/mozicon128.png ]

About Flock

Flock pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what's important to them.

The Best Free Software of 2010
"The self-described 'social Web browser' is built on the same underpinnings as Firefox, but it gets its social on by integrating with sites and services—most recently, Twitter and Facebook. "

Webware 100 Winner: Browsing
"Flock is a Web browser that's comes with social-networking features built-in. It uses the same rendering engine as Mozilla's Firefox, and can even install most Firefox add-ons. Where it stands apart is in letting users keep track of social activity on sites like Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and others."


Web Winners and Losers in 2009
By Joe Brockmeier for Linux Magazine
Flock, the “social” Web browser, picked up a minor win here by being chosen as an alternative for the [Microsoft Windows] “browser ballot.” Though Flock is a nifty idea and has interesting features, it lacks the marketing muscle of the major players. This might help the scrappy little gang of “Flock Stars” to increase Flock’s market penetration.

Flock browser beefs up Twitter, Facebook support
By Paul Boutin for VentureBeat/The New York Times
As more of my work colleagues take to Twitter and Facebook, being able to drag and drop items without losing my place onscreen may prove to be a productivity booster.

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Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released

February 6th, 2011

After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name Squeeze). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a technology preview.

Debian 6.0 includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments as well as all kinds of server applications. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.

Debian runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of nine architectures are supported by Debian GNU/Linux: 32-bit PC / Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit PC / Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (s390), and ARM EABI (armel).

Debian 6.0 Squeeze introduces technical previews of two new ports to the kernel of the FreeBSD project using the known Debian/GNU userland: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD for the 32-bit PC (kfreebsd-i386) and the 64-bit PC (kfreebsd-amd64). These ports are the first ones ever to be included in a Debian release which are not based on the Linux kernel. The support of common server software is strong and combines the existing features of Linux-based Debian versions with the unique features known from the BSD world. However, for this release these new ports are limited; for example, some advanced desktop features are not yet supported.

Another first is the completely free Linux kernel, which no longer contains problematic firmware files. These were split out into separate packages and moved out of the Debian main archive into the non-free area of our archive, which is not enabled by default. In this way Debian users have the possibility of running a completely free operating system, but may still choose to use non-free firmware files if necessary. Firmware files needed during installation may be loaded by the installation system; special CD images and tarballs for USB based installations are available too. More information about this may be found in the Debian Firmware wiki page.

Furthermore, Debian 6.0 introduces a dependency based boot system, making system start-up faster and more robust due to parallel execution of boot scripts and correct dependency tracking between them. Various other changes make Debian more suitable for small form factor notebooks, like the introduction of the KDE Plasma Netbook shell.

This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:

• KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.4.5
• an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.30
• the Xfce 4.6 desktop environment
• LXDE 0.5.0
• X.Org 7.5
• OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
• GIMP 2.6.11
• Iceweasel 3.5.16 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox)
• Icedove 3.0.11 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird)
• PostgreSQL 8.4.6
• MySQL 5.1.49
• GNU Compiler Collection 4.4.5
• Linux 2.6.32
• Apache 2.2.16
• Samba 3.5.6
• Python 2.6.6, 2.5.5 and 3.1.3
• Perl 5.10.1
• PHP 5.3.3
• Asterisk 1.6.2.9
• Nagios 3.2.3
• Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (dom0 as well as domU support)
• OpenJDK 6b18
• Tomcat 6.0.18
• more than 29,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 15,000 source packages.

Debian 6.0 includes over 10,000 new packages like the browser Chromium, the monitoring solution Icinga, the package management frontend Software Center, the network manager wicd, the Linux container tools lxc and the cluster framework Corosync.

With this broad selection of packages, Debian once again stays true to its goal of being the universal operating system. It is suitable for many different use cases: from desktop systems to netbooks; from development servers to cluster systems; and for database, web or storage servers. At the same time, additional quality assurance efforts like automatic installation and upgrade tests for all packages in Debian's archive ensure that Debian 6.0 fulfils the high expectations that users have of a stable Debian release. It is rock solid and rigorously tested.

Starting from Debian 6.0, the Custom Debian Distributions are renamed to Debian Pure Blends. Their coverage has increased as Debian 6.0 adds Debian Accessibility, DebiChem, Debian EzGo, Debian GIS and Debian Multimedia to the already existing Debian Edu, Debian Med and Debian Science pure blends. The full content of all the blends can be browsed, including prospective packages that users are welcome to nominate for addition to the next release.

Debian may be installed from various installation media such as Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs and USB sticks or from the network. GNOME is the default desktop environment and is contained on the first CD. Other desktop environments — KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, Xfce, or LXDE — may be installed through two alternative CD images. The desired desktop environment may also be chosen from the boot menus of the CDs/DVDs. Again available with Debian 6.0 are multi-architecture CDs and DVDs which support installation of multiple architectures from a single disc. The creation of bootable USB installation media has also been greatly simplified; see the Installation Guide for more details.

In addition to the regular installation media, Debian GNU/Linux may also be directly used without prior installation. The special images used, known as live images, are available for CDs, USB sticks and netboot setups. Initially, these are provided for the amd64 and i386 architectures only. It is also possible to use these live images to install Debian GNU/Linux.

The installation process for Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 has been improved in various ways, including easier selection of language and keyboard settings, and partitioning of logical volumes, RAID and encrypted systems. Support has also been added for the ext4 and Btrfs filesystems and — on the kFreeBSD architecture — the Zettabyte filesystem (ZFS). The installation system for Debian GNU/Linux is now available in 70 languages.

Debian installation images may be downloaded right now via BitTorrent (the recommended method), jigdo or HTTP; see Debian on CDs for further information. It will soon be available on physical DVD, CD-ROM and Blu-ray Discs from numerous vendors, too.

Upgrades to Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 from the previous release, Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codenamed Lenny), are automatically handled by the apt-get package management tool for most configurations, and to a certain degree also by the aptitude package management tool. As always, Debian GNU/Linux systems may be upgraded painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime, but it is strongly recommended to read the release notes as well as the installation guide for possible issues, and for detailed instructions on installing and upgrading. The release notes will be further improved and translated to additional languages in the weeks after the release.

About Debian

Debian is a free operating system, developed by thousands of volunteers from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. The Debian project's key strengths are its volunteer base, its dedication to the Debian Social Contract and Free Software, and its commitment to provide the best operating system possible. Debian 6.0 is another important step in that direction.

Contact Information

For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to .

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