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Ubuntu has netboot installers which are more than happy to go find a public repository mirror for you, but how about installing over the LAN using the contents of the CD as the repository?

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The Fridge starts the marketing roll for Ubuntu 7.10 and shows off it’s new features starting Tuesday!

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LinuxSecurity.com: Joris van Rantwijk discovered that the Xen host did not correctly validate the contents of a Xen guests’s grug.conf file. Xen guest root users could exploit this to run arbitrary commands on the host when the guest system was rebooted.

(Via Linux Today.)

LinuxWorld: “Canonical Ltd., the company that supports Ubuntu Linux, is trying to work out a deal with hardware vendors such as Dell Inc. to make Ubuntu available preinstalled on servers…”

(Via Debian News.)

Upgrading to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon is painless. You only need to press “Alt-F2″ from the desktop to launch the “Run Application” dialog, and type “gksu update-manager -c”.

(Via Ubuntu Weekly News.)

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #60 for the week September 30th - October 6th, 2007 is now available.. In this issue we cover the freeze of the Gutsy archive, a Gutsy countdown script for websites, Philipp Kern joining the MOTU Team, the release of UbuntuBolivia by the Bolivian LoCo Team, Ubuntu Forums interviews, and, as always, much much more!

• Archive Frozen for Gutsy Release
• Gutsy Countdown Script
• Philipp Kern Joins MOTU Team
• Bolivian LoCo Team To Release UbuntuBolivia
• Ubuntu Forums Interviews
• In The Press and In the Blogosphere
• Meetings and Events
• Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04
• Translation stats
• Bug Stats

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News please submit it via email or on the wiki !

UWN is brought to you by the Marketing Team.

With UBUNTU being the most popular Linux distribution on the planet, it would appear that Tweaks would not be needed. If Linux was a proprietary distribution, Tweaking might be impossible or at least, much more complicated. Enter the beauty of Open Source!

An excellent site for tweaking Ubuntu is TVease WIKI. Tweaks include; Speeding up your file system, Concurrent booting, Swapping, Tweaking Broadband, IPV6, and Boot profile. Full story here.

Drivel is a GNOME client for working with online journals, also known as weblogs or simply blogs. It retains a simple and elegant design while providing many powerful features.

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Reading is very important when it comes to learning for me. I have a test box on my desk at work, for my linux break fix testing, and I’m learning (with help from a freind) scripting, file structure, etc. I having some dificulty understanding the crontab, or even just the cron. Reading (when I can find the time) will help I’m sure.
Right now, I’m trying to create a crontab, but even from the CLI as root, it stated that I don’t have permission to crontab. I am using Ubuntu (desktop version) 6.06, so that might be art of my problem to begin with. Thank YOU for reading this.

Jake

This is list of Network Bandwidth Monitoring Tools for Ubuntu Users includes bmon bwbar,bwm,bwm-ng,iftop,iperf,ipfm speedometer,cbm,ibmonitor,pktstat,mactrack,MRTG,Cacti.This tutorial also contains how to install and configure each tool with examples and screenshots.This is very useful for all Linux users and admins

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There are few Linux users or potential users that haven’t heard of UBUNTU. When it first released in September 2004, it promised an every six month release and was touted as “always free.” With two full production cycles annually, the latest in software is always at hand and to date, only once has the cycle not been met. That was due to the release of a product that would feature long term support.

Normally, I have jumped on the new releases and immediately installed and reviewed, but with Ver. 6.10, I decided to spend some time working with the finished product looking more at reliability and software that fists the way I use a computer.

For openers, there are no Windows machines in my Linux Lab. All six machines run various flavors of Linux. Some would think this a little overboard, I call it GREAT!

UBUNTU 6.10 was released in late October and I immediately downloaded and installed. While I have done installs on most of the popular and some of the “not-so-popular” distros, UBUNTU has become one of the more simple. Minimal key clicks and your system is running from a live CD. A few more key clicks and you are installing the system on your hard drive. I now consider it simplicity at its best.

I should mention that I have installed on; Pen III, AMD Athlon, AMD Duron, Celeron and and AMD 2800+. all with no problems. I should also include an old laptop that I carry everywhere we travel.

While the code name for Version 6.10 is EDGY EFT, I must admit I found little EDGY, however that has not deterred me from using the distro daily in a multitude of ways.

One of the more subtle changes in Edgy is “UPSTART.” This is a replacement for the traditional init daemon and resolves many of the dependence issues during boot. It is one of the many things that the UBUNTU developers have used to insure the system just works!

At the core of Edgy is a newer kernel, version 2.6.17 and GNOME 2.16. Other changes include; Tomboy and F-Spot included at default install, Firefox 2.0, Novell’s Evolution now in version 2.8.0 and several new graphics.

Detection continues to be excellent for sound and video cards as well as printers. I must say that I had been using Version 6.06 LTS with a D-link Wireless card that had worked extremely well with a minimal amount of setup. After my install of Edgy, I found the Wi-Fi would not work. In fact, my system wanted to default to the Lan Card and after several frustrating attempts, I changed the encryption key to any, entered my code and suddenly I was up and running. In checking the UBUNTU Forums, I found I was not the only one with the problem.

Once that problem was solved, I went back to the internet and did an update. UBUNTU uses the Debian repositories and there is a wealth of programs at your fingertips whether using Synaptic or the command line Apt-Get.

Once the update was completed, I decided to install AUTOMATIX. For those that haven’t tried this program, it is simple to install and gives you a lot of programs that add to your computing experience and if you are a music and movie buff Automatix provides many programs. In all, it is hard to not like this feature.

Now, back to the crux of this piece. I am writing this post on the UBUNTU machine. In the 45 or so days since the install, I have not had a crash, program failure nor problem. Are there better distros out there? Maybe, but I just haven’t found one yet. Am I awaiting the next release…YOU BET. Do I recommend it to nOObs and experienced users alike…YOU BET.

Over the holidays, why not download and experiment with UBUNTU EDGY EFT? You might just like it.

I’ve got a Desktop version of Ubuntu 6.06 and I’m starting to get more familure with the OS, but I’m still lacking Administration knowledge. Things I would really like to understand, is (specifically) setting up cron schedules, writing scripts, and other various Command Line tools, like grep, and all the variations of it. Also I’ve found using the | symbol very usefull. I’m just wanting to learn more.

Thank You,
Beginner user # 4,395,536

Synaptic is a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing software packages on Debian-based distributions. If you are using Debian or Ubuntu you will easily find Synaptic in the System Tools menu or in the Administration menu. Synaptic uses the GTK graphic libraries . So, if you are using GNOME on your debian-based distro you will probably have Synaptic installed as well. Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.

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Automatic LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) In about 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Edgy Server Edition, you can have a LAMP server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.

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Some time you might find some applications are having only .rpm files but you want a .deb package for your debian,Ubuntu and other debian derived ditributions.If you can’t find .deb debian package in any of the debian,ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can use the alien package converter to install the .rpm file.

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