Archive for November, 2008

How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 8.10

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (“virtual machines”) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

More details available at HowtoForge.com/…

BlankOn 4.0 Meuligoe Telah di Rilis

Jakarta, 15 November 2008. Setelah dikembangkan dalam 6 bulan terakhir saat ini Tim BlankOn dengan ini mengumumkan peluncuran rilis akhir dari BlankOn 4.0 (Meuligoe), “Fajar baru perangkat lunak legal dan kreatif, untuk dan oleh anak negeri”.

BlankOn kali ini menggunakan kode nama Meuligoe (cara baca: meu-ligo) yang berasal dari bahasa Aceh, dalam rilis Meuligoe ini BlankOn menggunakan tema kebudayaan Aceh sebagai tampilan utamanya. Dalam rilis Meuligoe, BlankOn melakukan perubahan fundamental yang meliputi dibuatnya situs pusat pengembangan BlankOn yang sebelumnya berada di Launchpad.net, penyegaran logo, warna dasar, pembuatan forum pengguna, dibangunnya gudang berkas ISO CD harian, dikeluarkanya versi Alternate dan Live CD secara bersama-sama.

Lebih lanjut dapat anda liat di blankonlinux.or.id/…

Linux 2.6.28-rc5 Kernel Released

Development on the Linux 2.6.28 kernel is slowly winding down and as a sign of that, Linus Torvalds has released Linux 2.6.28-rc5. The changes in this release are scattered across the board in the form of fixes and documentation work. There is also some driver and ACPI updates, which of course excites us hardware geeks.

In the Linux 2.6.28-rc5 kernel is also a minor ATI and Intel updates to the kernel Direct Rendering Manager, but not much churn in this release candidate with the recently merged Graphics Execution Manager. The release announcement and short change-log can be read at LKML.org.

Ubuntu 9.04 To Run On ARM-based Netbooks

Canonical and ARM have jointly announced today that they are porting Ubuntu to the ARMv7 processor architecture in time for the release of Ubuntu 9.04 (the Jaunty Jackalope). Ubuntu is coming to the ARM platform for emerging netbooks and hybrid computers using this architecture.

Supported by the ARMv7 architecture are ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor-based systems. The press release regarding this official Canonical port can be read here. After support for Ubuntu on Sun’s SPARC architecture was dropped earlier this year (just two years after Canonical announced SPARC support), the primary architectures currently supported by Ubuntu are x86 and x86_64.

Firefox 3.0.4 update available now

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.4, the fourth update to Firefox 3, released last June.

As usual, this release brings several stability and performance bug fixes, as well as, according to the release notes, some security patches. Details of the security vulnerabilities have not been disclosed as of this post.

Also notable in this release is the availability of two new languages: Icelandic and Thai. Bulgarian, Esperanto, Estonian, Latvian, Occitan, and Welsh are also in the works and available for general testing.

To update, select Check for Updates… in the Help menu and follow the onscreen instructions.

Note that if you are using a firewall it will most likely require your approval to let the updated Firefox access the Internet. For more information, check Cannot connect after upgrading Firefox at Mozilla Support Knowledge Base (uh, before updating).

Update: Security fixes details available now: 4 critical, 2 high, 2 moderate, and 1 low impact. Update now.

(Source: MozillaLink.org)

How To Back Up An Ubuntu 8.10 System With SystemImager

SystemImager lets you create images of your Linux installations. To do so, you need an image server (should have enough disk space to store your images) and a so-called golden client (i.e., the system of which you want to make an image). This means that you have to install some software on your image server and on your golden client in order to run SystemImager. This tutorial shows how to install a SystemImager server and a SystemImager client, both using Ubuntu 8.10, and how to create/update/restore/delete images.

More details available at HowtoForge.com/…

Talk face-to-face right from within Gmail

From viewing videos on YouTube to screening family events, people love being able to watch something exactly as it happened. And as webcams have become popular, more and more of us are realizing that video is the next best thing to an in-person conversation. Today we’re introducing Gmail voice and video chat, which lets you have free voice and video conversations right from within Gmail.

visit http://www.gmail.com/videochat

More details available at googleblog.blogspot.com/…

Woiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Tim Indonesia Juara Pertama Overclock Dunia

Akhirnya terbukti juga bahwa overclocker Indonesia memang nomor satu. Dalam MOA (Master Overclock Arena) 2008 yang berakhir pada 9 November lalu di Taipei, pasangan Alva Jonathan dan Rekky dari Indonesia berhasil keluar sebagai juara pertama. Continue Reading »

Linux 2.6.28-rc4 Kernel Released

A week after the release of Linux 2.6.28-rc3, Linus has announced the release of the Linux 2.6.28-rc4 kernel. This update includes a variety of small fixes and other work, but the new cpumask interfaces have been merged though they currently aren’t being used. The release announcement and short change-log can be found at LKML.org.

OpenSolaris 2008.11 Release Candidate

For those interested in helping out Sun Microsystems with testing out the near-final build of OpenSolaris 2008.11, its release candidate is now available. This build is based upon Build 101a of the open-source OpenSolaris code-base. We previously offered a preview of OpenSolaris build 99.

The OpenSolaris 2008.11 release candidate announcement and Torrent download links can be found on the OpenSolaris mailing list. If you want to give us a hand, you can also test out OpenSolaris 2008.11 with Phoronix Test Suite 1.4 “Orkdal“.