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Karmic Koala is getting a rebuild test today since the Debian Import was last week. When I was running Koala it was definitely buggy as it was a prebeta OS. That said Jaunty was just about the same way for when I used it. Here are the things that did not work in either 9.04…

In an announcement in the Ubuntu devel announce digest Mono will not leave Ubuntu. Mono has patent issues with the  original developer. ( Not sure why or what will come with it.) Ubuntu has put Mono developed applications in their OS before. The Ubuntu Technical Board has written this statement: The Ubuntu Technical Board has…

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Download the New ROTE2009. To Describe it: It Is a Very Basic Text Editor. To download click here http://ryanorser.com/ROTE2009/rote2009.0 (Linux users only)

Tomorrow I will be live blogging the NHL Entry draft. Join me at http://ryanorser.com/Hockey/

I read in my PCWorld magazine that on the tests that they did the computers barely ran any faster with windows 7 then they did with Windows Vista. All I can say is that is a load of crap! My sister who was running Vista switched to 7 and has seen significant improvements. Her boot…

Wow someone was the 44000th visitor happened to drop by around the 9:00 to 10:00 AM range. Thanks for coming and keep on coming as there will be more posts.

There are pros and cons of Karmic Koala. Then there are the bugs. There will be a few that I will list that I  have had the most problems with. Pros: Easy to install. Compiz works. The ease of install is just great as I could probably teach my sister who is no computer literate…

You have been wondering why in Ubuntu 9.04 you have not been able to get your Intel GM965 graphics working with Compiz. There are 2 answers to this: Install Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 2) Unblacklist the driver. To install Karmic Koala is easy but to unblacklist the driver is a bit more tricky. So…

There is now a alpha version of Google Chrome for Linux. To download the 32-bit version: i386 .deb developement version To download the 64-bit version: AMD64 .deb development version Yes 9 long months of waiting and it is finally here the unstable version. I have been using it and it works great. However it is…