April
24

If you are an Ubuntu (and GNU/Linux) fan you will know that the new version of this operative system is active yet (Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn).

You can download the Desktop or Server Edition here

I upgraded from my last version (Ubuntu 6.06) to this new version. Only one problem: my nvidia card, but easily resolved downloading and installing the drivers from the nvidia webpage.

Some tricks to make you easier to set up this o.s.:

automatix2: a program to install all that you need: multimedia codecs, instant communication programs, flash, java…etc. You only need to download this program and then execute it after the installation choosing what you need:

  1. echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
  2. wget http://www.getautomatix.com/keys/automatix2.key
  3. gpg –import automatix2.key
  4. gpg –export –armor E23C5FC3 | sudo apt-key add -
  5. sudo apt-get update
  6. sudo apt-get install automatix2

And if you need to install the driver of your nvidia graphic card, I recommend you in this Ubuntu version to download the linux-headers of your kernel and then this driver from the original nvidia website. But you can also take a look at this automatic project called envy:

http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

Although I like to use GNU/Linux instead windows (Ubuntu is very easy to use and almost without viruses or spy programs) my preferences are with OpenBSD and I am waiting for the new version 4.1 this 1st of May :)

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2 Comments

Hi Jose!

I’m glad to see another Linux fan. :-)

I currently use Windows on my main computer because of compatibility issues but I have Linux on my laptop, and I love it, hehe. I started using Linux in my Networking class (I am studying in Computer Programming, in case you didn’t know, hehe) and I tried many distributions. Along with SUSE and Fedora Core, Ubuntu is one of my favorite. I currently use Linux SUSE.

Do you know if Automatix would work on Linux SUSE? Or do you know any other program similar to Automatix that would work on SUSE?

Thanks!
Ben

Hello Ben,
as I know automatic is made only as a pkg packet to work in debian distributions (ubuntu, debian and mepis). I don´t know if there is a program like that in Suse, but it would be a good idea: it´s only a script, so it would be only to change the servers and the programs to use in Suse.
Yes, I am using linux about 8 years ago and I proved almost all GNU/Linux distributions, beos, bsd,s and other operative systems. Great to find another GNU/Linux fan :)

Of course I have to use windows in my laptop by the same reason as yours: compability. In my case it´s because I use a vodafone usb modem to connect internet and it´s difficult to set up this modem in linux. But in my laptop I use Ubuntu witn vmware and windows xp inside ;)