April
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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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