Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid Ibex

A new version of Ubuntu
has been released at October 2008, namely Interpid Ibex. This release brings new look of ubuntu, we can see from new theme that added altough it's not become default theme. That's makes Ubuntu dark, modern, but still usable, new look-appealing to those looking for a fancy yet aesthetic theme.

Interpid Ibex includes the newest release of GNOME 2.24.Nautilus, the default file browser, has a lot of improvements, including tabs-which you are already familiar with from your web browser. Tabs not only help you save a lot of screen real estate, they help you in organizing your files by not having to open sveral Nautilus windows. And another new feature is the new eject button intehrated int the Places column in the sidebar. Right next to the icons of your CD/DVD drives a small eject ion is shown which will, of course, eject your optical media.


Last but not least, on the GNOME side of the improvements,stands the new screen resolution dialog, utilizing the recent XrandR 1.2 specifications of X.Org,drastically improving the handling of some multihead setups. This leads to X.Org 7.4. The latest stable build of the ubiquitous X Windows System improves support for all major hotpluggable devices such as mice,keyboards and graphics tablets. In the past, many were struggling with its configuration, and the more mention of xorg.conf made the strongest of men cry. This dark age has finally come to an end, as the newest release of X.Org allows the
great majority of users - those without esoteric input devices nor screen resolutions - to run Ubuntu without an xorg.conf at all. This especially helps those on computers with multiple users, as Person A can simply plug in her tablet, and Person B her gaming mouse, without having to change anything. But, there are other new features:
for multi-user environments, one ofthe most prominent being the inclusion of the ecryptfs-utilities,offering you an easy way to create private encrypted folders in the users' home directory.
Ubuntu has supported LVM+LUKS encryption for entire partitions for a long time already, but this had a major drawback in areas like speed, setup and the lack of per-user encrypted content. Everything is encrypted by a single password which has to be entered at every boot.(Source :full Circle Magazine)

• UBUNTU 8.10 at The First Sight

When Im heard that's Ubuntu 8.10 has been released, I interested to Install it on my PC cause I will replaced my Mandriva one 2008.1 with this one. I try to rent from a CD rental, but no one that's already have Ubuntu 8.10. Then I decided to download it from the Internet. But the connection is not so stable, so I don't finished that cause my money is "run out"(my helmet also stolen by people when I browsing.Oh God, why Im not so lucky this day?)before the downloaded file has been completed. Someday, my friend offers me an Ubuntu 8.10 CD's, then I borrowed that. I try to install that, during the installation there are no something that wrong, but after I installed that on my PC, and try to change the screen resolution to 1024x768 (the default resolution is : 800 x 600). What I see?! Yes, the resolution just become 1/4 of my Monitor resolution. But it works normally if I use 800 x 600 resolution. It so shocked my, last year when I installed Ubuntu 7.10 there is doesn't matter about the resolution. But why at the newer Ubuntu version there is a problem that appears about the screen resolution. Maybe, it's one of bug at Ubuntu?!

HOW TO INSTALL MP3 CODECS AT UBUNTU 7.10 GUTSY GIBBON

Someday, I try to play my favourite mp3 with rythmbox at Ubuntu 7.10, but it didn't work an d Rythmbox says that there is no available codecs for mp3 that currently installed. Then i downloaded the codecs from the internet, you also can download the codecs by click here. Here is the step to install the codecs :

1. Open the terminal, extract the file that have been downloaded from the internet

lambanx@fresh-idea$ tar jxf mp3ubuntu710.tar.bz2

lambanx@fresh-idea$ cd mp3ubuntu710

lambanx@fresh-idea$ sudo dpkg -i *

2. Enter your password

3. The Listen your favourite MP3 now !

NOTE : This is just about fix the problem at Rythmbox in Ubuntu 7.10, now there are a lot of distro that have been support MP3 playback like Linux Mint, Mandriva One 2008.1, Ubuntu 8.04, Ubuntu 8.10 an the other. But Should we unistalled the older distro just cause that's can't play mp3 files and Installed the new distro taht supported that? I think not if we still want to use Ubuntu 7.10.

Ubuntu costumize

• Installing new theme in Ubuntu
  

1. System >> Preferences >> Apearance
2. After window apearance appears, click install button
3. Choose a theme that will be installed, then click open
4. Automatically the theme will be in the theme list, then just click the theme from theme list to apply/use it.

• Installing GDM Theme / Login Window :

1. Click System >> Administration >> Login Window
2. Choose Local Tab>> then Click add button
3. Find the theme that would be installed, then click the install button
4. Automatically the theme would be in theme list, choose Login theme that would be used by clicking the theme from theme login list.

theme dan GDM theme can be downloaded from here

Installing a package manually in Ubuntu

Are you absolutely sure you can't find the package in Synaptic? Did you try enabling extra repositories? If you've tried all this with little or no success, here's how you do it the Windows-style way. Download a package (.deb, .rpm, .tar.gz, .package, klik:// ? .cmg, .sh, .bin, .exe) and let's have a look.
Installing a ...

• Debian Package (.deb)

When you download a program with the package manager, you actually download Debian packages! It's possible to install individual Debian packages you've downloaded yourself, but unless they're built specifically for Ubuntu, they're not guaranteed to work. Installing them is rather simple in Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake: double-click the package in Nautilus or on your desktop and a package installer will show up. You simply press Install Package to install. If you have a missing dependency, it will inform you of that. It will also inform you if there's a newer version available from the repositories!

Another way to install a Debian package is to use the command dpkg which is what the package manager uses to manipulate Debian packages (or short: debs). The syntax is as follows: if your package is located on your desktop and your username is carl, then you install the package test.deb with dpkg -i /home/carl/Desktop/test.deb. You need to take care of dependencies yourself, so it's not the optimal way of installing software.

• RPM Package (.rpm)

RPM is another popular way of packaging software, and it's used by popular distributions such as Fedora Core, SUSE Linux and Mandriva. RPM is not used by the Ubuntu Package Manager, but there does exist a command for converting an RPM into a Deb; this doesn't mean that any RPM will work on your system, though! The same program can also install the RPM directly so that you won't have to do this yourself. The command is not available right away so you'll need to install it yourself - the package is called alien and is of course available through Synaptic. If the user carl wants to install an RPM called test.rpm located on his desktop, he will enter sudo alien -i /home/carl/Desktop/test.rpm.
Desktop Theme (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz, ...)
Installing themes[4] is relatively painless in Gnome. You open the Theme Preferences which you'll find at System ? Preferences ? Theme. With this application you can change icons, controls and window borders to your liking. To install your theme, simply drag and drop the package onto the Theme Preferences window and confirm the dialog window that pops up. To use your new theme, edit one of the existing themes to use your new icons, controls or window borders.

• Installing a new desktop theme

Click Install to install the new desktop theme
Login Screen Theme (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz, ...)
Installing themes for your login screen is as simple as installing desktop themes. You open up Login Window Preferences in System ? Administration ? Login Screen and drag and drop your theme onto the window. Confirm the dialog window that pops up. To use your new theme, select it in the list of themes.

• Installing a new login screen theme

Click Install to install the new login screen theme
Source Package (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz, ...)
Note: not all files with an extension named .tar, .tar.gz, and so on are archives with source code in them - they might be precompiled! If the archive is precompiled, there should be an installer or a binary executable inside it.

Sometimes all you've got is a package full of uncompiled source code. Luckily, you don't need to be a programmer to know how to compile and install a package with source code. Back in the old days, this was the only way to install software on Linux and there is a standard way of installing these files. It will not work in every case, but it will in most (if you have the right dependencies installed). To compile a package you must first extract it somewhere. This is easily done, simply right-click on the package and select Extract Here.