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Yesterday I was making a visit to the http://www.ubuntu.com homepage to get some infos aboun the Ship-It initiative when my eyes fell over the modified logo that I’ve put down here.

On the t-shirt of the asian guy was placed in mild colours the Dell’s computer company logo, subtle hinting at it’s offer of preinstalled Ubuntu [...]

So - as I’ve said - the transition from Gaim to Pidgin is complete and the stable package is out.
My pal AndyCapp has released a ready-to-install pidgin deb package HERE.
Have a good download & install routine
pidgin

Living on the Apple side of the IT can be boring at times to I’ve decided to go out and see what’s new …. Fate wanted that happened just the exact day when Ubuntu pals released their 7.04 beta release, so I’ve pulled out my Transmission bittorrent client and downloaded the {alternate} ISO file.

I’ve [...]

My friend Massimo Danieli has published yesterday on his blog a “little” how-to on how to use Munin to monitor with granularity every single Virtual Host configured on your Apache webserver.
Munin, in fact, by default easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, applications and with the default plugins use the apache [...]

Read the necessary how-to on Joseph Hall page.

Few hours ago I’ve received a security announce regarding Ubuntu Linux 5.04, known as The Hoary Hedgehog.
This was the second stable release produced by Canonical’s stuff & Ubuntu community after the outstanding 1st release in the previous October which had started a little revolution in the GNU/Linux distribution panorama.
So Hoary was released in april [...]

Well, first of all a new job, with unpredictable time schedule, plus some other new job talks to reach a decent overall monthly incoming. Let’s hope the talks in the next week will be “profitable” … one nice thing is that i’ve convinced my boss to wipe out that old Windows Millenium pc (which now [...]

Since it’s release the default Human theme in Ubuntu has made raise more than a single eyebrown.
Teenage Tantrums somewhat started the most recent hype in Ubuntu customization, going blue. Soon followed by Brent Ross Roos’s post.
Now the former has hit again, and entertained us with his Ubuntu/Vista mock-up, he has called it VUbuntu (Vista+Ubuntu), adopting [...]

Hy folks, following the tradition started with my previous post i’ll show you my current sources.list file configuration on Ubuntu Linux 6.06.
nicola@cerebro:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
results in:
# original installation cd
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 6.06 _Dapper Drake_ - Alpha i386 (20060504)]/ dapper main restricted
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 6.06 _Dapper Drake_ - Alpha i386 (20060504)]/ dapper main restricted
deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main [...]

A communication from Mark Shuttleworth has just arrived in the mailbox:
This mail charts the territory post-Dapper for those of us who like to dream a little.
First things first. The codename of Dapper+1 will be:
The Edgy Eft
And here’s why. Edgy is all about cutting edge, perhaps bleeding edge, brand new code and infrastructure. [...]