A while back I posted an article on how to setup a PPTP VPN connection in Ubuntu 9.10, in Ubuntu 10.04 these packages are available by default (and these are now supported packages).
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Installing software in your home directory is not an uncommon practice for Linux users. In Ubuntu 10.04 you can easily software that you installed in your home directory (or anywhere else for that matter) to your menus in Gnome, by using the option “Main Menu” under System -> Preferences. Read the rest of this entry »
By default Ubuntu comes with gedit as it’s text editor (if you are using the standard Ubuntu version, which comes with Gnome), I however personally prefer to use vim instead. If you don’t have gvim installed yet, you can do so by installing the gvim-gnome package. To make gvim your default text editor do the following: Read the rest of this entry »
VirtualBox is an open source virtualization program (for those of you that don’t know what that means: simply put it is a computer program that can emulate other computers within your own computer). One of the things that I use it for is to run my personal development and testing servers within my own workstation that don’t exist to the outside world. You don’t have the mess of dual boot, nor do you have the need for lots of additional hardware for your development and testing setups! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Linux, PC, Software development, Ubuntu, VirtualBox
Upgrading Ubuntu server 9.04 (Jaunty) to 9.10 (Karmic) on Linode is a breeze. Simply change the kernel to the latest available version in the Linode manager, reboot your Linode, logon to the Linode shell (to get console access to your Linode), update your packages to the latest versions (apt-get update and apt-get upgrade) and install the update-manager-core package (apt-get install update-manager-core) and then perform do-release-upgrade (as described here). Read the rest of this entry »
To access my work’s network from any location outside the office my employer requires me to use a VPN. In Ubuntu this does not work by default. While the network manager does have a VPN tab, all it’s buttons are greyed out. Depending on the type of VPN that you need to access you need to install additional software packages. Read the rest of this entry »
After a few days upheaval the Fedora team came around and changed the default policy in Fedora 12 back to requiring root privileges for installing packages again: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/20/1241231/Fedora-12-Package-Installation-Policy-Tightened. In my opinion that is a good thing 
I don’t intend to install Fedora again though, as I’m very pleased with Ubuntu
When developing software I sometimes like to use Eclipse (I recently did some work involving Drools, and there is an excellent Eclipse workbench available for working with Drools). Instead of using a package manager (such as yum or apt) to install Eclipse, I prefer to use the release that is available from eclipse.org and install that in my home directory. That way I can install whatever plugins I want without risking issues when running updates in the package manager. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the past few years I have mainly ran Ubuntu as my Linux of choice on desktops and laptops. I have run 9.04 on my EEE PC 900 for some time, and I have always been very pleased with it. My desktop has ran Windows XP for ages though, and I have been wanting to install a Linux distro on it for some time. Read the rest of this entry »