If you do not currently have AIR installed start with the TweetDeck installation post to get the required 32 bit dependencies before following these instructions for adding AIR 2.0.

Fortunately, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) has introduced many changes that make getting the Revo up and running much easier than under the previous release of Ubuntu.

Coming up in our forums was a testing request to compare the performance of Linux between using 32-bit, 32-bit PAE, and 64-bit kernels. This is coming after Linus Torvalds has spoke of 25% performance differences between kernels using CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and those without this option that allows 32-bit builds to address up to 4GB of physical [...]

The next application I decided to install was TweetDeck which requires the Adobe AIR software. I searched for help on the Adobe site when the software did not directly install from Firefox.

This post takes you through the steps to install Apache 2.2.11 on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit and make it work with Weblogic 10.3. The post walks through the steps that I followed, the problems that I faced and the solutions ( er..hacks) to get them resolved.

Ubuntu 32bit only supports 3 GB of RAM so if you have 4, only 3 will be used. You can use the 64bit version for all 4GB of RAM memory to work, or follow the instructions in this post to make the 32bit version of Ubuntu to work with 4GB or RAM.

Since I never remember how to do this, I figured I’d put it up here. This assumes you already have Java installed, and note this is for 32-bit. I’ll be getting a shiny new 64-bit laptop very soon, and from what I understand things are a bit different on 64-bit.

PVOPS kernel been installed to run under Xen 3.4.1 was 2.6.31-rc5. To build Xen 3.4.1 Dom0 via Bug Attachments at Please merge xen-3.4 (3.4.0-2) from debian unstable installed “prevu” and performed build to obtain debian packages.

Chromium, the open source project behind Google’s Chrome Web browser, now has native 64-bit support on the Linux platform. An Ubuntu PPA with Chromium daily builds has attracted a large following.

Adobe has released Flash Player 10 Alpha build 10.0.32.18 code named “Astro” for Linux 64-bit. The 64-bit Flash Player 10 alpha is available in all supported languages; however, the alpha installers are only in English.

First of all, Boxee is a media player that is being developed for multiple platform use. It’s not restricted to videos and is able to stream music from Pandora as well as Last.fm.

I planned to install Ubuntu Jaunty on my notebook, an HP G60 machine with an AMD64 Turion X2 CPU, 3G memory, and a 250G hard disk. Video is handled by an integrated nVidia 8200M GPU, on-board sound is managed by an nVidia chip based on Intel’s HDA codec. I had already installed Ubuntu 8.10 on [...]

E-TextEditor a.k.a e is my favorite text editor on windows. AFAIK there is no text editor on linux that matches what e can do except for VIM. When I saw the post about making e open source I was pretty exited and wanted to try it out.

Cisco does not provide a 64-bit version of Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client. You can use the 32-bit linux version. However, under Ubuntu Jaunty, I got the following error “Warning: The following Certificate received from the Server could not be verified:” and, even if I accepted the message appeared again and again and the connection could [...]

As most Ubuntu users know there is no Ganymede under repositories. It does not matter if the installed Ubuntu is Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Heron, Intrepid Ibex or Jaunty Jackalope. Many hoped while waiting for Ubuntu 9.04 that the repositories will contain Eclipse Ganymede but they do not.

Recently, I had a lot of problems with Fedora 10 x86_64, so I decided to move to Ubuntu, exploring this great operating system to have some new experience on anothafter more than 3 years of fedora!

Most Linux users run a 32-bit distro, and many of them run a 32-bit distro on a 64-bit computer. The question is, why? We put 32-bit Ubuntu 9.04 head-to-head with its 64-bit counterpart to see what difference it really makes, and whether old compatibility worries are justified.