A very dedicated coder took the time to get a full desktop OS onto this device. It obviously won’t have much functionality, but its potential is only limited by your free time.

Canonical announced a few hours ago the immediate availability of a new Linux kernel security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake), 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and 9.10 (Karmic Koala).

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS, the fourth maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

Ubuntu-Tweak is a great ubuntu utility that has a strong functionality such as add and remove apps,edit sources/third-party sources,free up disk space by removing unneeded packages,configure auto-start apps,configure desktop icons,windows,Compiz Fusion and gnome things and so on.

If you wanna test the new Plone alpha release (Plone4.0alpha1) you’d need a 2.6 installation. If you are using your VPS and 8.04 LTS as your rock OS, you won’t want to upgrade just for the python version.

Arkeia Software (www.arkeia.com) has released Arkeia Network Backup version 8 in the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS repository as a no-cost, small-network package exclusively for Ubuntu users.

You turn on your trusty old Linux box, and things are going well as you pass through the boot loader, until the disk check reveals that your hard drive partition table is corrupt, and you are unable to access your machine. You need a good rescue disk — and the best way to get one [...]

New motherboard has come and I ask my friend to install Ubuntu Hardy 8.0.4.3 . Everything is fine except proxy section when I try to apt-get update.

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how to bring a stock CentOS 5 server up to spec to run Drupal 6. It seems only fair I do the same for Debian and Ubuntu, since it seems they too are not without their little issues when a stock install.

Running computer janitor on Ubuntu 8.04 will remove AIR (v. 1.5 at the time of this writing) if you have it installed, but you cannot simply reinstall the AIR package.

Firebird packages for ubuntu , karmic ,intrepid , jaunty and hardy are ready and uploaded into my ppa

The purpose of this article is not to whine or rant, but to bring some perspective to the evolution (or lack thereof) that Ubuntu has experienced between versions 8.04 and 9.04. I write this article in an attempt to help

This script automates the set up of openerp-server-5.0.2-0 & openerp-client-5.0.2-0 & openerp-web-5.0.2-0 on Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS (Server or Desktop). The goal is to provide an all-in-one installer of OpenERP for Linux.

So oft delayed but never forgotten, we have finally finished our look at Ubuntu 8.04, and we hope it has been worth the wait. This massive look at Ubuntu gives you a thorough picture of 8.04

Ubuntu can be seen as quite bloated on a default desktop install­a­tion, this guide aims to provide tips and solu­tions for cut­ting down on the cruft and also will provide you with some applic­a­tions that are not quite so resource hungry as altern­at­ives.

Tonight I wanted to play with a couple of Linux distros on my desktop and I decided to install VirtualBox since it’s free and already has packages in Ubuntu for it.

This guide shows you how to install Koha on Ubuntu 8.04 Server LTS / Slicehost

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, the third maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

I’ve been using Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop for ages, and never had any reason to upgrade from there – “it just works, I’m done upgrading” is what I’d smugly tell people… Now, I’ve found a big reason to upgrade: Ksplice

I’m still using Hardy (8.04 64 Bit) as I prefer to stick with LTS releases – This means another year to go with 8.04 before the next LTS (10.04). Until then, here’s the answers for the 10 things I do to customize a new Ubuntu Hardy installation:

I haven’t seen any news out there so I think it’s really useful to make you all know that a new Ubuntu Desktop Course has been released, it’s written on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, here’s some link you may like…

After planning for weeks to take my main production laptop from OpenBSD 4.4 to 4.5, I sweated through the upgrade only to lose what was perfect X compatibility and pull the “kill switch,” which in this case was transferring everything in my freshly rsync’d backup to my identical Toshiba Satellite 1100-S101 laptop running Ubuntu 8.04 [...]

When Dell announced a shift in its Linux strategy last week, accompanied by a new netbook, many wondered why Dell insisted on pre-loading Ubuntu 8.04, instead of newer versions of the popular Linux distribution such as 8.10 or 9.04.

Recently I wrote a set of scripts which let you setup a usable environment after a fresh Ubuntu installation. This script will work with Gusty, Hardy, Intrepid as well as Jaunty.

This post will show you how you can install monit from the latest source on Ubuntu Hardy.

I booted the Toshiba 1100-S101 with Ubuntu 8.04 for the first time in 25 days, according to the Update Manager. Or at least it was 25 days since I updated the install.

So years ago (2007) I created a development server using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. At the time i thought nothing of it until recently when I couldn’t use aptitude to install stuff and after doing some research found out that Feisty Fawn is no longer supported.

Here are the install notes for ubuntu intrepid, jaunty or hardy

I had convinced my wife to use Ubuntu Hardy Heron for over a year but finally she had just had enough, Ubuntu lacked the printer drivers for inkjets, Internet Explorer, Active X, and many other programs that we just could not find equivalents of on Linux.

We are looking at the performance of Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, Ubuntu 8.10, and Ubuntu 9.04 from the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook. Since Ubuntu 8.04.2, Intel’s Atom performance has improved tremendously and Dell should begin thinking about upgrading past the Long-Term Support release.