Previously I have solved my problem with Miro, now it comes another new issue. The problem occurred because Ubuntu has updated the libxine to 1.1.10-1, but Miro depends on libxine1 earlier than 1.1.8 to run!

So, in the end, either you can install Miro 1.2 with libxine1 1.1.7 or Miro 1.1.2 with libxine1 1.1.10 on Hardy Heron or latest gutsy.

Hope Miro can solve this problem as soon as possible.

Yeah, Ubuntu 8.04 is coming on the way! What make Ubuntu 8.04 so special? It’s a LTS, which mean it will be given Long Term Support. Ubuntu last version LTS is 6.06.

Ubuntu 8.04 is built on top of Linux kernel 2.6.24-11.22, it compliance with the Completely Fair Scheduler. Besides that, the application software used on Ubuntu are up to date like Gnome is 2.22.0, Firefox 3.0 beta 4, Gimp 2.4.5, Apache httpd 2.2.8 and much more.

Another new thing you can expect on this Buntu version is ufw ( Uncomplicated Firewall ). It significantly improved the currently complicated command iptable firewall.

So, your final question might be, how do I down it? If you are currently using Ubuntu, you just need to type update-manager -d in your terminal.

One of the purpose of my Linux desktop is to play media files! Yes, I subscribe plenty video feeds on Miro. It will automatically download new video files and play directly on it.

Good day does not last long, out of sudden my Miro starts to crash every time it plays to the last video on the playlist. Then I ran my Miro using the terminal console and found out that the error shown was "Segmentation fault".

This is not an isolated case, I have seen a lot enquiries about such problem. None of the any reply from Miro team or fixes for this problem. Here is a solution for your problem.

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Solution for Miro’s Segmentation fault

Adobe has successfully brought Flash to a new level by introducing the vibrant AIR to Windows desktop. The benefits of AIR is to help those Flash developers shorten the development and deployment and bring rich internet applications to your desktop. Of course, Adobe would not want to leave out the Linux market.

Below video shows the demonstration of Adobe AIR on Linux.

Nowadays, the hard disks sold on the market are usually more than 100GBs. Even though you have larger hard disk, but have you wonder why the maximum you could only have 4 primary partitions?

The reason is because in the first 512 bytes is reserved for the Master Boot Record (MBR). It stores the information of the partitions, but 512 bytes is only allows 4 primary partitions. So, if you have more partitions to create, then you need to create extended partition. And within the extended partition, you can have any number of logical partitions.