My Linux Way

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.

You have dual boot working on Windows XP and Linux running with GRUB, but for certain reason, you want to get rid of GRUB. So how to uninstall?

Here is the simple method, just boot up with your Windows XP cd, then goes to the recovery console, type in:

$ fixmbr

For Windows 9x and DOS:

$ fdisk /mbr

On Windows, you have Launchy, a small application that saves your time by just type in the application name rather than just go through Windows Start Menu to do the searching. Same on Linux, there is such similar feature software called GNOME Do.

Besides the basic function, GNOME Do has awesome plugins which allows you to send email, instant messenger, play music, search the web and more. GNOME Do not only for GNOME, it also works on KDE!

You can actually mount ISO mirror image just with one click only! How? First you need to have a small tool called Gmount-iso to be installed on your desktop. It was written in PyGTK and Glade.

Just install with the command

sudo aptitude install gmountiso

You can use the command to do the job

mount -o loop -t iso9660 testing.iso /mountpoint

Or through the GUI at Applications -> System Tools -> Gmount-iso

Wine has released a new build 0.9.53 today.

Some changes on this build:

• RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
• Beginnings of support for emulated disk devices.
• Many Richedit improvements.
• Nicer looking color dialog.
• Lots of bug fixes.

But just in case you don’t know what Wine is. Wine is a translation layer software that let you run MS Windows software on your Unix\Linux. This software has started since 1993. Just after 12 years, in 2005, it then released their first beta 0.9 version. Hope this has answer your curiosity of why haven’t this software gone into version 1.0.

According to their development roadmap, they still have approximately 80 bugs to be fixed before a really 1.0 version will be announced. The main reason of the slow development speed is because MS Windows is a closed system.

Download: WINE 0.9.53

KDE is known as K Desktop Environment, it is one of the popular desktop environments running on Unix and Linux. Finally at last the long awaited stable KDE, they have announced their gold version 4.0 ready for the public.

KDE 4 not only bring in a cool series of technology like Decibel, Phonon, Solid, they also have new desktop shell called Plasma, new graphical user interface - Oxygen. Besides that, there are entire new series of applications such as Dolphin, Okular, Marble and etc.

There are already some Linux distros included the latest KDE 4.0 such as Kubuntu, Mandriva, Debian, KDE Four Live and so on.