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Install Sun Java 6 JRE and JDK from .deb packages
So, Canonical disabled my Java PPA at the end of last week. So I’ve developed another solution for installing Java 6u30 on Ubuntu which doesn’t infringe any copyrights, licenses, terms of use or CoC’s. However, by running this script to download Java you acknowledge that you have read and accepted the terms of the Oracle [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: .deb, Debian, java, JDK, JRE, packages, Sun, Ubuntu
Sun Java 1.6.0.30 packages for Ubuntu
Sun Java 6 packages are being removed from Ubuntu in the near future for the following reasons: As of August 24th 2011, Canonical no longer have permission to redistribute new Java packages as Oracle has retired the “Operating System Distributor License for Java”. Oracle has published an advisory about security issues in the version of [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: java, packages, sun-java6, Ubuntu
Installing Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.10
I tried Unity in Ubuntu Natty 11.04 and Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10. We’ve agree to hate each other. A few weeks ago I started using Gnome 3 and it only took me a couple of hours to adapt to it’s workflow. Gnome 3 is now my desktop environment at home and and work. I love it! [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: Gnome 3, Gnome Shell, Ubuntu, Unity
Shotwell 0.11 PPA available for Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick
Like many others I wanted Shotwell 0.11 for Lucid and Maverick so I’ve created a PPA for it https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/shotwell My PPA contains Shotwell 0.11 built for Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu Maverick 10.10. I created this PPA because I run Lucid at home and wanted the new version of Shotwell. Sadly, Yorba aren’t going to [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: lucid, maverick, ppa, shotwell, Ubuntu
Shotwell 0.8.1 PPA available for Ubuntu Lucid
Like many others I wanted Shotwell for Lucid so I’ve created a PPA for it https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/shotwell My PPA contains Shotwell 0.8.1 built for Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS. I created the PPA because I run Lucid at home and wanted the new version of Shotwell. Sadly, Yorba aren’t going to provide a Lucid build of Shotwell [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: lucid, ppa, shotwell, Ubuntu
Bash script to retrieve Ubuntu codenames and versions
I’m working a script to automatically backport some new Debian packages to Ubuntu. I needed a way to get a list of currently supported/active Ubuntu releases by codename or version. Here is how I do it. Get a list of Ubuntu codenames wget -q http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ -O – | sed -e :a -e ‘s/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba’ | grep [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: bash, codename, release, Script, Ubuntu, version, wget
Goodbye F-Spot. Hello Shotwell.
I’ve finally found a photo manager for Linux I can live with, Shotwell. Shotwell is an photo manager for GNOME that I’ve been testing for a few months now but the recent 0.5 release which added tagging and printing, it means Shotwell is finally ready replace F-Spot on my workstation. Shotwell is intuitive, well documented, [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: Linux, Manager, Photo
Give XFS a chance. Don't believe the FUD.
After tinkering with Ext4 I did some research and tested other file systems on my new disk arrays. I’ve concluded that XFS, once tuned, is the best file system for my needs and it could well be the best file system for your needs too. I’m now using XFS for all my computers, including laptop [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: Ext3, Ext4, JFS, performance, tuning, tweaking, XFS
Recovering reserved space from ext4
The Ext4 file system, like Ext3, reserves 5% of the blocks on the file system for the root user. The reserved blocks are there for root’s use as a safe guard if the filesystem gets full, it provides some wiggle room to enable the really important programs to still function. But in some cases there’s [...]
In: Linux · Tagged with: blocks, Ext3, Ext4, Linux, reserved, space
StarTech S354UER Review
I’ve ripped my entire CD collection to MP3 and I’m in the process of ripping my entire DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD collection to MPEG-2 TS files so that I can stream everything to my PS3 using MiniDLNA. I currently have this data stored on an internal 2TB volume and backed up to an external 2TB [...]
