Shuttleworth Removes Terminal From Ubuntu 12.04 | Ubuntu 12.04 shipping without a terminal Mark Shuttleworth announced at the 2011 Ubuntu Developer Summit that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will be the first release to be shipped without a terminal. “Times have changed,” Shuttleworth remarked, adding “who uses a terminal anymore? That is a relic of an older Linux I don’t want users to be
Securely Wipe Hard Drive in Linux
Securely Wipe Hard Drive in Linux | To wipe a hard disk down to zeros, use the dd command. $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M Where /dev/sdX is the drive you want to zero out. Be extremely careful – there is no undo! For example, this zeros out the specific disk “/dev/sdf” on my system: stmiller@brahms:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdf bs=1M This
How To Dual Boot OS X and Linux
How To Dual Boot OS X and Linux | How to dual boot OS X and Linux. Works on any Intel Mac with any version of Linux! Note: rEFIt does not work with 10.7 Lion yet (step 4). Wait for an rEFIt update before attempting on a 10.7 machine. Warning: This is scary stuff – you can really trash your system and data! I
Linux Kernel 3.0
Linux Kernel 3.0 | Linus Torvalds has announced what would have been Linux kernel 2.6.40 is to be renamed Linux 3.0. This is great news as the 2.6.infinity series seemed to never end! Linux 3.0 is not based on any new features, but rather only a version number change. The more recent Linux kernels, in particular 2.6.33 and later
Play Audible Audio Books in Linux
Play Audible Audio Books in Linux | How can I play back Audible audio books in Linux? Thanks to wine, the Audible PC software installs and works perfectly to playback Audible content. Sorry for the odd shaped screenshots. This is from my netbook. First, make sure you have wine installed: sudo apt-get install wine 1. Find and download the Audible Manager Windows
Starcraft II in Linux
Starcraft II in Linux | Starcraft II apparently just works in Linux with wine without a fuss. I just purchased Starcraft II as a digital download and will report back on a later post. UPDATE Well, how’s it going?? Well, getting there. I tried a clean ~/.wine install, latest wine1.3-dev provided by winehq on Ubuntu 10.04, latest Nvidia drivers, and
