openSUSE Goblin Team released Smeegol 1.0, their first edition with the MeeGo UI. More information about the release you can find at http://news.opensuse.org/2010/10/06/announcing-smeegol-1-0/ I always tried to give MeeGo a try on a netbook with Nvidia ION accelerated graphics but MeeGo doesn’t support that so far. MeeGo forums member vljn posted about a workaround to [...]
My DVB-T stick usually worked fine with Kaffeine on my ubuntu netbook edition. I recently plugged in my stick and started Kaffeine to watch some tv on my netbook but after a scan for available channels (scan found 23 channels to watch) I got the error message: Cannot find demux plugin for MRL… I searched [...]
I recently got problems with any music players on my netbook, in that case a Lenovo S12 ION. The problem is that pulseaudio eating so much cpu power that playback stutters almost every 3-5 secs. So I removed pulseaudio and voila, playback with alsa is smooth and with a special ppa I still can use [...]
I recently got an error while apt-get updating. Exec format error : package failed to install/remove : installation/removal script returned error exit status 2 This was caused by a broken package, broken by a system crash while updating. Here are two easy ways to fix it: Way A: Remove the package and reinstall where PACKAGE [...]
One of the main pillars of the Distribution Linux Mint past away. Mats Geier aka “Husse” was the last 3 years moderator on the Linux Mint Forum and the IRC help channel. And I would say, he was the most friendly and charming I ever knew in my life. He replied to all questions with [...]
The Ubuntu Artwork Team released their total redesign of Ubuntu’s artwork. The new design should reflect Ubuntu’s… Precision. We ship high quality software, and we ship it exactly on schedule. Our Debian heritage means that the individual components of our platform are tightly defined and neatly arranged. There is no excess, no fat, and no [...]
The new wallpaper of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx aka 10.04 was revealed. You can also download it from here