Came across this guide to using BitTorrent to upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid (instead of the normal method).

HOWTO: Using apt-p2p (torrent) For Faster Upgrades From Hardy To Intrepid – Ubuntu Forums

Might be worth a try, as I’m sure the servers are going to be pretty overloaded for the next few days. I am actually going to wait a few days before I attempt to upgrade (or reinstall completely – haven’t made up my mind about which I’m gonna indulge in)

Just read a post on Ubuntu Forums about a new distro of Linu being released really soon. It’s called Borderless Linux. Looks interesting. From the screenshot it looks like they’re going with a dockbar based menu/launcher system. Could be very cool. It’s based off Arch Linux, and I really have no idea about that…but hey, seems kinda cool. Soon as I can sell off some stuff and snag a newer (read: better) laptop, I’ll be trying out some of these distros and posting my thoughts.

just came across this and wanted to share it before I lost it. A repo which contains the beta Flock 2.0 browser, among other programs. If you haven’t played with Flock but enjoy social networking sites and blogging (and other RSS oriented online activity), you definitely need to check it out. Though, unless you really want to play with a beta version, you might want to just try out the stable version first.

after reloading your repos, open up synaptic, search for “Flock”, and if you’ve already installed the 1.2 version of Flock it’ll probably just show that you have it installed. Click on the flock line, but do nothing, then go up to the top under “Package” choose “force version” and a window should pop up with an option to choose between Flock 1.2 or 2.0. If you want to try out the Beta, then choose the 2.0 version and it’ll automatically mark it for upgrade!

okay, well, I’m not sure if this is better than Apple’s application dock. I’ve never really played around with it, just watched others use it. And the main thing I notice is that all the docks look the same – it seems there is little customization (that I can tell – feel free to correct me if I’m wrong!).

so I’ve been scouring the internet for all available docks I could try and setup in Ubuntu (I’ll post all my findings later), and I came across something called the Cairo Dock. Seemed kinda cool, so I installed it…and whoa! It was really awesome! A bunch of options and the animations are really smooth, even with a bunch of programs opened on my old Gateway laptop (just 512 of RAM, bleh). AWN, though cool, always seemed to bog the system down and be a little stiff – this just feels really loose and free.

So how’d I get it? I used these instructions with no problems:

Add this to your sources list:

deb http://repository.cairo-dock.org/ubuntu hardy cairo-dock

(replace “hardy” with “gutsy” if you’re using 7.10)

Then add the repo key:

wget -q http://repository.cairo-dock.org/ubuntu/cairo-dock.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

And then finally to install the program:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

You can open it up under “System Tools” in the menu, or just hit Alt-F2 and type “cairo-dock”

This blog seemed to explain a bunch of other stuff about Cairo Dock that I want to try out, but haven’t had time to yet.

Tags: cairodock, AWN, apple dock, application dock, linux, ubuntu, hardy, gutsy

Everyone is still waiting on Google to release the Chrome browser in Linux. But if you want to play with it now, you can try it in wine, or actually install from the Chromium code (instructions courtesy of Ubuntu Geek here).

First you gotta grab the .deb package (in terminal):

wget http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/chromium/cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb

then you unpackage and install:

sudo dpkg -i cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb

Now, just to let you know, when I first did this, I got some randomn error message at the end. I tried to open Chromium and nothing happend. So I figured it didn’t take. Then a week later I saw the “Crossover Chromium” category in my main window, browsed through it and thought, “hey, lets try this…” and the next thing I knew, I was using a Chrome-like browser.

Just from the layout and the way the mouse looks in the window, I think this browser still uses Wine. And the fonts look a little funny – but hey, it’s just like Chrome and it’s running in Linux!