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If you can get past botched upgrade or troublesome fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10, as many have experienced, this is the single most important Ubuntu released yet. I mean, all new Ubuntu releases are supposedly better than the previous version, because they come with new versions of popular packages and bug fixes of the older version of this popular distribution. But with karmic Koala, Canonical introduced features like Ubuntu One and Software Center, that are truly big new features. More so, when you consider the fact that Ubuntu releases a new version every six months.
Unfortunately, most of the good vibe with new version of Ubuntu got lost when users started reporting problems with upgrading from Jaunty and for many, even on fresh install. Reports are still coming in, but the official Ubuntu IRC channel and Ubuntu Forum is flooded with troubleshooting questions from early adopters. Most of the problems seems to be related to graphics driver and Wi-Fi connection dropping out randomly. Others are having trouble to even boot up to X.
Personally I have installed in three computers with mixed results and ironically the only install that went smooth was my install on a Macbook.
For anyone thinking about upgrading to 9.10, I suggest wait couple of weeks when most of the kinks should be ironed out. Otherwise do a clean install on a test machine of a separate partition to see how it goes. Many have reported trouble-free upgrade and fresh install so you might not have any problem at all. Hopefully, this is a small hiccup on an otherwise very impressive Ubuntu release.
If you are like me and can’t wait 5 days to install the new Ubuntu 9.10 karmic Koala, you can upgrade with a single command and install the latest release candidate.
The release candidates by itself are stable enough to be installed on your workstation, as they are the closest to what the final release will end up being like. However you are advised not to do so if you are not very familiar with troubleshooting and recovery system if something where to break down during the upgrade process. Even when you upgrade to the release candidate – Ubuntu does a clean upgrade to the final release when it is released to the public.
I installed it on a spare Ubuntu partition I use for testing purpose. The install process itself was a breeze but there were some minor stability issues with release candidate, which should be sorted out before the official release.
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Until today I sympathize with Psystar for helping spread OS X to non-apple hardware. Even though I personally own apple computers, I support the effort of giving me the option of installing OSX on other computers. I should be able to install OSX on most hardware the same way I can install Windows 7 (and Linux).
It is important to note that Psystar didn’t "invent" or "discover" the method of installing OSX on non-apple hardware. They simply used information that are already freely and widely available for everyone – refined it and sold you the preinstalled OSX on non-apple computer. You can do the same without having to buy a computer from Psystar, just follow instruction available for hackintosh computers.
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Apple has always been a leading innovator in terms of hardware design and OS improvements. Now they are leading the way by embracing next generation web technology by being one of the few websites to implement html5 video tags on a production website.
If you go to apple.com with a webkit powered browser (Safari/Chrome in Mac or Windows) and play some of the new videos promoting the new iMac and Magic Mouse, the videos are played using html 5 video tag. When you try to play the same video using IE or Firefox the QuickTime video player kicks. Even though the latest Firefox browser support html5 video tags, its implementation is limited to Ogg Theora, the video files on apple.com are MP4.
The video player using html5 tags under webkit browser looks very much like QuickTime X shipped with Snow Leopard. With non-webkit browser the video player buttons are distinctively different, as shown below:
Under Webkit Powered Browser (Chrome/Safari):
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Ever since Google’s announcement of Chrome OS earlier this year I have been eagerly waiting for some kind of early alpha or beta version to play around with. Thankfully, for a short time, Google "accidentally" uploaded an early prototype of the Chrome OS – built on top of the chrome browser – that will eventually end up being the OS.
You can download the deb package file from here. This package can only be installed on debian based Linux distribution (like Ubuntu) or any Linux distribution that has deb package manager installed.
It is perhaps not correct to label it as a "leaked" version. After all, Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be free to use for anyone who is willing to do whatever they want with it.
Chrome developers did the right thing by pulling it out from public download – as it was most likely made available to download by fellow developers for testing purpose. Outsiders who are not familiar with the development process of the project might get a very bad first impression of the Chrome OS.
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