How to recover from a failing Kernel

How to recover from a failing Kernel

Or perhaps i should call this “Do you remember i was upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 ?”. Well something is gone bad and when i rebooted to start my new Xubuntu 11.04 i got: error: cannot read the Linux header. error: you need to load the kernel first. Failed to boot both default and fallback entries. […]

Release Day for many Linux distributions

Release Day for many Linux distributions

Today it’s the day, Ubuntu 11.04 has been officially released and they server are now under “attack” by all the Ubuntu users that are trying to download the new release or update a former version, for me it took around 3 hours to finish the download of the 1400 packages needed to upgrade from Xubuntu […]

Canonical changing idea about unity ?

Canonical changing idea about unity ?

Today I was checking as usual the linux news from around the world and two articles caught my attention. 1) Canonical has second thoughts, maybe Ubuntu 4.11 will not haave Unity as default ! Yay !!!!! In this popular Italian blog the author refers that at the last ubuntu Technical Board meeting a question has […]

Bodhi Linux 1.0 review

Bodhi Linux 1.0 review

I liked from the beginning the idea behind Bodhi Linux and so I followed the progress of this young version of Linux and take advantage of version 1.0 (congratulations to Jeff and the entire team) to make a review. For the uninitiated Bodhi Linux is a recent project that taking as a base Ubuntu 10.04 […]

Ubuntu will not install non-free software (by default)

Ubuntu will not install non-free software (by default)

Good news, at the last Ubuntu Technical Board the members have voted against including (by default) Non-Free software in ubuntu distribution. The Ubuntu Technical Board is responsible for architectural and technical decisions in Ubuntu. They set the standards required for packaging and integration with Ubuntu, as well as signing off on the release process and […]