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After working for years on a Elitebook 8530p, I was looking at a laptop which has to be performant, robust and with a good display since for my work I spend most of the time without external monitor and I need a lot of space on my desktop. The final choice (compatible with the budget) was [...] Ubuntu 11.10′s Unity Dash is taking shape – The H Open Source: News and Features. Ubuntu 11.10 looks really promising! ((enjoy))
If are using a 64-bit flavour of Linux, you’ll be surely affected by the npviewer.bin issue about random crashes of the Flash Player plugin in Firefox with a message like this in your /var/log/kern.log: npviewer.bin[6489]: segfault at 418 ip 00000000f6034d36 sp 00000000ffaaf868 error 6 in libflashplayer.so[f5dc7000+b5f000] Well, Adobe some time ago released a beta quality 64-bit native [...] After upgrading to the lastest 3.6 Firefox and the latest Jre 6.0.20 on my Ubuntu 10.4, I faced the problem about the Java Console. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460244 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Java#Java_Console_disabled https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511884 ((enjoy)) To make Thnuderbird display the date in a more readable format, I made the following customizations: In the prefs.js added these lines: user_pref(“mail.ui.display.dateformat.default”, 2); just to have a more compact date for the last week messages. Then to have the date in my locale it_IT, you need something like this: export LC_TIME=it_IT.UTF-8 and the trick is done! I really like to have the background image of my Ubuntu desktop automatically changing over time. I’ve finally upgraded my Laptop to Lucid Lynx 10.4 and all is almost fine. Under Ubuntu, if are you using the latest version of Thunderbird from the PPA (rebranded as Shredder), you may encounter some problems with the Lightning plugin, especially if you are using the 64 bit version. For example, with Shredder 3.0.6 you have to use the Lightning plug-in version 1.0b1 and not the latest 1.0b2. For the X86_64 [...] After reading this interesting post on Phoronix about the great increase of performance between ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10, I finally convinced myself to make the upgrade. On my Ubunty Jaunty I’ve started to use the latest Firefox build using this PPA: |
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