Setting a larger console font on Ubuntu 12.04.

Setting a larger console font on Ubuntu Linux 12.04. To do this first get to a text console by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and login with your username ↦ password, then type this command to set a larger font. setfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat7-TerminusBold28x14.psf.gzsetfont /usr/share/consolefonts/Lat7-TerminusBold28x14.psf.gz This is a nice large font and is more readable if you are on a … Read more

FreeBSD operating system adopted by Netflix for hosting, and what Linux needs to improve on.

The FreeBSD UNIX distribution has been adopted by Netflix as the operating system of choice for their streaming movies service. This does not mean that they will be adding code to the FreeBSD codebase, Netflix are planning to host their service on FreeBSD powered Apache servers. FreeBSD is a reliable and powerful server operating system, … Read more

A look at the very latest Ubuntu 12.04 Unity desktop.

I have had another look at the Ubuntu Unity desktop, I am aware that this desktop environment is not everybody’s favourite user interface, but it deserves another look. I have recorded a Youtube video of the latest Unity desktop and with the MyUnity desktop configuration tool that allows even more configuration of the Unity interface … Read more

VLC 2.0.0 TwoFlower released for Ubuntu 12.04.

The 2.0.0 release of the VLC media player has been released for Ubuntu 12.04. I updated my Ubuntu 12.04 installation and there it was. So the final release of Ubuntu 12.04 will include this media player in the repositories. The VLC media player is available for Linux and Windows and includes its own internal codecs … Read more

Ubuntu 12.04 downloads available.

The downloads for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin are available at the following links. precise-desktop-i386.iso 12-Feb-2012 07:59 719M Desktop CD for PC (Intel x86) computers (standard download) precise-desktop-powerpc.iso 12-Feb-2012 07:59 726M Desktop CD for Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC (POWER5) computers (standard download) precise-desktop-amd64.iso 12-Feb-2012 07:58 717M Desktop CD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (standard download) These … Read more

How to speed up the KDE 4.8.0 desktop.

I have installed the KDE 4.8.0 desktop on Ubuntu 12.04 and this KDE release is the fastest yet, everything works very well, adding new themes, splash screens and window decorations works perfectly. Many people hate what Canonical are doing with the Unity desktop and the KDE desktop is a nice alternative to the increasingly strange … Read more

Problems with Fedora Core 16 and move to Ubuntu 12.04.

I have had a show-stopper bug in Fedora Core 16 that is preventing the distribution from loading. I have tried everything to fix this, to no avail. I am installing a CD of Ubuntu 10.10 which I will then upgrade to 12.04 Precise Pangolin. That will work better than Fedora, hopefully installing updates on that … Read more

Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha released into the wilds.

The much awaited alpha version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution has been released. This version of Ubuntu comes with kernel 3.2.0-2.5, which is based on the latest mainline v3.2-rc3 kernel. The server release of the AMD64 version has been merged into the generic Ubuntu release to ease the burden of maintaining this release of Ubuntu. … Read more