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Windows “Mojave” July 31, 2008

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LOL. This is so funny. Microsoft’s new campaign to change people’s thoughts on Windows Vista seems to be helping some. What they did was rename Windows Vista to Windows “Mojave” and make people think they were using a whole new operating system but they were really using Windows Vista. I think this is a great idea since most of the people that don’t like Windows Vista have never used it, have used it but on a slow computer, or have used it on a computer with a lot of junk software on it. You can view the videos of what they did here or watch this video:

Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 3 July 26, 2008

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Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 3 has been released and I have not had a lot of time to test it but you can download it from: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing and click on alpha 3. The biggest change is tabs in the file manager. Remember that all the changes in this alpha release may contain bugs that could harm your computer or your data, I recommend installing this in Virtual PC which can be downloaded here for FREE!

Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 2 on VPC July 14, 2008

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Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 2 is by far the easiest Linux distribution I’ve ever installed. Here’s how you get it working:

1. Download Ubuntu 8.10 from here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/alpha-2/

2. Install it on VPC

3. On first boot press ESC

4. Press e

5. Select kernel and press e

6. Add vga=791 clock=pit

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7. Press ENTER

8. Press b

9. While it’s booting, you’ll notice that you can’t read what it’s saying very easy, don’t worry it will get fixed in a minute

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10. Now, you’ll notice that Ubuntu can detect that Virtual PC doesn’t support 24-bit colors and tells you.

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11. Click Always run in low-graphics mode and click Continue

12. Now you’ll see the Ubuntu login screen, ungarbled:

Other then that, there are not a lot of noticeable changes but I have not looked real in-depth.

Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 July 6, 2008

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Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 came out last week and I’ve had some time to test it. From what I have noticed, the biggest change is the new black interface. It looks nice but still needs some tweaks to be perfect. (like on the Update Manager the progress bar makes it so the text can’t be read very easy)

My favorite part is you can run it on Virtual PC without a lot of effort. Here’s how you do it:

Download Ubuntu from here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha1
Install it on a virtual machine
When it starts for the first time and it says GRUB loading press ESC for the menu or something like that, press ESC fast
Press e to edit the options
Select kernel and press e again
Type vga=791 clock=pit
Press ENTER
Press b to boot
It will take a while to boot but with it does you will see a colorful screen. Press CTRL-ALT-F1
Now it’s time to fix the display, type sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Scroll down until you see the line that says Screen
Add the line below Device: DefaultDepth 16
Press CTRL-O (the letter O)
Press CTRL-X
Now to save the options we added at startup type: sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst
Scroll to the part below ## ## END DEFAULT OPTIONS ## ## and where it says kernel. It should be the first one. Go to the end of that and type vga=791 clock=pit
Press CTRL-O (the letter O)
Press CTRL-X
Type sudo reboot
This time when it boots, do not press anything. If you did everything right, it should boot just fine.