noticias de ubuntu 22 de dicimebre del 2007

Ya salío el alpha 2 de Hardy

Ayer viernes 21 de dic. salió el 2do alpha de lo que será Ubuntu LTS 8.04
Puedes ver mas info aqui!

La edición #8 de Full Circle está ya disponible aqui!

Lastimosamente no hay todavía una traducción al español. Si alguiéjn quiere suamrse a este esfuerzo visiten: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/TranslateFullCircle y empiecen con el trabajo de la traducción (se necesita Scribus). Contacten también a xander21c en ubuntu-peru y haganle saber que están trabajando en el tema para coordinar. Envien también un correo a ubuntu-doc-spa@lists.ubuntu.com pues es mejor coordinarlo una vez con varias personas que doblar el mismo esfuerzo.

Las Noticias Semanales de Ubuntu en español son también uno de los esfuerzos que deberíamos concretizar para el 2008.

Entrenamiento certificado en el escritorio: Ubuntu

Mark Shuttleworth (Fundador de Canonical y el proyecto Ubuntu) anuncio ayer la disponibilidad de un curso en el escritorio Ubuntu. Este material esta bajo CC_BY_NC_SA (es difundible, pero no comercializable) y tiene como objetivo servir a la comunidad.

Se lo puede obtener desde launchpad (con bazaar 1.0 - paquete bzr en ubuntu) en docbook o en PDF desde el ubuntuwiki.

Deseo a todos y cada uno de los miembros y usuarios de la comunidad unas felices fiestas. Si no son cristianos (como yo) pues que tengan un tiempoo agradable con familia, amigos y demás!

Que el 2008 sea un año grande para nuestra comunidad ubuntera!


Saludos, R.

Planeta Ubuntu Ecuador

El software libre en Ecuador es una realidad. Y eso lo demuestra la comunidad ferviente de usuarios que se adhieren a nuestro proyecto.

Espero que esta sea una ventana al mundo de los ubunteros en Ecuador y ayude a difundir el software libre en Ecuador y el mundo!

Empecé amando la tecnología y terminé amando la libertad!

Sigamos adelante!

R

Booting from a CD-ROM with no BIOS boot support - Smart Boot Manager from a floppy/harddisk

Well... My old IBM ThinkPad 760LD is a wonderfuil machine, but has no CD-ROM boot support. That can be fixed!

With the Ubuntu live (and install :-) CD you will find a small file called sbm.bin.

use this command on the terminal (under linux) to copy the image to a floppy:

type:

cd /media/cdromdrive/install

where /media/cdromdrive is the mount point of your CD-ROM drive

and then type:

cp ./sbm.bin ~/smb.bin

Now swap your CD drive with your floppy drive. Go to your home directory by typing:

cd ~

and make a floppy image with SBM (this may require a reboot) by typing:

dd if=sbm.bin of=/dev/fd0

Of course this will erase anything you have on your floppy.

Now swap your CD drive with your floppy drive and start the IBM and right after the boot you will see the Smart Boot Manager Interface. Choose to install SBM in the Harddisk drive and then shutdown.

Now replace your floppuy drive with your CD-ROM drive again and the Smart Boot Manager starts again, but now from your Harddisk!!

Make the utility rescan the boot devices and then you will see the CD-ROM drive listed.

Choose to boot from it and voila... The install starts! :-)

You should, of course, use the alternate CD for the install :-)

Cheers!

Ubuntu LoCo Team - Ecuador

Holas...

Acabo de crear el ubuntu-ec team de comunidad local de Ubuntu en Ecuador (ya hacía falta, no?)

Pues bueno está es la info:

Página web:

Ubuntu-ec.org

Listas de correo:

ubuntu-ec@lists.ubuntu.com

Foros:

Foro de Ubuntu-ec

Canal de IRC (Chat):

Servidor: irc.freenode.net

Canal: #ubuntu-ec

Joost invites / invitaciones para joost

I have been recently watching at the development of TVP (The Venice Project), now joost.

I managed to get a beta invite early in the process and have now some invites for other beta testers.

Drop a line if you want one. nothing official yet.. Maybe it will come with the launch?
rsi
They are working on a linux release, but

Si quieres una invitación para joost, avisame y dejame tu e-mail.

Esperemos que ya venga una versión para linux.

Ubuntu in the enterprise... Everyday use on "real" business life

My company is in a "Best Practice" process at the moment.

In the meetings the retail managers have we discuss and go through all of the aspects of running our stores and try to get the "best practices" in the different categories we go thorugh (sales, economy management, HR management among others).

I for one use ubuntu in my laptop. No dual boot, just pure ubuntu (now development version "Feisty Fawn" been released in April 19th 2007.

When we write thing down and sintesise our thoughts we use our laptops and rotate in who is writing. We use each others files (MS Word/Excel format) and work on.

But today people started realizing I use another OS when making my presentation to the whole forum. And obviously started asking questions (Yes, I had Desktop Effects activated ;).

So I decided to write down the experience of using my computer among this Windows crowd and what I can and can't do:

Can Dos

* Use the Citrix Metaframe with SSL security based enviroment (witch makes use of certificates and even installed Portable Open Office - www.portableapps.com - to see files Office files and make PDFs inside of the enviroment :)
* See all documents I need for my everyday work (MS Excel/Word/PowerPoint, PDF)
* Have access to a ActiveX based web site using Internet Explorer 6 ( Huge thanks to IEs4Linux -www.ies4linux.org :)
* Listen to my music and see movies while working (Thanks to Rhythmbox/Banshee & Totem/VLC/Mplayer)
* Print without hassle and any driver CD/download install (Set up the net printers and go - Thanks to Gnome & CUPS :)
* Access our Ubuntu 6.06.1 server through SSH/SAMBA when needed
* Connect wiressly through WLAN /LAN / GPRS-over-Bluetooth-with-Nokia-Phone / PCMCIA-3G-GPRS-GSM

Can't Dos

* Seems my IE6 trick isn't working anymore :(
* See advanced (read macrobased) Excel files


All in all I can do pretty much everything I need to do.

Thank you Ubuntu!

Please help improving Ubuntu:
* Become a member of Launchpad
* Help translating with Rosetta
* Code if you can using Bazaar
* Help in the forums or in sending bugs through Launchpad

Thanks for reading. Leave comments/questions (not flaming/spaming please).

Hubuntu

Fusion UMTS GPRS WLAN

wvdialconf

wvdial --config wvdial.conf

at+cpin="PIN1"

REal time presence

Interesting to feel the need of telepathy... I just started using my laptop at work, and just got cohoba installed... I'm looking forward to try the bluetooth part of telepathy.

:-)