Monthly Archives: November 2009

Canonical to remove Gimp from default Ubuntu installation

To be honest I am quite happy about this decision, GIMP is a great package but I think a lot of people don’t use it. I, for one, don’t use my Ubuntu machine for any kind of graphical work and have no need for this. Another package I wouldn’t mind seeing removed is OpenOffice. Maybe [...]

Chrome OS VM image!

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to release this and I am surprised it didn’t even take 24H after the announcement that the Chrome OS source is available for someone to release an image for a Virtual Machine. It also turns out Canonical helped to develop Chrome OS, quite an interesting [...]

Temporary fix Grub2 "not found uuid"

I recently convinced my girlfriend to switch to Ubuntu instead of XP because her laptop had been infected a few times in the past. Installation went smoothly on her laptop, however it would not boot up because Grub2 was complaining about not finding the kernel and mentioned the UUID. After a lot of searching & [...]