I followed the really simple guide posted by my VPS hoster for upgrading my VPS to Ubuntu Lucid. It took quite a while to run, but after adding a single row to /etc/fstab it restarted without problems! Seriously, I didn’t change a single thing and everything “just worked”.. That’s how it’s supposed to be! Now [...]

At work I have been working on Windows XP but for testing reasons I installed Ubuntu Lucid as well and am dual-booting now. Switching between the two I have started to get a bit annoyed with XP because it is much slower than Ubuntu is. Programs seem to take a lot longer to start, even [...]

Lucid has been out for quite some time now, and I’ve been running it successfully on my homeserver since beta 3. There have been quite a few updates since then and it seems the OS has finally stabilized quite well. My server is running perfectly, and so far I have had no major problems with [...]

Alright I couldn’t hold back any longer and had to upgrade to Lucid! The upgrade itself went pretty smooth, although it took quite a long time (about an hour). It also ended in a kernel panic on shutdown after the upgrade had completed. However, it booted fine, except my machine hung on the new splash [...]

I don’t know about all of you out there but once again I’m starting to get excited about a fresh new Ubuntu release! The first beta should have come out yesterday but it has been postponed til today (depending on your timezone I guess). So keep your eyes peeled, the beta will be hitting the [...]

As some of you might have noticed there’s been a lot of hype around the new Software Center that will come with Ubuntu Lucid. People seem very enthusiastic about it and for GUI jockeys it is a major step forward (I guess). Personally, however, I never use a GUI to install my software and only [...]