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Mikä on Ubuntu? Mikä VALO?

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Risto H. Kurppa

Facebookissa tuli vastaan erään naispuoleisen ystävän statuspäivitys: “N.N ei osaa käyttää omaa konettaan. Pitäiskö hommat mac tms?” Ensimmäinen kommentaattori heitti että “Sitä ei ainakaan osaa”. Toiseksi kommentiksi laitoin osoitteen www.ubuntu-fi.org. Reaktio oli yllättävä: kommentaattoreiksi löytyi kaksi muuta Ubuntua käyttävää naishenkilöä … Continue reading →

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How long has your system been up’n running?

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

I’m planning to wipe my Kubuntu desktop box root partition to re-install Kubuntu 10.04 LTS. I don’t have any major problems that would force me to reinstall the system, but I’ve installed many apps and packages from outside the repositories, … Continue reading →

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Install Ubuntu on USB hard drive

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

sudo qemu -hda /dev/sdc -cdrom kubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso -boot order=d That’s it. (you can also try VirtualBox) Except that I get an error: “Executing ‘grub-install /dev/sda’ failed. This is a fatal error.” After this Ubiquity crashes.

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Ubuntu Finland & community effort

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

Happened last Wednesday, the day before the release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS at Ubuntu-fi teams IRC channel (#ubuntu-fi-tiimit @ Freenode). Someone organizing the Ubuntufest release party at Tampere, Finland on 5th of May (Akademy 2010 will also be there … Continue reading →

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MS Bing the default search engine in Firefox of Ubuntu?

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

Will Firefox in Ubuntu soon use Microsoft Bing as the default search engine? Some press releases / announcements are out that can be interpreted so. July 2009 / Microsoft Press Release Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve … Continue reading →

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