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Ubuntu CDs for GNOME at Systems, Munich

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So, Systems is over, and the GNOME stand was a great success, though small. The 5600 Ubuntu CDs arrived a bit late, so we could only hand them out on the last day and a half. They were busy days, so we could hand them out at about a rate of 1000 per day. We make sure to speak/sell to each person about what it is and how to use it, and how beautiful, easy and safe it is, so that takes a lot of energy.

Quite a few people were interested in Edubuntu for schools, particularly in the poorer Eastern-European countries.

But we still have a lot left over. We’ll use a lot at LinuxWorld Expo in Frankfurt, but anybody in Munich should feel free to contact me to arrange to pick up some boxes. For instance, if you would like to hand them out at a university.

The size of the delivery from Canonical was a bit shocking. Thanks Ubuntu/Canonical for the support. I could almost forget that these beauties are all browse-mode-defaulting.

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Acer Travelmate 4101WLMI and Ubuntu

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I added the information about my new laptop to the Ubuntu wiki page for acer laptops. I'm not too bothered that the built in ethernet and wireless networking don't work, because I still have the external cards from my old laptop, and I'm sure they'll work in some future version. Suspend would be nice, though it never worked on my old Dell either. The lack of true widescreen resolution is more annoying (Fuzzy) though, and the 855resolution hack just makes my screen scrollable instead of squeezing everything into the screen size.

However, I am incredibly pleased that the keyboard's volume buttons work. Even the gimmicky volume knob on the GNOME Event Box's german wireless keyboard works. It shows a little temporary window with a picture and a level bar. Maybe it's part of GNOME. My priorities are clearly not ideal.

Glom in Ubuntu

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Many thanks to Daniel Holbach for getting Glom packages in to the Ubuntu Breezy (unstable) universe. I think this version doesn't install the example from the tarball, and even the cvs version doesn't yet cope perfectly with example files being read-only, but it's certainly easier than building it from source.