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I finally got around to building a new ubuntu-based VMware appliance. This time, i based it on the “JeOS” variant (Just enough OS) which is a somewhat smaller than the standard server install.

The final result in a compressed 7zip package is … about 45MB, a bit less than i was expecting, and it unpacks into less than 200MB.

Full details and download link here

The ubuntu developers just announced the first alpha release of the next Ubuntu version - 8.04 (codenamed “Hardy Heron”). major changes include:

• The latest Xorg version - Xorg 7.3, with an emphasis on better autoconfiguration without config files.
• Massive merge from Debian - every release cycle brings lots of updates and new packages from debian

More information.
Now go get it, test and bug report

Edit:
yep, it’s definitely not 8.10

The latest ubuntu, codenamed “Gutsy Gibbon”, was released today. It has some very interesting features Release notes and is definitely the best one so far.

After skipping the one version and not having my vmware image updated for ubuntu 7.04 server, i am at least releasing the new version early. I didn’t dedicated much time to testing, so feel free to contact me for bug reports or any questions.

Get it here: VMware - Ubuntu Server 7.10

Liferea is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for GTK/GNOME.

After using it, the first thing i did was to uninstall my firefox news feed plugins, as i won’t ever use them again (at least not on linux)

Some of the cool features i like, among others:

• Easy to use
• Searching feeds for content, and permanent search folders
• Can stand in the system tray, and show the ammount of new (unread) items
• Supports browser tabs inside the Lifearea application
• Complete set of preferences

You can read more about other functionality in the docs page, or even visit the lifearea blog wich has some updates on the development branch.

Main interface

Installing
Installing Lifearea on ubuntu is as easy as going to the “Applications” menu, “Add/Remove…” and select “Internet” - you can type “feed” on the search box to show only news readers - check “Lifearea Feed Reader” and press OK.

I haven’t tried installing it on any other distro because i’m only using ubuntu at this time, but i believe it shouldn’t be much harder.

Putty, a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, is out with a new version - 0.60 with some important bug fixes:

• Pressing Ctrl+Break now sends a serial break signal.
• Serial ports higher than COM9 now no longer need a leading \\.\.
• You can now store a host name in the Default Settings.
• Bug fix: serial connections and local proxies should no longer crash
  all the time.
• Bug fix: configuring the default connection type to serial should no
  longer cause the configuration dialog to be skipped on startup.
• Bug fix: “Unable to read from standard input” should now not happen,
  or if it still does it should produce more detailed diagnostics.
• Bug fix: fixed some malformed SSH-2 packet generation.
• Other minor bug fixes.

If you don’t know where to find it, this is the primary putty website