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ಮೊದಲು ಕ್ರೋಮ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರತೀಯ ಭಾಷೆ ಬರೆಯುವುದು ಹೇಗೆಂದು ತೋರಿಸಿದ್ದೆ.

ಈ ವಿಷಯದ ಮೇಲೆ ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಅಧ್ಯಯನ ಮಾಡಿದ ನಂತರ ಕನ್ನಡವನ್ನು Ubuntu OS ನಲ್ಲಿ ಸೀದಾ ಬರೆಯಬಹುದೆಂದು ಗೊತ್ತಾಯಿತು.

ವಿಡಿಯೋವನ್ನು HD ಯಲ್ಲಿ ನೋಡಿ.

Seems like Drupal has a long way to go in terms of awareness.

When I upgraded to Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10), I had a cursory glance over the Ubuntu One and did a setup. It basically was supposed to provide a syncing mechanism of your local files with storage in cloud (Ubuntu One servers).

Let me repeat the title - be very careful while you use tasksel on Ubuntu (or a Debian based Linux distribution for that matter).

Here is something that I am going through right as I write this entry that might save you the trouble. I was back from work, and it was 2 AM in the morning but I still wanted to do some setups on my laptop. It had been recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and I wanted to setup a LAMP stack.

I invoked tasksel and saw that Ubuntu Desktop was highlighted. I unchecked it, checked LAMP server and hit OK.

And all hell broke loose.

It was uninstalling the Ubuntu Desktop packages right in front of my eyes!

Well, I killed the process half way through but some harm was done. If I shutdown my laptop now, or it crashes I need to use a CD to recover it. But since I had been through a similar situation before, I know I should be able to recover from this.

It might sound cocky since I am still on the recovery process, but I do have confidence that it will pull through.

Bottom line though is that be careful of the GUI wrappers like tasksel or even Synaptic Package Managers. They can do a lot of harm for the "ease of use" they provide. Stick to explicit command line that does only what is told. And also, do not do critical system changes with sleepy eyes. :)

In his post, Ubuntu 9.10 Boot Performance, and Does it Matter? Christopher Tozzi makes a point that it doesn't really matter that the boot performance has improved since "none of us" shutdown the desktops/laptops, opting instead for suspend/hibernate.

It just seems quite seems like his world view is quite flawed in my opinion. When I was in Denver, and a power outage did not occur for the two years I was there, I did keep my Ubuntu powered Dell laptop up and running all the while.

But back in India, now in Chennai, the power outage is quite frequent. I do not want to keep my laptop hooked on all the time. I do want to shutdown completely and boot in when I want to use it.

I just hope that people who lead the development of Ubuntu as a distribution are not just filled with people with narrow views.

I have been tweeting (follow me) my impatience to see Google Chrome for Linux for a while, but this post on them getting it ready for Mac, does make me voice my opinion as a blog entry.

Google, I believe does owe a lot of what it does technologically to Open Source, and I feel they are leaning towards being evil by not committing to deliver a Linux native port for Google Chrome.

I am currently in the process of getting the Alternate CD downloaded through BitTorrent since my ISP (Airtel) is pretty bad, and I do not want to rely on their falsely stated 256 kbps connection for an upgrade from 8.10. That said, I have been looking around for news on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope - Canonical's latest release of the operating system.

Here is one I found on cNet: Ubuntu 9.04 as slick as Windows 7, Mac OS X by Renai LeMay

For those who like to dig into numbers and trends, having overlapping interests in Open Source, here is a intereting PDF by Kace:

Windows 7 Adoption Survey

(Found via ITNews)

I have heard the word Pantone thrown around. With respect to Open Source software like GIMP or Inkscape, I found an interesting article that is worth the read.

Pantone and Free Software

Even though the article is about three to four year old, I think the facts there still hold ground. Goes to show, based on legal bullying, how not just one entity, but many more along with it is able to have a grapple hold on the market.

To state or ask clearly, should we love to hate Microsoft?

Though not stated clearyly in his blog post, I guess I was living in a Foss world, (and if he did I am sure there would be a huge list of links), I am sure Mayank did aim the post at me. And just to be sure, he did plug about it in a chat just before.