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It's a very long time since I abandoned Ubuntu, 1 year and 9 months being precise, although I continued to use Ubuntu derived distros.
I decided today to give Ubuntu 8.10 beta a try. Obviously, every time I decide to try a Gnu/Linux distribution it happens that a new release comes out: I downloaded Alpha 6 yesterday, I fell into problems with it and a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade brought me Ubuntu 8.10 beta, correcting some of them
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Introduction

This guide will help you to install OpenGEU and every other Ubuntu based linux distribution on your Macbook (either "normal" or pro). Even Ubuntu will work with this how-to.
The tutorial is aimed on how to succesfully partition the hard disk and to correctly boot the distribution. For a better post-install configuration I suggest you to follow the Ubuntu Wiki.

This tutorial is also posted on the OpenGEU Wiki
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Time for a review. Thanks to the always useful DistroWatch.com service, I discovered a new Gnu/Linux distribution, called gOS. gOS stands for Good Os, born in 2007 in California. The version I'm reviewing is the so-called "gOS 3 'Gadgets'", their third release. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, and the final release is to be expected in the next 1-2 months.
This distribution is built around Goggle apps and services, comes with Google Gadgets for Linux pre-installed, as well other nice programs, like Google Picasa, Wine, Mozilla Prism for Google web applications and Wbar as launch bar. I've never heard about this bar, it's very quick and light. Good choice! The distro also includes proprietary codecs for multimedia content.
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After about 5 months of separation from my preferred operating system, the discontent brought by Mac Os X led me to a re-born love with Gnu/Linux.
I Installed Gentoo (~x86, not x86) on my MacBook, following some articles found on the Gentoo wiki and on Ubuntu wiki.
The result is the following:

Clean Desktop

Some things opened: Gnome Menu, Gnome Terminal, Nautilus, Scite

Features:

• Gnome 2.22.2
• MurrinaGilouche + Elementary Metacity (link - link)
• black-white 2 Gloss Icons (link)
• Screenlets [RingSensors] (link)
• A wallpaper included in Gnome, still looking for the perfect one

Let's have some fun with Gnu/Linux...again!

Immaginate questo pensiero contornato da mille bestemmie..
Perchè uno straccio di programma in C che usa si e no 10 syscalls e un signal handler (tutto standard), compilato con gcc 4.0.1 sotto Mac Os X Leopard, quindi certificato Unix 03, e perfettamente funzionante...NON FUNZIONI su Gnu/Linux 2.6.18 + gcc 4.1.2 e Gnu/Linux 2.6.24 + gcc 4.3.1?
Segmentation Fault a manetta..e si che mi sembrava un po' permissivo gcc 4.0.1 su Mac os X quando lavoravo con puntatori a stringhe e liste linkate..
Caro Gnu/Linux, sto tornando.

Appena apparsa su Slashdot la notizia di un'inclusione del sistema TCPA (una volta noto come Palladium) nel Kernel che Mac Os X versione Intel utilizzerá. E' giá in giro un SDK che non dovrebbe esserlo (:-)) e gira per la rete BitTorrent.
Si passerá tutti al Software Libero?
Per informarvi meglio sul sistema TCPA, visitate http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-it.html