Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Released

The 8th version of Ubuntu has now been released! Notable inclusions are..

• Linux Kernel 2.6.24
• Xorg 7.3 (Latest)
• GNOME 2.22
• Firefox 3 Beta 5

Its interesting to see that they’ve given some

of their older applications an overhaul. It now includes the Brasero CD burning utility which replaces Serpentine. They’ve also included the GTK front-end bit-torrent client Transmission and added a new VNC viewer called Vinagre. If…

Debian Package Management Using apt-get

Heres a tutorial on how to use the apt-get package management system in Debian and its derivitives such as Ubuntu and Knoppix. I will cover command line use of apt-get, the aptitude program and the Synaptic Package Manager. I wrote all of this myself, feel free to link to here but do not copy and paste it.

Debian uses apt-get package…