March meeting links

Q: Where does one download Ubuntu development versions? (e.g. right
now Hardy Heron; 8.04)
A: follow the links on http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/
The Hardy Beta is due imminently: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule

Q: What ever happened to Windows 3.1?
A: Its alive and well in the Vista add font dialogue (or it was in
Vista beta2 anyway)
http://web.archive.org/web/20070822023612/http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/category1022/picture13552.aspx

Q: What is BusyBox?
A: "BusyBox is a software application which provides many standard
Unix tools, much like the larger (but more capable) GNU Core
Utilities. BusyBox is designed to be a small executable for use with
Linux, which makes it ideal for special purpose Linux distributions
and embedded devices. It has been called "The Swiss Army Knife of
Embedded Linux". [...] Originally written by Bruce Perens in 1996, the
intent of BusyBox was to put a complete bootable system on a single
floppy that would be both a rescue disk and an installer for the
Debian distribution. It has since then become the de facto standard
for embedded Linux devices and Linux distribution installers. Since
each Linux executable requires several kilobytes of overhead, having
the BusyBox program combine over two hundred programs together can
save considerable space." From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox

Q: How do you get Broadcom 43XX chips working in Ubuntu Hardy?
A: Well... theoretically you just install b43-fwcutter and then run
System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers to enable them. But as
we demonstrated tonight its not working right just yet ^_-; Watch for
an update to jockey-gtk...

CK
Received on Thu Mar 20 02:22:50 2008