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I hope you all are having or have had a 4th of July to remember. Here is a little gift for all my podcast listeners and blog readers. Perhaps the qiuntessential cover of this song - no lyrics just Jimi and his guitar and of course the maddening crowd mesmerized by every pluck of the strings. It is hypnotic and trance inducing and above all really, really American. No one has ever or will ever be able to do this song any justice like the Late Jimi Hendrix. Below is his rendition of “Star Spangled Banner - with Smashing Guitar”. You can download this here for free!! No tricks or gimmicks or anything. Just click on the download link and enjoy. Or you can listen to it online right here. Just click on the play button. Feel free burn incense if you wish.

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Well folks, it looks like progress cannot be stopped, at least not at Ubuntu-land. Tribe 2 has been released with some exciting new features, Compiz Fuzion, New Gnome, and New Firefox, just to mention a few. Here is the excerpt:

Hello Ubuntu developers,

welcome to Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10.

Pre-releases of Gutsy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable
system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even
frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers
and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Tribe 2 is the second in a series of milestone CD images that will be
released throughout the Gutsy development cycle. The Tribe images are known
to be reasonably free of show-stopper CD build or installer bugs, while
representing a very recent snapshot of Gutsy. You can download it here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/ (Edubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/ (Xubuntu)

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors.

The first set of new features landed in Tribe 2 and are ready for
large-scale testing. Please refer to the following web pages for
details:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe2 (Ubuntu)
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe2/Kubuntu (Kubuntu)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/Tribe2/Xubuntu (Xubuntu)

This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some
bugs. Among these are the following (so you don’t need to bother
reporting these if you encounter them):

* The desktop CD installer hangs indefinitely on some systems when
choosing manual partitioning. If this happens to you, close the
installer (wait a bit until you are offered to forcefully quit it),
open a Terminal (in Applications -> Accessories), and run:

sudo killall ubiquity; sudo ubiquity

(https://launchpad.net/bugs/122645)

* When using restricted-manager to enable the proprietary Nvidia or
ATi graphics driver on the live CD, the required driver packages
will not be installed automatically to the newly installed target
system and thus the graphical user interface will not start. Please
only enable those drivers in an installed system for now.
(https://launchpad.net/bugs/114296)

* On Edubuntu server installs, the "Building LTSP root" step takes a
very long time (in the order of 15 minutes) without visible
progress. It will eventually finish, though.
(https://launchpad.net/bugs/121547)

* On Edubuntu server installs, the default DHCP configuration for
thin clients is flawed, so that they will not boot from the server.
To fix this, remove the line with ‘next-server’ from
/etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf and restart the DHCP server with

sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart

(https://launchpad.net/bugs/122796)

If the graphical system does not come up or is very slow, please
file a bug against compiz:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+filebug

Please include a copy of the files ~/.xsession-errors and
/var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the output of glxinfo and xdpyinfo.

If you’re interested in following the changes as we further develop
Gutsy, have a look at the gutsy-changes mailing list:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/gutsy-changes

Please be aware that this list usually has several dozen mails every
day.

We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list
if you’re interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a
low-traffic list (a few posts a month) carrying announcements of
approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other
interesting events.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

Enjoy,

The Ubuntu Development Team
http://www.ubuntu.com
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I was watching some of the highlights of the Indy 500, and as I watched the drivers talk about the winner I began thinking to myself, “This is a veritable love-fest we have here”. I was surprised to say the least. The eventual winner was Dario Franchitti and in the least NASCAR-like manner, on the television no less are some of Indy cars’ biggest names, Andretti, Hornish, Castroneves, and the like, giving the most proper respect to Franchitti. All-in-all, GENUINELY, saying mighty nice things about him and how deserving he was to win. Of all the shock and “trailer-ish” type of shenanigans I see in a NASCAR race, to see this genuine admiration of a fellow competitor was a breath of fresh air. But, then again this is no NASCAR race. This is the “Big Daddy” of races, which brings me to this point. I see that there was a Linux sponsored car in the race also. Immediately I thought how great this was for Linux, to get the

much needed exposure that is due to the little known but well respected operating system. Furthest from my mind, before the race started was the thought that this car was going to win. And, it wouldn’t have surprised me to learn that it didn’t. What did surprise me was that it came in last place, and the how it did that. Under the most unusual of circumstances, the Linux car crashed (the first to crash that day) on a water soaked speedway. Now, I have been using a Linux based operating system for about one year now and I’ve never had a BSOD, nor seen it suddenly stop, or seize up on me. True, I have had to put an application out of its misery by forcing it to quit a time or three, but never a full system crash. You know, I’ve read every joke on the internet about drivers and Linux not being compatible and it is rather funny and ironic in a “meta” sort of way. I do have a sense of humor after all. Lastly, here is my Indy car racing gesture to the Linux car team. Well done! You got a car qualified to race in one of the biggest platforms for racing short of the “24 hours at LeMans” and you were doing a splendid job until a downpour happened to ruin not just your day, but, many of the greatest names in racing. Better luck next time, and I do hope there is a next time. As far as I am concerned, the Linux car can “crash” at the hint of a raincloud in the middle of July as long as my computer never does.

On May 24, the rumors and speculation came to an end. Dell officially unveiled its three consumer systems — the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops, and the Inspiron E1505n notebook — that come with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution factory installed.

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