Ubuntu 9.04 which is upgraded from 8.10 works good in Acer 5315

Ubuntu 9.04 works good which is upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10 in Acer 5315 that contains all devices including touchpad, wireless and webcamera.

Ubuntu 8.10 is recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 in my Acer 5315 laptop. It took 6 hours time to reach the final configuration. It supports all devices which are inbuilt in the machine.

Wireless works good:
The wireless is also working good but the light is not buring. The important point of this version is also not supported the integrated web camera. But I achieved in a round about way that is used through VLC Player which is designed for accessing integrated devices also.

The steps for illustration are as follows:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc

simple to do then the new item will be added into the following menu list

Applications->Sound & Video->VLC Player

that can be used for accessing webcamara as well as TV tuner cards.

• Be sure that you have all updates applied to Ubuntu 8.10 before you upgrade

Procedure to follow to upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 to Ubuntu 9.04:
To upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10, press Alt+F2 and type in “update-manager -d” (without the quotes) into the command box.

Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release ‘9.04′ is available. Click Upgrade

This will show you Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Release notes click on upgrade

Downloading Upgrade tool in progress

Preparing for upgrade in progress

If you are using any third party sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list file it will be disabled at the time of upgrade process click close

Setting new software channels in progress

Starting the upgrade process window click on Start Upgrade

Downloading the new Packages in Progress

Installing Packages in Progress


Installing Packages Progress in Terminal

Automatic crash reports configuration file replacement option click on Replace

Cleaning Up process in Progress


Remove obsolete packages window click on remove

You need to restart the system to complete the Upgrade by clicking “Restart Now”

Courtesy: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/

Ubuntu Ultimate Edition

The customized edition of Ubuntu is available in torrent which can be downloaded from this link.

http://www.torrentreactor.net/find/ubuntu-ultimate-2

This version is the customized version of Ubuntu 8.10 edition which contains the following features.

• Customized based on Desktop Environment (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, etc.)
• Customized based on country/language/religion
• Customized with extra applications/drivers/multimedia codecs
• Customized for a specific purpose (scientific, forensic, academic, etc.)

Five major features of Redhat 5.3 - 64 bit;- Torrents available

The recent edition of Redhat5.3 64 bit edition is available in Torrent site freely which is having the original key and free online support.

Five major features of RHEL 5.3

1. ext4 file system support

2. 730 bugs fixed after RHEL 5

3. ALSA Support for new hardware also

4. Included enhanced lot of server RPMS.

5. Latest Kernel kernel-2.6.18-128.el5.src.rpm

There are plenty of special features included in RHEL5.3. The link following leads to go over there.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0225.html

Refer the following link for download it

http://thepiratebay.org/tag/rhel+redhat+64bit+x64+5.3

Microsoft really scared about Ubuntu 9.0.4 - Ten reasons

The following ten reasons are made to get scared Microsoft about Ubuntu 9.0.4

1. It is launched three different colors (Desktop, Server and Netbook)

2. It supports ext4. Even Redhat people are doing research in ext4 to implement in that. But Ubuntu 9.0.4 did it

3. It supports ntfs file system in a fastest manner.

4. It is user friendly like Microsoft Windows.

5. It boots 21.3 seconds in normal systems.

6. 4 GB Disk space and 256 MB Ram is sufficient to run this effectively.

7. Online updation and upgradations are available.

8. VLC Player support which is used to play almost anyfile format can be updated easily through internet with this.

9. Wine can be installed for accessing MS-Office and other exe formats.

10. It can be installed by using 1GB USB stick memory with 384 RAM in atom processors which netbooks won't have DVD drives usually.

Ubuntu 9.0.4 64 bit edition works good

Recently I downloaded Ubuntu 9.04-64 bit edition from the torrent site. It really works good. I want to share the torrent link with you. If you install this in ext4 format, It will be faster than the operating system that is installed by ext3 format file system. It boots in 21.3 seconds approaxmately as per the latest Ubuntu forum which sounds great now. It will be able to handle fastly files which is upto 16 terabytes.

Find the link & download the latest edtion with 64 bit of Ubuntu.

http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/downloadmirrors#bt

Converting ext3 to ext4

It is possible to mount both ext3 (and ext2, in kernels 2.6.28 and later) filesystems directly using the ext4 filesystem driver. This will allow you to use many of the in-core performance enhancements such as delayed allocation (delalloc) and multi-block allocation (mballoc), and large inodes if your ext3 filesystem have been formatted with large inodes as is the default with newer versions of e2fsprogs. Simply mounting an ext3 (or ext2) filesystem with a modern (2.6.27+) version of ext4 will not change the on-disk structures, and it is possible to revert to the ext3 (or ext2) driver should there be any problem with ext4. If you plan to use the ext4 driver to boot from an ext2/3 partition, and you compile your kernel without the ext2/3 drivers, you may need to add rootfstype=ext4 to the kernel command line.

In addition to the in-core performance enhancements, there are additional features which modify the on-disk format from what ext3 understands, such as extents, which can significantly improve the ext4 filesystem performance, but mean the filesystem cannot be mounted by kernels that do not support ext4. There are additional ext4 features, such as flex_bg and > 16TB filesystem support that can only be enabled at format time via mke2fs.

To change an ext2 filesystem (should you still have one) to ext3 (enabling the journal feature), use the command:

# tune2fs -j /dev/DEV

To enable the ext4 features on an existing ext3 filesystem, use the command:

# tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/DEV

WARNING: Once you run this command, the filesystem will no longer be mountable using the ext3 filesystem!

After running this command, you MUST run fsck to fix up some on-disk structures that tune2fs has modified:

# e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/DEV

Notes:

• by enabling the extents feature new files will be created in extents format, but this will not convert existing files to use extents. Non-extent files can be transparently read and written by Ext4.
• If you convert your root filesystem ("/") to ext4, and you use the GRUB boot loader, you will need to install a version of GRUB which understands ext4. Your system may boot OK the first time, but when your kernel is upgraded, it will become unbootable.
• WARNING: It is NOT recommended to resize the inodes using resize2fs with e2fsprogs 1.41.0 or later, as this is known to corrupt some filesystems.

Courtesy: wiki

Ubuntu 9.0.4 Supports Ext4 file system

Ubuntu is really doing good in the matter of launching new ideas very soon in implementation. They implemented ext4 file system in the latest operating system Ubuntu 9.0.4. Recently the Fedora live CD is launched for its latest edition. But it really has Ubuntu in the backend. So the system engineers are really thought that there will be only three operating systems which will be expecting to occupying the desktops and netbooks (laptops) in the future. Those will be as follows:

1. Windows

2. Ubuntu

3. Chorme (the upcoming Operating System which is going to be launched by Google)