Whoah! Hold on everyone. Let me don my asbestos suit first will you.

Thanks.

Dell's Ubuntu strategy once again faces Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD). Multiple times in the past 12 months or so, Dell's strong Ubuntu efforts have been undermined by disappearing desktop offerings.

Traditionally, configuring Ubuntu servers to integrate with Microsoft Active Directory was not a lot of fun.

In the continued interests of helping to make Ubuntu rock as a platform for scratching itches and making awesome apps, I am putting together a new online learning event: Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week, happening online between 1st – 6th March 2010.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #179 for the week January 31st - February 6th, 2010 and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

All of these require a working setup with ifuse, gvfs, libimobiledevice (aka libiphone) etc as per our previous article.

The system-wide Pulseaudio equalizer developed by psyke83 now has its own Ubuntu Launchpad PPA, for easy installation and updates.

One annoying thing about Dropbox is that there is no option to share a whole folder from your Public directory so you must manually copy the link for each file you want to share. For this reason KosciaK created a python script called Dropbox-Index which creates an index.html with all the files in a certain folder

TestDrive is an Ubuntu application that is especially designed for non-technical users to easily download and run the latest Ubuntu development daily snapshot in a virtual machine.

You can capture video of all

Ever since I moved to Ubuntu, my only problem was that I couldn’t use GTalk in Ubuntu.Here comes the solution - GTalx. It works flawlessly on my Ubuntu 9.10 karmic running on Dell Inspiron 1525.

Ive been testing out lucid since a little before alpha 1 and all is well from what I can see. What landed recently was the me menu and I have say that its cool.

I must concede: Sometimes I worry Canonical is trying to do too much too soon with Ubuntu.