Blog Archive February 2008

Monthly Archives: February 2008

Virtualbox and Grub issue

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: February 29, 2008 at 5:44 pm

For the past few hours I have been battling with Virtualbox to install Hardy as a Guest. It would always get to the end and then provide an error that Grub could not be installed. Fine, let me try Lilo, same thing. Well, I figured out the problem. I had been setting the Virtualbox hard [...]

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Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4 Alpha Released!

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: February 27, 2008 at 3:39 pm

The Kubuntu developers are very excited to bring you the first alpha of the new Kubuntu 8.04, the Hardy Heron, release featuring the KDE 4 desktop. Available in both the desktop, or live, CD as well as the alternate text-based installation CD, the community supported version of Kubuntu is now available. Kubuntu 8.04 will come [...]

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The good, the bad, and the ugly

By Richard A. Johnson on Published: February 23, 2008 at 6:14 pm

After working on some bugs, testing Alpha 5, and playing around with the new Alpha 5 CDs in Windows Vista, I ran across quite a few things that could be listed as “The good, the bad, and the ugly.” So lets start off with the good. The Good Wubi. Wubi is a new addition to [...]

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