Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 is now available.
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition – Supported to 2011
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition – Supported to 2013
These are LTS (Long Term Support) versions of Ubuntu: 3 years for the desktop versions and 5 years for server versions.
Get them now at: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
This is what my Ubuntu Desktop on MacBook Black looks like.
The “Think Linux” wallpaper came from ftp.linux.org.uk.
The “Mac look alike” icons on the “dock”, actually bottom panel came from the desktop theme given to me by my Indonesian friend Utian.
I like the “Think Linux” wallpaper because it reminds you that you’re running Linux even though you’re using a MacBook Hardware (with all the “eye candies” including “genie” effect and cube rotate and functionalities that are comparable with MacOSX or even better than Vista 
). Try Compiz-Fusion (now with Gutsy).
The image below which I already used in my previous postings is actually my MacBook’s splashscreen:
To continue from my previous post on the reference site:
How to install Ubuntu on a MacBook
[url: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook]:
I got the iSight working with additional steps (which the site failed to mentioned). After following the instructions from the abovementioned site on iSight:
a. You need to install isight-firmware-tools.
$sudo apt-get install isight-firmware-tools
b. If you have the isight-firmware-tools already installed you need to do a:
$sudo dpkg-reconfgure isight-firmware-tools
to “point” to the location of the firmware you copied from your MacOS installation/partition.
c. You need to install the module uvcvideo:
- Optional step just to remove any old modules and back up any existing uvcvideo.ko:
$sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo
$sudo mv
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/ubuntu/media/usbvideo/uvcvideo.ko.original
- Update your Ubuntu archive/repository if you haven’t done recently:
$sudo apt-get update
Just got into playing with a Macbook Black from the office last December 2007. Since I’m more comfortable with Ubuntu Linux (than MacOSX Leopard ), I did a dual boot install using rEFIt [url: http://refit.sourceforge.net/] as a dual (or multiple) boot menu.
I noticed some of the devices/hardware does not work properly on Ubuntu “out-of-the-box” (default install of Ubuntu 7.10 for intel) like sound volume control, iSight, sound recording through the built-in mic. To some of us who are used to doing “right clicks” on the mouse, we need to have an alternative way of doing it given that all Mac laptops only has one built-in “mouse” button that works as a “left button”.
I saw a very good reference at the Ubuntu Community Documentation:
How to install Ubuntu on a MacBook
[url: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook].
The site does not only contains instructions on installing Ubuntu on a Mac but also on making Ubuntu work on the Apple Hardware and some tweaking instructions:
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It’s been quite sometime since I have posted something on this blog (since December 2007) due to a tight schedule.
Doing some Linux training and curriculum meetings at UP Information Technology Training Center, handling a Management Information Systems class for non-IT majors at the Masters of Management program of the UP Manila CAS Graduate School on top of administrative duties at the University of the Philippines System which includes various preparations for a lot of projects and activities for the University’s centennial celebrations.
It’s also a series of graduation exercises in several UP Campuses:
April 16 : UP Mindanao (Davao)
April 18 : UP Manila
April 22 : UP Visayas (Iloilo)
April 23 : UP Visayas (Cebu)
April 24 : UP Baguio
April 25 : UP Visayas (Tacloban)
April 26 : UP Los Banos
April 27 : UP Diliman
May 24 : UP Open University
Anyway, I’m BACK! and hopefully could post “some things” in the next few days.
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