Ubuntu’s latest version, Hardy Heron was released last night.
It features GNOME 2.22, a new version of the Nautilus file manager, Linux kernel 2.6.24, PolicyKit, Firefox 3 Beta 5, Brasero (A CD/DVD burning application), Transmission BitTorrent client, World Clock Applet, Vinagre remote desktop (VNC) client , Uncomplicated Firewall, Totem movie player with a YouTube plugin that makes it possible to search for and play YouTube videos directly, Inkscape (PDF viewer), Xorg 7.3 etc. to name a few..
Download it at : http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
Or Upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Or get the Ubuntu 8.04 DVD
Earlier distros of Linux does not have the automount daemon (autofs). Users would have to mount USB drives themselves. Mounting the ‘drive’ actually means mounting the File System contained within the drive. Here’s how to go about :
First, make a directory in /mnt/ where the USB drive can be mounted to. This can be done by
mkdir /mnt/usb1
Next, make sure the USB drive is plugged in and mount it using :
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1
PS : If the system throws a privilege error, perpend sudo to the above commands.
First Encounter Assault Recon (FEAR) Minimum System Requirements
· Windows® XP or 2000 with latest service pack installed
· DirectX® 9.0c (April Edition) (included)
· Pentium® 4 1.7 GHz or equivalent processor
· 512 MB of RAM
· 64 MB GeForce™ 4 Ti or ATI® Radeon® 9600 or equivalent with hardware T&L and pixel shader support
· 5.0 GB free Hard Drive Space for installation
· 4x CD-ROM drive (for Director’s Edition, this will have to be DVD-ROM)
· 16-bit DirectX® 9.0 compliant sound card with support for EAX™ 2.0
· Internet Connection Required for Multiplayer gaming
· Mouse
· Keyboard (really ?)
Recommended Configuration :
·Pentium® 4 3.0 GHz or equivalent processor
·1 GB RAM
·A 256 MB Radeon® 9800 Pro or equivalent DirectX® 9 compliant video car with hardware T&L and pixel shader 2.0 support
F.E.A.R. Platinum Collection
If you did not partition the existing windows hard drive for Ubuntu and disconnected the one with Windows installed during the installation and installed ubuntu on a separate hard disk, you will run into this boot problem of XP not showing up in the Linux boot loader (GRUB) and will have to add the Windows XP boot information manually. The solution is simply adding this to /boot/grub/menu.lst
title Windows XP Professional
root (hd1,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd1,0),(hd0) (hd1) and (hd1) (hd0) depends on where your Windows partition is, which can be found out by typing:
sudo fdisk -l
at the terminal. In the above example, Windows is assumed to be on hd1 and Ubuntu on hd0. Please modify it accordingly using the fdisk command.
Source : Ubuntu Documantation
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