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This is a tutorial to make an Option 225 USB 3G modem work with Ubuntu Linux. It Uses parts from Pharscape.org, but is has a prepared package with everything you need. Works with Ubuntu 8.04 - 8.10 - 9.04.

LXer Feature: 04-May-2009

The Linux and Unix Menagerie has a hilarious look back at what we thought was cool, Mike Weber has a cool tutorial on how to compile a Kernel in Ubuntu 9.04, HP unveiled a ProBook laptop line that you can get Linux Pre-installed on, and can XP save Windows 7? Something tells me the answer is no..

It's bad enough having to deal with torrents of mis-spelled Viagra and weight-loss spam. It's bad enough digging out from under torrents of Windows email malware. It's bad enough getting bombarded with phishes. Now I'm seeing an increase in yet another type of spam: desperate businesses getting suckered into dumb spam schemes.

This is a review of Ubuntu 9.04, done by a regular ubuntu user. It covers media players, Pro's and Cons, Wubi and some other new stuff.

Recently released, Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 supports OpenDocument Format version 1.1. With Microsoft's tarnished history of abusing standards for profit and obvious preference for Microsoft's own Office Open XML, what could Microsoft's ODF support possibility look like?

X.org 7.5 is scheduled to appear in summer, and could include a new Intel graphics driver. The developers have slashed its code to boost reliability and performance. The kernel developers have now presented versions 2.6.30-rc4 and 2.6.29.2 of Linux, 2.6.27.22 and 2.6.28.10 are released and guest mascot Tuz bows out.

What could be better than a conference for the Free / Libre, Open Source community that is run by the community itself? Ontario Linux Fest 2009 is the third successful year of the community-run conference.

Apparently it's not just enough to have an open source Java framework, you need to be able to manage and monitor it, too. As result of the move, Hyperic's system management technologies will be integrated into SpringSource's Java portfolio, providing what will be a full stack that can be used for development, deployment and management of Java applications. "By merging, we see an opportunity to accelerate the software lifecycle across both the development part of the lifecycle and into operations," Peter Cooper-Ellis, senior vice president of engineering and product management at SpringSource, told InternetNews.com.

This is a guide to make the printing part of your Canon Pixma MP110 work. It has a special file with everything you need in it. Then you just need to install your printer in the ubuntu screen. Tested on Ubuntu 7.10 - 8.04 - 8.10 and 9.04.

FreeBSD is just plain old good UNIX with rock solid networking stack. A new version of the FreeBSD 7.2 has been released. Systems running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE, 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-BETA1, 7.2-RC1, 7.2RC2 can upgrade using this tutorial.

Linux hardware support has improved a great deal over the past few years, but there are still a few troubled spots. With computer motherboards, for instance, the core functionality is generally there and most consumer motherboards will "just work" with the latest desktop Linux distributions out there. Where users though can run into problems are with the ancillary features. Motherboard manufacturers usually bundle proprietary software with their products that allow monitoring of hardware sensors, flashing of the motherboard BIOS, and overclocking all from within the Windows operating system. With the exception of LM_Sensors providing some sensors support, this is a grey area for Linux. Fortunately, however, the folks working on the CoreBoot project have developed a program that will near universally allow you to flash your motherboard's BIOS from within the Linux desktop.

Facebook recently launched a new set of APIs that allow third-party application developers to integrate support for the Facebook stream in their software. In this hands-on introduction to the new APIs, you will learn how to use them in a desktop client application and you will get an inside look at how they were used to bring the stream to Gwibber, an open source microblogging client for Linux.

I created a test document in each of those editors and then loaded each test document in each of the other editors. I showed what worked, what didn't, and made some suggestions on how interoperability could be improved. I found only two notable failures, when the Microsoft/CleverAge Add-in for Excel loaded KSpread and Symphony documents.

[Microsoft claims it cannot do better because lack of documentation. But the Open Office version is based upon the undocumented Excel version. Just proves closed source closes minds - Scott]

Gimp Paint Studio is a package of new tools and additions which provide improved capabilities focused on drawing and painting for Gimp.

Last week we took a look at how two distributions based on the same environment and one a derivative of the other, can actually be very different. Xubuntu and Debian both use the same package management system and both have the same suites of software available. So what makes them so different when installed out of the box? Can Xubuntu be just as lightweight as its Debian counterpart? This week we take another look at how Xubuntu 9.04 fairs when installed in a more minimalist manner. In the news this past week, Mandriva developers make massive updates to "Cooker" following the stable 2009.1 release, four main BSD projects all announce new updates of their flagship products, the openSUSE community releases updated media for 11.1 with KDE 4.2.2, users of the Arch Linux distribution put together a free community magazine, the creator of Puppy Linux looks set for a return to the helm of the project, and Oracle's Solaris (no, the name doesn't roll off the tongue easily here either) is rumoured to be working on version 11 set for release in the middle of 2010. Finally, we are pleased to announce that the recipient of the April 2009 DistroWatch.com donation is Python, the popular programming language.

Perhaps the Linux Marketshare issue should be framed in the context of other similarly pointless debates.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Debian Lenny server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Voice over IP (VoIP) software enables telephone-like voice conversations across IP based networks. A VoIP phone service is often cheaper than a traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) phone service and removes geographic restrictions to telephone numbers.

Despite a steady stream of rumors, IBM did not, in the end, buy Sun Microsystems. But, on April 20, Oracle did. This acquisition could have some interesting implications for the Linux community. Your editor, while not really knowing more than anybody else, suspects that the outcome could be mostly positive. What follows, here, is some wild speculation on where this could all go.

tmpfs is a virtual, RAM-backed filesystem. It’s lightning-fast, but since it’s RAM-backed, any file written to tmpfs uses precious memory while it’s there, and the entire contents of the virtual partition are lost on shutdown or crash. The good news is that these detriments can be minimized, making tmpfs a viable choice for your profile directory. This document gives some tips on how to mount your Firefox profile in a tmpfs partition while minimizing the downsides of tmpfs.