Firstly, and probably least importantly but most poetically, version 11.10 has a new name: Oneiric Ocelot. You’re probably wondering what it means. Well, and ocelot is a wild cat from Central and South America – they used to be very popular as pets and Salvador Dali the surrealist artist kept on. They are sometimes known as the dwarf leopard. Oneiric is an adjective meaning dreamlike or pertaining to dreams (from the Greek word for dream, of course). So, dream leopard.

Gone are the days when only IT professionals use a Unix-like operating system, now you’re likely to find them computers used for every day things like checking bills on O2 or watching videos on YouTube. This has influenced the direction which the new release has been taken as the most work seems to have been expended on the Unity Desktop. This is the new laptop friendly desktop system that was introduced in June last year. Functionality has been improved and a few bugs have been ironed out. The speed is much improved as well.

The Dash, which allows you to find your favourite applications and programs easily has been made to look a bit more slick and smooth with a special transparency effect. The location of the Dash launch button has also moved into the Unity launcher, from the top panel where it was found before.

To help you find find things easier in the Dash, the contents have been chopped into various ‘lenses’: home, applications, files and music. Filters have also been added to allow you to refine your search of the web, files or music. The Software Center has also been made to look a bit better. Firstly there is a Top Rated section for apps that others like.

If you have a Ubuntu One, you can also use OneConf which will sync all applications on all your machines.

So, check it out, the new release of Ubuntu has a bit for everybody to enjoy.

Cheers!

This ideas should make buh.bz like 10 or even more times faster then before. Also the code was clean-up, which again it should speed up the code creation and redirection.

Also on the design part, there some small nice things added, like hidden “Custom alias”, nice error reporting, small statistics and Top 5 of the most clicked short URLs.

Well that’s about it, the only thing I can add here is to thank Disassembler, for the great work until now, and hopefully in the future more and more improvements will be added to buh.bz

Twitter doesn’t allow anymore the basic authentication so this had to be modified also in TweeU. So for all of you who use TweeU, I suggest to update the plugin or if you wanna start using it, you can find TweeU at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweeu/ or http://www.robertalks.com/tweeu/.

The installation or update is relatively simple and guided by WordPress, so there shouldn’t be any problems with it. One thing you may have problems with is when you allowed the plugin in Twitter and you are redirected to the WordPress plugin page it may give you an error as it failed to authenticate. At this point you will only need to refresh/reload the plugin page and everything will work fine. I’m still not sure why is this happening, but as soon as I find the issue/problem, I will fix it.

So, have fun with it, get on blogging and twitting

This new build brings a tone of fixes and new features and also some additional patches added by me. As all of you are familiar, you will find in the kernel build, squashfs4 with lzma support, aufs2 and now, for the first time, support for reiser4.

I wont go into more details, because they are way too many, but if interested you can always check out the kernel ChangeLog from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.4.

Now for the download part, for the kernel packages, follow the below links:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.35.4-bubbleboy/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.35.4-bubbleboy/

For the patches, follow the below links:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/patches/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/patches/

For the kernel config file, follow the below links:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/config/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/config/

That’s about it from me for today, not really in the mood of writing nice little stories. Anyway, if you need some help or support, you can always drop me a comment, I will check them and respond as soon as possible.

Cheers, people!

Besides the surprise that this kernel was release, I also have a surprise (more like a bad news) for those of you who are using the kernel builds done by me. Since this kernel release I have dropped support for Ubuntu 8.x, meaning that you need at least Ubuntu 9.10 or similar when it comes to Debian to be able to install it. You wont be able to use it on older versions due to libc incompatibility.

OK now, lets leave the big surprises of the day and just go on with what is included in this new kernel. Besides a ton of fixes, new modules and improvements done by the kernel development team, I have also added to this kernel, lzma support for squash4, ureadahead support, aufs2 support and custom kernel configuration. It means some stuff in the kernel build where changed to offer a better speed for deskptops/laptops/netbooks.

Because the ChangeLog of this kernel is huge, I wont put it here at this point, but if you are interested to know what changes kernel 2.6.35 brings, please check out the ChangeLog from kernel.org: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.

Well thats about it form my side, now the download part, which seems the most important .

You can download this custom kernel packages from one of the mirrors:

Mirror US/CA: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.35-final/
Mirror EU/CZ: http://mirror.visualserver.org/kernel/2.6.35-final/

The basic installation is simple and you will need root access or sudo access, plus dpkg. Here is how:

sudo dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.35-final_2.6.35-1_i386.deb

For those of you who want or need to rebuild the kernel, you can download the source code with the config file from the links above, as I wrote before there wont be anymore included kernel source archive, but you will have a package called linux-source-2.6.35-final_2.6.35-1_i386.deb which contains the kernel source code with the patches.

Cheers! and keep the faith alive… faith in what I don’t know, but keep it anyway!