Everyday Nerd

Ubuntu Linux version 8.10 is now released!  Ubuntu 8.10, or Intrepid Ibex, comes bundled with everything you need for web, music, productivity and watching video!  Ubuntu is one of the easiest flavors of Linux for new beginners to dip their toes into the open source world of computing.  As soon as my download finishes, you know what I’ll be doing this afternoon!

• Download: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
• 8.10 Features: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/810features/ 

Tuesday, Oct 28, 2008 Codeweaver is giving away Crossover Mac Pro, Games Mac, Linux Pro and Games Linux for FREE!!!!  Their servers are getting hammered, so they have put up a signup page for today’s promo:

** NOTE:  you must enter your email address to receive the serial number for the below products.

http://down.codeweavers.com/ (Server is back online after swarm)

http://lameduck.codeweavers.com/

For Tuesday, October 28, 2008 only, they put up fully unlocked builds. Download them below:

• Download CrossOver Mac Pro
• Download CrossOver Games Mac
• Download CrossOver Linux Pro
• Download CrossOver Games Linux

If you are a Linux / Mac user, and want to run Windows applications or games, this is THE way to do it.  Go grab it while you can folks!!!

Hope you got yours!

Once you have your serial number, you must register it by November 30, 2008.

Fedora 9 was just released, and is looking very nice!  I ran across this nice little utility that will take a Fedora 9 Live CD and put it on a 1GB or larger USB drive, making it bootable!  Just stick you USB drive in your Windows computer, select how much space you want to allocate to you document space (I put 100MB on a 1GB stick) and it does the rest!  Works like a charm!

Link:  LiveUSB Creator

Google has a preview release of Picasa 2.7 for Linux. The previous version launched last year didn’t include the features from Picasa 2.5+ for Windows (like the Picasa Web integration), so this is a good opportunity to add these features to Linux. Here’s what is new in Picasa 2.7 for Linux:

• Upload to Picasa Web Albums - Use the new "Web Album" button to post your best photos online to share with friends and family.
• Save edits to disk - Save edits, undo saves, and revert to the original file with ease. We’ve got batch saving too! Picasa will even match the jpeg quality of the original. Right-click on your saved files to try the new "locate original" feature.
• Folder hierarchy views - Browse through folders Explorer-style. Use the button at the top of your Albums List to try them out.
• Improvements to Import - Import into an existing folder. (…) We’ve made importing photos from your camera faster too.
• Better RAW support - Now you can work with RAW files from the Canon 30D, the Nikon D200, Adobe DNG files, and more.
• Many other enhancements - Larger thumbnails, better caption editing, ability to configure the row of buttons, special "Starred Photos" album, search by ISO and focal length.

The release still doesn’t support videos, full-screen slideshows and it’s still using WINE.
More about Picasa for Linux at Google Groups.

The latest from the one of the best Linux distro’s available has been released this morning.  All the mirrors are slow (Lots of people dl the iso) but the torrents are much faster.

Go get it here:  Fedora

Update:  LifeHacker has a good blurb about Fedora Core 8:

Fedora 8, the newest version of Red Hat’s publicly-released Linux distribution, is available for download as a live or install CD or DVD in both the GNOME and KDE desktop flavors. New in this release, code-named "Werewolf," are a Codec Buddy feature that helps users find and install support for MP3s and other media formats, improvements to laptop compatability—key function, power management and suspend modes in particular—better sound control through the PulseAudio server and other improvements. Fedora 8 is a free download and runs on Intel, AMD or PowerPC-based systems.