linuxNUS » Guest blogger http://linuxNUS.org An advocate of Linux and FOSS in Singapore Fri, 02 Jul 2010 03:41:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Linux and babies http://linuxNUS.org/2008/10/12/linux-and-babies/ http://linuxNUS.org/2008/10/12/linux-and-babies/#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:19:09 +0000 Luther Goh Lu Feng http://linuxNUS.org/?p=105 Awwwwwwwwww…..Cute toddler spotted! Source: ThinkGeek

I just read that someone had actually named their little bundle of joy… wait for it…. “Linux“. :o Nothing wrong with that. It just made me recall my lecturer for organic chemistry gossiping about how some of his peers had named their children after organic compounds and elements even. I wonder if anyone will be naming their kids after Linux distros. Imagines “Hello Ubuntu, you are so cuttteeeeeeeeeeee!”

On a related note, check out the baby man page at The Linux and Unix Menagerie.

Not enough of Linux babies yet? Get some shirts from ThinkGeek and transform your nearest toodler into a Linux icon :D

]]> http://linuxNUS.org/2008/10/12/linux-and-babies/feed/ 0 Wubi-ing Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Beta http://linuxNUS.org/2008/10/11/wubi-ing-ubuntu-810-intrepid-beta/ http://linuxNUS.org/2008/10/11/wubi-ing-ubuntu-810-intrepid-beta/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:29:31 +0000 Luther Goh Lu Feng http://linuxNUS.org/?p=97 One benefit I enjoy working at Tyler Projects was the freedom in choosing the operating system I want. My PC is quite a powerful machine, with 2 GB ram and dual cores. It ran Vista quite seamlessly. I decided to install Ubuntu Linux I could have easily setup a dual boot but I decided to take this opportunity to try out the Wubi installer for the first time. For those not in the know, Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple way that is hardly rocket science.

A quick check on the wubi website, showed that the only the installer for Ubuntu 8.04.1 is available for download, despite that the latest 8.10 (codenamed Intrepid) beta has already been released on 2nd Oct. I was sorely disappointed, and was sore enough to rant at Ubuntu Forums. Thankfully, I found out here that it is possible to install Intrepid beta using a snapshot of Wubi minefield. And off I went to download Wubi-8.10-rev510.exe.

The installation is pretty idiot proof. Just double click on the downloaded executable and fill in the details before clicking install:

Next choose when to reboot:

Upon rebooting, there will be a black selection menu showing the choice of windows and Ubuntu to boot into. And there I had it, an Ubuntu system :)

Removal of an Wubi installation is pretty simple. Just go to Control Panel and remove Ubuntu. Done! No more messing of MBRs unless you still want to setup a dual boot :)

Sounds simple enough and raving to try? Check out the FAQ before you proceed. And feel free to drop by #linuxnus if you need any help. Or just drop by for some chatter :) Once again, the guide is on our wiki.

PS. While this post may be a bit newbie, I will be writing another post over the weekend that is more advanced over the weekend. So stay tuned.

All images are from http://wubi-installer.org.

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This is Lu Feng signing in to kick off the guest blogger series on linuxNUS.org. Basically we will have one guest blogger contributing at least one article each week. So yours truly had started writing this since Wednesday but only had time to finish this today. I will hand over to the next guest blogger on Monday.

Contrary to popular belief, I am actually not an SoC or Comp Engin student. Yours truly is actually a Life Sciences Major :o . I am the living testimony of how far Linux has come today in terms of usability, since I had absolutely no programming/geek background whn I first started off.

In a nutshell, my venture into Linux, started after my Windows installation crashed for the x_th time in 2005. And I decided that I had enough of crashes. So I decided to try out Linux. You can find me active in the linuxNUS mailing list, forums and irc channel (ie #linuxnus on irc.freenode.net)

I have just graduated from NUS. Currently, I just working at TYLER Projects. It’s a pretty nice place to work in :) The working hours are pretty flexible. And today my boss called me to join in a DOTA game during my working hours. I also am pleased to have a lot of freedom to do my own stuff, like chatting away on IM or Facebooking away :p (I hope I get a raise for writing this :p)

Currently, I am doing some PR work and might be coding my 1st Facebook app if my boss thinks I got the cut for it. Keeps fingers crossed.

Till my next post….

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