About one week ago I posted the FAQ on the Ubuntu One Music Store here on LinuxUndIch translated to German. One question remained, however, still open in spite of the FAQ: Ubuntu can not play “out of the box” no MP3 files, the codec required to be installed later only. . Ubuntu now goes to the MP3 codec when you installed the system to automatically installViewThe question can now be answered with “No”. Read the rest of this entry »

The new theme for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10:04 triggered huge debates. Not only because it is in style strongly oriented to MacOS X, but rather because it has taken over the arrangement of the buttons for the minimize, maximize, or close windows. These controls are no longer right, but left-aligned.ViewIn the current version 0. Read the rest of this entry »

Shuttleworht Canonical or Mark has in recent weeks, was interviewed by a major announcement. After it was leaked some time that the Ubuntu One Music Store provided by 7digital will be fed with content that was relatively clear that it will be the transformation of the Ubuntu brand. Now, Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon has lifted the curtain. Read the rest of this entry »

Time a little tip for book lovers among you. Buying textbooks is not a cheap pleasure, but as long as you can on PaperC and read thousands of books at no cost and all quite legally and without pitfalls. PaperC cooperates with major publishers such as Bertelsmann, O'Reilly, or even market and technology, the books you can read for free online via a Flash-based eBook reader. Read the rest of this entry »

I will lose no big words. The issue is not entirely off the table, but the verdict of the Constitutional Court is a victory against the Stasi 2.0. Many thanks to the AK retention for the great commitment. On YouTube you can watch the announcement of the sentence.For more information Will find her well in all the news magazines . Read the rest of this entry »

OpenStreeMap particularly in Germany is so complex and burdensome that they are commercial products such as Google or Yahoo Maps certainly can hold a candle. I find it in the browser to use but somewhat slow. Here the mapping program Emerillon steps into the breach. Named after a nomadic tribe from French Guiana Emerillon brings the OSM, the OpenCycleMap as well as the public transport map on your desktop. Read the rest of this entry »

As I recently wrote about a study that says that the Linux kernel is more than one billion euros worth, I did not think through the beats so fast on the price of Linux systems. The notebooks from Dell with Ubuntu preinstalled never were much cheaper than computers with Windows. But today Dell shoots from the bird. Read the rest of this entry »

Other blogs have the nice tradition of regular links which they have interest in recent years to publish. I would also like to pursue and then regularly try to present “my” links of the week. Thematically, the links have to do quite a lot with Linux, but also politics, society and art have their place . Read the rest of this entry »

Do you like Your operating system? Scolded or your raves about Windows 7, Mac OS X or a Linux distribution? I want you here that do not ask – and the contribution will be here for a flamewar – because enough is on Twitter scolded, praised and reviled. The page RaveRants trying to eavesdrop on the twitter and filter out raves. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting Tuesday the 2nd March 2010, at the CeBIT Open Source Forum will take place again. In 60 sessions, from morning until evening comes as good as anything out of the FOSS world language. Those who can not come to CeBIT, which can easily view the presentations from home as a video stream. Still, the screen remains black, but from the 9:15 service should be set to go. Read the rest of this entry »