Wherever I May Roam…

Lucid Lynx is scheduled to be released next month, but that didn’t stop me from upgrading (clean install). This is a nice opportunity for me to test it out, as well as contribute by reporting any bugs I might stumble upon.

The default theme is refreshingly minimalistic – my wife commented it’s very inviting. There’s also a noticeable performance improvement as compared to Karmic Koala (note: I’m using a netbook here!). Applications responds quicker and the system boots and shuts down faster. As a plus, all my hardware works flawlessly.
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This is my last night on Karmic Koala ‘coz tonight, I’ll be upgrading to Lucid.  So I decided to try out my 3G stick from Smart and test it on my buggy Koala (MSI Wind issues mostly). Whaddaya know? It still works.. although I’m not quite sure if it works out of the box or because I still have Liam Green-Hughes’ usb-modeswitch and zte-mf627-switch old Jaunty packages.

The speed can’t compare to my broadband DSL, but still acceptable if I’m on the road.

I can only imagine what people put on their facebook profile… Oh wait, I don’t have to.

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I was at work during the Ubuntu Developer Week, but that didn’t stop me from attending this event via irssi. I was, however, disappointed when I found out that Lernid doesn’t work (yet) from behind a proxy server. And I didn’t get to experience the full potential of Lernid – you know, with the presentation thingie!

Anway, I was planning on using this great app for our Tutorial Series since it already integrates an IRC client, a Browser, and a Presentation pane. But I’m afraid it’ll only disrupt #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat since our team do not exclusively communicate in English. And there are instances where our channel’s flooded with 3 or more languages, you can only imagine the chaos we’ll cause on an English-only channel. Maybe an option to direct to another channel? I’ll file a feature request later.

The University of Baguio recently hosted a one of kind event north of Manila and it’s aptly named the 1st North Luzon Free / Open Source Software (FOSS) Conference. It was held on January 18-19, 2010 and sponsored by the ASEAN Foundation and the International Open Source Network among others.

There are three tracks to choose from this event. Track 1 which is the Business and Service Delivery. Track 2 which is a hands-on seminar on various Open Source Softwares used in the Educational sector. And Track 3, another hands-on seminar on System Administration and FOSS Migration.

The event kicked off with the obligatory prayer and national anthem performed by the UB Voices. The welcome remarks from Mayor Bautista was inspiring and a very informative keynote address by Dr. Filemon Uriarte of ASEAN Foundation.

There’s also a cultural presentation by the UB dance troupe (sorry, I’m not sure what they named their group). One of which is a Cordilleran dance – it’s technically a thanksgiving ritual.

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