Envy 0.4.2-1ubuntu10 has been released!

Changelog: envy (0.4.2-1ubuntu10) unstable; urgency=low * Changed: if the driver can’t be downloaded from the ftp address envy will get it from the http mirror – Alberto Milone (tseliot) <albertomilone@alice.it> Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:07:43 +0200 As you can see from the changelog you shouldn’t have problems with the download of the driver as if […]

Improved desktop integration

“We have been working hard on improving our desktop integration with Qt lately. We automatically use the Plastique style if KDE is detected on startup. Starting with Qt 4.2, we intend to pick up the icon theme as well. This means that most of our standard dialogs, such as message boxes and file dialogs will […]

Mark Shuttleworth: One on the chin

Luis Villa is absolutely right in his castigation of our X update on Wednesday this week. As a team we made a series of errors, and the result was a desktop that was broken for thousands of users, for several hours. It has been a severe lesson in QA, something Luis knows plenty about. An […]

Geek to Live: Mastering Wget

Your browser does a good job of fetching web documents and displaying them, but there are times when you need an extra strength download manager to get those tougher HTTP jobs done. A versatile, old school Unix program called Wget is a highly hackable, handy little tool that can take care of all your downloading […]