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Ubuntu 11.10 is great OS but it has some things to change, especially if you want to work on a laptop.

The new version of Ubuntu (Ubuntu 11.10 named Oneiric Ocelot) has been released. With the new features, I want to show you how it works in a VirtualBox Machine.

Under Ubuntu 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 the entrypoints for libinfo are part of ncurses.

I've just downloaded the latest release of Ubuntu from Ubuntu.com (685,3 MB iso file).

To install it on my notebook (HP 6730s) I moved the iso on a USB pendrive using the tools inside the iso, so I didn't need to burn a CD. Then I inserted the USB pendrive into a USB port of my notebook and rebooted the system.

Yesterday I tried the beta of Ubuntu 11.04 on VirtualBox.

I can say it works well, but on my laptop (core 2 duo 2.16) it is slow.

I used Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.4r70112 with VirtualBox extensions.

In the following few lines I show you my VirtualBox configuration:

Natty

First of all , the next release of Ubuntu will change its names:

• Ubuntu Netbook Edition and Ubuntu Desktop Edition have been combined into a single Edition called simply "Ubuntu" (with no "Edition").
• Ubuntu Server Edition has been renamed to simply "Ubuntu Server" (again, the "Edition" has been dropped). 

Hi all, Under Ubuntu 10.10 my Aspire One had its fans always on, this generates two problems, the first one is linked to the power consumption (the fans reduce the battery autonomy) and the second one is the noise (the fans are very noisy).

Ubuntu 10.10 starts the wifi led in blinking mode.

At first this feature is nice, but after few hours it annoyed me a lot, so I found a trick to stop this annoying blinking.

Simply add the following line to /etc/modprobe.d/wlan.conf

options iwlcore led_mode=1

Yesterday I've installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop, naturally I installed also the tethering support:

Before the installation I had the following configuration

gigi@piccoletto:~$ lsusb 

Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Please refer to art Ubuntu 10.10 and iPhone tethering [SOLVED & UPDATED]

Last week, with the new Ubuntu 10.10 I had a lot of problem using my iPhone 3Gs (FW 4.1) with tethering. Simply I cannot use my iPhone to connect to the internet.