U8UNTU eLXER

New U8UNTU Elixir Site

davidrobertlewis — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:13:24 +0000

Our new address: http://u8untu.blogetery.com

The Blogetery.Com Reboot

davidrobertlewis — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:50:01 +0000

Good news is blogetery.com is back online. If you recall, this blog was in the process of moving to blogetery when the site got taken down by an over-eager service provider who thought Open Source was the work of El Quaeda. It didn’t help matters that a magazine called Vision was publishing recipes about how to blow up the world with Ubuntu.

Check out our new site

http://u8untu.blogetery.com

Ubuntu Global Jam

davidrobertlewis — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:12:05 +0000

The Ubuntu Global Jam is an event held on the weekend of 27 to 29 August in which the Ubuntu community comes together to work together and think about improvements. Ubuntu Global Jam used to be called Ubuntu Global Bug Jam, but since we took the bug out, the event is now more of a social than a bug jam.

Everyone can participate in the Jam and is welcome and encouraged to participate If only to meet with other members of Ubuntu who contribute on a weekly and daily basis.

The Ubuntu Global Jam will include events that are planned around the world on staple topics such as: Bugs, testing the new version and reporting on it, upgrading to Maverick Lucid, information about how to use Ubuntu and join the community, translation or packaging. I would also suggest some fresh topics, such as focusing on making Ubuntu a great sound platform as opposed to being mediocre. ( If you’re a musician, now is your time to literally jam), also using Ubuntu in real-life situations as opposed to server-client networks. Exactly how plug ‘n play is Ubuntu in a home office environment? Another pet project is to implement drag-n-drop more uniformly across applications (see Appearance applet for an example of drag ‘n drop) and to have greater application interoperability. We should be able to create new applications like lego blogs, without ever having to see a line of code!!!

Although the wiki already has a few Global Jam logos, Bognarandras , has created an awesome universal logo for Ubuntu Global Jam which is really refreshing. Why keep repeating the same old designs?

Just another word on the Global part of the Global Jam, raised at last year’s Jam event. Videoconferencing and/or IRC communication between Jam events is encouraged. We should be communicating, not simply eating pizza!!! Throw us some skypes, plug in some sounds, make it a real jam this year. This probably means creating some form of roster for linkups and testing links with kit, so that when the general public arrive at your local event, they are not simply greeted by a dark screen running code.

Nathive, a simple image editor for Ubuntu

davidrobertlewis — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:16:00 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me how Ubuntu has taken off in the Spanish-speaking world. Then again RMS speaks Spanish and Marcos Diaz, who is Spanish born, is the person who initiated the Nathive project. Nathive is a free image editor like Photoshop, Corel or GIMP, but focused on usability. The program runs in GNOME environments, and anyone can participate in it, contributing ideas or code translations. The project is currently in beta, is written in Python using GTK +, and is working hard to get a very complete program without losing ease of use. Nathive’s philosophy is to show respect and gratitude towards the community of GIMP, to make it easy and to reach people who do not need to see all the options at the same time

Nathiv is now a growing community which you can join if you wish.

* 32-bit deb: nathive_0.920-1_i386.deb

64-bit deb: nathive_0.920-1_amd64.deb

There are also packages for other Linux distros:

32-bit rpm: nathive-0.920-1.i386.rpm

64-bit rpm: nathive-0.920-1.x86_64.rpm

Nathive Official Website

Check out this awesome video of Nathive in action.

THANKS Novatillasku

Reset gnome-panel defaults

davidrobertlewis — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:50:34 +0000

gconftool –recursive-unset /apps/panel

rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel

pkill gnome-panel

Playing Doom Legacy on Ubuntu Lucid

davidrobertlewis — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:20:21 +0000

ID Software’s Doomsday Engine was released for most computer platforms. You can use it to play a number of legacy games in Ubuntu like Doom, Heretic and Hexen, all kickass games whose commercial sell-by-date was probably around the turn of the century. Nevertheless some relatively free fun is still to be had, especially with Russian hacks and customisations which arose in the cold vacuum of cyberspace and in an age when RAM and graphics cards were relatively scarce. Believe it or not, people still hand over cash to play Doom on high-end iPhones and it amazes me that proprietary behaviour is relegating the platform to a quaint oddity. Let’s free the iWad then?

This tutorial, based upon this one, is still a work in progress. Using it, I managed to get a game of Ultimate Doom going, minus sound.

1. First install deng

Add the closest or most recent deng repo for your distribution, in my case luckily, karmic. Check here for repo updates and campaign for more releases.

deb http://debian.keesmeijs.nl/ karmic-kees main
deb-src http://debian.keesmeijs.nl/ karmic-kees main

sudo apt-get update &&  install deng

2. Install the Snowberry launcher

Dependencies

First make sure you have snowberry’s dependencies: python and a recent wxpython (available here at wxpython.org)

To get the latest wxpython add this key

curl http://apt.wxwidgets.org/key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Add the following to your sources list

deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ [distro]-wx main
deb-src http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ [distro]-wx main

Where [distro] is your distro i.e lucid-wx main

Update then install python-wxgtk2.8

sudo apt-get update && install python-wxgtk2.8

Check out snowberry via subversion

(if you don’t have subversion installed, now is a good time to install it)

svn co https://deng.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/deng/trunk/snowberry snowberry

You will have to edit some files.

Open and edit “snowberry.py”

gksudo gedit /hom/[user]/snowberry/snowberry.py

Add “#!/usr/bin/python” without quotation marks as the first line in the script, and make it executable.

Now run snowberry.py from the terminal. If it doesn’t run see Troubleshooting section below.

cd /home/[user]/snowberry/
python snowberry.py

Doomsday Engine Frontend should launch and start a setup wizard, tell it where the wads for doom, doom 2, hexen etc. are (I suggest a folder in your home folder called doomsday) and setup addons/display/sound settings to suite yourself.

Create a launcher for the client, to do this create a simple script in my home folder by opening a empty file (lets call it “snowberry launcher”) and pasting in the following (replacing your name with mine) and Make the script executable.

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/afrodeity/snowberry/
python snowberry.py
exit

Then you can just create a launcher on your desktop/ applications menu by pointing it at this script.

Troubleshooting.

If you get some junk output in the terminal like this:

File “snowberry.py”, line 26, in
import language, ui, plugins, sb.profdb
File “/home/afrodeity/SVN/snowberry/ui.py”, line 698, in
app = SnowberryApp()
File “/home/afrodeity/SVN/snowberry/ui.py”, line 536, in __init__
wx.App.__init__(self, 0)
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py”, line 7700, in __init__
self._BootstrapApp()
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-unicode/wx/_core.py”, line 7352, in _BootstrapApp
return _core_.PyApp__BootstrapApp(*args, **kwargs)
File “/home/afrodeity/SVN/snowberry/ui.py”, line 540, in OnInit
self.mainFrame = MainFrame(‘Snowberry’)
File “/home/afrodeity/SVN/snowberry/ui.py”, line 290, in __init__
self.mainPanel = MainPanel(self.profSplitter)
File “/home/afrodeity/SVN/snowberry/ui.py”, line 166, in __init__
area.addSpacer()
File “/home/afrodeity/SVN/snowberry/sb/widget/area.py”, line 197, in addSpacer
self.containerSizer.AddStretchSpacer(self.weight)
AttributeError: ‘BoxSizer’ object has no attribute ‘AddStretchSpacer’

Here is a solution:

This link suggested commenting out lines 196 197 198 & 201 in /snowberry/sb/widget/area.py

gedit /snowberry/sb/widget/area.py

196# if self.expanding: 197# self.containerSizer.AddStretchSpacer(self.weight) 198# else: 199. self.containerSizer.Add((0, 0), self.weight, self._getLayoutFlags(), 200. self.border) 201# pass

If you need you can take a look at my file:

Getting hold of Doom wads.

From http://dengine.net/doom

U8UNTU needs a new logo

davidrobertlewis — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:39:40 +0000

Been thinking about a new logo. Something like the above, which is based on Ubuntu FM.

LGP gaming demos

davidrobertlewis — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:40:51 +0000

At least demos keep us in the loop. And hopefully the games will eventually be released as Open Source.

Welcome to the Linux Game Publishing demos website.

Here you will find the latest demos for each game published by LGP. You can download any of the demos and try them out for free!

Ballistics 2 Files

Candy Cruncher 1 File

Cold War 2 Files

Creatures Internet Edition 2 Files

Gorky 17 2 Files

Hyperspace Delivery Boy 1 File

Jets’n'Guns 2 Files

Knights and Merchants 2 Files

Majesty Gold 2 Files

Mindrover 2 Files

NingPo MahJong 1 File

Postal 2: Share the Pain 2 Files

Shadowgrounds 2 Files

Shadowgrounds Survivor 2 Files

Software Tycoon 0 Files

Soul Ride 1 File

X2: The Threat 2 Files

http://demos.linuxgamepublishing.com/

AwOken Icon theme for Ubuntu

davidrobertlewis — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:08:06 +0000

DOWNLOAD

THANKS Elsoftwarelibre

ShadowGrounds Survivor demo

davidrobertlewis — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:15:51 +0000

wget http://demofiles.linuxgamepublishing.com/survivor/survivor-demo.run

wget http://demofiles.linuxgamepublishing.com/survivor/manual.pdf

./survivor-demo.run

Ballistics	2 Files
Candy Cruncher	1 File
Cold War	2 Files
Creatures Internet Edition	2 Files
Gorky 17	2 Files
Hyperspace Delivery Boy	1 File
Jets’n'Guns	2 Files
Knights and Merchants	2 Files
Majesty Gold	2 Files
Mindrover	2 Files
NingPo MahJong	1 File
Postal 2: Share the Pain	2 Files
Shadowgrounds	2 Files
Shadowgrounds Survivor	2 Files
Software Tycoon	0 Files
Soul Ride	1 File
X2: The Threat	2 Files