Go to System > Administration > Software Sources, to the Third-Party Software tab and add this repository:

The public has decided that this should be moved to a SourceForge project, and it shall be so... after today :)

«I had a good beer talk this week with Merlyn about IDEs and Emacs. Merlyn's been playing with Clojure, a Lisp for the JVM [...] After the meeting, over at the Side Door, with a good, draft Pilsner in hand, I was asked by Merlyn, "What's the fundamental difference between an IDE like IntelliJ or Eclipse and Emacs?" ...»

Ubuntu 8.10 offers a way to create a USB drive from the Live CD or an .iso. The question is, how well does this really work. In order to test we created several of these USB drive installs. The first thing to note is that the process is easy to do. Here is a step by step in create a USB Pen Drive disk.

Enter Hackett and Bankwell, a new comic book geared at introducing GNU/Linux — specifically Ubuntu GNU/Linux — to new users. At about 30 pages long, the first issue is an easy read, and doesn’t get too bogged down by technical details, political ruminations, or an over-abundance of geekiness

We all knew it was only a matter of time until the bit bucket flowed over ;)

Vi and Vim are extremely powerful text editors that are guaranteed to be on almost every *nix system you log into. You don't always have the comfort of a GUI & nano can be cumbersome when doing large tasks. Vi/Vim are an absolute necessity to every Linux admin and a life saver, so why not sit down, spend some time, and get to know your new friend