UPDATE: Rick Spencer, Ubuntu Desktop Development Team Lead, wrote in his blog:

Ubuntu is not changing to a rolling release. We are confident that our customers, partners, and the FLOSS ecosystem are well served by our current release cadence. What the article was probably referring to was the possibility of making it easier for developers to use cutting edge versions of certain software packages on Ubuntu.This is a wide-ranging project that we will continue to pursue through our normal planning processes.

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I am using Debian Squeeze Testing and I wanted to allow myself to shutdown without entering root password. To do so, I just executed the following as root: Continue Reading

If you are using Debian Squeeze, you can install plymouth and it will install some plymouth themes by default. You can list the installed themes by running the following command in the terminal: Continue Reading

I have written a small shell script to preview plymouth themes. I have successfully tested it in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and Debian Squeeze Testing. It should also work with other Linux distros. Please make sure you have installed the package plymouth-x11 (or equivalent) before using this script.

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I was trying to play a video with Totem in Debian Squeeze Testing and got the following error and only video played.

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While you can download the latest version of Eclipse PDT from Eclipse Download Page and install it manually, it is great to setup a repository instead so that you can get updates from it automatically via update manager. Eclipse is available in the official Debian repos but PDT is not. It is available in Yogarine Eclipse PPA in Launchpad. For Debian Squeeze, add the following line to Sources.list (or add it via Software Sources or in Third Party Repositories in Synaptic): Continue Reading

I am using Debian Squeeze Testing and I have gdm3 installed.  I wanted to change the default gdm theme and here is how I did it.

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In Ubuntu, when you need to run a command as root, you just have to run the command with a preceding “sudo” i.e. Continue Reading

As I mentioned in my previous post, you can install software from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx PPA to Debian Squeeze Testing. Using the same method, Chromium v9 can be installed in Debian Squeeze using the Ubuntu Chromium Daily PPA.

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I have installed Debian Squeeze Testing replacing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat and miss some applications only available via Launchpad PPAs. Not that they can’t be compiled from their sources or installed by downloading debs, but it would be great if updates were available from update manager like in Ubuntu. So I decided to add some Ubuntu PPAs and they are working fine. So, I decided to share here with the hope that it would be helpful to my readers.

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