0wned.it » Linux http://0wned.it Owned is a slang word that originated among 1990s hackers, where it referred to "rooting" or gaining administrative control over someone else's computer. Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:28:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Catching up with an old friend, Ubuntu. http://0wned.it/2010/08/14/catching-up-with-an-old-friend-ubuntu/ http://0wned.it/2010/08/14/catching-up-with-an-old-friend-ubuntu/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:24:41 +0000 david http://0wned.it/?p=42 Since getting my iPhone some 18 months ago, I hardly turn on my desktop PC. I can do almost anything that I need to do on my iPhone. As a result my desktop PC had fallen in to a state of ruin. Last night I decided to try to tidy it up a little.

My desktop PC started out with Ubuntu 8.04 and I’ve upgraded each time a new release came out. As a result it had accumulated a lot of crap throughout the years. So I removed X and a lot of the CLI bits and bobs that I’d installed. Stripped it back to as much of a bare metal install as possible. Then used tasksel to install Ubuntu desktop and went from there.

It’s all back up and running and I’m quite impressed with Ubuntu 10.04. I can’t talk for other distributions but Ubuntu has made massive steps in the right direction over the years. I can now plug in my iPhone 4 and Rhythmbox will pop up and allow me to play my iTunes library. And the Gwibber social client is a great replacement for TweetDeck.

It’s these simple things that will appeal to your average desktop user. Great work Ubuntu!

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I’ve been using Z-Push+Dovecot with my iPhone for some time now and so far, so good. Only issue I sometimes get is when someone sends a stupidly large attachment and PHP dies as it exhausts the maximum allowed memory.

If you have any issues with my patch and need some support, best to direct it at the Z-Push forums and not me. Although feedback is always welcome.

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