Monthly Archives: May 2008

Ubuntu UK Podcast Episode 5 is Out

By | Published: May 7, 2008
Once again proving his editing prowess, Tony has managed to squeeze around 4 hours of wibble into a 40 minute podcast. Nice one. In this episode:- Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org Up to 30 seconds of voicemail can be left at +44 (0) 845 508 1986 Follow our twitter feed http://twitter.com/uupc
Laura Cowen
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Zattoo on the Asus Eee PC 900

By | Published: May 4, 2008
I recently got hold of an Asus Eee PC 900 - the newer version of the Eee 701. It's a lovely piece of kit, which I'll probably review more fully on the podcast. After playing with Zattoo on my Ubuntu laptop, I thought I'd give it a go on the Eee 900 which is running the default Xandros Linux distribution (which I actually quite like). Here's what it looks like once installed:-
Unfortunately the Asus software repositories don't contain the Zattoo package, or the dependency that allows Zattoo to install cleanly. However as Xandros is based on Debian Etch, so it's possible to fix this issue quite easily. Here's what I did:-
  • Download the zatto deb package.
  • Download libgtkglext1 from the Debian Etch repository.
  • Open a terminal with [CTRL]+[ALT]+t
  • Install the two deb packages downloaded using the following command
    • dpkg -i *.deb
Then you can run zattoo from the command line. You can of course zoom in.
Full screen works very nicely.
One thing I have yet to figure out is how to add an icon to the big "telly tubby" menu. Update Found out that editing /opt/xandros/share/AsusLauncher/simpleui.rc enables me to maintain the graphical the icon for the zattoo_player executable.
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Ask Mark Shuttleworth Questions – NOW

By | Published: May 1, 2008
In a last minute change to the schedule, Mark Shuttleworth will now be giving a Q&A session in #ubuntu-classroom on the freenode irc network. Ask questions in #ubuntu-classroom-chat and they will get pasted into #ubuntu-classroom by an operator. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek for details.
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