Distro Releases! Dell Streak Tablet, Google TV, Chrome out of Beta!

[84WAKEUP]

ibought a dell streak 5 mini and after upgreading to 2.2 i cannot download anything from the market nothing it loads 4 days plz help any 1 is it faulty

[thisweekinlinux]

@84WAKEUP I'm not sure, but when I've worked on some different ROMs on my tablet, when the market isn't working correctly, they've told me to go into the Applications setting and clear the data/cache for the Market. Might be worth a shot.

[84WAKEUP]

@thisweekinlinux i already did that but still it took days but still says starting download is the phone faulty ??? tnks 4 reply

[mizztaffybbyx3]

my boyfriend have an ipod 4th n he uses facetime, how can i contact him from a dell laptop? can i contact him with yahoo messenger, oovoo, or beta. if so how?

[thisweekinlinux]

@mizztaffybbyx3 Not sure if it works with the front facing camera, but it might be worth trying Skype, because there's an iOS client and a Windows/Mac/Linux client.

[Exdozolie]

When is the Slackware review coming?

[thisweekinlinux]

@Exdozolie It's on the list. I've been trying to keep up with the releases making news, and in doing so I've excluded the ones I really want to try out and review. Once I get my voice back, I think it's time to go back to basics. Thanks.

[nolanhester1]

great video bro :)

[thisweekinlinux]

@nolanhester1 thanks dude!

[carlos10571]

Downloading Puppy as iWatch.

[thisweekinlinux]

@carlos10571 Puppy is so small, I got it a few days ago. nice

[JetJL]

android os is a derivative of linux right? Well.... the dell streak is the opposite of the ipad. ipad was here in the states and second else where. the streak was in uk first and now it's going to be here in the states last. Well.... I am a big fan of the Android os. I have a motorola cliq can't wait for 2.1 upgrade

[thisweekinlinux]

@JetJL Android is indeed a Linux-based OS.

[TheLifeRuiner]

Are you serious? Slackware 13.1?

I just downloaded 13.0 a couple days ago...

I have a 768kbps connection -_-

[thisweekinlinux]

@TheLifeRuiner yeah, sorry about that.

[StrangeRandomChannel]

Is chromium out of beta too?

[thisweekinlinux]

@StrangeRandomChannel I don't think Chromium will ever be considered out of beta, since it's sort of the developer channel.

[stmpoodle]

A rear camera on the Dell tablet? What?!! I guess the user on one of those will have their crotch in the dark without knowing the camera is on. Stupid to have cameras on Tablets, i thinks.

[thisweekinlinux]

@stmpoodle Yeah, there will be a lot of unintended crotch shots. Of course it's a small enough device that perhaps not...

[JohnPortfolio2010]

this weekinlinux..News! Sounded funny. I bet enough people complained about the clock that they had to change it.

the chrome out of beta was great. I had so many issues late with the beta, i was about to get a new browser, then i saw the chrome update and now im running completely smooth! :D

have a good 3 day weekend :D

[thisweekinlinux]

@JohnPortfolio2010 Did I say it funny? I'll have to rewatch it.

Thanks, it was a great weekend!

[JohnPortfolio2010]

@thisweekinlinux nah just used to hearing you say "welcome to this week in linux."... Its like your pickup line for the intro it seemed.

[JohnPortfolio2010]

@thisweekinlinux Well never mind i guess at the moment of hearing you say it, it was off. But now it seems you do that with all your news videos.. haha. 

[thisweekinlinux]

@JohnPortfolio2010 it does feel a little odd saying "this week in linux news" but I sort of like to differentiate between the news and the other stuff.

[UbuntuHelpGuy]

Very nice video, mate. ''Phoix'' - (''foix''??) idk.. I use Chrome alot, good to know! LINUX FTW!

[thisweekinlinux]

@UbuntuHelpGuy hehe. I seriously have no idea about Phoix. Exactly why I put it on the screen. I knew I'd butcher it.

[Kamokow]

Am I the only one tired of people calling handheld touch-screen devices "tablets?"

[thisweekinlinux]

@Kamokow Kinda, and kinda not. The 5" one from Dell is definitely hard to call a tablet...

[psychoclown420]

Do you know anything about how the Chrome OS is coming along?

[thisweekinlinux]

@psychoclown420 I've got an early release downloaded, but I haven't gotten to try it out yet. I have a feeling ChromeOS is going to go by the wayside and Android will take its place.

[psychoclown420]

@thisweekinlinux Yeah, android is really coming into its own nowadays

[Rimdeker]

I am really looking forward to Google TV.

Nice video.

[thisweekinlinux]

@Rimdeker Thanks! I love the concept.

[letuboy101]

I installed the new Google Chrome stable release, but haven't been successful in getting flash working. Have tried the --enable-plugins flag, and the --enable-internal-flash flag. Neither have worked and the libflashplayer.so file is in /opt/google/chrome/plugins...a­ny suggestions?

[thisweekinlinux]

@letuboy101 I haven't tried the new Chrome release, so I'm not sure. have you checked on Chrome-related forums? (silly question, but I have to ask)

[drmgiver]

Re: Google TV Why, when Comcast is already working on interactive TV which will be free to subscribers with all services?

[thisweekinlinux]

@drmgiver Will Comcast's interactive TV be able to browse the web with flash? Also, not everyone is on Comcast (myself included)

[drmgiver]

@thisweekinlinux Web browsing yes. Flash I do not know.

[Gerrrry]

@drmgiver also, you're forgetting one small detail. There are ~200 other countries on this planet we call Earth.

[drmgiver]

@Gerrrry Just giving my opinion on if I would or would not get it, and I do have Comcast.

[inof8or]

@drmgiver i hate to make this sound like a flame... but when will comcast do anything other then suck? Just look at their dvr service, where it (and the like with sat.) have edged tivo out of what they feel is their personal space. Teleco services like this are just get the job done only applications that are offered for next to nothing in order to regain mind share for old school advertising schemes. In theory... Google tv would = more modern ad schemes . I rather just avoid ads, but w.e.

[drmgiver]

@inof8or Capitalism, you are free to look it up. If customers want TiVo over something else, they are free to get it. if not, they are free to get something else. Strongest company wins.

[bamdadkhan]

sadly, i missed your live stream last night (if where was any). looking forward to your reviews, take care.

[thisweekinlinux]

@bamdadkhan There will be one on Wednesday. I didn't have one on Sunday, I was out of town.

[FearedBliss]

Enjoy your weekend !!

[thisweekinlinux]

@FearedBliss It was awesome, thanks. :)

[FearedBliss]

@thisweekinlinux I'm glad it was :D. Welcome back !

[JayKay3000]

Boo. I tried the most up to date release candidate of Chakra (32 bit) in virtual box and naaa. No go. Easy setup does not allow me to progress and advanced lets me select the drive and install to about 12% before I loose total control of my pc and it sits there doing nothing. Maybe it's just a vm issue.

I was not expecting a polished version at this stage but lets hope you have better luck, be interesting to see it.

They sound quite excited by it from the way they type on the site.

[thisweekinlinux]

@JayKay3000 no luck? Hmm. Might be worth trying in a different VM app. I've had nothing but problems running OpenSUSE in VirtualBox, but it runs beautifully in VMWare.

[nvanadium]

Thanks for the news update. I checked out pics for this Dell Tab and IMO its just way too small for practical use. Its phone size for crying out loud. I hope you decide to review Lubuntu at some point. I'm still trying to find an easy to use light OS for my obsolete P4 512MB Ram system. Anywho, great work as usual!

[thisweekinlinux]

@nvanadium You know, it did sort of look like a slightly larger phone from the pictures... a 5" screen is a bit small.

I've heard quite a few bad things about Lubuntu. Really, I'm trying to figure out how to deal with the Ubuntu reviewing issue. There are SO MANY ubuntu-based distros it would take me the rest of my life to go through them all...

[nvanadium]

@thisweekinlinux There are sooo many derivatives in Linux where is one to start? Thats a damn shame about Lubuntu though. I guess I'm thinking of the special needs of certain people who may want to explore Linux & their hardware isn't quite impress but still want something with a more "polished" Look than Puppy. I'm just trying to salvage my older comp which came originally with XP with an easy to use OS.

[thisweekinlinux]

@nvanadium there are a lot of Linux derivatives, but with Ubuntu it just seems that people are coming out of the woodwork to make the "perfect" Ubuntu-based distro. I've honestly had at least 1 message / comment per day that I should review an Ubuntu-based distro (and it's rarely the same one twice). :P

Don't get me wrong, Ubuntu is a great distro, but making a whole new distro from it and adding a couple of things... not worthwhile.

[nvanadium]

@thisweekinlinux I agree. It also confuses the hell out of people as they are straying away from Windows. I know it confused me! K,X,Ed,Myth,Ubuntu...wha???? Its like ADD for programmers. If I hadn't stumbled onto Mint shortly after taking the plunge, I most likely would have stuck with M$.

[thisweekinlinux]

@nvanadium I agree. too many options are confusing...

[ASCII808]

@nvanadium M$? Are you still 12 years old?

[ASCII808]

@thisweekinlinux Linux will never be good because it uses Xorg.

[Tarnus88]

Hum, i installed Fedora 13 with KDE, my other harddrive where i installed it the first time, did some things" i didn't like after installation. Though my new system doesn't seem to have any problems so far, might have been a problem with my old harddrive...

[thisweekinlinux]

@Tarnus88 That's entirely possible.

[TheWrinkledCheese]

I will be setting up my what-should-I-try-next system and trying all of the distros you mentioned today. I haven't been to fedora is some time, since like Fedora 3. I haven't tried SuSe since before it was called openSuse. I've been meaning to try Arch Linux because I only hear good things about it. Everyone bashes Slackware but...damn it's stable from my experience with other distros, ESPECIALLY Ubuntu.

[thisweekinlinux]

@TheWrinkledCheese I haven't tried Slackware in a LONG time, but I tried Zenwalk (friendlier, XFCE version) a couple of years ago and it was sweet.

That's part of the reason I started the Distro Review series. I really wanted to try as many distros as possible, but I didn't have time. Now I do. :)

[TheWrinkledCheese]

@thisweekinlinux Yeah I never have time to really give a distro a full walkthrough before switching. All I can hope is that once I deem it useful I don't run into any stability problems, which is my main focus. I've gotten used to installing everything from source, not a big problem because all you have to do is read errors to find dependencies and then install those and try again. Everyone seems to make this such a huge deal.

[TheArnabDas]

hi! long time i guess, was a bit busy. maybe we hav ben 'programmed' to feel like this, but linux news without significant ubuntu info does feel strange, doesnt it? not criticising, just sharing a thought. :)

as always awesome stuff really liked ur kdenlive series. i can see myself watching that series over and over again. thanks.

[thisweekinlinux]

@TheArnabDas I sort of agree... the problem is, Ubuntu is usually the one making a lot of news. They just didn't put much out this week that I noticed.

I'm glad you're enjoying the Kdenlive series. I just finished part 5 last night. I think there will be one more part after that, to put it all together. Thanks for watching. :)

[TheWrinkledCheese]

So I tried to get used to Ubuntu Studio using 10.04 but this introduces more issues I didn't have the last time. Pausing during video playback causes the WHOLE SYSTEM to lockup/freeze/hang, whatever you call it. I will most likely be going back to Slackware 13.1 this weekend.

[thisweekinlinux]

@TheWrinkledCheese Ubuntu to Slackware? that's a big leap. :P

[TheWrinkledCheese]

@thisweekinlinux I've been using Slackware since 2002(every version from 8.1 to 13.0), I only switched to Ubuntu Studio 10.04 a week ago and have been having nothing but stability problems since. I can remove my video driver and get stability with the added bonus of a maximum resolution of 800x600(or something equally as crappy) on my 24" widescreen monitor.

[TheWrinkledCheese]

@TheWrinkledCheese From what I can tell, they're blaming freezing issues on the nVidia driver...even though the nVidia drivers work fine on my Slackware machine.

[TheWrinkledCheese]

@TheWrinkledCheese By Slackware machine I mean having Slackware installed on the machine.

[MrSebzi]

Nice :)

[QueeeeenZ]

awesome, i am really looking forward to the openSUSE 11.3 review, i was using openSUSE 11.2 until Ubuntu 10.04 came out.

[thisweekinlinux]

@QueeeeenZ Thanks! It's been a while since I used any version of SUSE, but after looking at the new one in a VM, it's pretty sweet so far.

[martmelee]

yeah!! going for slackware right now, my favorite distro!!!

[thisweekinlinux]

@martmelee Nice! Slackware is the first distro I ever tried (back in 2001). I'm curious to try it again at some point (when it comes time to review it)

[scouser73ubuntu]

Good video mate, I hope Google TV comes to the UK. Chrome & Chromium are just brilliant, couldn't have wished for a better browser really.

[thisweekinlinux]

@scouser73ubuntu I'm really just curious about the pricing. This is something I've been hoping for for a while, a seamless transition between web and TV

[thisweekinlinux]

@Hax0rPr0n Fizz? I don't see it. :P

Of course I'm from Kentucky, where "versailles" (ver-saiiii) is pronounced "vur-sails". :)

[librano]

Hmm.. Chakra separated from Arch? Interesting...

I got the Meego .img but I can't, for the life in me, figure out how to run it in a VM. Any ideas?

Chrome out of beta? It still crashes when I do something as simple as selecting a file from my HD to upload... Maybe coz I'm running KDE?

[thisweekinlinux]

@librano Yeah, I was a little surprised by the Chakra thing myself, but it seems one of the lead guys spent an entire weekend recompiling over 900 packages to make it happen.

I just downloaded Meego, and I'm going to give it a shot in a VM over the weekend, so I'll let you know.

Are you using Chrome or Chromium, and do you have the latest version?

[librano]

@thisweekinlinux I'm running Chrome... The latest AUR package has an error so I think I'm one build behind... will check again.

The problem with Meego is that it is a USB image and I can't boot a VM from a USB image. I think I have to use a bootloader ISO like Plop or something. But... too much effort :P

[thisweekinlinux]

@librano oh yeah, I hadn't even paid attention to the fact it's a .img file. You might try using ccd2iso to convert the .img to a .iso?

[librano]

@thisweekinlinux I'm not so sure it's as easy as that... The ISO needs to be bootable and requires the fancy stuff (isolinux, casper or whatever it is) to make it run as a LiveCD. I think v1.0 still needs a little extra work to get it installed to the HD... Haven't got that far yet.

Maybe I'll have another go instead of the droopy eyed attempt of last night :)