Posts tagged Linux

IBM support for Ubuntu

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4 years ago
by Simon Scullion
James Governor of RedMonk raised a question that has come up a few times in the Lotus blogsphere, on the subject of Ubuntu as an IBM supported OS. I mentioned the fact that DB2 is supported on Ubuntu, a fact which doesn’t really fit with some of the justification for not supporting Lotus Notes and [...]

So where is Microsoft at with Vista?

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5 years ago
by Simon Scullion in
This rather (in my opinion) poor piece of journalism from the BBC quoting Gates on Vista sales figures caught my interest, particularly following the news this week regarding Microsoft’s threat to persue patent royalties from open source initiatives such as Linux and OpenOffice.org. (Link via Bub [...]

A few other Lotus + Ubuntu bloggers

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5 years ago
by Simon Scullion in
Over the last few days, I have noticed a few other bloggers from the Lotus blogging community mentioning Ubuntu. Ferdy Christant has published a good article on his recent move to ubuntu on his new laptop. Stuart McIntyre has a post on his attempt at getting the Notes 8 Beta running on ubuntu. I [...]

A bug squashed

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5 years ago
by Simon Scullion in
As it turns out, my Ubuntu bug turns out not to be, following a response with some instrustions. It looks like the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-1.0.9629 was installed from a 3rd party source that is not compatible with the ubuntu version numbering schema. You can try to remove the nvidia-glx and [...]

Lotus Notes 8 Beta 2 on Ubuntu

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5 years ago
by Simon Scullion
So, tonight I managed to have another go at getting the Lotus Notes 8 client running under Ubuntu. Disclaimer: I do realise this is not supported, and I agree with John and his rules of engagement, curiosity has just got the better of me! Thanks to Nathan’s tip on the Beta forum, I manually created [...]

Add a feed to Liferea from Firefox

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5 years ago
by Simon Scullion in
Being a linux newbie, I haven’t had much luck finding how to configure Firefox to use an external RSS client. Here’s how: You can go under Edit->Preferences and choose the Tab Feeds. There you choose Subscribe to the feed using and click on the button Choose Application and choose [...]

My first ubuntu bug report

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5 years ago
by Simon Scullion in
I have had a problem for a while with the update-manager. I finally got round to entering my bug report, so I am now the proud owner of an ubuntu bug! https://launchpad.net/bugs/84961 Just have to wait and see whether its me that has broken something or an actual bug.
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