To install kde 4,1 on Ubuntu Hardy never has not been thus easy; nothing more complicated (but, next to my opinion, thrilling) procedures of compilation, dependencies to satisfy, script to install…, thinks next to all apt-get in 5 steps:

1. to add the line deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main to the /etc/apt/sources.list rows;
2. I sudo apt-get update;
3. I sudo apt-get install kubuntu-kde4-desktop;
4. I sudo apt-get install gtk-qt-engine-kde4 in order to make to assume more to the applications of ubuntu an aspect in compliance with the look than kde 4;
5. I sudo update-alternatives - config usplash-artwork.so and I sudo update-initramfs - u in order to restore Usplash di otherwise modified Ubuntu from kde4.

Now we are ready to approach new fiammante kde 4,1 through the shielded one of login cliccando on Options and Select Sessions. In order to use gtk-qt-engine-kde4 it is necessary to go on System Settings->Appearance->GTK Styles and Fonts and to select Use my KDE Style in GTK application, to cliccare Apply and to make the log out because the change has effect.
Naturally it is possible to carry out many other configurations to begin from the installation of new widgets for Plasma, I as an example I have qualified the effects of the compositing of Kwin through System Settings->Desktop->Desktop Effects, selecting Enable Desktop Effects and choosing between those puttinges on hand in the card All Effects.

Truly magnificent, I would dare to say godurioso! The sapete, I am an enthusiastic one of Kde 4, it nearly have seen to be born, have followed step step the improvements, the fixing of the bug, it I have compiled tens of times and tired me absolutely not to praise the enormous job carried out from the sviluppatori, the passion and the ambition in the construction of a desktop manager from the evolven solutions and, still more, from the innovative conception. It is obvious, we are not still to the levels of efficiency of Gnome or version 3,5 of Kde, which Amarok 2, K3b (or K4b still lack the great applications), Lancelot or Raptor (who will gain the battle of menus)we will probably see, them with Kde 4,2 in escape to February 2009, but the base is sincerely of splendid invoice.

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Now I can fregiarmi of the title skillful it of “detective”, in fact mine “birthday gift” it was effectively splendid eeepc 900 a black one, “piccolino”. The photo under documents the moment of the opening of the confection. 

Last the euphoria I have begun to smanettare with the enthusiasm of a child to the taken ones with play so much wished, and, after to have stated the veridicità of sure book reviews on the not exceptional one, in order to use a eufemismo, quality of Xandros, at least in the modality “easy”, I have proveduto to the download of eeebuntu netbook remix and to the installation and configuration on the piccolino. It runs the obligation to document also the first failures to me, since version 1,0 of this ubuntu optimized for eeepc after the boot planted to me with a “BusyShell” (initramfs) and the commando line, seems because of a bug that it interests ubuntu in the script casper. The usual search in the forum has produced the modification of the rows casper of the image iso through the extraction of the same image through manager of the archives, an ulterior extraction of the initrd.gz rows, the modification of the script casper (cancellation of mode=755 that it seems determined the bug), the reconstruction of initrd.gz and the substitution of this last one in the iso through utility “the ISO Master” (could also from commando line). All to place, you will say? Not even for idea, other error and decision repentina to abandon in favour of a working solution already head and, that is eeebuntu-nbremix-rc1.iso (incredible true? The rc1 the release works and definitive not…) with relative modernization of the packages after the installation.
Version 900 of the piccolino has two SSD, from 4GB and the other from 16GB; I have partizionate with filesystem ext3 (someone supports that it is better ext2…, we will be to see before) with point of mount/and second /home; nothing swap, because in effects on a device of this kind it does not have much sense.
After the phase of installation and modernization of the packages I have used the cpuscaling.sh script for the scaling of the processore, have shaped xorg.conf activating the direct rendering and settato the resolution to 1024×600.

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We suppose of wanting a distro to use to didactic scope, we suppose also to have characterized it in Edubuntu 8,04, distribution based on ubuntu 8,04, have two possibility:

1. To transform ubuntu in edubuntu by means of appropriate cd the additional one.
2. To install edubuntu in a single blow using the cd of Ubuntu East Iacta.

Ubuntu East Iacta is an association, not for the sake of lucro, than it is proposed to promote and I generally use to diffuse it of the “free software” in the scholastic and public institutions and with which I collaborate through the publication on the www.uielinux.org site of articles, guides and comments that then find a more complete trattazione on the pages of tuxmind. Well UIE has realized this cd that the installation of didactic software to the so-called becomes simpler remarkablly “niubbi”, and knows well as they are in the school the overwhelming majority. Among other things, united to Edubuntu, the UIE team has realized also a personalized version of Ubuntu 8,04 with all series of software that generally we use, but that Canonical does not insert in the release official.

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At a distance of some month return to speak about the Institute of Secondary Instruction “Ettore Majorana” of It freezes in order to report of an other optimal Prof. initiative Antonio Cantaro; draft of a beautifulst free handbook, equipped from video guides, the title it “Linux for all - easy Ubuntu - Manual “.

Al link precedence is already available the first chapters them and the total plan of the work that is preannounced of easy rich consultation and of interesting cues. The initiatives are also these that can approach open source an always greater number of persons.
To September anch'io I hope to ahead carry some initiatives in the schools of the province of Messina and obviously of it I will give account; in order now, with the permission of the author, I want to give to my contribution to the spread of the handbook inserting link with image in the section initiatives of this site.

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After to have installed VMWare serveur on Ubuntu 8,04 it comes to you sure wants to put to us within also VMWare-tools, ovverosia those instruments that us undoubtedly concur a more intense use of our virtual machine.
Here the procedure:

1. I sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$ (uname - r);
2. tar - xzf VMwareTools-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz;
3. cd vmware-tools-distrib/
4. I sudo ./vmware-install.pl

However your experience with these instruments would risk to being frustrating if this did not come you in aid post that it explains like obviating to the error:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only'
make - C /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-server/build/include/. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make [1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-19-server'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/cpName.o
In rows included from it includes/linux/string.h: 11,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/cpName.h: 18,
from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/cpName.c: 18:
it includes/linux/types.h: 40: error: conflicting types for `uintptr_t'
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/vm_basic_types.h: 161: error: previous declaration of `uintptr_t' was to here
make [2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only/cpName.o] Error 1
make [1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only] Error 2
make [1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-19-server'
make: *** [vmhgfs.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmhgfs-only'
Unable to build the vmhgfs module.

The problem has been resolved on the forum of vmware simply using open-vmware-tools in order to create the module of the kernel normally and successively installing vmware-tools (sudo ./vmware-install.pl):

1. I sudo apt-get install libproc-dev libdumbnet-dev libicu-dev;
2. wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-2008.07.01-102166.tar.gz;
3. tar - xzf open-vm-tools-*.tar.gz
4. cd open-vm-tools-*
5. ./configure - without-x
6. make
7. cd modules/linux
8. for in *; I give to mv $ {i} $ {i} - only; tar - cf $ {} .tar $ {the} - only; done
9. cd ../../../
10. mv - f open-vm-tools-*/modules/linux/*.tar vmware-tools-distrib/lib/modules/source/
11. cd vmware-tools-distrib/
12. I sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Now it is all OK!

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