Work has caught up to me and I have been flooded with small projects here and there at work! I have received a great deal of feedback on how to Ubuntunize my TabletPC and will be reporting on my progress as soon as I get some time to breath. In the meantime, while I away for yet another meeting, I just want to thank Sven Herzberg for writing about HRE 2.

This was a very busy Sunday, with a lot of soccer on tv (or how we call it outside the U.S., football), a lot of beer, and B-B-Q, like a good brazilian should. ;) In between a lot of meat, beer, checking translations, participating on a podcast, and an unexpected visit from my in-laws, I somehow managed to “play” with my TabletPC and rotate the screen. The tip came via a comment on my previous post, and involves the addition of a simple line in the xorg.

What can I say, it was a busy weekend… ;) Prior to following my friend Otavio’s advice (pt_BR only) on how to properly share my private music library at home with the many devices I own, I sadly used to copy the many gigabytes of *.oggs across the network… Since I didn’t want to clog up my TabletPC, I decided to give avahi a try. "Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network.

With the release of Ubuntu Dapper, many were the new users who initiated the linux world without any knowledge of how to configure their systems for a complete nirvana experience. Sure the default instalation takes care of supplying the majority of tools and applications a “normal” home user would need “out of the box”, but there are certain technologies which, due to some licensing issues (mostly related to distribution, etc), are not installed automatically.

As promissed, here are some pictures of my TabletPC running Ubuntu Dapper. I have managed to use the graphical keyboard (from the Assistive Technology Support submenu) in order to “type” using the stylus pen, but it was “weird” having to “cherry pick” the letters. ;) Needless to say, I have removed it from the startup. I have installed Nvidia’s driver and everything is just peachy… haven’t figured out how to rotate the display yet though.

I didn’t know the new version of Monodevelop with built-in graphical designer was already available in Dapper!?!? Christmas has come earlier than I expected! ;) Thank you (everyone involved in it)!

So yesterday I finally managed to get a hold of another HP TC1100 and bring it with me to the MySQL Meetup last night. There were many interesting things during our first ever “show & tell” session, which shall get mentioned on a later post, but all I really wanted to do was to install Ubuntu onto the TabletPC and try to get everything working. The new and extremelly easy to follow 5-step installation process was readly approved by all, and in approximately 15 minutes I had a complete system, minus support for the stylus pen… yet.

Today I complete yet another life cycle, version 3.2! Some bugs have been fixed and the “application” seems to be a bit more robust. New bugs I’m sure will be discovered (and hopefully reported too), and even a “fork” seems to be stabilizing in the shape of my (almost) 5-year-old daughter! ;) This last year marked my de facto entry into the open source world! Together with other people, we founded Planeta Ubuntu Brasil, a blog aggregator completely designed for brazilian portuguese speaking users, and helped place the Ubuntu Brasil community on the map!

Today I managed to get some free time from work (I had to run this process that usually takes 55 minutes to complete) and decided to pop the CD for the new version of Ubuntu Linux, codenamed Dapper Drake, into a friend’s TabletPC (HP model TC1100). I honestly didn’t really know what to expect but was gladly surprised to see the welcoming site of Gnome’s splash screen, followed by the soothing startup sound.

Finally!!! After so many months of working hard on the brazilian portuguese translations, we can now celebrate and enjoy the new Ubuntu release, my first release as part of the Ubuntu family! The work itself is enormous and yet delicate at the same time. There were many people who showed interest in lending us a helping hamd, but during the long winding road, it was a smaller group that emerged from the ashes!