ChromeOS with Ubuntu Karmic base? – Leaked Sources.List

I have been sent what appears to be a ChromeOS sources.list which shows an Ubuntu base system with separate ChromeOS repos.

At this stage in time, and with all the ChromeOS hype and constant links to fake screenshots and isos, I was dubious about posting this, but instead I thought i’d let Total Linux readers decide for themselves.

An interesting section shows the ChromeOS WM, is this the ChromeOS Window manager along with the ChromeOS Control Panel?

# Skipped chromeos-connman 0.3 local_packages//chromeos-connman_0.3_i386.deb: local install
# Skipped chromeos-power 0.1 local_packages//chromeos-power_0.1_i386.deb: local install
# Skipped chromeos-assets 0.3 local_packages//chromeos-assets_0.3_i386.deb: local install
# Skipped chromeos-chrome 0.1 local_packages//chromeos-chrome_0.1_i386.deb: local install
# Skipped chromeos-controlpanel 0.2 local_packages//chromeos-controlpanel_0.2_i386.deb: local install
# Skipped chromeos-init 0.2 local_packages//chromeos-init_0.2_i386.deb: local install
# Skipped chromeos-installer 0.1 local_packages//chromeos-installer_0.1_i386.deb: local install
# Skipped chromeos-login 0.3 local_packages//chromeos-login_0.3_i386.deb: local install
# Skipped chromeos-pam-google 0.9 local_packages//chromeos-pam-google_0.9_i386.deb: local install
# Skipped chromeos-wm 0.4 local_packages//chromeos-wm_0.4_i386.deb: local install

Further down is the ChromeOS kernel entry:

# Skipped linux-image-2.6.30-chromeos-intel-menlow

And another entry for Slim



# Skipped slim 1.3.1-chromeos2

Download/View the full text HERE and decide for yourself.
 

GNOME 3.0 In September 2010 – Cool but needs 3D graphics drivers

New Gnome – No Open Sourced drivers

The new Ubuntu release, Ubuntu Karmic Koala has seen reports of Nvidia graphics problems,

Nvidia has said they won’t open source their drivers. The “New” Xorg has been adding to the borkage on many a major distro. Other graphics cards such as Sis don’t even offer 3D acceleration, whatsmore, they need a sisfb workaround just to produce a usable desktop [[Howto] Ubuntu 9.10 Sis graphic card wrong colour depth problem]. So why would the next Gnome release require such graphics capabilities from a slowly worsening scenario?

In first tests by users at the Linux-Hardcore, it was revealed that Gnome-Shell, the currently available “will become Gnome 3.0″ will not run on non-3D accelerated graphics cards such as Sis.

A quote from the Gnome blog:

“The GNOME release team has decided (and then announced) that GNOME 3.0 will come in September. GNOME 2.30 will still happen in March and will feature the GNOME 3.0 packages that are ready in time, while September will be the first full-blown release of this overhauled desktop environment. GNOME 2.30 is still being considered a stable desktop release.”

The official announcement HERE

Maybe Ati have some leverage with the Gnome 3.0 devs, because this new desktop will certainly go in their favour when Linux users need to choose a 3D accelerated graphics card with (up to now) increasingly improving graphics drivers.

Howto Ubuntu Gnome Blog Poster – No WordPress XML-RPC Connection Problem

I have been installing a collection of desktop apps related to administrating websites and forums, and generally keeping up to date with Twitter and Blogs etc.

Well one of those apps was a Desktop Blog publisher. I tried a few and I couldn’t get any of them to connect to any of my self-hosted WordPress sites.

I installed the Gnome Blog Poster from the Ubuntu Software Center:

http://www.gnome.org/~seth/gnome-blog/

Problem
Every time I tried to connect with my WordPress driven site, I got this error message:

Could not get list of blogs
URL ‘http://blahblah.org/xmlrpc.php’ does not seem to be a valid bloggerAPI XML-RPC server. Web server reported: Precondition Failed.

That was after choosing the option “Self Run WordPress“.

Solution
So I decided to try and connect using the other options, and eventually got it to work by choosing Self Run Moveable Type instead. Hey presto!! it worked.

So, just in case anybody else tries to use Blog Entry Poster with their own WordPress blog, now you can.