The PLF folks have been very kind to us and have provided Unity with user accounts and server space on their mirrors. This allows us to upload and distribute packages in order to avoid conflict with patenting laws or legal restrictions in various countries.

PLF stands for Penguin Liberation Front and is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Linux distributions for various reasons, related to geographical variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, licensing,  security and other issues.

So, be sure to keep a heads up for new packages in the channels to install on the latest developer snapshots. (Note: Developer Snapshots only!) Also, be sure to install the smart-channels-plf package to enable the plf channel in the Smart packaging manager, using the following command as root:

smart install smart-channels-plf

To find your own PLF-mirror, take a look at http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors.php

Thanks for using Unity Linux and sticking with us as we work to get a public beta released

The logo/design project has been inactive for some time now.
As far as I am aware, the only designers left are Ruel and myself, so we are now moving on putting the finishing touches to the overall look for Unity Linux.
I have been toiling with one of Ruel's original submissions, to give the best layout I can manage. I think this one works very well.
The appearence of the "T" has been mentioned, that it looks like a "C" so, I will work on correcting that problem, as it is a very good point and a fact.
I will also look into using different items (rather than the mint leaf) as this has also been commented on. Just not sure yet what will be a logical and appealing replacement at the very moment (experiments will resume)
But, over all, the layout of the text and (what ever the chosen bg item shall be) works well and gives a good look to the "big picture"

Since I landed in Bangalore, my schedule has been extremely busy. Yeah, I had heard in the past that the training period in an IT company, especially Accenture, is very tough, I am experiencing it only now. I have yet to take out some time to go out and explore that grand city that is Bangalore. Most of my time everyday is spent preparing for in-training tests. But anyway, the first phase of my training ends today, the last test of first phase being on 28th Sept.

A ray of hope in my frustrating daily schedule has to be me getting .NET stream, that is, I would be doing my second (and final) phase of training on Microsoft .NET technologies, and eventually be getting projects based on it. I am curious to begin my stream training, more because my stream is more web-development oriented (yippie!). By the way, it would be ASP.NET + C#.

That’s all for now. I’ll try to keep my blog as updated as possible.

In order to prepare our repository for 64-bit packages, we need to recreate the directory structure. This action is scheduledhttp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/unity/repo/2009/RPMS.unity/smart-channels-unity-1.3-1-unity2009.noarch.rpm to Thursday, September 17th at 07:00 UTC/GMT. After this date you will find only one package in Smart: smart-channels-unity. Installing/updating this package, restarting Smart and reloading channels will seamlessly update your Smart configuration.

If anything goes wrong, you will be still able to do that manually by issuing this command as root:

Code:
wget http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/unity/repo/2009/RPMS.unity/smart-channels-unity-1.3-1-unity2009.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh smart-channels-unity-1.3-1-unity2009.noarch.rpm

Should you have any problems, report them on the forum or on the ul-developers mailing list.

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