Intrepid Ibex to be Bundled with Two More System Tools
Canonical, the distributor of Ubuntu OS, is often blamed for not listening the community such as ignoring the request for changing/improving default appearance. But not this time. Ever since they launched brainstorm.ubuntu.com, they have been very responsive about what the Ubuntu fans want. As a result of this Intrepid Ibex, which is due to release on 30th of this month, will be packed with two very useful system tools:
Just few days ago, I wrote a post on making a live Ubuntu usb disk in three easy steps. Integrating a live USB maker tool into Ubuntu default installation has been one of the popular requests on brainstorm site.
USBLive Ubuntu
A new application USBLive has started showing up in Ibex beta. As you might have guessed, this handy tool helps you to make pizza. Just kidding! Of course, it allows you to make a USB bootable disk with Ubuntu in it. Just give the source image (.iso) file or insert a live CD, plug-in your USB drive, adjust the space to be reserved by the default installation, and click Make Startup Disk. How easy as that? You can access USBLive from System>Administration>Create Startup Disk menu
Another system tool that has been included is System Cleaner. It cleans up your system to make it
System Cleaner
‘kinda-new’. You can clean all the installed applications or select only those which you are not going to use any more. Access System Cleaner from Applications>System Tools>System Cleaner menu At first, you might think removing the applications can already be done with Add/Remove tool. So, what’s the difference? Nothing! It just gives you a list of those applications which you have installed after running up Ubuntu for the first time. No confusions whatsoever. It comes very handy when, for an example, you don’t want to poke the default applications but only want to remove those non-sense applications which you gave try few days ago. BTW, if you want to track all you apt activities, the ever useful tapt is always there.
Mouseclone Says:
This is kewl. I normally do things manually. Some times it is best to do them that way, as far as the clean up goes. For those users that are not really looking at learning more of how things are done on the system, and just want it to work, this is a great tool.
The USB will be nice as well. I don’t think it will be something that I use all of the time, I don’t have an Eee or other micro PC that would make this a consern of mine.
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Posted on October 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 am
Boycott Novell » Links 23/10/2008: All Russian Schools Moves to Free Software/GNU/Linux Says:
[...] Intrepid Ibex to be Bundled with Two More System Tools [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2008 at 3:27 am
Rahul Sundaram Says:
http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator is a cross platform utility that works just fine for the past several releases now. Just a note for comparisons.
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Posted on November 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
web design Says:
The USB Startup Disk Creator sounds like a handy utility. I rarely do it, so every time is an exercise in google…streamlining the process is nice.
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Posted on November 6th, 2008 at 7:39 am