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Ubuntu, the Linux distribution that will have more followers throughout , today reported a failure as a bug in its latest Alpha for the developer team that informs the chipset of Intel 82566 and 82567 could be vulnerable because a data filter may result in kernel 2.6.27-rc.

This failure is limited to e10002 driver, and reports that only occurs on Intel chipsets above. The report indicates that it only affect the laptops, but said that parts of a desktop PC or server are not vulnerable.

In other words: “If you have a laptop (since it is not clear whether the desktop computers are concerned) that use chipsets from Intel 82566 or 82567, DO NOT INSTALL UBUNTU 8.10 ALPHA UNTIL THIS ISSUE IS RESOLVED.”

Fortunately Linux has a large number of distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, etc..

An international team led by two Spanish citizens Angel Blazquez, entrepreneur and Machón Paul, a member of the free software community have been the protagonists of a new mini laptop as it has regard to the environment because it uses renewable energy and is made of biodegradable plastic making it very economical. We must not forget that free software includes: a complete GNU / Linux with over 5000 programs.

In total, the mini laptop weighs 700 grams, uses solar panels that extend battery life and function in tandem with electricity. As I mentioned, this computer is very affordable, its price in Spain is 160 euros, so far is the cheapest compared with others made from biodegradable plastic that cost about 10 times more than the green notebook.

In fact this device has many advantages, one is helping us to raise awareness on environment and conservation, the other advantage is that by using free software includes programs that have a special license to ensure the installation, use and modification free them to make improvements. Given all this, the only drawback that could have the host of this laptop is the fear of the people to change (in this case free software), but this is something that is being handled because now people do not want any problems in using software pirates, so it is easiest to use free software.

One of the main problems for Windows users as they move to Linux is not knowing some basic commands. For example, in Ubuntu, when you install seteas a password and a user will be set, however this is not the so-called super user (su) or root.

To do some special things and execute some key commands you need root permissions and you do not have the key because it never sets, so by default Ubuntu has no root password to log in as super-user. For this you must go to Applications> Accessories> Terminal and then run the following command:

sudo passwd root

Then it will ask the user password and then the new password for the root, then the confirmation of that key. After that we can access by typing the command as root:

su

That’s it and if they want to leave session super user run the command:

exit