Alabama Ubuntu Local Community Blog

Alabama Ubuntu LoCo and the Birmingham Area Linux Users (BALU)
announce a UBUNTU 8.04 InstallFest and invite the public to attend.

Where: UAB HUC 1530 3RD AVE S, BIRMINGHAM AL
When:   May 3  2:00 - 5:00PM
Map      URL: http://tinyurl.com/5n2rwn

Ubuntu 8.04 is the latest release of the Ubuntu operating system. Be sure to go to the  Ubuntu website for more information. We invite everyone to attend. Bring you computers and we will help install and configure Linux for your system. Already have it installed? Then please come out and just hangout with us!

If you just can’t wait and want to download and install the OS before the installfest then you can get the latest release at http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/.

Someone in the Apple Intel Ubuntu Support Forum has made the needed changes to the synaptics driver to enable the “touch two fingers to the touchpad and click for right-click” type of functionality as is found in Apple’s OSX. This was a highly sought-after feature that the synaptics driver was missing. Work is still being done on the driver, but it looks very promising. Check it out and contribute if you like:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=626112