Yesterday, while trying to run some updates through Ubuntu's Update Manager, I was informed that the Chrome repository could not be reached.

As any of you who follow this website know, I really like Ubuntu Linux.

I have been playing around with Karmic Koala in Virtualbox for a couple of weeks now, and it appears that Canonical has dropped Pidgin from this update and replaced it with

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With the help of @ClubUbuntu and this post on his website, I have now installed Google Chrome with Flash support into my Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. So far, I'm pretty impressed.

This is a screen cast I made a while back showing an easy way to install a video screen capture program for Ubuntu. I made this using a virtual installation of Ubuntu 8.04, but this will work for 8.10 and 9.04 as well.

I just went through eight Twitter apps for Linux to determine which will be my new Twitter client, and I thought I'd share my thoughts of them with you.

I tried four native Linux apps that I obtained through Ubuntu's Add/Remove feature under the Applications menu, and another four for Adobe Air. I decided to do this because I realized that TweetDeck was a memory hog and, though I have two gigabytes of RAM, it would slow some of my other programs from time to time. Here's my initial thoughts (I'll get a little more detailed after the tables ... and there are no screenshots).

So, next week I'm going to upgrade my Ubuntu installation from a Heron to an Ibex. I'm actually kind of excited about this. I've read a lot of good things about it ... even though one ZDNet writer said it was closer to a Service Pack than a new release. Anyway, I've updated a virtual installation I have of Ubuntu on my work computer to Ubuntu 8.10 and I like it, so far.