NAMAKU TUX

Ubuntu is now pushing its portable package manager (snap) as the default, alternate package management. Started from 21.10, Firefox is now delivered as Snap by default. If you're using a decent machine with SSD, you probably won't notice a significant speed issue. But if you're still play around with an older gear, Firefox snap will load slower than previous, deb version. There are simple ways to install Firefox DEB version on your Ubuntu 22.04: 1. Uninstall Firefox Firstly, of course, you have to uninstall the default Firefox snap version: sudo apt remove firefox 2. Install Firefox ESR Firefox ESR is similar to Ubuntu LTS. It is a stable, longer supported Firefox version you can use safely. There is an official Firefox ESR PPA repository you can use: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa sudo apt update sudo apt install firefox-esr 3. Install Firefox Beta If you prefer the newest Firefox version, you could use Firefox Beta PPA:  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillatea...

There is a very popular multimedia format called Shockwave (with swf file format). This is an awesome format that we could use it to make a lightweight video tutorial or, commonly used to build a lightweight but rich and interactive game called flashgame. To play swf, we need an software called flashplayer. And there are two version of flashplayer : (1) Flashplayer browser plugin that works with Internet Browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome and IE; (2) Flashplayer Standalone. This is a standalone software (with window and menus) to open swf files. The easier way to play swf is by Internet Browser with flashplayer plugin, but that is little less elegant and little more heavy than using Standalone Player. In Linux, there are some Flashplayer Standalone project, includes open source and proprietary project : libflash-swfplayer. This is an obsolete project and its package doesn't exist anymore in Ubuntu repository above Hardy Heron. Gnash. This is popular open source flas...

Because of many reasons, Ubuntu now has became a very popular Linux Desktop Distribution (probably the most popular). As result, Debian package management (dpkg), also has grown very popular as well as Ubuntu. Now, many third party software developer (Adobe, Real Player, Foxit, etc), almost always, provides their software installer in Debian package (with .deb extension), alongside or even instead of RPM and other package managements in Linux. Of course, this is not a sign that in the future, Debian package will be the only package management that will be used in every Linux distribution. Every Linux distribution has its own strength and weakness, so we must realize that all Linux distributions must live and grow bigger together, to pursue the ultimate advantage of the free and open source softwares (FOSS). Now, I want to share a little tip to build a Debian package (.deb) using a basic element of Debian system called dpkg-dev. Dpkg-dev is a basic tool in Debian system to make simp...