Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
A botched update to the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution sent bewildered users back to the command line early last week, in an embarrassing episode that the Ubuntu project management team at Canonical would no doubt prefer to forget.
According to reports circulating the web, an update to the windowing
system was sent to Ubuntu users on Monday last week and upon
installation users could no longer launch the Ubuntu graphical user
interface.
Instead, users who wished to run applications were forced to do it the
way DOS, VMS and the various flavours of Unix users did in the 1980s -
through the command line.
While this may not have been a problem for many veteran Linux users,
many of the newer breed of users who mainly came know Linux through
GUIs presented by the more popular distros such as Ubuntu were stuck.
To Canonical's credit, however, the company was relatively quick to act
and withdrew the faulty patch. On Tuesday, Canonical posted a working
update and posted instructions on its website so that users could
restore their systems from the command line.
"We are aware this not the ease of use you came to Ubuntu for," Canonical said sheepishly on its website.
Heck, one day working from the command line. You know Linux is really
starting to take hold in the mainstream when users can't live without
their GUI for a day.
David Bass
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