Ever since my original post on installing Enlightenment E17 on Debian and Ubuntu things have changed, such as the server that hosted the package repositories for both Debian & Ubuntu going off-line (supposedly temporarily but it’s been offline for almost 6 months). Also, I’ve been having issues with E17 working correctly on my laptop running [...]

Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/05/37446.aspx … be sure the Universe section is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, then run as root: wget -q -O – http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash aptitude install firmware-addon-dell aptitude install $(bootstrap_firmware -a) update_firmware Thanks Dell!

Update, April 17th, 2008: This post is out of date, for a Debian update see: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/17/update-on-enlightenment-e17-for-debian/ See newer instructions for Ubuntu here: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/15/e17-on-ubuntu-revisited/ Look for my latest postings on E17 as this information could be out-of-date: http://timony.com/mickzblog/category/e17/ UPDATE, April 14th 2008: Edevelop.org is temporarily down as they move their server to a new datacenter, which [...]