Maverick Meerkat upgrade.

Ubuntu 10.10 codename 'Maverick' is finally being given to us, among other goodies is the new KDE 4.5 release on board, there are by the way no packages planned for Kubuntu 10.04 LTS, so is recommended to upgrade to 10.10 (normal release) if you want to try the newest KDE release software.

Upgrading from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 10.10 on a desktop system couldn't be any easier, first press Alt+F2 and type in "update-manager -d" (without the quotes) into the command box. Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release '10.10' is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions.

As i'm writing this, the upgrade process is happening, will let you know more when i do :-) 

Network manager issue on Kubuntu 10.04

Today i'll show you how to re-enable the network manager on Kubuntu 'Lucid' 

After upgrading to Kubuntu 10.04 a couple of weeks ago, everything worked just perfect, but today, as i switched on my notebook i couldn't get online, neither by wlan nor by cable, a situation i just couldn't understand because it was working just a few hours ago.

After a few minutes of Google search i found out that this issue is known as bug #524454 and thank the Ubuntu community there's a simple solution to it:

Open up a terminal and start dolphin as root 'sudo dolphin' then navigate to /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state, this is a text file that you can open in your favorite text editor, if you were victim of this bug your network setting should be NetworkingEnable=false, just change 'false' to 'true', save the file and then let the command 'sudo restart network-manager' work it's magic... voila!