Yesturday afternoon I was at Ubuntu Live: London. This was a co-hosted event between Canonical and IBM.

The Canonical presentations were aimed mostly at businesses, and sysadmins in particular, delving into the Ubuntu Server distribution. IBM on the other hand went deep into Ubuntu Desktop model – this speaker was really entertaining. Mark Shuttleworth was there too of course – smart guy.

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The Ubuntu Eee team announced over Twitter that the new version of Ubuntu Eee (Intrepid Ibex) will be released on the 1st January 2009.

It seems this next version may come with a new name, to avoid Copyright conflicts. No biggie.
I think Ubuntu Eee will continue to be successful, no matter what name it goes under. The Netbook Remix style is just so user-oriented. But not in a newbie way, like the original Xandros OS that comes preinstalled on Asus Eee PCs.

I’m really looking forward to the new version – I’ve been enjoying Intrepix Ibex on my desktop for a few weeks now. There’s only one bug on my Eee, that I hope gets fixed.
I installed a new wifi card, as posted earlier. It works fine with BackTrack3, but to get it working in Ubuntu I had to disable ACPI. Which is obviously not ideal, because I then lose all power management, including the battery icon/status.

I wonder if we’ll be seeing a new theme ^_^

Someone happened to be showing me a custom Linux Live USB distro the other day, which looked kinda cool. It was KDE (ew), but also had a Fluxbox setup, which is sexy in a simple way.

I took a copy, to play around with, as it seemed to have a lot of cool tools on there, some of which I had seen before, lots of which I hadn’t. This looked like a hacker’s distro.

The name is BackTrack. I didn’t look much into it, until I was watching Hak5 on Revision3 this morning, and saw a review on Maltego, which just so happens  to come with BackTrack.

So I started playing around with BT3 (after an easy upgrade), and I love it. It’s so useful.
This is a Network Security / Sysadmin must-have distro. Every tool you could possibly need, is already there, on the disc.

Maltego is pro. It’s basically an Identity lookup tool. You input a person’s details, whatever you happen to know about them, name/email/location/phone etc. and then it will look up all the information it can find on said person.

I found some very old email accounts of mine, linked to forum posts and profiles, just as old. I think I may have also discovered Kevin Rose’s personal e-mail account. No luck with Bill Gates though. ^^