After the new version of Ubuntu (9.10 or Karmic Koala) has been released, I put here a short status on Drupal 6 packages in Ubuntu.

The good new is that there is a package for Drupal 6 in most recent Ubuntu versions:

• Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) has Drupal 6.10
• Karmic Koala (9.10) has Drupal 6.12
• Lucid Lynx (10.04) - not yet released - has Drupal 6.12

Thanks for Markus Heberling and Luigi Gangitano!

I have started a series of tutorials to describe how to set up a Drupal development environment on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) LAMP server. This LAMP server can be a virtual machine over VMware server.

Session 1: Setting up the LAMP server as a virtual machine
Session 2: Additional components to the LAMP server: webmin, phpMyAdmin, NFS, PHP GD library
Session 3: Configuring the LAMP server: networking, NFS, firewall
Session 4: Drupal install

"Summary: On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely."

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Details on: www.useit.com/alertbox/percent-text-read.html

I just repost it, in order to recall it later. :)

I decided to use this site exclusively for Drupal related staff. So I took a new theme and voile.

There is already the second maintenance release for Drupal 6, followed in short time. Both releases correct something only in D6. It means, D6 has introduced some new bugs and/or features with security leaks. I hope it's over now ...

I updated the site, and still waiting for the Views for D6.

I have found a very handy small module, which allows me to insert image into the content. The size of the images is also very well under control. See this howto.

I decided to upgrade my site content and design to Drupal 6. It runs now without any problem. I'm still waiting for some contributed modules like CCK and Views, but the main features are already alive!