Medibuntu Update

Just update the instructions for installing Medibuntu on 12.04.

http://www.unixmen.com/how-to-add-medibuntu-repository-in-ubuntu-via-terminal-and-gui/

LibreOffice and OpenOffice

When Sun was brought by Oracle, OpenOffice was replaced by LibreOffice.  Although they are supposedly very similar, it seems the LibreOffice is a bit less polished then the OpenOffice, and a bit slower too it seems.

Luckily putting back OpenOffice is not that difficult.   With three easy steps, and you are there:

1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/office
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install openoffice

(reference: http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/05/how-to-install-apache-openoffice-34-via.html)

Kubuntu and VirtualBox

I have hold back the upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 as I have learnt my lessons not to upgrade to the latest as soon as it arrives as it is better to wait a while for all the initial teething problems getting fixed.

And 11.10 is working fine for me, well on my netbook anyway.  I know it is running the same Linux under the hood, but Kubuntu seems to handle power management a lot better.  At least my netbook won't put into sleep whenever I pull the power plug.

Anyway, the urge for me to upgrade to 12.04 is VirtualBox.  11.10 is just painfully slow running on VirtualBox.  Hence, I decided to upgrade to the newer version to see if it helps.  Gladly, it seems to work better.  At least I don't need to wait for a minutes for responses.

Update: The latest version of VirtualBox 4.2 seems to fixed the performance issue.  In fact, the new version has improved the speed across the board.