Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON (Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 11:15:01 PM)
Ruphus13 writes "Ubuntu and Canonical have been very active at OSCON this year. They showcased
a new distro, announced improvements to their code-hosting platform, and made Mark Shuttleworth
third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. ...
(more)Canonical makes Ubuntu Netbook Remix official at Computex (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 05:00:00 PM)
Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
Not like we weren't totally expectant this or anything, but
Canonical has chosen Computex as the expo where it will officially showcase Ubuntu Netbook
Remix. Hailed as a "reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically ...
(more)gNewSense Distro Frees Ubuntu (Saturday 31st of May 2008 05:00:03 PM)
Linux.com (who shares common overlords with Slashdot) is reporting that gNewSense has gone 2.0.
For the uninitiated gNewSense is a stripped down version of Ubuntu's Hardy Heron for the free
os purist. Removing over 100 pieces of proprietary code and firmware, ...
(more)Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally (Friday 23rd of May 2008 06:11:23 AM)
Sdougal writes "This site is showing a Pico-ITX board running Ubuntu with no cooling
whatsoever. They even let the public guess how long it would last: 'Last week thousands of you
placed bets on how long the new Pico-ITX board from VIA, the VIA EPIA ...
(more)Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles (Thursday 15th of May 2008 10:23:55 PM)
Voodoosws points out on Mark Shuttleworth's blog Shuttleworth's call for synchronized
divulgation of Linux distributions, excerpting: "There's one thing that could convince me to
change the date of the next Ubuntu LTS: the run to collaborate with the ...
(more)Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable (Tuesday 13th of May 2008 08:15:03 PM)
SecurityBob writes "Debian package maintainers tend to very often modify the source code of the
package they are discussion so that it better fits into the distribution itself. However, most
of the time, their changes are not sent back to upstream for ...
(more)Nokia Internet Tablets to get Ubuntu and Qt ports (Friday 25th of April 2008 04:31:00 AM)
Filed under: Handhelds
We've already seen Google's Android mobile OS get shoehorned onto Nokia
N810 tablet, but it looks like the world wide web Tablet OS is about to get even more flexible
with ports of Ubuntu and the Qt toolkit. Nokia is acquiring Qt ...
(more)A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux (Thursday 03rd of April 2008 12:30:04 PM)
R3lody writes "Finding a single book that encompasses what you want to learn can be difficult.
Most cover a few portions of a subject in depth and skim over (or omit) others. Other books
will cover each topic at about the same level: high enough ...
(more)How would you change Everex's $199 gPC? (Friday 18th of January 2008 11:42:00 PM)
Filed under: Desktops, Features
Although it was (and still is, really) astoundingly easy to
simply point the finger and laugh at Everex's completely unsightly, totally underwhelming
TC2502 gPC just months ago, it appears that this thing may absolutely ...
(more)Ubuntu On Dell After Four Months (Tuesday 16th of October 2007 08:30:04 PM)
Mrcgran sends us to LXer for an examination with John Hull, a manager of the Linux social work
team at Dell, where he reports on how the Ubuntu machines have been working out for them so
far. "Embracing Ubuntu Linux on our desktops and laptops ...
(more)Ubuntu's Power Consumption Tested (Monday 15th of October 2007 06:15:03 PM)
RedDragon writes "Ubuntu 7.10 is due out on Thursday, October 18, and in addition to desktop 3D
effects, GNOME 2.20, and other kisser is the use of the Linux 2.6.22 kernel with the tick-less
(CONFIG_NO_HZ) kernel feature. But does this mean enhanced power ...
(more)GNOME 2.20 Released (Thursday 20th of September 2007 07:45:02 PM)
Gimli writes "GNOME 2.20 has been synonyms: clearly released. There are a number of
enhancements and improvements to things such as power management, Evince (the GNOME document
view), Totem (the video player), and note-taking application Tomboy. There ...
(more)Walt Mossberg gives Ubuntu the cold-shoulder (Friday 14th of September 2007 11:30:00 PM)
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Captain Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal Brigade delivered a
pounding frontal attack to the good folks in the Ubuntu bunker today, sounding off about the
Linux OS distribution that's been taking a lot of people (but not ...
(more)Compiz Gets Thumbs-Up for Gutsy Gibbon (Friday 14th of September 2007 11:00:07 AM)
Da Chronic writes "After a vigorous debate at the last Ubuntu Technical Board meeting, the
board decided to ship Ubuntu 7.10 with Compiz enabled by default. The decision was made despite
the fact that Compiz still has some significant issues relating ...
(more)New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu (Sunday 02nd of September 2007 09:00:03 PM)
Ianare sends us to Ars Technica for news of the Ubuntu Xorg BulletProof-X feature, coming soon
to a 7.10 (Gutsy) build near you. "It provides a failsafe mode that will ensure that users
never have to manually configure their graphics hardware settings ...
(more)A CIO's View of Ubuntu (Wednesday 01st of August 2007 12:55:37 PM)
Onehitwonder writes "Well-known CIO John Halamka has rigorously tested six different operating
systems over the course of a year in an effort to find a viable alternative to Microsoft
Windows on his laptop and his company's computers. Here is CIO.com's ...
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