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September 20th, 2006: Tollef Fog Heen has announced the third alpha release (also referred to as "Knot CD") of Ubuntu 6.10: "Welcome to Edgy Eft Knot 3. The primary changes from Knot 2 have been finalising of feature goals and bugfixing. Common to all variants, we have changed the init system from the venerable sysvinit to upstart which is an event-driven init script system. In addition, all derivatives have new artwork, both for usplash as well as for login managers and default backgrounds. In Ubuntu, GNOME has been updated to 2.16.0. In Kubuntu, Konversation 1.0 has been included. For Xubuntu, the XFce core applications have been upgraded to 4.4 release candidate 1." Read the release announcement and visit the Knot 3 features page to learn more. "Desktop" and "Alternate" CD images for three architectures can be downloaded from the project's main download server.
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September 6th, 2006: Howtoforge has a nice howto on setting up Vmware server on Ubuntu.
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August 24th, 2006: Ubuntu starts an advertising campaign. Billboards for Ubuntu have been showing up in Silicon Valley, namely off of highway 101 in Redwood City, and elsewhere. The billboards say "Ubuntu: Linux for (servers and) human beings".
lifehacker posts their pick of the top 10 (*cough* 11) Ubuntu apps and tweaks.
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August 11th, 2006: Ubuntu announces a minor update to Dapper: "The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS, the first maintenance release of 'Dapper Drake'. This release includes both installable Desktop CDs and alternate text-mode installation CDs for several architectures, for Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu. Xubuntu is also included, although commercial support for it is not available from Canonical Ltd." The announcement is available here.
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August 7th, 2006: Ubuntu has called for a t-shirt competition. The winning Ubuntu t-shirt entry will win five Ubuntu t-shirts of the same winning design. Designs must be sent to chris.kenyon@ubuntu.com by 08:00 UTC (that's GMT) on Wednesday 9th August 2006. Read more about it here
Subuntu does a review of Ubuntu Dapper.
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July 26th, 2006: The register interviews Mark Shuttleworth about the next step for Ubuntu in the marketplace.
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July 25th, 2006: Lxer interviews Simon Law, the "Bug Czar" of Ubuntu.
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July 24th, 2006: The first preview of Edgy Eft has been released. Read more about it here.
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July 18th, 2006: Xarq blogs about how he has set up his UI for a highly efficient and gorgeous workspace.
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June 23rd, 2006: Benjamin Mako Hill reports on the New Ubuntu Edgy Eft planning meeting, already underway in Paris, France.
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June 22nd, 2006: Novell ousts their CEO and CFO for lack of Linux sales. Could it be that Ubuntu's success is the reason for their demise?
This howto shows how to install Internet Explorer on Ubuntu Dapper in 3 easy steps.
Pat Patterson writes about recovering a hard drive with the Ubuntu LiveCD.
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June 2nd, 2006: ZDNet interviews RedHat about their take on Linux today.
UbuntuForums.org is voted overwhelmingly in favor of being critical to Ubuntu.
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June 1st, 2006: Mark Shuttleworth, the SABDFL, congratulates the Ubuntu Developers for the Dapper Final release in his blog entitled Do the Dapper Dance.
The final release of Dapper is here! "The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, codenamed "Dapper Drake". This release includes both installable Desktop CDs and alternate text-mode installation CDs for several architectures, for Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu. Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available with a few clicks from a global network of mirrors, and professional commercial technical support from Canonical Ltd and hundreds of other companies around the world. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will be the first Ubuntu release with a long-term support cycle: free security updates and commercial technical support will be available for three years on the desktop, and five years on the server." You can start your downloads here.
BeginningUbuntu.com writes 25 tips on personalizing Ubuntu for everyday use.
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May 30th: On August 18th and 19th, Google will be hosting the Ubucon - a free conference for Ubuntu users, sysadmins, and developers.
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May 26th: Matt Zimmerman announces the release candidate for Ubuntu Dapper.
Subuntu takes a break for some internal reorganization. The site has been redesigned with Common Lisp and many new changes are planned, so stay tuned.
Google releases Picasa for Linux.
Intel prepares to release a Core 2 DUO processor clocked at 2.93 ghz.
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April 25th: Arun posts a howto for installing Oracle 10g Express Edition on Ubuntu.
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April 24th: Edubuntu follows in the footsteps of Kubuntu and Ubuntu with their Beta release of Dapper Drake. You can read the press release and download it here.
Newsforge talks about Edgy Eft.
CRN.com talks about the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure forming as a Linux standard, along with the Linux Standards Base standard.
BitUbique has a tech note on speeding up Mozilla Firefox on Ubuntu Dapper.
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April 21st: Arstechnica talks about the new Ubuntu name, Edgy Eft. Edgy Eft is to be released next the end of 2006, and some exciting talk of features is already going on.
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April 20th: For those of you patiently waiting for Dapper to get past Alpha, the first Ubuntu Dapper Beta has been released! "The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Beta Release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS - codenamed 'Dapper Drake'. The Beta Release introduces the new Desktop CD, which can be used both to try Ubuntu 'live' and to install the system. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (long-term support) will be the first Ubuntu release to be supported for three years on the desktop, and five years on the server. See the release announcement for download locations and a list of tasty treats you'll find in this awesome release"! Ladies and Gentlemen, fire up your bittorrent clients!
The next release of Ubuntu to come after Dapper Drake has finally been named - Edgy Eft. Mark Shuttleworth hints at what may be included in Edgy: "So dream a little about Xen for virtualisation, Xgl/AIGLX and other wonderful wobbly window bits, the goodness of Network Manager, a first flirt with multiarch support for true mixed 32-bit and 64-bit computing on AMD64, the interesting possibilities of the SMART package manager... and other pieces of infrastructure which have appeared tantalisingly on the horizon."
Hewlett Packard announces server blade management software for Linux.
More than a dozen technology companies, including Canonical (Ubuntu), IBM, Red Hat, and Novell are planning to support a new integrated server and desktop Linux standard unveiled at next week's Linux Desktop Summit by the Free Standards Group (FSG). The two new Linux Standards have been integrated into the Linux Standards Base, and bump the LSB to version 3.1. Canonical will be certifying Ubuntu as compliant with the standard.
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April 19th: OSWeekly.com writes about Linux filesystems. Excellent article for a closer look into Linux filesystems.
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April 18th: Speculation abounds for Oracle to buy Ubuntu, but is Ubuntu actually for sale?
Important news for dual-boot Ubuntu and Intel Mac users. Some users are reporting a bug in the Boot Camp partitioner which is causing OS X to fail to boot, or kernel panic. Recommendations were to try the install again with different partition settings.
MadPenguin reviews Ubuntu Dapper Flight 5.
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April 13th: ATI updates the linux drivers for their catalyst video cards.
BehindUbuntu.org launches to bring a series of interviews with the Ubuntu teams.
News.com discusses leaner virtualization software for Linux and Windows, made by SWsoft.
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April 12th: Tectonic continues the thread about Kubuntu's divide on (financial) support for the Kubuntu team.
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April 11th: SourceForge hosts a project to install Linux on an iPod. Too bad it requires Mac OS X.
DesktopLinux discusses the parts of Ubuntu which are now being used in Mepis, a Linux distro.
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April 10th: KeithCu.com talks about Ubuntu becoming ready for the desktop. Written from the perspective of an ex-Microsoft programmer.
The Kubuntu team threatens to close shop if they don't get funding from Canonical to continue their development.
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April 6th: Apple's boot camp release, which is a firmware update which adds BIOS support to the Intel Macs, apparently makes it very easy to install and run Ubuntu. Two Ubuntistas have already successfully installed Ubuntu thanks to boot camp. You can read about their experiences here and here.
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April 5th: OSWeekly.com posts part two of Secure Programming in GNU/Linux Systems.
LinuxWorld continues the GPL3 and Linux Kernel developer thread.
The Linux Professional Institute announces professional certification for Ubuntu.
Arstechnica covers day one of LinuxWorld Expo Boston.
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April 4th: ONLamp.com has an interesting article about the cell processor and the Playstation 3, Linux, and Apple. Definitely worth a read for insight into the future of computing.
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April 3rd: Dapper Flight 6 is now available for download: Ubuntista Tollef Fog Heen announces: "Hello world, Flight 6, the latest alpha of Dapper Drake, is available. These releases are tested to be reasonably free of show stopper bugs, but are obviously still alpha quality, so do not use these on your production systems. You can download the Flight 6 cd here:"
Europe:
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-6/ (Ubuntu)
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/dapper/flight-6 (Edubuntu)
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/dapper/flight-6/ (Kubuntu)
United Kingdom, and the rest of the world:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-6/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/dapper/flight-6/ (Edubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/dapper/flight-6/ (Kubuntu)
You can read the full announcement here.
Net-Security.org announces a security vulnerability affecting dia in Ubuntu 4.10, 5.04, and 5.10.
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March 31st: LXer writes an article about customizing Ubuntu.
OSWeekly releases the first part of an article on Programming GNU/Linux systems.
Interested in what's to cYou can read about two Ubuntistas experiences with it already,ome with Dapper Flight 6? The Flight 6 wiki pages are up and brimming with information.
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March 30th: FT.com writes an article about Ubuntu called The powerful appeal of something for nothing.
Nepotismia reviews Ubuntu Dapper Flight 5, going into detail about the install process, Gnome 2.14, multimedia, productivity, and more.
Mahangu.org describes their Dapper 5 experience, devoting most of their time to talking about problems.
ArsTechnica takes a look at Gnome 2.14, which is the version of Gnome currently shipping in Ubuntu Dapper.
Mayank Sharma writes a good article for beginners on using EasyUbuntu. EasyUbuntu is a tool to set up Ubuntu to play MP3, AVI, WMA, and other formats.
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March 29th: Ubuntu 4.10 is nearing its end of support, this April 30th 2006. This means no security updates and advisories will be released for 4.10. You can read more about it here.
Ravi Kumar discusses a new book called Beginning Ubuntu Linux, mainly describing the chapters of the book.
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March 28th: Here is a howto on setting up a Mini-ITX running Ubuntu as a Personal Video Recorder (PVR).
Peter Chabada posts 40+ suggestions for a better Linux Desktop.
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March 27th: Vim7.0b (beta) has been released to ftp.vim.org. Vim is a popular text editor for Ubuntu which has received numerous awards.
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March 25th: nUbuntu Flight 5 is scheduled to be released in 1-2 weeks: "This release will feature a polished Fluxbox interface with an awesome toolset. If you would like to suggest any packages please drop by to our IRC channel on irc.kaffeinenet.com #nubuntu or you can sign up on our forums and make a suggestion. Hope people are anticipated for this release. As I feel I am going to enjoy creating it for people".
The Dapper Flight 6 page goes up to prepare for its release, which is apparently 2 weeks away. Flight 6 is an alpha release.
WebProNews.com has a follow-up article, called "The Best Mac OS is Ubuntu", about the story about the art professor who installed Ubuntu on all of the Macs in his digital art lab.
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March 24th: iP3K compares Dapper Drake Flight 5 to Windows XP and talks a bit about GNOME deskbar and Xgl.
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March 23rd: An art professor discusses his move from Mac OS X digital media apps to Ubuntu digital media apps, such as Scribus, Gimp, and Quanta Plus.
InfoWorld discusses Scalix and Zimbra, two enterprise AJAX email applications for Linux.
Forbes interviews Richard Stallman about the GPLv3, the RIAA and MPAA, and Digital Rights Management.
Nautopia has a howto on creating a DVD which contains multiple liveCD's. So now you can make a single DVD which can start, for example, Ubuntu Breezy live, Ubuntu Dapper live, Edubuntu live, and nUbuntu.
OpenWebTech posts a howto on encrypting a USB memory stick with LUKS on Ubuntu Dapper. LUKS is a new standard in Linux hard disk encryption.
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March 22nd: The OSDL makes an effort to tighten relations with the Linux kernel contributors.
The Linux kernel 2.6.16 has been released, featuring support for multi-core processors like the cell processor used in Playstation 3 and Sun's Niagara processor. You can read more about it here
Newsforge reports on how Mepis is now using Ubuntu Base instead of Debian. We've reported on this before.
LUGRadio has announced that Mark Shuttleworth will be making an appearance at LUGRadio Live 2006, which takes place in Wolverhampton, England on the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd July. LUGRadio Live 2006 follows on from last year’s inaugural community event for Free Software and Open Source fans. This year over 40 speakers, an exhibition and BOF sessions are packed into the event. You’ll recognise some Ubuntu names among the speakers, such as Scott James Remnant, Matthew Garrett and Jonathan Riddell. Also appearing will be Simon Phipps, Michael Meeks, Sarah Ewan, Christian Schaller, Gervase Markham… and many more.
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March 21st: LinuxBoxAdmin discusses whether having root disabled by default is safer. This article is written for Mac OS X, but Ubuntu shares the same default setup, so it is a good read.
Mark Shuttleworth makes his official announcement about the delay of Dapper Drake.
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March 20th: Ubuntu Center is released. From the Ubuntu Center homepage, "Ubuntu Center is a web based interface written in php for accessing all kinds of infomations thats being stored on your computer running Ubuntu, Kubuntu, XUbuntu, or even nUbuntu box. Ubuntu Center accomplishes all of this by integrating php software licensed under the GPL licence in one giant package suitable for use on a Ubuntu computer some software included includes Ampache for music, Torrentflux for torrent downloads, Orgcal for calendar, and much more".
Lxer.com does a comparison of Ubuntu, Windows XP, and Mac OS X for desktop users. It's amazing how far Ubuntu has come that it now gets compared apart from the rest of the Linux distros.
Novell starts their SLC conference today, with more than 6,000 computer executives, programmers, and engineers expected in attendance.
|  | March 17th: Linux.com reviews Gnome 2.14, which is already in Dapper Drake.
Unix.org has a good article explaining 64-bit support for Unix. Not for the technically disinclined.
LinuxDevCEnter has an article to help newbies get up and running with Kubuntu.
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March 16th: After the community irc meeting mentioned on March 12th, the Ubuntu development team has decided to delay the final release of Dapper Drake to June first. Dapper Flight 5, however, is currently available. You can read the meeting discussion here.
Linux.com discusses Automatix, the controversial desktop setup help tool everyone loves to talk about.
IBM DeveloperWorks has a nice article on accessing the Linux kernel through the /proc filesystem.
|  | March 15th: LinuxBoxAdmin compares the Mac to Linux, pointing out the software integration and documentation differences, printing differences, and other differing characteristics. Definitely has some food for thought for the Ubuntu development team.
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March 14th: KDE-Look hosts the Kubuntu Dapper Preview for download and perusal. Thanks to Ubuntista Tonio for posting this.
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March 13th: An extremely critical security hole was discovered and announced on Ubuntu Forums yesterday. The root password is apparently being stored in the installer log file. The hole has already been fixed, so be sure to get the patch right away. You can read more about it here.
OSDir releases a slideshow presentation of Ubuntu Dapper.
OSNews talks about dual-booting OS X and Ubuntu on an iBook.
Newsforge has a great article on whether Gimp is actually meeting the needs of the Linux artistic community. After all, Photoshop was voted the third most-wanted app to be ported to Linux last month.
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March 12th: Mark Shuttleworth has proposed that Dapper be delayed by six weeks in order to do additional validation, certification, localization, and polish. "I would like to call for a community 'town hall' meeting on Tuesday 14th March - once at 09:00 UTC (for the Aussies and Asian communities) and then again at 18:00 UTC (for Europe and the Americas). The meetings will be in #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net. Based on feedback at those meetings, we will ask the Tech Board and the Community Council to take a view on the proposal, and announce the decision by the end of the week. Work towards our feature goals for Dapper is very much on target". You can read his full announcement here, and Tectonic's comment on the matter here.
Dapper's latest alpha release, Flight 5, is now available for download and upgrade. Ubuntista Tollef Fog Heen writes: "Hello world, Flight 5, the latest alpha of Dapper Drake, is available. These releases are tested to be reasonably free of show stopper bugs, but are obiviously still alpha quality, so do not use these on your production systems. You can download the Flight 5 cd here: Europe: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-5/ (Ubuntu) http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/dapper/flight-5/ (Edubuntu) United Kingdom, and the rest of the world: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/dapper/flight-5/ (Ubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/dapper/flight-5/ (Edubuntu) The Kubuntu images were not ready at the time of this announcement, but they will be in the near future and will be announced then. Please download using BitTorrent if possible, and see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Archive for other mirrors. A list of notable changes in this release across the whole distribution is available here, thanks to Matt Galvin: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/flight5". Read the full announcement here.
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March 10th: The Ubuntu team has announced that they will support Sun Microsystem's Niagara processor. Fabio Di Notto, one of the Ubuntu developers, wrote in an email announcement: "Thanks to extraordinary efforts from David Miller, the Ubuntu SPARC team and the entire Linux-on-SPARC community, it should now be possible to test out the complete Ubuntu installer and environment on Niagara machines. As of today, the unofficial community port of Ubuntu to SPARC should be installable on Niagara, and we would love to hear reports of success or failure (and love them more if they come with patches for performance or features :-))." You can read more about the "Niagara" UltraSparc T1 processor here.
kidcharles posts a howto on the Ubuntu Forums for getting World of Warcraft running on Ubuntu.
O'Reilly's OSDir has an article on fine tuning Kubuntu.
The Mactel Linux SourceForge project is started, and the Ubuntu LiveCD gets posted for Intel Macs!
| | March 9th: The Itanium alliance announces that they will invest $10 billion in improving Linux on the Intel Itanium platform. You can read more about it here.
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March 8th: An Ubuntista posts a screenshot of the Ubuntu LiveCD custom patched and running on an Intel iMac. So, when will an ISO be released?
LinuxQuestions.org polls Linux users for the best Linux distro, and Ubuntu wins with 19.49%. Coming in a very close second was Slackware with 19.05%. The poll is, of course, weighted more towards those who need to go to LinuxQuestions.org for help. You can read more about it here
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March 7th: Learn how to securely delete files from your Ubuntu system with this tutorial on shred.
Foodfight.org provides us with a couple dozen short movies of Ubuntistas introducing themselves. Meet part of the development team!
Here is yet another howto for Ubuntu Novices.
Apple Matters forays into a world of fantasy without Microsoft, and just Apple and Linux competing for, uh, marketshare.
Larry Ellison claims that Oracle is the key to open source success. For some reason that doesn't come as a surprise. Oh, and IBM and Intel too.
Linspire's CEO and Mark Shuttleworth and reportedly in talks about offering Linspire's CNR service for Ubuntu. CNR was reported on previously.
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March 6th: On UbuntuForums.org, tseliot posts a howto on building your own Linux Kernel.
To further add to the Gubuntu confusion, an anonymous user posts an image with the letter "G" from Google appended to the word "ubuntu", along with a blurb which says "Linux for Human Beings and Google users. Coming Soon...". Note that this is on a random ordinary image server and isn't even a real web site. Is it a hoax or a promise?
Lxer has an article on giving some ex-Windows users an OS makeover when Windows didn't fit the bill.
Ubuntu developers held their "Artwork Weekend" this last weekend, to get some UI decisions made for Ubuntu Dapper. You can read more about it here.
The carrier grade Linux specification v3.2 has been released, and vendors are already scrambling for compliance. Read more about it here.
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March 3rd: Ubuntista Matthew Garrett has posted a screenshot of Ubuntu running on a new Intel iMac, and apparently, a glass of Rioja to celebrate the initial success. The graphics are unaccelerated due to lack of driver support for the ATI Avivo chips, but the firmware's framebuffer is good enough for low graphics-intensive computing. After a good deal of kernel modifications are done for the Macintel architecture, Ubuntistas should be able to run Ubuntu on Intel Macs!
For those of you interested in learning about connecting remotely to other machines, here is a ssh tutorial.
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March 2nd: Jono Bacon has been working with Benjamin Mako Hill, Corey Burger, Ivan Krstic, Jonathan Jesse and some other authors on the Official Ubuntu Book. It will be available in bookstores as well as online under the free CCL license. He is accepting contributions here. You can read more about it here.
The Ubuntu Lite distro is released for slower machines.
Linspire considers selling their CNR services to Ubuntistas. It may be a hard sell though, since aptitude is so easy to use.
Here is a tutorial on backing up your entire Ubuntu system. It says the backup process could take 15 minutes, but if you have a slow machine and a very large, full hard drive it could take much longer.
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March 1st: Stan Beer takes Ubuntu out for a test flight for the first time. His article reminds us of the importance of following the Ubuntu Code of Conduct on the forums and irc.
An Ubuntu McDonalds distribution hoax goes sour when they get dugg.
The EmbeddedUbuntu project takes off. From their wiki: "Embedded Linux is a fast growing option in the world of mobile devices, but the existing frameworks to embed Linux are either complex (e.g. use too many hacks to fake a native environment) or use proprietary code on the target side. This brings a lot of constraints to ease the porting of desktop applications to the handheld world and make a really Free embedded OS. Embedded Ubuntu is an initiative to build a community around the development of a highly flexible (albeit simple) framework to generate customised Ubuntu derivatives for target mobile devices". You can read more about it here
LXer talks about why they like Ubuntu, from the standpoint of an experienced user.
| | February 28th: Dell refuses to admit that it sells PC's running Red Hat Linux, even though it is obvious.
CIO Today has an article about Linux making inroads into enterprise.
A system which can run Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux at native speeds is not far off. Amit Singh has already accomplished it with a new Intel Mac and VMWare. No Linux releases have support for the intel Mac yet, but Ubuntu should have it in eight months or sooner. Way to go, Amit!
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February 27th: Linux-Blog has a controversial article stating that Ubuntu is not for new Linux users.
All is quiet on the Ubuntu frontier as Ubuntu Dapper is less than two months away from release.
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February 23rd: Panda Software has released new antivirus software for Linux.
Novell has announced the result of their poll about the most-wanted Linux apps. In order of most wanted, they are: Quickbooks, Autocad, Photoshop, iTunes, DreamWeaver, Visio, Lotus Notes, Quicken, Macromedia Studio, and Act! You can read more about it here at Newsforge.
Ubuntu almost reaches the feature freeze milestone. In two days feature freeze will be in effect. This means the developers *should* only be working on bug fixes. You can read more about it here and here.
| | February 22nd: IDC reported today that Linux server sales last quarter was $1.6 billion, which is a record high. HP is apparently one of the companies making a lot of money off of those Linux server sales. You can also read more about it here.
And here is a satire on Launchpad. Warning, if you don't have a sense of humor, don't click on this link! Funny, why didn't Debian get sharply criticized for giving away their distro for free?
Mark Shuttleworth discusses Dapper, Ubuntu community, and Launchpad more in depth here
A howto surfaces for installing the Mezzo desktop on Ubuntu.
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February 21st: ZDnet has an article about Gnome targeting corporate desktops, especially with lock-down editor "Pessulus".
An Ubunutu vs. Tiger benchmark puts Ubuntu far ahead, both on a G5 and a Pentium M processor.
FreeSoftwareMagazine has an interview with Mark Shuttleworth.
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February 20th: Distrowatch features an article on Mark Shuttleworth and his tour of asia.
Ebuntu has joined the ranks of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and nUbuntu. The E comes from usage of Enlightenment as the default window manager. Here is the Wiki page for Ebuntu, and the press release.
Three Ubunteros Benoit Caccinolo, Lionel Dricot (aka Ploum) and Joyce Markoll have written a book for beginner Ubuntu users in French. | |
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February 19th: Dapper Drake release four, featuring the new graphical installer ("Espresso"), is now available for download: "This week brings us Dapper Flight 4, the fourth alpha release of Ubuntu 6.04 - The Dapper Drake. Dapper Flight 4 is the product of over 3 months of tremendous effort to mold the latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer into a coherent easy to use whole. The most significant milestone for Dapper Flight 4 is the UVF (Upstream Version Freeze). Aside from a few exceptions such as GNOME 2.14 and Espresso, most of what is in Dapper now is what will be in the final release in April." You can read more about it and download here. | |
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February 17th: UbuntuBlog is now doing podcasts.
Wine, which isn't a windows emulator, is updated to 0.9.8.
HP opens a UK Linux testing center.
| | February 16th: SecurityDistro interviews TomB, the creator of nUbuntu. Offers some insight for those who are thinking of trying out nUbuntu, and a good picture of how nUbuntu fits into release cycles of Ubuntu.
The Linux MacTel effort has announced that they have reached a milestone in their development, a dual-core intel-based iMac now boots Linux! Looks like there's a very good change Ubuntu will run on MacTel in eight months! For the uninitiated, in eight months, August 2006, is the next scheduled release of Ubuntu after the Dapper release in April.
| February 15th: Yet another study which shows that Linux is less expensive than Windows.
XenSource, makers of the Linux virtualization software Xen, names Peter Levine as CEO.
ArsTechnica has a great article on writing games for Linux. | |
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February 14th: Mark Shuttleworth replies to the Goobuntu rumors, to say he has been receiving Ubuntu patches from Google, but no he is not aware of any plans from Google to distribute their own distro based on Ubuntu.
O Reilly plans to release a new book Ubuntu Hacks, and the rough cuts release is available now. | |
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February 13th: The Mandriva CEO talks about, among other things, Ubuntu.
All about Linux has a tutorial on setting up MySQL on Ubuntu.
IT Manager's journal talks about politeness in Open Source culture. | |
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February 10th: Linux Kernel 2.6.15.4 has been released, with 24 minor bugfixes.
FlackOS posts 10 guides for a New Ubuntu User.
OpenSourceBiz talks about using XUbuntu, which is Ubuntu with XFCE as the window manager instead of Gnome.
Daniel Holbach is looking for volunteers for a new testing program, which is a checklist to go through while installing a test release. Feedback is direct through the wiki pages, and will be very helpful for the developers to know what to fix - "But we want this to be a special Bug Day. We’re going to have lists of things to do of different Ubuntu teams, so we can better track the impact we had. Planning is one thing, but we’ll surely stick to our concept of success: the Hug Day. This is a very special Bug Day: on Hug Day, when someone closes a bug, then someone else should hug him/her. Why? This is a very special way for us to tell everyone that we love contributions! And triaging bugs is a really big contribution." The introduction is here.
Vincent Untz posts the second issue of Ubuntu Desktop News, which has some great info on what will be new in the Dapper release, an interview with Daniel Holbach, and more. | |
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February 9th: Mepis may be moving in a new direction soon. Future MEPIS releases may be built from Ubuntu sources rather than Debian sources. Read more about it here
eWeek speculates about "getting Linux on the desktop".
A swedish Ubuntu mirror estimates that hundreds of thousands of CD images were downloaded in the first week of the Breezy release, from their mirror alone: "The 42TB total network traffic over the week around the Breezy release shown in this last graph is equivalent to about 70 thousand cd-images. We estimate that about 10-15 thousand cd-images were downloaded during the first day and about 100 thousand cd-images (60TB) during the week following the release." See their graphs here. Congratulations! | |
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February 8th: Zimbra announces the launch of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite for Linux. Oh, and Windows and Mac are supported as well.
Instalinux, a system designer which allows you to design Linux system profiles, adds support for Kubuntu.
Looks like the next Ubuntu Love Tour will be in Europe. | | February 7th: Google denies that they are working on their own version of Linux to distribute or sell to the public. "We utilize the Ubuntu technology for internal use, but have no plans to distribute it outside of the company," the spokeswoman said. She also denied the company was using the name "Goobunto" internally for the software, saying, "It's just an internal system."
Novell is apparently working hard on improving the graphics performance of XGL, which will speed up the Gnome and KDE desktops. Hopefully this improvement will make it into the next Ubuntu release as well. Read more about it here.
| February 6th: Publish.com wonders why a recent survey places Photoshop as the most wanted Linux app.
MontaVista prepares to change the embedded software market with Linux.
SWsoft's virtualization software for Linux, Virtuozzo, promises zero downtime.
The Ubuntu Fridge reports about the end of the Linux hackfest, dubbed Sprint. | |
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February 4th: EasyUbuntu, the script which automatically installs lots of helpful additions to Ubuntu, now has its own web site. A similar script, Automatix, was mentioned in the Subuntu news yesterday. | |
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February 3rd: Mark Shuttlework is talking to the government about open source.
PC World has an article about Ubuntu and Automatix.
Canonical, the Ubuntu commercial sponsor, goes to Manila.
This howto for installing Ubuntu on an external hard drive is very useful.
Here is an interview with the team leader of the Ubuntu Server Project. | |
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February 2nd: ZDNet features an interview with Alan Cox, one of the chief Linux kernel maintainers.
The Ubuntu reporter Jane Weideman brings us news about Sprint, an Ubuntu hackfest in London taking place this week to get some good code into the next release of Ubuntu, Dapper Drake. Here is the summary of day 3. Hackfests are always good.
Linus Torvalds offers his opinion on the best way to fight DRM. | |
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February 1st: Google has confirmed that they are using Ubuntu Linux to create a new Google OS, but they haven't stated their purpose in doing so. Read more about it here.
Howtoforge.com has a tutorial on setting up your own web server with Ubuntu.
The Ubuntu Blog has a nice howto on chatting on IRC from behind a firewall with Ubuntu. That can definitely be a catch-22, as you need IRC to ask for help, but can't log in with IRC due to the firewall. | |
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January 31st: The latest buzz about Google is that they're working on their own version of Ubuntu. Looks like great news for Ubuntu. Read more about it here.
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January 30th: SharpMusique brings a fair interface to the iTunes Music Store, on Ubuntu.
There is a new project for Linux on PSP3. Rumor has it Sony will bundle Ubuntu with the PSP 3.
Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu founder and SABDFL has won another award for Ubuntu just this last week, the Best Debian Derivative Distribution award. Read more about it here and here. | |
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January 27th: In the Dapper Drake development cycle, a new development report is available, courtesy of Jane Weideman.
As a sure sign that Ubuntu is growing rapidly, Edward A. Robinson, Grant Galbraith, Naaman Campbell, Licio Fernando, Anthony Mercante, Manu Cornet, Hou Zhengpeng, and Ming Hua have joined the Ubuntu development team. Congratulations!
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January 26th: Linus Torvalds has decided to not switch to the GPLv3. On LKML.org Linus writes: "I think it's insane to require people to make their private signing keys available, for example. I wouldn't do it. So I don't think the GPL v3 conversion is going to happen for the kernel, since I personally don't want to convert any of my code. " Here is Linus's post.
Zdnet does a speed comparison of Windows vs. Linux.
Linux Questions.org has a very useful forum for Ubuntu users.
Pertec Inc. last week introduced UbuntUSB, touted as an easy way to install Ubuntu Linux on a portable USB hard drive, letting any PC boot Ubuntu Linux without requiring either BIOS or system reconfiguration. Read more about it here.
Here is a factual comparison of the Automatix and EasyUbuntu scripts. | |
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January 25th: The Ubuntu Wiki has been updated with a howto for installing FireFox 1.5 on Ubuntu. | |
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January 24th: FreeSoftwareMagazine.com takes a look inside Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu.
Paul Graham writes an essay about working on what you love to do.
Techalign is trying to profit by selling Mepis, a Debian-based Linux distro.
LinuxHelp blogs about Essential Housekeeping for Ubuntu Breezy. | |
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January 23rd: Wolphination.com has a howto on setting up video and dvd playback on Breezy.
Leading Linux developers are currently divided on whether to use version 3 of the GPL for the Linux Kernel, but Alan Cox wants developers to stop speculating at this early stage.
Ubuntuforums.org is back up again, after a four-day downtime. | |
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January 22nd: James Henstridge has announced that Malone is complete. Ubuntu bugs should now be filed to Malone instead of bugzilla.
Installing a webcam in Ubuntu? Follow this easy guide. | |
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January 20th: TheOnlineRocket.com has a helpful article on Ubuntu for people new to Linux. Offers some helpful insight for people considering Linux.
Michael Vogt has put in a call for testing for the new upgrade tool for Ubuntu. The general idea is that when a new version of Ubuntu is released, that there should be an easy way to upgrade without manually editing text files. Read more about it here, or at fridge.ubuntu.com. | |
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January 19th: Ubuntu Guide has been reborn. This controversial document has been helpful to some, while others claim it has broken their systems through lack of better description of the actual solution needed apart from the prescribed steps to hopefully fix the problem.
This page offers some insight into how the release process works for Ubuntu Dapper 6.04. | |
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January 18th: Here is an interesting Ubuntu Documentation web site - The Ubuntu Document Storage Facility: "Here you will find all of the classic Documentation for your favorite flavor of Ubuntu. This site is run and maintained by members of Team Bahamut from UbuntuForums.org. All related documentation displayed on this site is garnered exclusively from the UbuntuForums.org". | |
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January 17th: Linshots shows some screenshots of Ubuntu Dapper Flight 3. | |
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January 16th: Ubuntu Developer Colin Watson announces the third release of Dapper Drake: "Hello world, Flight CD 3 is ready. This is the third in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Dapper development cycle, as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Dapper". Download it here. | |
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January 14th: Here is a step-by-step guide to creating a certificate in Ubuntu. | |
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January 13th: Mark Shuttleworth is going to speak at the 2006 Debian Developers Conference on May 14th-22nd in Oaxtepec, Mexico - "Shuttleworth's report is one of about 20 topics that have been accepted for inclusion on the agenda at the eight-day conference. Others include: 'OpenSolaris and Debian: Can We Be Friends?', by Sun Microsystems evangelist Simon Phipps and Alvaro Lopez Ortega; 'Debian: A Forced To Be Reckoned With', by Benjamin Mako Hill; and 'State of the art for Debian i18n/l10n', by Christian Perrier and Javier Fernandez-Sanguino.". You can read more details here. | |
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January 12th: Howtoforge.com has a great article on how to set up Samba with Ubuntu Breezy. | |
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January 11th: UbuntuLinux.nl has a very nice page on generating your own sources.list for downloading Ubuntu packages. | |
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January 3rd: Flavor 8 has a how-to on running BuzzTracker on Ubuntu.
nUbuntu is released - a collection of security tools running with Ubuntu server, to test security of other systems. | |
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December 16th: ArsTechnica talks a bit about the Ubuntu Server installation. | |
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December 15th: Dapper Drake Flight CD 2 has been released, hot off the workstations of the Ubuntu Developers: "This release has been somewhat delayed due to the switch to Linux 2.6.15 and the new hardware detection and activation infrastructure that comes along with it (new udev and the demise of the old hotplug scripts. Other significant changes affecting the installer and live CD include: new graphical x86 CD bootloader screen, using gfxboot; default vga16fb resolution changed to 640x400; new udev-based PCMCIA infrastructure supporting the new kernel....". You can download the i386 ISO here, read the release announcement here, and see the list of changes here. Get the PowerPC release here, and the AMD64 release here. | |
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December 12th: The top 10 Best Ubuntu Help sites are listed by the LinuxHelp blog. Tim blogs about Installing Kubuntu Breezy as his first trek into Linux domains. Makes a good read for someone considering switching to Linux for the first time. WordPress shows how to make quality MP3 rips in Kubuntu. | |
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December 9th: Interested in switching to another Window Manager? This howto by Stormy Eyes on UbuntuForums.org will show you how to install and configure OpenBox, a lightweight Window Manager. Digg is hosting this bash script called Easy Ubuntu, which will install a good deal of multimedia, skype, and FireFox plugins on your Ubuntu system. | |
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December 8th: Cape Argus writes about how capitalism is swamping the spirit of Ubuntu. Macedonia deploys 5,000 Linux desktops in their school, using Ubuntu. Ubuntu releases a security update to fix problems with Inkscape, which could be exploited by local attackers. More info on this patch is here. Ravi blogs about setting up flash and encrypted DVD support in Ubuntu. /bin/false writes a very useful guide to prelinking. LXer interviews Fabio Marzocca, an Ubuntu developer. | |
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December 7th: Blogging baby asks if edubuntu is the best Operating System for families, with mixed results. | |
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December 6th: Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu Linux received awards at the Linux World Expo in Frankfurt, Germany. Read about it here at http://www.ubuntux.org. | |
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November 29th: DesktopLinux.com surveys Linux users to see why people are moving to Linux as a desktop in 2005. It gives reasons like need to compete with others running Linux in the workplace, but we think it's because Ubuntu is so excellent as a desktop OS, and so easy to use. | | November 28th: Looking for a lightweight, highly configurable alternative to Gnome? We highly recommend fluxbox for having great default shortcuts and setup, and use it as our primary desktop. It's great at removing distractions and very fast too. It gets our vote as the least annoying window manager out there. You'll probably never guess who gets our vote as the most annoying. | |
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November 27th: Blogspot describes Ubuntu as a neophyte OS, but only because it's easy to use. Ubuntu stands guilty as charged when it comes to being easy to use, but still contains all the components of a very advanced OS - so we don't agree that Ubuntu is a neophyte OS - more of an OS which has no limits for reconfiguration, getting started quickly, and more. | |
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November 23rd: Ubuntu announces their first milestone CD image for the upcoming Dapper Drake release: "Flight CD 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Dapper development cycle. There aren't many visible installer changes beyond Breezy yet, as we've been concentrating on merging work from Debian unstable, on getting things up and running at all, and on design work for this development cycle. To date, there have been 5219 uploads to Dapper, of which most (4064) have been automatic syncs from Debian unstable." | |
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November 18th: Matthew J Miller has a guide to creating a dual-boot Windows XP and Ubuntu system.
System76 sets up shop to sell laptops and desktops with Ubuntu pre-installed. | |
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November 17th: Mad penguin has a good article about someone who tried installing ubuntu at work to replace their previous workstation. They went for a month without being noticed by the boss. But, is that a good thing? | |
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November 16th: Ubunutu announces an OEM version for Breezy. | |
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November 10th: From Ubuntu.com's front page: 'Ubuntu is now certified for IBM DB2 -- Ubuntu is moving into Enterprise computing with IBM's certification of Ubuntu as "Ready for IBM DB2 Software for Linux"'. Check it out in their press release (PDF file). Way to go, Ubuntu! | |
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November 3rd, 3pm: Google Print has been released. There are hundreds of hits for a search for Linux, proving that this is an invaluable service. | |
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October 29th: LXer has an article on how Ubuntu's wireless utility is easier to use than Windows, and a tutorial on setting up a Breezy Server. Also, Mark Shuttleworth updates his FAQ (the fourth update). | |
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October 28th: OSDir talks about Dapper Drake's future, as Ubuntu soars to new heights as the best Desktop Linux Distro out there, with 2700 hits daily on DistroWatch.com, a growing user community on irc and the Ubuntu Wiki and many other niches of the internet. | |
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October 27th: On Desktop Linux, Nilayan Sharma gives Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" an excellent review. | |
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October 26th: Despite wiki howto's to the contrary, Ubuntu developers recommend installing the W32Codec manually with dpkg instead of adding etch repositories, as the w32codec wiki has said to do. This is because the etch repositories could break other packages with package conflicts, or even worse, corrupt your entire package (apt-get) system. | |
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October 25th: Dapper Drake is now out in full swing in it's early early stages of development. For those of you who love being on the bleeding edge, change your sources.list and test away!! But be ready to get the full meaning of "bleeding edge" | |
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October 24th: Ubuntu Breezy has been officially released for 11 days now, with more significant developments underway. Dapper Drake is on the brink of development release, and the development team has already done a test upload of the Drake. | |
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October 23rd: Need questions answered about using Ubuntu? Fire up xchat in your Ubuntu applications, select irc.freenode.net, type /join #ubuntu, and then ask your question. Questions which are detailed and clear are more likely to be answered. Many irc users like to start their question with "Does anyone use ?" Questions like these rarely get answered, because no one knows what the real question to follow is going to be. | |
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October 19th: The Ubuntu developers have announced the release of a specialist server edition of Ubuntu Linux 5.10: "The Ubuntu team is proud to announce Ubuntu 5.10 Server, the first release of Ubuntu designed especially for server environments. Like the standard desktop Ubuntu, it occupies a single CD. However, it is distinguished by the following features: includes server-oriented kernels with out-of-the-box automatic support for multiprocessor systems; includes a wide variety of popular server applications; a slim default installation, occupying just 400 megabytes." Download it here.
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