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Goodbye Ubuntu 7.10

Almost eighteen months ago, on the 18th of October 2007, Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 7.10, codename Gutsy Gibbon. Many important features and updates made Ubuntu fans all over the world extremely happy and eager to upgrade. The default desktop environment for Ubuntu (GNOME) reached then a very important...

23 March 2009
10:23 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 30th March - 5th April, 2008

As you've probably already heard, Ubuntu 7.10 is the only operating system that has survived unscathed from a hacking competition hosted by CanSecWest Vancouver 2008 and sponsored by TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative. Excluding Ubuntu Linux, Apple's Mac OS X Leopard was the first to be owned in day 2 ...

7 April 2008
06:18 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 16th - 22nd March, 2008

The beta versions of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and Kubuntu 8.04 were released, as expected, on Thursday. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Beta brings many new interesting things, such as a brand-new and fresh theme, a revamped installer and a lot of updated applications. Would you like to know more? Please read our "What to Expect from Ubuntu ...

23 March 2008
19:54 GMT

Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched

Are you an Ubuntu user? Or have you just decided to become one? It doesn't matter how vast is your experience with the Ubuntu operating system, as long as you have a great (glamorous, unimaginable, exceptional, extraordinary, fantastic, unthinkable, unbelievable) idea and you want to share it with the world, and...

29 February 2008
03:14 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 17th - 23rd February, 2008

Great... No! Wonderful news this week, folks, as Mark Shuttleworth announced the name and the goals for the next version of Ubuntu: Intrepid Ibex a.k.a. Ubuntu 8.10, scheduled for release in October 2008. For the Intrepid Ibex, the development team will prepare an unbelievable desktop, with an amazing performance, th...

25 February 2008
03:05 GMT

Ubuntu 8.10 a.k.a. Intrepid Ibex

None other than the father of Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth, announced last night the name and the goals for the next version of this marvelous operating system, Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex); scheduled for release in October 2008: "With Hardy now past feature-freeze it's time to start to plan features ...

21 February 2008
02:38 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 10th - 15th February, 2008

Hot news ladies, gentlemen and fellow Ubuntuers, as on Monday, Alfresco, one of the leading open source alternatives for enterprise content management, announced that Ubuntu and Red Hat were Top Open Source Vendors after the results of their poll, started among its 35,000 members to see what operating systems are the...

18 February 2008
02:33 GMT

Install Firefox 3 Beta 3 on Ubuntu 7.10

Everybody's talking these days about the brand new beta release of Firefox 3, that it brings many improvements and memory leaks fixes, that it is extremely fast and polishes rough edges. Therefore I wanted to try it myself, but I didn't want to download the binary archive and do some nasty things to my syst...

16 February 2008
07:02 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 3rd - 9th February, 2008

Canonical announced on Thursday that they would resell the famous Parallels Workstation software through Ubuntu Partner Repository. What is Parallels Workstation? It is a virtualization software that allows users to easily run multiple operating systems side-by-side on a single computer without rebooting. Read more a...

11 February 2008
04:08 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 27th January - 2nd February, 2008

Wonderful news this week, as Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) Alpha 4 brought some of the coolest and most popular applications and technologies. For example: Transmission is now the default BitTorrent client instead of that old and ugly GNOME BitTorrent downloader, Brasero will be in charge of the CD/DVD burning proces...

4 February 2008
02:40 GMT

Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 4 Brings You Transmission and Brasero

The fourth alpha release of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04 (codename Hardy Heron) was released last night. It comes with extremely HOT new applications, such as the popular Transmission (as the default BitTorrent client), the awesome Brasero (as the default CD/DVD burning tool), a brand new firewall, the latest and greates...

2 February 2008
04:57 GMT

Ubuntu 7.10 on Dell's XPS M1330 Laptop

A month ago, Dell updated the Ubuntu OS to version 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on their Inspiron 530N desktop and Inspiron 1420N notebook PCs. A version which offered, for the first time in Dell's history, built-in DVD movie playback! Today, Dell makes (once again) its Linux users happy, by releasing another laptop with...

24 January 2008
04:38 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 13th - 19th January

We start this week's newsletter by letting you know that anyone can now become an Ubuntu Jedi Master if you use the latest Desktop Course released by Canonical! The course has a modular form and it should take two days to complete all the ten lessons. The course comes in two different versions, a student guide a...

21 January 2008
02:53 GMT

Installing KDE 4.0 on Ubuntu Gutsy

KDE 4 is finally out, as you probably already know, and it comes with a lot of innovations for the Linux desktop. KDE 4 is the next generation of the popular K Desktop Environment, which seeks to fulfill the need for a powerful yet easy-to-use desktop, for both personal and enterprise computing. KDE project's go...

15 January 2008
03:04 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 6th - 12th January

On Tuesday, Parallels and Canonical join forces and they will release pre-built Ubuntu virtual machines, that will allow system administrators to deploy a specialized Ubuntu system in approximately one minute. For detailed information about this collaboration, take a look here.On Wednesday, at CES 2008, an amazing pi...

14 January 2008
02:45 GMT

Kubuntu 8.04 Alpha 3 Has KDE 4.0 Final

The third alpha release of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04 (codename Hardy Heron) was released last night. This alpha comes with HOT new features and improvements, such as the marvelous KDE 4.0.0, the groundbreaking PulseAudio sound server, the miraculous Xorg 7.3, the latest and greatest 2.6.24 Linux kernel:"The Ubuntu dev...

10 January 2008
21:12 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 30th December, 2007 - 5th January, 2008

Not much happened this week, with the holidays and all that. Ubuntu Live Conference was announced and it will take place on July 21st-22nd, 2008 in Portland, Oregon. The Ubuntu team invites you to watch some videos from the last conference and get a feel for how the conference works and what should you expect.It'...

7 January 2008
02:43 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 16th - 29th December

I'll start this first article of 2008 by wishing to all our readers a Happy New Year and may all your dreams come true in 2008! And don't forget to check our website for hot new articles!Let's start the weekly newsletter, which is in fact the one for the last week of 2007, by letting you know that Dell...

3 January 2008
02:47 GMT

Dell Updates Ubuntu OS to Version 7.10

Dell announced two months ago, before the final release of Ubuntu 7.10 on 18th October, that they will start working immediately on an updated version for their selected desktop and laptop computers. Last evening, Dell announced the immediate availability of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on their Inspiron 530N desktop a...

19 December 2007
03:01 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 2nd - 8th December

Great, no... wonderful news this week, as CNR (Click 'N Run) was released for Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 distributions. The One-Click Linux Software Installation service (CNR), provided by Linspire, is a FREE and easy way to access over 37,000 desktop Linux products, packages and libraries, all with a single mouse cli...

10 December 2007
02:35 GMT

Ubuntu 7.10 on PS3

Today, you will learn how to install Ubuntu Gutsy (as a second operating system) on your PlayStation 3 gaming console. For those of you who think for a second (and who are scared) that this will replace their PS3 operating system, well you guys are wrong, because this will NOT erase your PlayStation 3 native operatin...

8 December 2007
07:10 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 25th November - 2nd of December

A lot has happened in the Ubuntu world this week! Let's start with the first alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (codename Hardy Heron) which has been delayed for two days and it hit the download mirrors worldwide on the 1st of December. Not much to see in this first alpha as it contains minor changes, but you can ...

3 December 2007
02:50 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 18th - 24th November

On 20th November, the Macedonia Ministry of Education and Science announces that they will deploy more than 180,000 desktop computers pre-installed with Edubuntu 7.04. This is part of a project called "Computer for Every Child" which is one of the largest known thin client and desktop Linux deployments ever undertake...

26 November 2007
02:49 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 11th - 17th November

What happened this week in the Ubuntu world? The greatest thing ever, as Wal-Mart sold about 10,000 units of a Linux-based PC at the incredible price of $200. The computer was called Everex TC2502 Green gPC and it was sold out in no more than 2 weeks! The system specs were low, VIA C7-D Processor running at 1.5 Ghz, ...

19 November 2007
03:09 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 4th - 10th November

This week we will talk about the UbuntuWire Community Network project, a place where community developed applications, especially those that end up in the Universe and Multiverse repositories, can be hosted and supported, for free of course! The UbuntuWire Community Network is a place where you, the developer, can sh...

12 November 2007
03:03 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 28th October - 3rd November

Not much happened this week, the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) roadmap was announced, UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) had a satisfying outcome, Mythbuntu 7.10 and the first beta of Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna) were made available this week. Let's take a closer look at each, shall we?Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) took p...

5 November 2007
03:00 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 21st - 27th October

Ubuntu Developer Summit for Version 8.04 starts today and it will end on Friday. UDS will take place in Boston, Massachusetts. This summit has the goal of shaping the next release of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron 8.04. It's also opened to the public, but it is not a conference, exhibition or other audience-oriented event....

29 October 2007
03:55 GMT

Alternative Installation Methods for Gutsy

Ubuntu can be installed using other methods as well, which might prove handy in some circumstances. For example, let's say you want to install Ubuntu on a computer that has no CD/DVD-ROM drive. What do you do? Well, you can install Ubuntu from another machine on the network (if there is one) that will provide th...

25 October 2007
05:22 GMT

Mythbuntu 7.10 Released

Mythbuntu team proudly presents today the new version of their Gutsy Gibbon-based operating system, Mythbuntu 7.10: "The Mythbuntu team is proud to present the first stable release of Mythbuntu. This release is based upon Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). We would like to thank everyone that has volunteered to help make My...

23 October 2007
03:03 GMT

Ubuntu Weekly Report: 14th - 20th October

It's here, it's hot, it's the greatest release ever... it's Ubuntu 7.10 a.k.a. Gutsy Gibbon, which was released, as promised, on Thursday afternoon. Here's some new stuff included in this release:• GNOME 2.20.• Compiz enabled by default.• Better desktop search with Tracker.• Ubuntu restricted...

22 October 2007
03:03 GMT

The Wait Is Over: Ubuntu 7.10 Is Here

As promised, Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was released a few minutes ago, and it's my deepest pleasure to introduce you guys to the new features to be found in this version of Ubuntu (which is based on the GNOME desktop environment) and also to the features from Kubuntu (same as Ubuntu, but based on the popular KD...

18 October 2007
05:33 GMT

Installing Ubuntu 7.10

So you've heard about Ubuntu everywhere on the Internet and you've decided to install it on your computer (just to see if what you've heard about it is true or not) and you don't know how to do it? Look no further! This guide will make things very simple for you, as it will teach you step-by-step ...

18 October 2007
05:11 GMT

Encrypted Ubuntu 7.10

I know you wanted this, the Ubuntu team also knew and they've implemented it in the new version of Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon. Unfortunately, it's only available in the text mode installer, but that's why this guide is here, to help you install a fully encrypted Ubuntu OS on your computer. This process is co...

12 October 2007
06:18 GMT

Ubuntu 7.10 Release Candidate

The Release Candidate version of the upcoming Ubuntu 7.10 (codename Gutsy Gibbon) was released a few minutes ago. This RC comes with the brand new GNOME 2.20 desktop environment, new 3D desktop effects and many improvements: "The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software th...

11 October 2007
21:32 GMT


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