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Launched almost a year and a half ago, Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) is now less than a month closer to its end. Since its release on April 19th 2007, Ubuntu has been committed to security and critical fixes but this is about to stop, as on Sunday, October 19th, Ubuntu 7.04 will reach its end of life. Therefore, neither ... |
29 September 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Canonical announced a few days ago the availability of a DVD player and some media playback codecs for Ubuntu 8.04. These kinds of tools were until now available only for Canonical's hardware partners, but Ubuntu's financial sponsor decided to provide every user with the possibility to purchase them for him... |
19 September 2008
16:51 GMT |
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Dubbed Luna Crescente and based on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, OpenGEU 8.04.1 was announced a few days ago. The developers say that OpenGEU 8.04.1 has so many improvements that you will simply fall in love with it - "This is a very important day for our team and project, this release is a milestone indeed. In the latest Open... |
11 September 2008
08:10 GMT |
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The PC/OS team announced a couple of days ago the final release of their Linux distro. Now available for download, PC/OS 2008v2 comes with various updated packages, as well as all of Ubuntu's (8.04.1) bug fixes and distribution updates. Two versions are provided, the client and the server relea... |
1 September 2008
05:55 GMT |
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The Ubuntu Christian Edition Community is happy to announce the release of Ubuntu CE 4.0 (Christian Edition). Although it has been a rather long time since the last release, this version brings many new additions like the Gimp (for image and photo manipulation), GnomeOffice (which replaces OpenOffice), Inkscape, and ... |
26 August 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Yahoo! announced today that its application, Zimbra Desktop, which was launched last month, would be available for the Linux platform. Canonical, a company that supports Linux distribution, has just signed an agreement with Yahoo! that will give Linux users the possibility to have offline access to multiple email acc... |
7 August 2008
12:20 GMT |
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Windows is generally perceived as the perpetual bronze winner in a three horse race against Apple's Mac OS X and the open source Linux, despite the fact that Microsoft continues to account for in excess of 90% of the operating system market. According to the Redmond company, the operating system vulnerability co... |
14 July 2008
10:44 GMT |
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Some people say that Windows XP doesn't look too great and use all kinds of applications to change the way it does, customizing the window interface, the interface, the start menu or any other element of the operating system. In an article published a few weeks ago, Marius Nestor, our Linux Editor, made Ubuntu l... |
28 May 2008
10:56 GMT |
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The second build of the upcoming Linux Mint 5.0, codename Elyssa, was announced last evening by Clement Lefebvre and the Linux Mint Team. Dubbed Linux Mint 5.0 RC2, this version is based on Daryna (Linux Mint 4.0) and is compatible with Ubuntu 8.04 and its repositories. So guess what? Linux Mint 5.0 RC2 brings you th... |
27 May 2008
02:08 GMT |
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If you are living in Berlin, Germany and using the subway, you probably haven't missed the advertisement that was present in all the vehicles on more than 3,700 displays, announcing the release party for Ubuntu 8.04, that took place in the German city.The release party took place on April 26, this year, and the ... |
22 May 2008
09:29 GMT |
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In a recent post on his blog, Mark Shuttleworth, CEO at Canonical, has talked about synchronicity between Long Term Support releases from different Linux distributions. One of the arguments he brought to support this idea was that developers could focus more on the important role of component selection, integration, ... |
19 May 2008
09:10 GMT |
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Windows Vista is untouchable as far as security is concerned, according to Microsoft. In what has become a traditional operating system vulnerability measuring contest, Jeff Jones, Security Strategy Director in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing group, has compared Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Red Hat Enterpris... |
15 May 2008
13:41 GMT |
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Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta, codename "Astro", was launched with a couple of nice features backing it up. Although it is available in many languages, the installers are only in English at this moment. Rich media content and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) will look and act much better from this moment on. Ah, I almo... |
15 May 2008
04:46 GMT |
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If you are using Debian or any other distro that's based on it (such as Ubuntu), you are advised to update, because a weakness was discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL. To fix the problem, you will have to update the OpenSSL packages and regenerate any private keys made on Debian (Etch or ne... |
14 May 2008
04:55 GMT |
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Canonical announced a few days ago that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition would be available today, released at the same time with the Desktop Edition.The 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server Edition is Canonical's fourth server release and will be supported for five years with maintenance and security updates. Some... |
24 April 2008
06:29 GMT |
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There is simply no end in sight for the Mac OS X and Windows operating system measuring contest, at least not from Apple's perspective. The Cupertino-based company has a consistent marketing arsenal, and it uses it to take jabs at both Windows and the PC manufacturers. This because Apple through Mac OS X is comp... |
3 April 2008
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Automatix, the graphical package manager for installing/uninstalling and configuring applications on Debian-based Linux distributions, has ceased to exist. Its development for Ubuntu stopped, as announced by Jared B., one of the main developers. The developers say that the development was discontinued because all of ... |
31 March 2008
09:34 GMT |
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This week, Canonical has announced the end-of-life for Ubuntu 6.10 (codename Edgy Eft). Starting with Friday, April 25th, 2008, they will stop "feeding" Edgy Eft with security and critical updates. Ubuntu 6.10 introduced applications such as Firefox 2.0, OpenOffice 2.0.4, Gaim 2.0 Beta 3.1, F-Spot, Tomboy, Orca and n... |
31 March 2008
02:08 GMT |
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Robots, as most other computer controlled devices, probably will never be able to fully understand human language, or to differentiate between two images of the same object. That is the disadvantage of processing information in binary code. However, robots can be taught, or at least instructed. Such a robot was recen... |
20 March 2008
07:58 GMT |
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Canonical, Ubuntu's main commercial sponsor, announced today the availability of Canonical Landscape, its systems management and monitoring tool for Ubuntu.Landscape will be available for its commercial support customers and as a standalone commercial service. It will offer, to the increasing number of businesse... |
5 March 2008
10:48 GMT |
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Many people asked about that very nice Ubuntu theme, which is actually a mockup, and they wanted to have such a beauty on their desktops. Therefore, this guide will teach you how to create your own "sexylicious" Ubuntu desktop! In other words, we will pimp your desktop and change its looks:[tablec][row][colc][/col][c... |
5 March 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Dell started offering Ubuntu 7.10 on the Inspiron 530n desktop to customers in China yesterday, because of the high number of requests from the clients. Unfortunately, DVD playback will not be supported on Ubuntu 7.10, in China.It seems that Dell is aiming to offer its computers with Ubuntu pre-installed all over the... |
4 March 2008
10:43 GMT |
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Open-source fans worldwide have made a habit out of holding "install-fests", the equivalent of a practical training, where non-technicians get to know the benefits of using Linux and other open-source applications on computers.A San Francisco non-profit foundation went a little further with the install-fest idea and ... |
3 March 2008
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Everex is mostly known for its inexpensive computing systems it designs and distributes. Immediately after the stealthy launch of its CloudBook ultra-mobile computer, the company announced yet another miniature creation, the Everex gPC Mini.The miniature computer was touted last month, but it has just got official. T... |
27 February 2008
08:37 GMT |
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System76 Inc., a leading provider of Ubuntu pre-installed laptops and desktops, announced yesterday its first line of certified, pre-installed servers that run Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition. The offer includes standard three-year parts replacement warranties and three years of operating system updates.The System76 serve... |
27 February 2008
03:57 GMT |
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WIBRAIN Korea has announced the launch of its entry-level UMPC, the B1L, which runs on Ubuntu Linux. It has a VIA 1GHz processor, a 4.8-inch LCD display with a 1024 x 600 resolution.The B1L comes in four different models, with distinct hard disk, CPU and memory specifications. On the Korean market, the B1L UMPC is av... |
26 February 2008
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Yesterday, Dell announced to its customers in Canada and Latin America that the Inspiron 1525n now has the option of shipping with Ubuntu 7.10, as well as with the Canadian models of the XPS M1330n and Inspiron 530. The latter two will ship in Latin America soon.The computers will feature DVD playback capability, jus... |
22 February 2008
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Canonical will resell IBM DB2 Express-C 9.5 as software, through the Ubuntu Partner Repository. The software will be used as a virtual appliance running on VMware.Canonical is also offering an annual support contract for IBM DB2 Express-C through shop.canonical.com. This is the first time when Ubuntu users will be ab... |
22 February 2008
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Microsoft has announced that it will start on a new path, one in which Windows Vista, Vista Service Pack 1, Windows 7 as well as Windows Server 2008, and in fact all current and future versions of the Windows client and server opperating systems will embrace open source solutions. The move comes as the company has ge... |
21 February 2008
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Obsidian announced that it would provide official training in South Africa, for the "Ubuntu Certified Professional" programme. Through the agreement with Canonical, Obsidian will provide training starting March, this year.Obsdian will offer both Ubuntu Professional Courses 1 and 2, helping System Administrators to pa... |
18 February 2008
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After the success I had with my previous tutorial about how to run Windows and a Linux distribution together on the same computer (with a single monitor, keyboard and mouse and no other magic tricks required), I decided to improve the installation method with an extremely easy-to-use one. The idea is the same as in t... |
12 February 2008
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Alfresco, one of the leading open source alternatives for enterprise content management, has started a poll among its 35,000 members to see what operating systems are the most used. Guess who's leading? Ubuntu and Red Hat!Among Linux operating systems, Red Hat is the leader with 35% of the votes, followed by Ubu... |
11 February 2008
10:22 GMT |
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The Parallels virtualization software will be resold by Canonical through Ubuntu Partner Repository, as announced last Thursday by Canonical. This will give to the Ubuntu users the ability to find, install and run software in a very fast manner.The Ubuntu Partner Repository and its associated services will allow soft... |
11 February 2008
03:57 GMT |
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You know what Ubuntu is, so we will not talk about it in this article. Instead, we'll talk about some or the most popular Ubuntu-based distributions. There are enough (or not) Linux distributions derived from Ubuntu, so we thought it will be a very good idea to make a list with all of them, or at least the popul... |
7 February 2008
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Today, Linspire announced the availability of the Custom Operating System Build service, an initiative to provide a customized desktop Linux operating system to partners. This service will also help Linspire's partners to cut time to market and reduce the overall costs needed when building a Linux operating syst... |
31 January 2008
10:20 GMT |
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Walking in the footsteps of the German Police, the "Gendarmerie Nationale" - the French paramilitary police - announced the migration of up to 70,000 computers to Canonical's Linux distribution, Ubuntu. The shift will be done progressively.Everything started in 2005, when the gendarmerie switched to open source ... |
31 January 2008
04:14 GMT |
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When it comes down to security vulnerabilities, volume is synonymous with increased risk for the end users. Microsoft has played the vulnerability counting game featuring its own operating system, as well as main rivals throughout 2007, ever since Vista has hit the shelves. Now, as Vista is approaching its first year... |
24 January 2008
11:49 GMT |
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If you wanted to use Ubuntu, but you had no knowledge about its usage, now it's your chance. With the help of the new Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course, you will be working with Canonical's distribution in no time!The course has a modular form, and it should take two days to complete all the ten lessons. The cours... |
15 January 2008
10:48 GMT |
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The Carnegie Mellon vehicle, while not as attractive like other cars from CES, has other surprises: it's a driver-less automobile, running Ubuntu.McCabe Software, Inc., through the McCabe University Program, provided the team from Carnegie Mellon with its software quality management suite, McCabe IQ. Tartan Raci... |
10 January 2008
04:55 GMT |
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OpenVZ and Ubuntu developers will release pre-built Ubuntu virtual machines, that will allow system administrators to deploy a specialized Ubuntu system in approximately one minute.OpenVZ is an operating system-level virtualisation technology, resulting that both host and guest systems must be Linux. This so-called l... |
8 January 2008
11:06 GMT |
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Canonical and the Kubuntu team decided that, due to the delayed release of KDE 4, the upcoming release of Kubuntu, 8.04, will not be a long term support release.Periodically, Ubuntu, Kubuntu and other Ubuntu variants from Canonical launch a LTS release (the version is supported for three years on the desktop and five... |
29 December 2007
08:21 GMT |
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Who says you can't play games on Linux? Of course you can! Well... not all of them, but at least some of the nicer ones, such as Half-Life 2, Counter Strike or Unreal Tournament. Today's guide will teach you, step-by-step, how to install and play Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode T... |
24 December 2007
23:18 GMT |
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I knew this was going to happen someday, as Ubuntu is more and more popular each day. It seems that there is a growing trend to offer malicious commands to new and inexperienced Ubuntu users on Ubuntu forums and not only there. Therefore I thought it would be a very smart idea to take a moment to review all these mal... |
28 November 2007
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Canonical started today a brand new software collaboration service for Ubuntu Linux developers, called Launchpad Personal Package Archive, or PPA.PPA is being added to Canonical's Launchpad development web site to allow groups to collaborate on packages, as well to allow individual developers to post their own v... |
26 November 2007
08:34 GMT |
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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 |
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The use of the Linux operating system on desktop computer continues to grow, as shown by the Linux Foundation annual survey. This will continue to run until the end of this month.The Linux Foundation, previously known as Free Standards Group and the Open Source Developer Labs (the two groups merged in January, this y... |
23 November 2007
09:57 GMT |
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Canonical announced yesterday that the Macedonian Ministry of Education and Science will deploy more than 180,000 workstations running Edubuntu 7.04 as part of the "Computer for Every Child" project. The operating system will be installed with the Macedonian language pack.The "Computer for Every Child" project of Mac... |
21 November 2007
05:56 GMT |
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A year ago, the German Tax Authority switched 12.000 desktops to SuSE Linux, now a police precinct from Berlin issued a press release a few days ago where they complain about their report system, named POLIKS (Police National System for the Information, Communication and Processing), that it is not stable and reliabl... |
20 November 2007
04:11 GMT |
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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 |
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Ubuntu JeOS 7.10 (Just Enough Operating System, pronounced "juice") has started shipping yesterday. The distribution was announced in September, this year, in San Francisco at the VMWorld conference.Ubuntu JeOS is an operating system designed for virtualized environments, a more compact and higher-performance base fo... |
16 November 2007
06:36 GMT |
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