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| STORIES ABOUT: Ubuntu Linux |
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| Announcing Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS |  | No, this is not a joke! It is the first maintenance release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), which (in case you forget it) is supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until 2011 on desktops, and 2013 on servers. Today's release brings to its users a lot of security updates and corrections (over 200), all with a single goal: to keep Ubuntu 8.04 LTS a stable and reliable Linux distribution!
"In a ... [read more >>] | | 04 July 2008, 03:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Introducing Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 |  | The first public release of Ubuntu MID (Mobile Internet Devices) Edition 8.04 was announcesd last week by Canonical. Entitled as a developer's release, this version is based on the Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Edition and it is a project developed by the hard working team behind the Ubuntu Mobile & Embedded community and sponsored by Canonical in collaboration with the Intel Moblin community. The goal of Ubuntu MID is to take ful ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2008, 11:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 Screenshot Tour |  | The first alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), which is scheduled for release in late October this year, was announced a few days ago. Even if there aren't big changes compared to the final version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, released on April 24th, 2008, the Alpha 1 of Intrepid brings a brand ne ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2008, 05:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ubuntu Weekly Report: 9th - 15th June, 2008 |  | Ladies and gentlemen, dear geeks, the time has come to introduce to you the perfect operating system for your tiny and fancy Asus Eee PC portable computer, the Ubuntu Eee 8.04! Being based on the Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and compatible with its repositories, the ... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2008, 02:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ubuntu Weekly Report: 13th - 19th April, 2008 |  | At the beginning of this week, Canonical announced the Ubuntu Desktop Training program, a good way for corporate and home desktop users to learn and get used with Ubuntu. After taking the Ubuntu Desktop Training course, users will be able to understand the concepts of open source and how th ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2008, 02:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ubuntu Weekly Report: 6th - 12th April, 2008 |  | Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is now in final freeze and there are just a few days 'till the Release Candidate version. "During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of the release team, so if you have fixes that are important to get in and will need discussion, please do get in touch as soon as possible. Uploads to main should at this point focus on release-critical bugs only." ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 02:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 maybe (who knows) the Ubuntu developers will put it in the next release. For such marvelous ideas, the people behi ... [read more >>] | | 29 February 2008, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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, ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 ... [read more >>] | | 21 February 2008, 02:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 most used. ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 02:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 co ... [read more >>] | | 11 February 2008, 04:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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, ... [read more >>] | | 04 February 2008, 02:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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's time to squ ... [read more >>] | | 07 January 2008, 02:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 2 Has PulseAudio |  | The second alpha release of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04 (codename Hardy Heron) was released last night. This alpha comes with HOT new features and improvements, like PulseAudio as the default sound system, the latest and greatest 2.6.24 Linux kernel and Xorg 7.3, with an emphasis on better autoconfiguration without config files:"The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software ... [read more >>] | | 22 December 2007, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| First Look: Geubuntu 7.10 |  | Being named Luna Nuova, Geubuntu 7.10 was released last night and it's based on Gutsy Gibbon a.k.a. Ubuntu 7.10. The developers say that Geubuntu 7.10 has so many improvements that you would not even recognize it anymore, if you've tried the previous version before. The improvements are ... [read more >>] | | 07 December 2007, 03:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Canonical Looking For Contracts |  | Canonical, the supporting company of Ubuntu Linux, is trying to make deals with large hardware vendors like Dell, so their Linux distribution gets pre-installed on servers. Until now, Canonical has made contracts with small vendors.
The company is discussing ... [read more >>] | | 11 October 2007, 03:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Dell Prepares for Ubuntu 7.10 |  | After the release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on 18th October, Dell will pre-load it on their selected desktops and notebooks. Even Michael Dell is expected to personally use it.
Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman said Ubuntu 7.10 would feature several core enhancements for desktop and server users. Here are three features that Gutsy Gibbon will have on the desktop:
• a 3D interface included by default ( ... [read more >>] | | 09 October 2007, 05:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What Do You Love and Hate about Ubuntu? |  | As Ubuntu is the best thing that happened to me in the last year or so (I was a Fedora user before), I will take a moment and write this article about it. This is supposed to be a shout out to all the current and upcoming Ubuntu users out there, because I think it's not too late (it's never too late) to let the Ubuntu developers know what we think about this wonderful distribution and what we want it to be in the feature, am I r ... [read more >>] | | 04 April 2007, 08:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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