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Ubuntu Weekly Report: 4th - 10th May, 2008
This week we've released a guide for those of you who want a secure and encrypted Ubuntu operating system. Data encryption is one of the best methods to protect your sensitive files, especially if you own a laptop. Unfortunately, on the Ubuntu OS, this is only available in the text mode installer. But that's why this guide is here, to help you ... [read more >>]
12 May 2008, 02:39GMT | (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 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 ... [read more >>]
07 April 2008, 06:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Ubuntu Weekly Report: 23rd - 29th March, 2008
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 nice features, such as a new init system - Upstart (which is now a very important part of the Ubuntu OS), ... [read more >>]
31 March 2008, 02:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
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 " ... [read more >>]
23 March 2008, 19:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Ubuntu Weekly Report: 9th - 15th March, 2008
On Monday, Martin Albisetti and Felipe Lerena re-launched the Ubuntustats.com - a place to reflect the enormous activity Ubuntu has on all fronts. "We parse every data source we think is interesting to show you how much the community is working and display it in an easy-to-read format." - says the Ubuntu Li ... [read more >>]
16 March 2008, 21:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Ubuntu Weekly Report: 24th February - 1st March, 2008
At the beginning of this week, not only that Canonical announced plans for Ubuntu Mobile, but WIBRAIN Korea launched its B1L UMPC device powered by none other than Ubuntu Linux ... [read more >>]
03 March 2008, 02:35GMT | (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 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: 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 d ... [read more >>]
21 January 2008, 02:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Fedora Weekly Report: 7th - 13th January
Another week passed by, but not without some interesting things happening in the Fedora world. The FUDCon Raleigh event has just ended yesterday. Let's take a look over the last week, and go through the most important aspects. At FUDCon, more than 150 persons attended and the event started with Max Spevack's yearly "State of Fedora" speech. Paul Frields will take over the position as Fedora Project Leader from Februa ... [read more >>]
14 January 2008, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Fedora Weekly Report: 31st December, 2007 - 6th January, 2008
2008 has just started and the Fedora community will step into the new year with FUDCon Raleigh, a three-day event that will span from the 11th to the 13th of January. FUDCon stands for Fedora User and Developer Conference. Actually, it will be an "unconference", because it will be held as a Bar Camp – an "unconference" where people interested in a diverse range of issues come together to teach and learn. Rather than hav ... [read more >>]
07 January 2008, 09:32GMT | (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 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 ... [read more >>]
03 January 2008, 02:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Fedora Weekly Report: 10th - 16th December
We've already had an Ubuntu Weekly Report and we thought we should take a shot with Fedora as well. So, here we are with the first issue of our weekly report! Read on and find out more about Fedora! Last week brought a lot of changes with it in the Fedora world. Let's see what exactly happened between 10th - 16th December, shall we? Although ... [read more >>]
17 December 2007, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Ubuntu Weekly Report: 9th - 15th December
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Alpha 2 is expected on Thursday, December 20 and it will be used to track bugs that must be fixed. This release is not recommended for production machines, but if you want to hunt bugs and report them to the Ubuntu developers, go download it and install it on Thursday. On Friday, Canonical released version 1.0 of the Bazaar Version Control, a version control system that allows multip ... [read more >>]
17 December 2007, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
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 ... [read more >>]
26 November 2007, 02:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
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, 51 ... [read more >>]
19 November 2007, 03:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
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 share simple scripts, interesting data files or any other information that will help in making Ubuntu a much ... [read more >>]
12 November 2007, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
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 place, as expected, in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sessions were organized in categories like Comm ... [read more >>]
05 November 2007, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
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 conferen ... [read more >>]
29 October 2007, 03:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
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 des ... [read more >>]
22 October 2007, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Ubuntu Weekly Report: 7th - 13th October
Here we are, in the final Ubuntu 7.10 development week, as the release candidate version was made available on Thursday night and we will wait for the final release this Thursday, on October 18. Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu and Gobuntu were also updated, and this release candidate is availa ... [read more >>]
15 October 2007, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Ubuntu Weekly Report: 30th September - 6th October
Last week was full of events for the Ubuntu community: the freezing of the Gutsy archive, a countdown script for websites, the release of UbuntuBolivia by the Bolivian LoCo Team and a lot more! Gutsy's Archive is Frozen The archive for the upcoming Gutsy release has been frozen and only uploads that fix specific release-relevant bugs will be accepted until the official release. The Countdown Script ... [read more >>]
08 October 2007, 06:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Ubuntu Weekly Report: 23rd - 29th September
Another full week for the Ubuntu community has ended. This week was special, as the Beta version of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was released and there were a lot of reviews out there about the new features it will bring. Keep on reading to find out more! I'm sure many of you already installed this beta to see if their hardware works better and to see the new things it brings. However, let's have a quick look over some of the ne ... [read more >>]
01 October 2007, 02:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Ubuntu Weekly Report: 2nd - 8th September 2007
Last week was a busy one for the Ubuntu team: the Tribe 6 milestone, a Ubuntu get-together, new updates, security fixes and more. As you've probably noticed, Tribe 6 has not been released on September 6th as it was initially set and it will never be released, because the team has decided to use this alpha release as a milestone for bugfixes, after discussions with the QA, GNOME and other teams. So you should now expect the Beta rel ... [read more >>]
11 September 2007, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
Google Invites Users to Talk
Google's AdWords advertising platform is currently one of the most used services because it allows publishers to advertise on the Internet using the Google SERP and ads distributed via the AdSense solution. Because it works with financial information, it is very important for Google to keep their clients up to date with every minor change in the AdWords tool and allow them to enhance the performance offered by the advertising solution ... [read more >>]
15 March 2007, 04:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia
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