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Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Released

Steve Langasek announced last night (July 16th) the third maintenance release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), which (in case you forgot) is supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until April 2011 on desktops, and April 2013 on servers. Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS brings to its dedicated users a lot of security...

17 July 2009
02:22 GMT

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 5 Screenshot Tour

The fifth alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (codename Jaunty Jackalope) was uploaded a few minutes ago on the official mirrors. As usual, we've downloaded a copy of it in order to keep you up to date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 9.04 development. What's new in Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 5? Well, th...

27 February 2009
03:16 GMT

Ubuntu 9.10 a.k.a. Karmic Koala

Nope, this is not a joke... Mark Shuttleworth, the father of Ubuntu Linux, has just announced a few minutes ago the codename and the goals of the next version of his marvelous operating system, Ubuntu 9.10 (codename Karmic Koala), scheduled for release in October 2009. "Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the...

20 February 2009
17:51 GMT

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 4 Screenshot Tour

The fourth alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (codename Jaunty Jackalope) was uploaded a few minutes ago on the official mirrors. As usual, we've downloaded a copy of it in order to keep you up to date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 9.04 development.What's new in Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 4? Well, the...

5 February 2009
13:28 GMT

Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 8.10. Update Today.

On January 29th the Ubuntu developers announced the availability of a new important security update for the Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) operating system (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). The update patches six security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packages of Ubuntu 8.1...

30 January 2009
03:53 GMT

CrunchBang 8.10.02 Released

Philip Newborough announced a few days ago the second revision of the third release of his lightweight Linux distribution, CrunchBang 8.10. CrunchBang is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and powered by the Openbox window manager. It includes applications such as Epiphany, The GIMP, Pidgin, Au...

19 January 2009
06:44 GMT

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 3 Screenshot Tour

Originally scheduled to be released on January 15th, the third alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (codename Jaunty Jackalope) was uploaded a few hours ago on the official mirrors. As usual, we've downloaded a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 9.04 development...

17 January 2009
01:35 GMT

Ubuntu 9.04 Boots in 21.4 Seconds

There are only two days left until the third Alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) will be available (for testing), and... we couldn't resist the temptation to take the current daily build for a test drive, before our usual screenshot tour, and taste the "sweetness" of that evolutionary EX...

13 January 2009
14:16 GMT

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Super Ubuntu

We are pleased to announce yet another Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, this time... with "super powers," called Super Ubuntu. The "super powers" of Super Ubuntu can be translated into the inclusion of applications, tools and technologies that are missing from a standard Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) installation. Amon...

2 January 2009
08:21 GMT

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 2 Screenshot Tour

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 2 was originally scheduled to be released yesterday, December 18th, but I guess the developers encountered some issues with it. Anyway, this second alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (codename Jaunty Jackalope), which is scheduled for release in late April next year, was uploaded a couple of ...

19 December 2008
18:26 GMT

Newly Discovered Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect All Ubuntu Users

On November 27th, the Ubuntu developers announced the availability of a major security update for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS, 7.10, 8.04 LTS and 8.10 (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). The update patches nine security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packag...

28 November 2008
05:20 GMT

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 1 Screenshot Tour

While everybody is enjoying Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), the new release of the Ubuntu operating system, somewhere deep in the Ubuntu headquarters, the developers are working hard to bring us all the new stuff that happens in the Linux world today. Two days late, but it's here – the first alpha version o...

22 November 2008
14:32 GMT

Linux Kernel Vulnerability in Ubuntu 8.10. Update Today.

A few days after the Linux kernel regression announced by the Ubuntu developers on October 30th, they discovered two nasty problems in the Linux kernel packages of Ubuntu 8.10, that could "help" an attacker execute malicious code as root (system administrator), or caused DoS (Denial of Service) attacks to hang or cra...

10 November 2008
07:12 GMT

Ubuntu 9.04 Release Schedule

The Ubuntu 9.04 (codename Jaunty Jackalope) development will start in 4 days, on November 6th, and will conclude next year on April 23rd, with the final release. Make sure you check with our website, starting with November 20th when the first alpha will be released, as we will do a full coverage of the Ubuntu 9.04 de...

3 November 2008
06:26 GMT

Linux Kernel Regression in Ubuntu 8.10. Upgrade Now.

A regression was discovered last night, right after the launch of Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), in the Linux kernel packages. Do not be alarmed, as this is not a security flaw! It's actually a bug in 2.6.27 Linux kernel packages. What happened? Well, long story short, the order of options in the TCP head...

31 October 2008
03:38 GMT

Ubuntu 8.10 Release Candidate Screenshot Tour

The release candidate version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), which is scheduled for launch in late October this year, arrived a few hours ago and, as usual, we intend to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 8.10 development. Compared with the beta release, which brought Fir...

24 October 2008
02:32 GMT

Ubuntu 8.10 Free CDs: Orders Are Taken Now

One week is left until the final release of Ubuntu 8.10 and, if you are anxious to get your hands on some nice CDs with the Intrepid Ibex, then you should pre-order them right now from Ubuntu's ShipIt service, FREE of charge. They have started taking the orders a few minutes ago, so hurry up!If you want to count...

22 October 2008
02:44 GMT

Ubuntu 8.10 Has a Brand New Wallpaper

Mark Shuttleworth promised a new and breathtaking theme for the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) operating system, but until now we saw a dark and ugly one (NewHuman, also known as DarkRoom) introduced in the first alpha release, which disappeared in Alpha 4 and was replaced by an up-to-date version of the classi...

11 October 2008
04:13 GMT

Ubuntu 8.10 Beta Screenshot Tour

The beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), which is scheduled for  release in late October this year, arrived a few minutes ago and, as usual, we intend to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 8.10 development. Compared with the sixth alpha, which brought Firefox ...

2 October 2008
15:05 GMT

How Ubuntu Server Edition Is Used

Yesterday, Ubuntu's commercial sponsor, Canonical Ltd., initiated a survey with the purpose of finding out in what way exactly Ubuntu Server Edition is being used. Jointly sponsored by Canonical and Red Monk, the study is carried out to learn more about the community organization types within which Ubuntu Server...

26 September 2008
03:48 GMT

Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 Screenshot Tour

The sixth and final alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), which is scheduled for release in late October this year, was made available a few hours ago and, as usual, we intend to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 8.10 development. Compared with the fifth alpha, wh...

19 September 2008
01:53 GMT

Ubuntu 9.04 a.k.a. Jaunty Jackalope

None other than the father of Ubuntu Linux himself, Mark Shuttleworth, has announced the codename and the goals of the next version of his marvelous operating system, Ubuntu 9.04 (codename Jaunty Jackalope), scheduled for release in April 2009. "Jaunty, the code name for what will most likely become Ubuntu 9.04, will...

9 September 2008
04:49 GMT

Announcing Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1

Based on the Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS (Hardy Heron) and compatible with its repositories, the Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 operating system has been released today, and it is optimized for the tiny Asus Eee PC. The new version introduces a new interface, supports even more Asus Eee PCs than before, boots faster, and takes up less spac...

8 September 2008
10:13 GMT

Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 5 Screenshot Tour

Delayed one day, the fifth alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), which is scheduled for release in late October this year, was made available a few hours ago and, as usual, we intend to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 8.10 development. Compared with the fourth a...

5 September 2008
23:54 GMT

Kernel Vulnerability in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS. Upgrade Now!

A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday, 25 August 2008, in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS distributions (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). This kernel vulnerability could lead to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and/or loss of privacy. The security fl...

26 August 2008
02:29 GMT

Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4 Screenshot Tour

The fourth alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), which is scheduled for release in late October this year, was made available a few minutes ago and, as usual, we intend to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 8.10 development. Compared with the third alpha, which bro...

14 August 2008
08:50 GMT

Ultamatix: The New Automatix

I guess all Linux users, especially Ubuntu ones, have used or at least heard about Automatix, an application that can install and uninstall the most used and popular programs. From multimedia codecs and archiving tools, e-mail clients and web browsers, to audio/video ripping and burning software, Automatix could do t...

25 July 2008
09:11 GMT

Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 3 Screenshot Tour

The third alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), which is scheduled for release in late October this year, was made available a few minutes ago. Even if it doesn’t come with any significant modification, compared with the second alpha, which brought just a handful of software updates, we ...

25 July 2008
03:08 GMT

Kernel Vulnerability in Ubuntu 8.04, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS. Upgrade Now!

A security vulnerability was discovered yesterday in the Linux kernel packages of the Ubuntu 8.04, 7.10, 7.04 and 6.06 LTS distributions (also applies to Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu). This kernel vulnerability could lead to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and loss of privacy. The security flaw can be fixed if you u...

16 July 2008
02:11 GMT

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) 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), ...

4 July 2008
03:30 GMT

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...

3 July 2008
11:04 GMT

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 b...

2 July 2008
05:19 GMT

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 Ubuntu Eee operating system is optimized for the Asus ...

16 June 2008
02:16 GMT

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 they tie in with Ubuntu, cust...

21 April 2008
02:41 GMT

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 possibl...

14 April 2008
02:28 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

Microsoft Finds Irony in Mac OS X Getting Hacked Before Vista SP1

Microsoft was not without a reaction to the past week's events at CanSecWest Vancouver 2008. The conference's PWN2OWN 2008 hacking challenge sponsored by TippingPoint involved three machines and just as many operating systems, VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10, Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1 and ...

31 March 2008
13:26 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

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 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 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 conf...

22 December 2007
06:53 GMT

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 from forum users who...

7 December 2007
03:11 GMT

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 with hardware vendors for a big server deal that could help ...

11 October 2007
03:07 GMT

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 ...

9 October 2007
05:49 GMT

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 le...

4 April 2007
08:32 GMT


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