Linspire, the troubled Linux distribution vendor, has recently lost a top executive and a lead developer to the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu, has hired former Linspire staffers Randy Linnell and Brian Thomason
Read more »Issue 5 of Full Circle Magazine has been released
Issue 5 of the FREE Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community has been released and is available for download.
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Selling Linux: what Dell could do
Recently I've been devoting some space to a discussion of Dell's efforts to sell Linux on certain PCs and laptops among its range of models. There's also been discussion of why this effort appears to be somewhat half-hearted.
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Photo Gallery: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10
Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 beta 1 has been released and TuxJournal already has one of the greatest and richest screenshots gallery now available about the new release with about 50 detailed screenshoots.
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Can Ubuntu Linux replace Windows Vista for consumers?
Having tried both, neither operating system is perfect but there’s enough in Ubuntu to make a classy alternative.
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DRM troubles drive ex-Microsoft employee to Linux!
Jesper Johansson--a former senior program manager for security policy at Microsoft: "Upon inspecting the problem I found that the video would turn on, the screen would flicker for a second each of black and the video a few times, and then the Blue Screen of DRM came up. It also wouldn't play any premium channels," he wrote.
Read more »Can Ubuntu Linux Really Run My Small Business?
So Ubuntu is hot, but is it good enough to trust with your mission-critical business operations?
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Educating GNU/Linux users
My review of the latest release of Ubuntu was picked up by Slashdot this week, releasing a flood of criticism.
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Divining from the Entrails of Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon
Make no mistake -- due to the energy that the Ubuntu community and Canonical, its corporate arm, have put into improving the desktop, this popularity is well-deserved. Yet, at the same time, I find myself wondering whether user-friendliness must inevitably mean discouraging users from exploring their systems or taking firm control over them.
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Ubuntu: When 100% Isn't Good Enough...
Funny screen shot of Ubuntu loading language packs. It appears that 100% isn't enough... reminds me of the "Our amps go to 11 man" routine from Spinaltap.
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Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg flirts with Ubuntu
When Walt Mossberg talks, people listen. He's the big tech writer at the Wall Street Journal, and ... having the WSJ report on Linux and Ubuntu is huge.
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Ubuntu + mpd + Jinzora + Hi-Fi == ACE
Turn an old PC into a music server for streaming MP3s to your hi-fi or the net and control it all through a web browser from anywhere using Jinzora.
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Howto Set Flickr images as Ubuntu desktop wallpaper
Webilder delivers stunning wallpapers to your Linux desktop, directly from Flickr and Webshots. You choose what keywords (tags) to watch for, and photos are automatically downloaded to your computer. Webilder can also change the wallpaper every few minutes.
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What it's Like to Switch to Ubuntu
When Dell first announced that it would offer Ubuntu--a free open-source, Linux-based operating system--on select notebooks, millions of tech-heads unleashed victory cries. Linux, the longtime OS of choice for the hardcore techie, was poised to go mainstream.
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Dell "Remastered" Ubuntu 7.04 ISOs Available for Download
Based on community feedback, we have created remastered Ubuntu 7.04 CD media to help with installing the OS on the Inspiron 1420 and 530.
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