Ubuntu keeps promising a completely new theme in every release, but it has been delayed time and time again. The wait is over, though, since the artwork in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope daily builds is rapidly being refreshed.
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Ubuntu: From Cell Phones to Game Consoles?
The cloud isn't the only new place you will be seeing Ubuntu in the future. You will soon be able to run it on your phone, games console or any device powered by an ARM processor.
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Point for Point with Bruce Byfield on GNU-Linux Desktop Myths
Bruce Byfield has an interesting list of rebuttals for GNU-Linux myths. So here's a few thoughts to add to the points raised...
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Life Without Free Software: Not Possible
I wrote a post a few days ago about the bits and pieces of proprietary software that are still a necessary part of my technological life. As a follow-up, I thought it might be interesting to look at the other side of the coin, by considering how many people would be able to survive without free software.
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The Squirrel portable shell and scripting language
The Squirrel Shell provides an advanced, object-oriented scripting language that works equally well in UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X
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Linux file integrity: the same as Windows
My previous posting described how Windows 7 lets two programs update the same file at the same time, with the inevitable result, data corruption. It's an accident waiting to happen. And the same is true of Linux.
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GNOME 2.26 Released
GNOME 2.26 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalisation and accessibility support.
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One Last Hurrah For USplash: A New Theme
Pushed into the Jaunty repository this morning for Ubuntu 9.04 was a new theme for USplash. This Canonical project for providing a splash screen at boot-up on Ubuntu is being replaced by Plymouth.
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The different between Ubuntu Desktop, Alternate CD and server CD
Newbies of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu will be confused by the name of her official released CDs - Desktop Live CD, Alternate CD and Server CD. Why she makes these different CDs?
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The Linux Staging Tree, what it is and is not.
The Linux Staging tree (or just "staging" from now on) is used to hold stand-alone drivers and filesystems that are not ready to be merged into the main portion of the Linux kernel tree at this point in time for various technical reasons.
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“Oh, well allow me to retort.”
Red Hat VP and Assistant General Counsel, wrote about Red Hat’s patent policy in response to some stories in the “press” spreading FUD about some AMQP-related patents, and (non sequitur alert) the recent virtualization agreement with Microsoft.
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First Look: OpenGEU 8.10
Another week, another First Look and yet another Enlightenment-using distribution came knocking at our doors. It's OpenGEU this time around and it has reached version 8.10.
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Novell and Microsoft Market Almost the Same Products Together
Familiar buddies become closer, as evidenced by technical and marketing collaborations
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Linux is more than just a Novel Concept
Linux is characteristically found to be one of the most unswerving, stable, secure, cost effective and well-organized system.
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