When Mark Shuttleworth first announced plans for Ubuntu 9.04 his primary objective was to make the operating system boot faster. With a battle with Microsoft’s Windows 7 looming, the speed of startup - and shutdown - of a laptop PC has become a critical battleground.

What distribution is ideal for me? This is by far the most often asked question on just about every forum board. New users are adopting Linux by the hordes everyday, and that’s a great thing, but because of the large number of distributions to choose from, they can’t help but wonder which is best for them.

While the bigger and better-known Linux distributions tend to get more than their fair share of publicity, there are other bright stars that light up the FOSS firmament and rarely get a mention.

We're in a downturn - we've heard it enough times itmust be true. We've all been asked to do more with less, to ensure our employees survive the coming year.

New versions of Linux distributions are churned out at a remarkable pace. Not only are new distros popping up all the time, but updates to existing distros are always up and coming as well.

A response to Jon Peck's article "Why Games are NOT the Key to Linux Adoption", pointing out the flaws in his arguments.

Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth recently announced that the next version after "Jaunty Jackalope" is codenamed "Karmic Koala".

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #130 for the week February 15th - February 21st, 2009.