Today we had the pleasure of playing a little with the new Ubuntu installer, present in the latest daily build of the upcoming Maverick Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10) operating system, due for release in October 10th, 2010. The installer is completely revamped and accessible (by Linux beginners) installer.
Read more »The New Ubuntu 10.10 Installer Is Live
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Not So Simple Backup (NSS Backup) suite - Backup solution for common desktop use
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The (Not So) Simple Backup suite, short just nssbackup, is a fork of the SBackup project, the Simple Backup suite. nssbackup is basically using the same technology that Unix administrators have been used for decades but it adds some some intelligence for interaction with users within a graphical interface.
Read more »An open letter to my longtime friend Google
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We've been together a long time. Had a lot of good times together. There are so many things about you I love. But I'm starting to think you might be losing sight of your best feature--that whole "don't be evil" thing.
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Apple Benefits From Oracle’s Patent Attack on Android
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Among those who benefit from an attack on Android there's Apple, whose CEO is a good friend of Oracle's CEO; more coverage about this development which dominates the news
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Kiosk in KDE 4
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The original KioskTool for KDE 3 is probably rather well-known compared to the newer KDE 4 port that currently resides in extragear. While the older version is much more complete, even in the first few minutes of use, I encountered segfaults.
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Canonical Landscape Veteran Joins Dell
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Canonical remains committed to Landscape - the remote systems management platform for Ubuntu. But one of the Landscape team members has joined Dell, according to sources close to the hardware giant. Here's the update.
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Voice Actions For Android 2.2 Froyo
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Voice Actions makes your life easier in many ways to have fun with your phone, write text message, email, recognitions for navigation GPS system, search for Music using Pandora, lastfm, mspot, Radio,..
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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat: A Preview
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Mid-August is upon us, and that can only mean one thing (corn on the cob and the Saint-Napoleon notwithstanding): the next release of Ubuntu is inching ever closer to maturity. With the debut late last week of the third alpha of Ubuntu 10.10, it's time to take a look at how Maverick Meerkat is shaping up.
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Finding the Ubuntu font design
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In our second post from Dalton Maag we get an insight into the origin of our very own Ubuntu font. Over to you, Lukas.
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Initial Thoughts on Oracle vs Google Patent Lawsuit
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Today Oracle sued Google over Java patents and copyrights that they claim Google's Android OS infringes. The lawsuit claims that Google knowingly infringed on those patents, and that the continued distribution of Google's Android is harming Oracle's Java Business.
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Details of vulnerabilities in the Palm Pre and Android published
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As well as eavesdropping functionality, the vulnerability in the Palm Pre also allows it to be controlled remotely. The Android vulnerability allows access to login data stored by the browser
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Most Beautiful GNOME Shell Themes Ever!
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We saw the quiet evolution of GNOME Shell aka the next generation GNOME desktop environment. Now lets do some GNOME Shell theming.
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“EPO Still Operating in a Vacuum”
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The EPO is still operating/behaving in a questionable manner; some updates about the SCO case
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Puppy Linux 5.1: Now Ubuntu Lucid Lynx package compatible
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The latest release of the "lean and fast" Linux distribution Puppy Linux, 5.1, is codenamed "Lucid Puppy" as it is now binary compatible with packages available for Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx
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VLC 1.1.3 is released! PPA for Ubuntu
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VLC 1.1.3 is released, this is the third bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch.
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