Ubuntu 10.04 was released last month, and comes with some breath taking design enhancements, and has some fabulous art work integrated into it. We’ve put together a collection of wallpapers to make it more customized.

Why it makes sense for SAP to scoop Novell up and carry on with the same corporate agenda

Here is the script (ubuntu restricted extras offline installer) written by hacktolive.org along with most commonly used packages to make life easier for those who do not have internet connection or those who want to install multimedia codec and other useful packages offline. All the links listed below will direct to the rapidshare and other file hosting sites.

For a community that's supposed to rally under the noble banners of freedom, fairness and fraternity, the world of free software is chockfull of disagreement, feuds and simmering rivalries.

John Sullivan shows how/why Apple is being dishonest about its relationship with “Open Source”; a glimpse at how perception management at Apple and Microsoft actually works

Earlier this week we reported that Ubuntu has plans for the Btrfs file-system in 2011 and 2012 by providing support for installing Ubuntu Linux to a Btrfs file-system. This information was based upon documents coming out of the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels, but it turns out that Canonical may actually deploy Btrfs this year.

If you're a music fan like me, you're listening to music almost all the time whilst browsing the web/working/studying. Often an interuption requires you to quickly lower the volume or mute the music so that you can, for example listen to what a colleague has to say.

Have you guys already forgot Pidgin. I hope not. For starters Pidgin used to be the default IM client in Ubuntu up until Ubuntu Karmic was released. Then it was replaced by Empathy as you must have already noticed. Pidgin 2.7 was recently released with a number of improvements and bug fixes.