From its Debian roots to its commercially available support to its overwhelming popularity, Ubuntu is the ultimate Linux distribution. For me, Ubuntu became a significant force within the Linux community with its 2006 releases: 6.04 and 6.10. From April 2006, I've installed and used every new version.
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OK Palm, We're Ready for the Foleo Now
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Ahh, poor Palm. Sure, they have their fancy new WebOS toys -- but it wasn't that long ago they were banking on the Foleo changing the mobile world as we knew it. Sadly, they were just a little too early.
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Open Source Business Conference: 5 Trends Worth Watching
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When the Open Source Business Conference starts March 17 in San Francisco, The VAR Guy will be watching and listening closely for signs of corporate open source momentum from upstarts like Canonical and giants like Microsoft, Oracle and even SAP. Yes, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. Here are five trends to anticipate at the OSBC conference.
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Monitoring System Usage with systat
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An overburdened CPU is another obvious place to look for performance problems on your system. Similarly io can be a bottleneck in proper system performance. You can watch various parameters if you install sysstat package. On Ubuntu you can install with $ sudo apt-get install sysstat
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James Bottomley speaks
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The Novell software engineer, Linux Foundation board member and kernel maintainer talks technical about Linux and more…
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Kate, KDevelop and Okteta Developers Meet in Berlin
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Berlin, probably one of the most frequented KDE hacking locations in the world, saw another hack sprint from 13th to 21st of February. This time four of the KDevelop and five of the Kate developers shared a week of very productive programming. Additionally team members from Okteta and KDE on Windows joined the meeting.
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Ubuntu Lucid gets social
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One of the big changes in Ubuntu 10.4 (aka Lucid Lynx) is the built-in social networking tools. These include a menu bar option for posting updates directly to any number of social networking sites. This change has been introduced for the first time in the third alpha release, made last week.
Read more »How to run almost any OS on your Mac
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Without an operating system – Mac OS X, say, or Windows XP – a computer is just a dumb box of chips, and even the most exciting application will have no environment in which to run. And, it's easy to forget that you have a choice of which OS you run.
Read more »Unigine Engine Advances, But No Linux Heaven Yet
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We reported a month ago that Unigine Heaven on Linux is still trash with the ATI driver so Unigine Corp is continuing to hold off on releasing the Unigine Heaven tech demo with the OpenGL renderer that supports hardware tessellation until there is a good Catalyst release.
Read more »Day 1 of the Jury Trial, SCO v. Novell
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What should be the colours of Gnome-Terminal?
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While clearing out the big pile of emails today, I came across this huge discussion on ubuntu-dev -discuss list about the colours of gnome-terminal. Honestly, I never thought this could be a point of discussion at all, but I was wrong.
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Redesigning Ubuntu – behind the scenes on 10.04
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The next version of Ubuntu – codename Lucid Lynx – will be the 10.04 release, and is scheduled to be released and declared stable in April. As a long-term support version, coupled with increasing popularity, this is undoubtedly the most important Ubuntu release to date.
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W3C Poisoned by Promoters of Software Patents Who Attack GNU/Linux
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Novell's CTO, who encourages maximisation of software patents, becomes another threat to the Web as he takes leadership in the World Wide Web Consortium
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Power & Memory Usage Of GNOME, KDE, LXDE & Xfce
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Xfce, LXDE, and other desktop environments are often referenced as being lighter-eight Linux desktop environments than KDE and GNOME, but what are the measurable performance differences between them?
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Ubuntu Linux for Mainframes? Not Quite…
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Canonical wants Ubuntu Linux to run on a range of devices — from mobile Internet devices all the way up to high-end servers and cloud systems. But there are two markets where Canonical has no plans to push Ubuntu.
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