Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth revealed plans Friday for Ubuntu 9.10, which will be codenamed Karmic Koala. The developers plan to bring cloud capabilities to Ubuntu's server edition, boost startup performance on the desktop, and continue work on the distro's netbook flavor.
Read more »Ubuntu 9.10 (Next Version) is named Karmic Koala
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Kubuntu 8.04.2 Released
The Kubuntu team announced on Saturday (February 21) the second maintenance release of Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), which is supported with security fixes and maintenance updates until October 2009. Kubuntu 8.04.2 brings to its dedicated users a lot of security updates and corrections (over 200), all with a single goal: to keep Kubuntu 8.04 a stable and reliable Linux distribution!
Read more »Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #130
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #130 for the week February 15th - February 21st, 2009.
Read more »New notification work lands in Jaunty
Thanks to the concerted efforts of Martin Pitt, Sebastien Bacher and several others, notify-osd and several related components landed in Jaunty last week. Thanks very much to all involved! And thanks to David Barth, Mirco Muller and Ted Gould who lead the development of notify-osd and the related messaging indicator.
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Ubuntu 9.10 is Karmic Koala, and it will not be brown!
Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth recently announced that the next version after "Jaunty Jackalope" is codenamed "Karmic Koala".
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CrunchEEE 8.10.02 Review
After buying my Asus EEE PC 1000HA, I initially installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. After learning more about (#!) CrunchBang Linux and seeing that they had released an optimized version for the EEE PC called CrunchEEE. I’ve been using CrunchEEE on my EEE PC for the last week and decided to do a review.
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Response to "Why Games are NOT the Key to Linux Adoption"
A response to Jon Peck's article "Why Games are NOT the Key to Linux Adoption", pointing out the flaws in his arguments.
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Five-O for PCLinuxOS
I have a group of friends who visited me in campus, and Marvin S. Tan brought his elegant ASUS laptop with him. Whatever for? To install PCLinuxOS, of course.
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The Smell of Linux Spirit
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.
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Did Microsoft ‘Pull an EDGI’ on Catalonia’s GNU/Linux Migration Plan?
Catalonia's planned migration to GNU/Linux stifled by what seems to be Microsoft's anti-Linux tactics
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Business is booming for open source adopters
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.
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OpenOffice.org: 7 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do
OpenOffice.org–an application suite, not just a Web site—has tricks even Office can't manage. Here are a few that may not be obvious, plus a few ways to make it less annoying out of the box.
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Knoppix: live CD par excellence
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.
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Connecting to Windows servers from GNU/Linux using pyNeighborhood
Need to connect to a Windows server from a computer running GNU/Linux? pyNeighborhood gives you an easy and graphical way to do just that.
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Linux distributions new users should avoid
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.
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