Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced in his blog that Canonical will be "hiring a team who will work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE, with a view to doing some of the heavy lifting required to turn those desktop experience ideas into reality." "Those desktop experiences ideas" are Ubuntu's design ideas.
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Why isn't Ubuntu the number 1 operating system?
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There's a great office suite and Ubuntu Studio, a version created especially for audio, video and graphic enthusiasts. The interface is easy to use, media capabilities and even gaming are now mainstream on Ubuntu. So why aren't users switching 'en masse' to Ubuntu?
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Gufw - Simple GUI for ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall)
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Gufw is an easy to use Ubuntu / Linux firewall, powered by ufw.Gufw is an easy, intuitive, way to manage your Linux firewall. It supports common tasks such as allowing or blocking pre-configured, common p2p, or individual ports port(s), and many others! Gufw is powered by ufw, runs on Ubuntu, and anywhere else Python, GTK, and Ufw are available.
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KDocker - Useful Docking Application for KDE
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KDocker comes handy when you want to embed some graphical application in the system tray, given that the respective application does not come with its own feature to put it in the tray.
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Fragging Free is a Doom3:ROE single-player modification
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FF has a precise objective: to bring the classic gameplay to the maximum. We’ve found D3 gameplay good, but it was too slow and static if compared to older id games.
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Windows to Ubuntu (Round One) (Why you should switch…or shouldn’t)
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So I’m a little bit bored waiting for people to get back to me on my Python help thread, so I decided that I’d write this. It’s another one of those tip-of-the-iceberg topics, but whatever.
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Windows to Ubuntu (Round two) (Installing Ubuntu)(Dual-boot optional)
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I think this is best done as a numbered list.
However, before I get into this: It is possible to dual-boot Ubuntu and Windows. This means that when you turn on your computer, you’ll get a menu that says “Ubuntu” and “Windows” and you can pick which one to boot into.
Read more »Ubuntu's Shuttleworth ramps up to take on Apple
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For years there have been those that have accused Ubuntu of not contributing enough to the upstream development of Linux.
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The Real Reason to Celebrate GNU's Birthday
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As you may have noticed, there's a bit of a virtual shindig going on in celebration of GNU's 25th birthday (including Stephen Fry's wonderfully British salute, which really, er, takes the cake....).
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Viral ethics for Linux users
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A little while ago I found a very intelligent, well presented argument discussing the responsibility of Linux users to install antivirus software.
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Sync files with Dropbox
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Looking for an easy-to-use file sharing and synchronization solution that works with Linux? You might want to give Dropbox a try.
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The end of physical reboots with Linux.
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I was having an interesting conversation with my BSD buddies on whether Ubuntu is suitable/not for servers and I did my usual bragging about the servers not needing to be rebooted.
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Viewing the Night Sky with Linux, Part II: Visit the Planets With XEphem
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Part I of this series covered a simple Linux planetarium program, KStars.
Read more »A new push for desktop Linux
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The GNU/Linux desktop can deliver a very mixed experience to the user: On one hand, you have very functional desktop environments, such as GNOME or KDE, with state-of-the-art features, capabilities, graphical effects, eye-candy and wizbang-ery (Compiz).
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Polk Community College, USF get $812,000 grant to develop Linux curriculum
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Polk Community College and the University of South Florida Polytechnic have received an $812,726 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a four-year curriculum for Linux computer system administration.
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