The Ubuntu One music store and free software for profit

One of the features expected with the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 release is the Ubuntu One Music Store (UOMS). The UOMS is a mechanism by which Ubuntu users can purchase songs in the MP3 format, with some of the revenue going to support Canonical. These songs are evidently compressed at a relatively high bit rate and [...]

Time For Ubuntu to Fork Evolution

No one can deny the current face of Linux to the masses is Ubuntu. It’s massively more popular than any other distro which makes it the flagship for breaking existing market strangleholds.
Take the Enterprise server OS market for instance, a traditionally strong area for Linux anyway, Canonical (the controlling company of Ubuntu) have rightly seen [...]

PC/OS Series 10.1 Released

We are very pleased to announce the delivery of PC/OS OpenWorkstation 10.1 as well as PC/OS WebStation 10.1. With this release we bring many bug fixes and enhancements to the platform. This release is the last release before the LTS release of PC/OS 11. Some of the highlights of this release include.
Linux Kernel 2.6.31
OpenOffice.org 3.2
Firefox [...]

Ubuntu Dumps the Brown

Color is not typically a topic of much discussion on the Linux blogs, but in recent weeks, it’s been drawing a lot of attention. Why, you ask? Simple: Ubuntu recently announced a major change to its longstanding “Human” earthtone-palette theme and branding. “I don’t know whether to call it ‘poo brown’ or ‘dirt brown,’ but [...]

1st Annual Ubuntu Women Project “How I discovered Ubuntu.” International Women’s Day Competition Winners announced

March 8, 2010 – 1st Annual Ubuntu Women Project “How I discovered Ubuntu.” International Women’s Day Competition
The Competition which was announced back in January, asked women and girls who use Ubuntu to submit their “How I discovered Ubuntu” stories. We as a Project acknowledge that there is no one definite answer to “How do you [...]

Ubuntu’s new look

The Linux world is all excited about Ubuntu’s new look but surely there are more important things that need to be done to make Ubuntu more appealing?
News this week that Ubuntu was introducing a new, refreshed, look for its brand as well as a new default theme for its Ubuntu distribution has got everyone talking. [...]

Redesigning Ubuntu – behind the scenes on 10.04

Dave (@Daviey) is a Ubuntu community leader, consultant specialising in business IT, server and telephony systems.
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 [...]

Ubuntu, The Ultimate Linux Distribution

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 and anticipate each new one the way a [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 To Hang Onto Old Intel Driver

When it comes to Intel’s X.Org driver for Linux, xf86-video-intel, the most recent release was version 2.10 and it arrived in early January complete with Pineview (their next-generation Intel Atom systems) support, X-Video improvements, and various other features. The xf86-video-intel 2.11 driver is now emerging as their next quarterly update that brings in the KMS [...]

Why Canonical Should Imitate Apple’s Early Playbook

One of the most indelible images in the history of personal computing came in 1984, when Apple Computer delivered its famous television ad depicting a running heroine throwing a hammer (read, a Mac) at a looming Big Brother-like spectre representing IBM. The ad was directed by Ridley Scott, director of Blade Runner, and is a [...]

Ubuntu Lucid gets social

Ubuntu Linux’s next release includes built-in social networking and iPhone support
Lucid Lynx, the next version of Ubuntu Linux, is scheduled for release next month but as the alpha versions show there are a number of interesting changes to be included in this latest release.
One of the big changes in Ubuntu 10.4 (aka Lucid Lynx) is [...]

Ubuntu Linux for Mainframes? Not Quite…

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. Here they are.
During a recent phone briefing with The VAR Guy about ISV support, Canonical’s Steve [...]

Ubuntu GNU/Linux Users Reject F-Spot (Mono)

F-Spot poll shows that Ubuntu users are not interested in it
GNU/LINUX users and developers largely reject Mono and these recent poll results, which were extracted from here, show that F-Spot is specifically rejected. The ‘approval rate’ (in terms of percentage) is something like a single-digit number.
Read more at Boycott Novell

Linux Mint 8 “Helena” Xfce RC1 released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 “Helena” Xfce Community Edition RC1.
Quick steps:

Download the ISO or the torrent.
While it’s downloading look at the overview of the new features in Linux Mint 8 Xfce, read the User Guide and make sure to quickly go through the known issues.
After the ISO [...]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #183

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #183 for the week February 28th – March 6th, 2010 and is available here.
In this issue we cover:
* Mark Shuttleworth: “Light” the new look of Ubuntu
* Announcing the 10.10 Ubuntu Developer Summit
* UI Freeze in place for Lucid
* Developer Membership Board meeting
* International Women’s Day Vote
* [...]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #183

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #183 for the week February 28th – March 6th, 2010 and is available here.
In this issue we cover:
* Mark Shuttleworth: “Light” the new look of Ubuntu
* Announcing the 10.10 Ubuntu Developer Summit
* UI Freeze in place for Lucid
* Developer Membership Board meeting
* International Women’s Day Vote
* [...]

Taking Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix out for a Spin

For quite some time I’ve been intrigued by Ubuntu’s Netbook Remix (UNR), but I’ve never given it a shot up until now. Being a KDE guy, I usually lean toward applications based on the Qt toolkit and I’ve never really liked GNOME much. For some reason though, the Ubuntu Netbook Remix has been lingering in [...]

PC-BSD 8.0 vs. Kubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

PC-BSD 8.0 was released last week and while we have already delivered FreeBSD 8.0 benchmarks including against Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Fedora / Debian / OpenBSD / OpenSolaris for which PC-BSD is based, we took this opportunity to deliver a fresh set of *BSD benchmarks. In this article we have benchmarks of PC-BSD 8.0 x64 against [...]

The Mint Newsletter – issue 101

* News about Mint
Some news in the blog – a LXDE edition is on its way as well as the Helena XFCE edition Development started on Mint 9, a new menu and a completely new software manager are to be introduced
A new Software module in the Community website is based on the new software manager
Monthly [...]

Announcing The 10.10 Ubuntu Developer Summit

I am tickled pink to announce the details of the next Ubuntu Developer Summit taking place at Dolce La Hulpe Hotel and Resort in Brussels, Belgium from the 10 – 14 May 2010.
The Ubuntu Developer Summit one of the most important events in the Ubuntu calendar and at it we discuss, debate and design the [...]