The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #123 for the week of December 21st- January 3rd, 2009 is now available.
In this Issue:
* Notifications, indicators and alerts
* Making LoCo Team Rock
* Planet Ubuntu and Corporate Blogs
* Ubuntu Stats
* Ubuntu Live on TV
* Ubuntu Berlin review of 2008
* Tunisian Team Events in December
* 12 days of Launchpad
* Ubuntu Forums [...]

* News about Mint
Merlwiz and Exploder are happy to release LinuxMint-6-XFCE as an RC. A few things have to be checked and/or added to the repositories and Merlwiz needs to write release notes but it’s likely this release will be ready any time now.
LinuxMint-6-x64 is ready for testing and will be released soon (at the [...]

Sylvania’s G Netbook Meso offers a nice-looking screen and plenty of ports — you get three USBs as well as a VGA. The keyboard is just too cramped for reviewer Jack Germain’s liking, though that’s a problem found on just about any tiny netbook computer. The available Ubuntu Netbook Remix OS will give you the [...]

The second stable version of “Ubuntu Privacy Remix” contains all Ubuntu updates released until today, minor bugfixes and the new feature of mounting removable media with the ‘noexec’ option, thus preventing the execution of (malicious) software from removable media.  More details available in the changelog at the download area.

Our development team has been hard at work recently to bring you the latest and greatest release of nUbuntu, codenamed “8.12 Instigating Insecurity”.
Not only does this contain up to date versions of the already included software, it has packed on roughly 250mb on the ISO meaning a ton more tools to better your hacking experience.
Please [...]

This Christmas, some friends made me a gift, it’s a Dell Mini 12, a small, lightweight laptop which will become my guerrilla computer, that is, it will be the computer that I’ll always take with me when not at home, thus preserving my main computer of the risks of the street and, at the same [...]

As you may have heard, Ubuntu is leaping from desktop computers all the way to Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Although Ubuntu Server Edition 8.10 on Amazon EC2 remains in beta, the Amazon relationship could energize Canonical’s server strategy, WorksWithU believes. Here’s why.
First, the undeniable truth: Canonical’s Ubuntu Server Edition strategy is going to take [...]

After Ubuntu gained popularity, some distributions switched to Ubuntu as their base distribution. Also many new Ubuntu based distributions started to appear. Most of these can be categorized based on the following criteria,
* Customized based on Desktop Environment (KDE/GNOME/XFCE etc…)
* Customized based on country/language/religion
[...]

MoLinux 4.2, an Ubuntu-based, general-purpose distribution developed by the regional government of Castilla La Mancha in Spain, has been released. Code named Toboso, the new release of MoLinux is based on Ubuntu 8.10, which means that most of the included applications have been upgraded to their latest versions; these include Linux kernel 2.6.27, X.Org Server [...]

Newly appointed CTO of the Linux Foundation and kernel developer Ted Ts’o is appealing to the Debian project to adopt a more pragmatic attitude about its Linux distro. The provocation for his advice is the current controversy over Debian’s next 5.0 “Lenny” release.
The debate over the free and proprietary aspects of the Debian GNU/Linux has [...]

I took the plunge and decided to upgrade my two Gutsy boxes to Hardy. These are real working PCs, not experimental test boxes, so I was hoping for a straightforward dist-upgrade that preserved all of my settings and applications. Doing a complete wipe-n-reinstall on real working PCs is for Windows luzers; real geeks dist-upgrade forever.
I [...]

I’ve wanted a pink laptop for ages, this Christmas a few of my friends got together and pitched in to buy me the pink Dell Mini9 I’d been drooling over for months. Wow! Thanks again guys, you rock.
First off, here are the specs. Which makes it twice as powerful with many more features than my [...]

The Acer Aspire One netbook comes with the Linplus (customized Linux) Operating System pre-installed, which isn’t that good. Linux4one - a modified Ubuntu - offers a good alternative for Linplus.
Read more at EeePC

While i focus on web development in my articles this post is not related to web development in anyway, however i feel the need to post it here, after reading a bunch of articles comparing Windows and Ubuntu. For me it seemed that, authors writing this articles never used Ubuntu, they just installed it because [...]

There are many different operating systems based on Linux: Debian, SuSE, Gentoo, Red Hat, and Mandriva are examples. Xubuntu is yet another contender in what is already a highly competitive world. So what makes Xubuntu different?
Xubuntu is part of the Ubuntu family of Linux distributions, and is based on Debian, one of the most widely [...]

This morning I went to find the name of a piece of software through Add/Remove programs, only to find that there was only one category (”All”) and there were no applications listed at all. It took me less than 10 minutes to find and implement the solution, but I shouldn’t have to deal with this [...]

Introduction
TechieMoe reviews a lot of distributions and he’s consistently reviewed Mint since the release of version 3.1, Celena. He was the first to review Linux Mint 6 Felicia. Although he usually only scratches the surface (which I understand considering the number of reviews he publishes) he knows how to be harsh in his criticism and…
Read [...]

Welcome to the Mythbuntu Christmas Special! Mythbuntu Jaunty Jackalope alpha 2 has now been released.  With this release, we are providing mirroring on sponsored mirrors only.
It is very important to note that this release is not compatible with Mythbuntu 7.10 or any other MythTV 0.20.2 based distribution.
Changes from Mythbuntu 9.04 alpha 1:
Not Much
* Alternate disks [...]

Charles Olsen and the mintCast team published the third episode of their podcast. Happy listening everyone!
In Episode 3:
Note-taking software under Linux
Linux Mint 6 Felicia released
Rothgar’s overview of Linux Mint 6
OpenSuse 11.1 released
Economist website recommends Linux for netbooks
Linux is holding our kids back…
Read more at Linux Mint Blog

Recently I finally got enough hardware together to build a new computer that will be used to test all the latest games and windows software on. When I built the new machine that meant I had my old main machine to do something with.
So I took my old main machine and thought I would stick [...]