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Ubuntu Improves Live Offering
News The latest version of Ubuntu, the free Linux distribution based on Debian, includes a fully customisable Live CD and an automated installation tool. Although the first public release of Ubuntu was only six months ago, it's already seen by some as a...
[April 11, 2005, 16:15]
Ubuntu Chief Sees Benefits In Oracle Linux
News Oracle has the ability to support Linux, and doing so could have "tactical value" for the database company, the founder of Ubuntu Linux — and a potential Oracle partner — said on Friday. It's becoming more and more of a commodity," Mark...
[October 23, 2006, 9:35]
Ubuntu Prepares Gutsy Gibbon
News Ubuntu developers have taken the wraps off the fifth update to the upcoming "Gutsy Gibbon" version, a major release that will include significant additions to the Linux distribution. Ubuntu is well known for its ease-of-use, and several of the...
[August 24, 2007, 15:46]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon Swings On The Asus Eee
Blog Since we couldn't find the binaries to reinstall the Asus custom version of Xandros, and had Ubuntu 7.10 CDs sitting around, we thought we'd give the Gibbon another spin. Ubuntu just loaded. So there we had it - an Asus Eee running Ubuntu.
[October 26, 2007, 16:10]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon Swings On The Asus Eee
Blog Comment I notice you always refer to/use Ubuntu. Why do you prefer Ubuntu over other main distro's? I use Suse. I am waiting for KDE 4: looks very Maclike with the new Oxygen Theme and I think it will come out first on Suse as they are main stakeholders.
[November 9, 2007, 9:06]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog There, the computer has two partitions, and for historical reasons the ubuntu system lives on a small 3GB sliver of a much larger disk (I mounted the major partition as my home directory). My Ubuntu boxes, I love.
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon Swings On The Asus Eee
Blog Comment You can move the Ubuntu menus and task bars to any side of the screen - just click and drag. One of my long-term projects is to dedicate a big fat machine to multiple Linuxes on multiple partitions (or perhaps virtualbox - haven't decided yet).
[November 9, 2007, 12:20]
Ubuntu Coming Soon To Sun's Niagara
News Canonical will support Sun Microsystems' Niagara servers with the upcoming release of its Ubuntu Linux distribution, the companies are expected to announce on Tuesday. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (long-term support) will feature support for the T1000 and T2000...
[May 30, 2006, 8:50]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment My organization has a Windows infrastructure (mail, authentication, networking), nevertheless I had a dual boot desktop with Ubuntu that happily co-existed with the environment. As a matter of fact I stopped booting into Windows and it was all good.
[October 25, 2007, 9:28]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon Swings On The Asus Eee
Blog Comment Ubuntu is the most mainstream desktop Linux, and it's attracted the most interest from non-Linux fans. Conversely, I know hardcore Linuxites who don't like it because they think it hides too much away, there are problems they think important that...
[November 9, 2007, 9:06]
Ubuntu Development Hits Founder In The Pocket
News Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has admitted that he spends a significant sum of his own money developing the Linux distribution. Ubuntu is expensive," he said, in an interview with German news site Heise, published on Monday.
[May 9, 2006, 16:40]
Ubuntu Unveils Details Of Future Release
News The Ubuntu Linux project hopes to release a groundbreaking product later this year, which will potentially include support for virtualisation and some mixed 32- and 64-bit architectures. The next version of Ubuntu — Dapper Drake — is due for...
[April 20, 2006, 17:30]
Ubuntu Update Hit By Six-week Delay
News New versions of Ubuntu Linux have been released at a steady six-month intervals, but project founder Mark Shuttleworth is considering a six-week delay to improve the reliability of an important new version.
[March 14, 2006, 9:05]
Ubuntu Lets Loose 'Feisty Fawn'
News Canonical on Thursday released version 7.04 of Ubuntu Linux, nicknamed Feisty Fawn, but the company's website was unable to keep up with the demand for the software. The up-and-coming Ubuntu has yet to attain the commercially blessed status of Red...
[April 20, 2007, 15:45]
Ubuntu Announces Hardy Heron
News The next major version of the Linux distribution Ubuntu has been announced, with the release date scheduled for April 2008. In line with Ubuntu's tradition of alliterative, sequentially alphabetical release names, the version, 8.04, will be called...
[August 30, 2007, 11:33]
Ubuntu Gets More Virtualisation-friendly
News The Ubuntu version of Linux is getting more virtualisation-friendly, but in a different way from its top rivals. Canonical on Thursday is releasing Ubuntu 7.04, also known as Feisty Fawn, sporting two newer virtualisation technologies.
[April 16, 2007, 15:36]
Ubuntu 7.10 Gibbon Swings On The Asus Eee
Blog Comment CPU Scaling does not work under Ubuntu 7.10. I have both Xandros and Kubuntu running, I shrank the first partition on the ssd, saved with partimage the two partitions on which Xandros is installed, created a third 80MB boot partition for Ubuntu on...
[November 12, 2007, 8:16]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment The wild card here is virtualisation: you can easily run Windows in a virtual box under Ubuntu, so you can have quite a lot of your organisation running open source and limit your spending on proprietary licences to just those bits that absolutely...
[October 22, 2007, 17:38]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment Evolution is the standard e-mail program with Ubuntu I've been using it to connect to the exchange server where I work with no problems. Mars (a ninja) It picks up mail calendar appointments contacts and tasks, but for some reason not notes.
[October 23, 2007, 17:53]
Ubuntu's Latest Linux Will Help Debug Crashes
News With its upcoming "Feisty Fawn" version of Ubuntu Linux due on 19 April, Canonical hopes to shed light on what happens when things go wrong. There are potentially millions of users of an application on Ubuntu, but they don't have a relationship...
[April 12, 2007, 8:38]
