Person of the Year 2007
Person of the Year 2007
Time - Desmond Tutu often uses the word ubuntu, meaning “I am because we are.” It’s my favorite epithet, an ode to interdependence. When I told Al that, he responded with Gandhi: Satyagraha, meaning “hold tight to the truth.” Personally, I’m trying to live
Evaluating prospects for Linux growth in 2008
Ars Technica - Additionally, as enthusiasts are sure to point out, distributions like Ubuntu , Fedora , and SLED are becoming very mature, robust, and easy to use. Slow uptake of Vista could also help out desktop Linux growth. As a result of the Asus Eee PC along
Windows’ dominance stifles demand for Linux
ZDNet UK - Dell has been offering the Ubuntu distribution in the US for some time but we’ve yet to see it in any other countries . Acer has started selling its Aspire 5710Z model with the Ubuntu and Linpus distributions through local resellers, but only in
Linux users answer the call: Ubuntu wireless-adapter glitch resolved
CNet - The first thing you learn when you write about technology is that the people who read your stuff are smarter than you’ll ever be. So let me start by saying “Thank you” to all the Linux users who responded to last Friday’s post on my travails trying
Software Walmart Jumps on gOS Bandwagon: Here Comes “Rocket”
DailyTech - Look out Windows Vista and hot-selling Mac OS X Leopard — a new OS is in town. A new Linux distribution, gOS, produced by Good OS LLC and based on a Ubuntu 7.10 version, hit the market yesterday when it was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show
Shuttle demonstrates $199 kPC at CES
Ars Technica - The $199 version of the system will also ship with 512MB of RAM and either a 60GB or an 80GB drive as well as Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. Other features are still under consideration. Shuttle hasn’t decided whether or not the final version of the kPC
25 Skills Every Man Should Know: Your Ultimate DIY Guide
Popular Mechanics - Of course, your best bet for securing a PC would be to use Linux — Ubuntu is ridiculously easy to install. 144. RE: 25 Skills Every Man Should Know: Your Ultimate DIY Guide Cool list, but what anxieties we all have! Please add: escaping from a stuck
Core Impact Penetrates Deeply
eWeek - Our test network contained a variety of Linux operating systems, including Community Enterprise Operating System’s CentOS, Red Hat’s RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 4 and Canonical’s Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support), along with Windows XP, Windows
Ubuntu Let Us Play, Now Grab Our DIY OS Pre-Giveaway!
Popular Mechanics - Published in the December 2007 issue. We’re excited about our Mini Monster PC with its ridiculously oversize data locker, but we’re sad that only one person can win it. So to give a little something to the rest of our geeky readers out there, we
Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ
eWeek - Ubuntu is free software, period—it doesn’t come in separate no-cost hobbyist and per-machine-fee enterprise versions like the Linux distributions from Red Hat and Novell. Canonical does offer paid support for Ubuntu systems—$250 annually for
KDE 4: a New Dawn For The Linux Desktop?
InternetNews.com - Similarly Red Hat’s Fedora has KDE as an option as does Ubuntu (though the KDE version of Ubuntu is called Kubuntu). “KDE 4 is a major feature on the Linux landscape in 2008, and while KDE 4.0 is not yet ready for production enterprise use, Novell
Blog: 2007’s no shows - 2008’s stars?
New Zealand Herald - Jeff (Christchurch) Add Ubuntu (The Linux distro) to the list. It’s bound to suddenly grow in 2008, thanks to Dell’s new offering. The Compiz visual effects are amazing!. And in my opinion, they are much better than Vista’s visual effects. It is also
123-REG LAUNCHES NEW RANGE OF DEDICATED SERVERS
pressbox.co.uk - Available on both Ubuntu and Windows platforms, each dedicated server has a custom-made control panel, which enables users to manage content easily and effectively. More advanced users can also have full root/administrator access to the server to
2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced
PRWeb - The polls are closed and the results are in for the 2005 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Among the winners are Ubuntu, Firefox, MySQL and OpenOffice.org. ( PRWEB ) March 7, 2006 — The polls are closed and the results are in for the 2005
Kubuntu 8.04 Alpha 3 Has KDE 4.0 Final
Softpedia - Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available from the network and professional
OpenMoko FreeRunner: a win for phone freedom
Ars Technica - When I was at Ubuntu Live in Portland last year, I got to play with a Neo1973. At the time, the software was still in a pre-alpha state, and the user interface was still extremely far from finished. Despite the limitations I encountered at the time, I
INQUIRER guide to free operating systems
The Inquirer - It used to be based on Debian, but more recently has moved to Ubuntu - more on that later. It doesn’t come with much software included - it was cheap and the company hoped you’d buy extra apps from their online “warehouse”, where they sold an
RPM 5: a Fork in The Linux Packaging
InternetNews.com - RPM also faces competition from Debian Linux and distributions that are based on it like Ubuntu that use the .deb package format. Fundamentally though in Johnson’s opinion there really shouldn’t be a contest between packaging systems. “In the future
Articles from 4.01.2007 to 4.30.2007 :
eWeek - Red Hat Acquires MetaMatrix, Targets Unix Apps Market Sun Wants Its IPTV Database Competitors IBM, MySQL Join Hands Is Ubuntu Join us on Jan. 10, 2008 for Energy-Efficient IT & the Bottom Line . Eco-friendly policies can substantially cut energy
Archive for: January, 2008
ZDNet Blogs - The gOS is based on the Ubuntu 7.1 Linux desktop developed by an open source startup of the same name. “The gOS is an alternative operating system that makes it apparent that Google is your entire computing experience,” said gOS founder David Liu
First look: Qt 4.4.0 with Phonon and WebKit
Ars Technica - Trolltech has released the Qt 4.4.0 technical preview, a pre-release that allows software developers to begin experimenting with the new features that the company has implemented for the next version. Qt is an open-source development toolkit that
Worker’s Edge
CNet - PS - If you run into any snags this week, with Ubuntu, please feel free to email me. I’ve probably already encountered them and found a solution. bruce at brucewagner dot com Also, I am currently writing an article for my blog called, “How to do a
Posts by Dennis O’Reilly
CNet - So let me start by saying “Thank you” to all the Linux users who responded to last Friday’s post on my travails trying to get Ubuntu 7.10, or “Gutsy Gibbon,” to recognize my Linksys WPC300N wireless adapter. The first suggestions I tried were the ones
Hardware Samsung Cranks Out 128GB MLC SSD
DailyTech - As an Ubuntu user, I say 4, 8, or 16 GB is fine. At those rates, you can’t afford the bloat of an OS designed by ‘motivationally challenged individuals’.
Five Desktop Linux Highlights of 2007
eWeek - To name but a few, this year saw the arrival of such significant distributions as Fedora 8, OpenSUSE 10.3, SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 Service Pack 1, MEPIS 6.5 and last, but never least, Ubuntu 7.10. However, while each was incrementally a
