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Dell may give Ubuntu a mainstream lift

Dell may give Ubuntu a mainstream liftFair deal.Ubuntu gives Dell "street cred in the tech industry" while Dell gives Ubuntu data center cred for servers, which is where Canonical wants to make money.Dell can't expect to make much from Linux desktops. But having at hand a credible Linux for...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, Dell Computer Corp., Linux, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-01

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn)

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn)Anything more than eye candy?What does this do for me to justify spending 2-4 hours to upgrade? The "story" features a lot of meaningless screen captures of progress bars and OS loads and not much else of interest. Let me ask,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Yellow Dog Linux, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, Ubuntu 7.04

Discussion threads 2007-04-20

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

A tour of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Tags: Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu

Image galleries 2007-04-20

Quick Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 5 gallery

One of the most promising open source projects has to be Ubuntu. In a poll I put up a few days ago Ubuntu was the clear favorite, and the more I look at it and use it, the more I see why.Ive been watching development of Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty...

Tags: Instant messaging, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty, Ubuntu 7.04

Blog posts 2007-03-14

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First look at Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta

First look at Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" betaUbuntuMy only concern with Ubuntu and other Linux Distros has been incompatibility issues with wireless equipment and games. However, Ubuntu continues to improve and I have high hopes for the future versions of Linux.If Only...Adrian; If the development world such as Symantec,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, .NET, Wired Internet, Ubuntu, bèta, Linux, GNOME

Discussion threads 2008-03-22

Ubuntu 7.10 (First look at Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon")

Ubuntu 7.10 (First look at Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon")Where's the meat?Give us some specifics. You could at least summarize the changes from 7.04. One thing that's always bugged me about Linux is user interface consistency, fonts in particular are not implemented as well as in Windows, and can...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.10, First Look, Gutsy Gibbon

Discussion threads 2007-10-19

Ubuntu 7.10 - One sweet OS

My ISO of Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" finished downloading a few hours ago and I've had some time to explore this new Linux distro. Ubuntu 7.10 is one sweet OS.  Visually, Gutsy Gibbon isn't all that different to Feisty Fawn.  The theme has been tweaked and is...

Tags: Ubuntu, Theme, Operating System, Ubuntu 7.10, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" announced

Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" announcedHow do they do it?A new version every six months, with every time important improvements.... how do they do it?I guess that's the power of open source. A power house if there ever was one!I've used Ubuntu since july 2006: Dapper Drake 6.06 was my first. That...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Ralink, Ubuntu, Hardy Heron, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-08-29

Ubuntu prepares 'Gutsy Gibbon'

Ubuntu prepares 'Gutsy Gibbon'Ubuntu prepares 'Gutsy Gibbon'Who cares? It's the same crap as every other version of ubuntu and based on 30 year old technology. No one wants it. End users don't want to download it, then download the source, compile, hope it compiles clean, then install, then...

Tags: Operating systems, Patches, UNIX, Monitors & displays, OPEN SOURCE, Dumbrock, Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-08-24

Vista scare stories distort the real picture

Vista scare stories distort the real pictureMy favorite is ....... "Marc Orchant hangs" without the quotes yields 13,600 hits. Even if you divide that by 10 it is clear evidence that there is a problem with Marc. :)change the search to ... "Ubuntu 7.04 hangs"Compare apples to apples...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Yes IE7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

Discussion threads 2007-08-06

Dell to offer more Linux PCs, Ubuntu's creator says

Dell to offer more Linux PCs, Ubuntu's creator saysIt's time for change ... and more importantly...[i]People who purchase PC's should be able to decide which OS they want and not have it forced upon them.[/i]Even more importantly, people who purchase PC's should be able to make an INFORMED decision about...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Linux PC, Dell Computer Corp., Ubuntu, Linux, PC, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-07-27

Tour the Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) desktop

Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 2nd Edition is the essential newbie guide to Ubuntu, recently updated for Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn and packed with tips, tricks, and helpful pointers. In this chapter download, take a guided visual tour of the GNOME desktop environment. Chapter coverage includes: Navigating the ...

Tags: Desktop, Ubuntu, GNOME, Chapter Coverage, Open Source

Book chapters 2007-07-26

Dual-booting Vista and Linux

Following my post the other day on setting up an XP/Linux dual-boot system I received a number of enquires about setting up a Vista/Linux dual-boot system where the system already has Windows Vista installed.  The basic process isn't all that dissimilar to setting up an XP/Linux dual boot rig, the...

Tags: Linux, My Linux Experience

Blog posts 2007-07-12

Dual-booting XP and Linux - It's really easy!

Over the past few weeks several people have asked me if it's possible to set up a Windows XP/Linux dual-boot system on a PC that already has Windows XP installed on it, and if it's possible, how easy is the process. Well, I'm here to tell you that it's pretty easy...

Tags: Linux, My Linux Experience

Blog posts 2007-07-10

News to know: Microsoft patch skeletons; Telepresence; Ubuntu; GDrive

Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Skeletons in Microsoft's Patch Day closet.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" features.David Berlind Testdrive: Cisco's TelePresence hi-def video conferencing system.Review: Drobo left.Larry Dignan: Do we really hate Apple and the iPhone? Jason O'Grady: YouTube arrives for Apple TV. Leopard screenies...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-21

Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" features

Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" featuresLooks good to me.I'll have to give it a go and see how it runs on the old dell.PolishedEver more polished! I for one will certainly give it a spin. But until the final release in October, I'll stick with 7.04 Feisty Fawn. I'm not much...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Linux, font, distro, PCLinuxOS, Fedora Project

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" features

Just as I'm getting used to Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, details of the next version, 7.10 (codenamed "Gutsy Gibbon"), have been released.Here are some highlights: Ubuntu 7.10 will ship with the latest edition of the GNOME desktop,2.20, released a few weeks before our own release.  Kubuntu 7.10 willship with KDE 3.5.7,...

Tags: My Linux Experience

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty FawnInstall Mplayer or VLC instead ...It has built in codec support for Quicktime 7 files. There is also a graphical front end that's included. Mplayer will also allow you to capture network streams and do conversion with mencoder, but it's on the command line...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Consumer electronics, Windows Media, Apple QuickTime, Ubuntu, VLC Player, mplayer, Automatix, Mplayer, DVD

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Today I continue my "Windows to Linux Chronicles" by looking at what media support is like under Ubuntu 7.04.The test is simple.  Take a few test files and see if they'll play.  For the test I chose the following files: An MP3 test file A WMA test file (a DRM-free file of...

Tags: My Linux Experience, Linux

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Ubuntu 7.04 - Media support Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Ubuntu 7.04 - Media support Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawnback to FedoraUsing Fedora instead of Ubuntu, (this in spite of an initial "grubby" mistake. Ubuntu Feisty recognized neither my Canon Ip4300 printer or my Nvidia Gforce 6100 built in graphics card. Also had trouble with it...

Tags: Linux, 64-bit, INTERNET, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu Feisty

Discussion threads 2007-06-20