Ubuntu 9.04 Review
Ubuntu is a community-developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work, Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email apps, to web server software and programming tools.
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21.5.2009 Ubuntu 9.04 Boots in 21.4 Seconds
There are only two days left until the third Alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) will be available
(for testing), and...
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13.1.2009 Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate published
The Ubuntu project has published a release candidate, or final testing version, for the upcoming 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope version of its popular Linux distribution.
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17.4.2009 Download ICQ 5.04
ICQ Lite has all the essential features of the full version of ICQ. You can message people, exchange files, send SMS messages, do voice chat, and meet people. It also includes multilingual support, the ability to save your chat histories, and a typing indicator that shows when a contact is typing you a message.
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22.12.2005 Screenshots of Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger 8.0)
We have some exclusive screenshots of Windows Live Messenger, formally known as MSN Messenger 8.0. Check them out while they are hot!
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The Wait Is Over: Ubuntu 7.10 Is Here
As promised, Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) was released a few minutes ago, and it's my deepest pleasure to introduce you guys to the new features to be found in this version of Ubuntu (which is based on the GNOME desktop environment) and also to the features from Kubuntu (same as Ubuntu, but based on the popular KDE desktop environment).
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18.10.2007 Ubuntu 8.10 Released
After six alphas, a beta and a release candidate, Ubuntu 8.10 is here, today (October 30th), available on mirrors worldwide (see below for download links), and it's my greatest pleasure to introduce you guys to the highlights of this new release dubbed Intrepid Ibex.
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30.10.2008 Dell’s Mini packs Ubuntu, XP
Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 now available and Dell is pushing the netbook is available on its site. Meanwhile Vodafone is going to sell the Mini in Europe.
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4.9.2008 Windows 7 Transformation Pack for Ubuntu Linux
In past we have covered Windows 7 Transformation pack for Windows Vista & Windows XP as well as Mac OS X transformation pack for Windows XP now here is Windows 7 Transformation pack for Ubuntu Linux for those users who want to enjoy Windows 7 and want to give fresh look to their Ubuntu Linux.
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21.10.2009 Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 - Strengths and weaknesses
Over the past few days I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the differences between Microsoft’s latest Windows 7 and Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10.
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30.10.2009 Linux Matches Windows 7 Release With Ubuntu 9.10 RC
Canonical on Thursday made available the Release Candidate of its latest Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 9.10, on the same day Microsoft launched the long-awaited Windows 7.
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25.10.2009 Authorities Order BitTorrent Pirate to Move from Ubuntu Linux to Windows
Scott McCausland, aka sk0t has seen better times, but as it appears, he is all out of luck lately. For McCausland it all went downhill with an illegal download of Star Wars: Episode III over a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
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25.8.2007 Windows Update versus Ubuntu Update
A few months ago, Steve Ballmer publicly noted that Windows Vista was “a work in progress.” That inspired a predictable outpouring of Vista-bashing.
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15.7.2008 MSN Messenger 7.5.0324
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8.2.2006 Live Messenger 8.1 will be released soon
Internal sources at Microsoft have recently revealed that the upcomming Windows Live Messenger 8.1 will be released to the world on the 25th of January via the Live Ideas page.
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20.1.2007 Windows Live Messenger 8.5 - A First Look
The guys over at Messenger Adictos have made available the Spanish version of the next version of Windows Live Messenger, 8.5.
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27.5.2007 Windows Live Messenger 9.0
Drops in late 2008, early 2009. Forget about Windows Live Messenger 8.1 and 8.5, Microsoft is cooking Windows Live Messenger 9.0.
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1.11.2007 Windows Live Messenger 8.0 BETA
Windows Live Messenger will be the next-generation MSN Messenger. It will have everything you already love about Messenger-your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video-plus new ways to connect and share documents with almost magical ease. As always, it will be free to download Messenger and use most of its features.
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28.1.2006 Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0683
Michael Sun has posted a couple of interesting screenshots of Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0683.00_Branches, an internal build already showing differences with the preview of the new UI we gave you last month. The exclusive images also reveal some new features.
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17.4.2006 Windows Live Messenger 8.1 BETA
Windows Live Messenger 8.1 BETA for Windows XPSP2 . Thanks to Matt for this article.
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31.10.2006 Who wants to know how Windows Live Messenger actually works?
Oh it’s really rather simple once you look at it from all the right angles! Here’s a nice little visual representation of the “Messenger Relay” system of which sends and receives all your messages
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28.12.2006 Messenger Plus! Live 4.20.262
Messenger Plus! Live is an add-on for Windows Live Messenger which adds lots of features and extras that make your instant messenger easier, more useful or just tons more entertaining.
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2.3.2007 Help Microsoft help others using Windows Live Messenger....
In case anyone might have missed this from MSN's homepage. US only, but you can just say you are from US and it will work.
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24.3.2007 Vista Skins for MSN Messenger 8.1
Thanks to hwh1226 for this downloads. Here are some Wonderful Vista Skins for MSN Messenger 8.1.
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1.6.2007 Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Gets an Update
Today, users running Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta were greeted with an update entitled "Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta 1 Update 1" via Windows Update.
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22.6.2007 Xbox 360 Messenger Kit
This year's Xbox 360 Spring Dashboard Update brought MSN Messenger contact-list integration to Xbox Live, but many of us have been waiting for Microsoft to release the chatpad accessory before making full use of the service.
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23.7.2007 Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta 2
Windows Live Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger. It has everything you already love about Messenger—your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video—plus new ways to connect and share photos and documents effortlessly.
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6.9.2007 Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Download
Windows Live Messenger is the next - generation MSN Messenger. It has everything you already love about Messenger, and much more!
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4.10.2007 Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Final
The final version of Windows Live Messenger 8.5 has been leaked (via mess.be) and is available for download. Microsoft has been cooking Window Live Messenger 8.5 to accompany the second wave of Windows Live releases scheduled for November.
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6.11.2007 What’s on tap for Windows Live Messenger 9?
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Microsoft sent out invitations to pre-selected testers for the next version of its consumer instant-messaging service, Windows Live Messenger (WLM) 9.
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26.11.2007Wubi arrives: a look at Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 5
The Ubuntu development community has
announced that
the fifth Ubuntu 8.04 prerelease is now available for testing. Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 5 adds additional polish and reliability as well as a few intriguing
new features. The official release of Ubuntu 8.04, codenamed Hardy Heron, is
scheduled
for late April and feature freeze is already in effect.
<...> One of the most significant new features added in alpha 5 is
support for Wubi, a new installation mechanism that makes it easier for Ubuntu and Windows to coexist on the same computer. Wubi provides a complete
Ubuntu installer that can be run in Windows from the Ubuntu Live CD. It installs Ubuntu into a folder on the Windows file system and sets up a boot
menu so that users can choose between Windows and Ubuntu when the computer starts.
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24.02.2008Ubuntu Studio 7.04 Released
Ubuntu Studio is a
multimedia editing/creation
flavour of Ubuntu. It’s
built for the GNU/Linux audio,
video, and graphic enthusiast
or professional.
The Ubuntu Studio team is
proud to announce its first
release: 7.04 for Intel
i386-compatible processors.
With this release, which you
can download for DVD in little
over 860 MiB, we offer a
feature that is somewhat
reminiscent of Ubuntu Server:
on installation, you can
choose between the Audio,
Graphics or Video tasks; and
choose also to install a
number of plugins, which for
this release is mainly aimed
at audio production.
We have endeavoured to
keep as many of our packages
in the standard Ubuntu
repositories as possible.
Certain packages, such as
wired and our art packages,
are kept in an external
repository and fully up to
Ubuntu packaging standards. Be
aware however, that this is
only a temporary solution and
we will be pushing all our
packages into Ubuntu for the
next release...
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13.05.2007Ubuntu 9.04 RC released, final coming Thursday
While Microsoft preps their upcoming RC of Windows 7, and Apple continues work on Snow Leopard, the Ubuntu Linux team has already published the
release candidate of their upcoming 9.04 version, dubbed "Jaunty Jackalope," and is set to publish the final version of the code on Thursday, April
23.
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21.04.2009Dell to Offer Ubuntu 7.04 Linux
Following through on a plan
announced in late March, Dell
confirmed this week that it
will soon begin shipping
consumer desktop PCs and
laptops with Ubuntu 7.04 - one
of the most popular Linux
distributions. Systems running
the open source software will
be available in "the
coming weeks."..
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03.05.2007Ubuntu 8.04 vs. Windows XP: Application Performance Benchmark
Several open source applications are available on both Linux as well as Windows. This gave Mohammed Saleh the idea of
comparing the performance of
various of these applications on both Ubuntu 8.04 as well as Windows XP SP3, to see which of the two performed better with certain applications.
The results were rather interesting.
The tests he performed could be more or less grouped into multimedia related tests (Blender,
Avidemux, etc.) and hard disk performance tests (the command line RAR utility and ClamAV). The results seem to indicate that Windows XP beats Ubuntu
hands-down when it comes to multimedia related applications, and Ubuntu has the advantage in IO intensive applications.
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21.05.2008Dell not installing the latest Ubuntu on new netbooks
Dell's Mini 10v netbook that was launched last week has some nice new upgrades, including "wireless improvements" according to Betanews, but one
thing that users shouldn't expect is the latest version of Ubuntu, 9.04, or even version 8.10. The netbook is currently being sold running Ubuntu
8.04 standard, but in an email that Dell sent to Betanews, they believed that installing the newest version is not in the best interest of the
mainstream users. Dell has stated two main reasons for sticking with the older version. A Dell spokesperson said, "We are trying to stay on a
12-month cadence to keep costs down, and build a stable platform.
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27.05.2009Canonical licences 'satanists' selling Ubuntu-esque t-shirts
There are, of course, many Linux distros based on Ubuntu out there (Shift Linux was, for a time, one of them). Among the religious derivatives, we
have seen the Ubuntu Christian Edition, the Ubuntu Muslim Edition, and the Ubuntu Satanic Edition. Normally the Ubuntu spirit of mutual
respect keeps most people happy, but, according to their website, the developers of the Ubuntu Satanic Edition had run into trouble with Canonical,
the company that oversees the Ubuntu distro, over what might be called an "image" issue, but what could have proved to be a "freedom of religion"
publicity nightmare for Canonical. Why?
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22.06.2009Dell ships PCs with Ubuntu Linux 8.04, but not all are satisfied
Some observers are raising questions about why Dell's Linux PCs aren't available in all countries, as well as around Dell's continued use of Ubuntu
in the face of usability and application support issues...
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22.07.2008Dell to preload Ubuntu, industry sources say
Officially, Dell Inc. hasn't
said a word yet about which
Linux it will be preloading on
its desktops and laptops.
Several sources within Dell,
however, have told
DesktopLinux.com that Dell's
desktop Linux pick is going to
be Ubuntu.
While
unable to confirm this through
official Dell channels, the
site says they have heard the
same story now from several
internal Dell sources. They
write that the Austin, Texas,
computer giant will be
preinstalling the newly
released Ubuntu 7.04. These
systems will be released in
late May 2007. According to
sources, Ubuntu will be
released on a Dell e-series
"Essential" Dimension
desktop, an XPS desktop, and
an e-series Inspiron laptop.
That Dell chose
Ubuntu wasn't much of a
surprise, since Dell founder
and CEO Michael Dell had
already announced that he is
running that distribution on
his home laptop. Michael Dell
is currently using Ubuntu 7.04
on an extremely well-equipped
Dell Precision M90.
Sources also indicated that
Dell has decided to go with
Ubuntu because a large number
of people who answered its
Linux desktop survey indicated
that they wanted Ubuntu. While
Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of
Canonical, the company behind
Ubuntu, recently said he
can't comment on whether or
not his company has been
talking with Dell, sources
close to the company indicate
that Dell and Canonical have
been having talks for several
months now about Ubuntu
running on Dell's
computers.
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01.05.2007Messenger Group - Enjoy group chat on your WL Messenger!
Messenger Group, developed with Windows Live Messenger platform, is a service for a group of Messenger users chatting together in real time. Maybe
you think that Windows Live Messenger supports multi-conversation, but this multi-conversation is temporary, will be dismissed with the finish of
conversation.
Compared with multi-conversation, Messenger Group is an existing group with each member in, members can talk together at
any time without creating a temporary multi-conversation. Messenger Group makes a group of people connecting closer, no matter whether they are on
your Messenger contact list. You can create a group for a team, a department or a company to chat online together.
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29.04.2008New Ubuntu Linux runs in Windows from an emulated image
The latest Ubuntu operating system, version 8.04, code-named "Hardy Heron," has a new feature aimed at making it easier for Microsoft Windows
users to install and test the operating system without creating a separate virtual machine...
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25.04.2008Linux Comparison: openSUSE
Previous to writing this comparison, I have only ever used Ubuntu and Fedora. Considering Ubuntu's popularity and reputation for being easy to
use, I was expecting openSUSE to be nowhere near as good. From the moment I was greeted with "Welcome" as the LiveCD booted, I knew I was going to
be proven wrong. View: Part 1 of "Linux Comparison" - Ubuntu An install for all. The installation was quick and painless. The installer correctly
detected the existing Linux partitions, and also proposed that I did not format my home partition (for the uninitiated, this is more or less the "My
Documents" of Linux).
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04.12.2008Review: Ubuntu 8.10 - All Hail new Network Manager
Canonical, the developers behind Ubuntu Linux have release Intrepid Ibex, the successor to last spring's Hardy Heron release. Ibex isn't a
long-term support release - which might put off some large organizations - but for Ubuntu desktop fans, version 8.10 makes a worthwhile upgrade.
If you made the leap to Ubuntu 8.10 when it was released last week you may be scratching your head wondering what the fuss is about. The
answer is that it might be a few days before you appreciate the small tweaks and overall streamlining in this release. Naturally, there are a slew of
new and updated packages - GNOME 2.24, GIMP 2.6, and more - but much of what we love about 8.10 is more subtle.
That said, there are two
major changes likely to have an impact on almost all users - the updated NetworkManager app and the new X.org 0.7.
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04.11.2008Next Ubuntu, 'Hardy Heron,' to get full support
The first version of Ubuntu scheduled for next year will be called Hardy Heron and will be the second of Canonical's Linux products to feature
long-term support.
Ubuntu Developer Jono Bacon posted news of the new version on a
mailing list and his
blog on Wednesday.
He invited interested people to submit feature
requests for the release at its
Launchpad site. Canonical will hold an
Ubuntu Developer Summit in October 2007 in Cambridge, Mass., to hash out details and implementation plans, he added.
Ubuntu's
next update, Gutsy Gibbon, is due in October and will sport the version number 7.10, a reference to the year and month of its release. Following the
six-month release cycle, Hardy Heron, or 8.04, is scheduled for release in April 2008...
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29.08.2007Ubuntu: No negotiations with Microsoft in progress
Ubuntu founder Mark
Shuttleworth has provided a
lengthy response to the
ongoing rumors of negotiations
between Microsoft and Ubuntu:
Theres a rumour
circulating that Ubuntu is in
discussions with Microsoft
aimed at an agreement along
the lines they have concluded
recently with Linspire,
Xandros, Novell etc.
Unfortunately, some
speculation in the media
(thoroughly and elegantly
debunked in the blogosphere
but not before the damage was
done) posited that śUbuntu
might be nextť.
For
the record, let me state my
position, and I think this is
also roughly the position of
Canonical and the Ubuntu
Community Council though I
havent caucused with the CC on
this specifically.
We
have declined to discuss any
agreement with Microsoft under
the threat of unspecified
patent infringements...
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17.06.2007Improved Windows interoperability in Ubuntu
A proposal has been created by Scott Richie, an Ubuntu MOTU, that Wine be included in the Main repository of Ubuntu. This does not mean the Wine would
be installed by default but instead that, on clicking an executable file, the user would be prompted if they want to install Wine. An automatic
install would follow, similar to what is already done for codecs in Ubuntu. The proposal comes after realising that only 37% of Ubuntu users had
installed Wine with only a third of these using it according to PopCon. Having previously been too unstable in its beta versions, Scott Richie
believes Wine is now mature enough for inclusion in the distribution.
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15.12.2008Ubuntu promises DIY Amazon cloud
Next month should see the first steps from the Canonical camp that will let you run an Amazon-style cloud behind the firewall on Ubuntu.
The Jaunty Jackalope edition of Ubuntu, version 9.04, due in April, will let you take existing Amazon Machine Images (
AMIs) from Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (
EC2) and run them on your own Ubuntu servers...
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25.03.2009Linux comparison: Introduction and Ubuntu
Introduction I have toyed around with Linux on and off for the last few years, mostly with Ubuntu. My first experience of Linux was Ubuntu. At first
it was a bit scary, with me wondering if my CPU would implode should I type the wrong command. The more I used Linux though, the more I learnt about
my computer. This is why I think anyone who finds computers and technology interesting, should give it a go. And what better time to do so than now?
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04.12.2008Important message to Windows Live Messenger customers
As some of you have noted on our forum, yesterday an important service announcement accidentally went out to a large audience of Windows Live
Messenger users with the following message: "Important service announcement: As part of a recent system enhancement, we need you to change your
e-mail address to continue signing in to the Windows Live™ Messenger Service. To ensure that your access is not blocked and to learn more, go to
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/Messenger/en" The message was sent from "messenger@microsoft.com" and was actually legitimate. However was not
intended to go out to the people that received the Instant Message yesterday. The Windows Live Messenger team has posted a alert for customers to
please disregard the message.
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09.04.2009Ubuntu on Atom: coming soon to a subnotebook near you
Ryan Paul: During OSCON last week, I met with Canonical's Pete Goodall to discuss the company's strategy for Ubuntu in the mobile market. Although
he could not tell me any specifics regarding plans for upcoming Ubuntu-based subnotebook products, the word is that good stuff is coming soon. He
seemed very enthusiastic about emerging opportunities for Ubuntu in the mobile space.
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