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 Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 - Strengths and weaknesses
Over the past few days Ive been thinking quite a bit about the differences between Microsofts latest Windows 7 and Canonicals 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 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 Dells Mini packs Ubuntu, XP
Dells 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 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 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 Opera 10 Beta Version 10.00b1 download
The well-known web browser, Opera has released its new Opera Browser 10 beta version, which features faster speeds, new enhanced tabs and automatic update. The new Opera Brower 10 beta comes with Opera Turbo for fast browsing on slow connections.
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26.6.2009 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 Forget about DirectX 10 - Introducing DirectX 10.1 Preview for Windows Vista SP1
Forget about Windows Vista's DirectX 10, Microsoft is delivering a preview of DirectX 10.1 associated with the first service pack for the operating system. The Direct3D 10.1 Tech Preview is an integer part of the August 2007, DirectX Software Development Kit, and is designed to provide the evolution of the current Direct3D 10.0.
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30.7.2007 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 Windows SideShow on 10
Laura and Tina over at the 10 Show take a look at Windows SideShow.
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9.5.2006 10 reasons not to get Vista
It's all too easy to get caught up in the million dollar marketing engine as we approach the consumer release of Windows Vista, so lets not forget that it isn't the second coming, and by all counts is an upgrade you can do without.
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22.1.2007 10 reasons you should get Vista
My colleague Ashton Mills published
the top 10 reasons you shouldn't get Vista few days ago. I see his point on some fronts -- admittedly, Microsoft's official publicity material hasn't done a great job of explaining the basic benefits of Vista.
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24.1.2007 10 things you should look for in a netbook
Who saw this coming? In the day and age of quad-core CPUs, 17-inch laptop displays, and terabyte hard disks, whod have thought small laptops with slow CPUs and little storage would set the world afire. But thats just whats happened.
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19.4.2009 Opera 10 released
Ah, September 1. Not a particularly eventful day... aside from a few obscure public holidays (it's Knowledge Day in Russia!) and other events of the sort, it's hard to say that there's much going on (well, there might be something else happening).
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1.9.2009 Windows 7 10-Second Boot
Over a year ago, Microsoft revealed that it considered 15 seconds the ideal startup time for Windows 7 under laboratory conditions.
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7.10.2009 The 10 Things to Do First for Windows 7
When you run your thumb down the list of new features and improvements in Windows 7 you're bound to wonder how you're going to get your arms around all that new technology so that you can deliver it to your users without too much disruption.
Following are 10 steps that can help you accomplish that goal.
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18.10.2009 10 Ways to Optimize Firefox
Everybody who's experienced the fun of customizing Firefox to his or her liking has a favorite extension. Whether it's the improved navigation and session-saving friendliness of TabMixPlus or the convenience of All-in-One Sidebar, I can't imagine living without some of them.
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4.4.2006 DirectX 10 & the Future of Gaming
How is DirectX 10 and its Unified Architecture going to benefit gamers? What is the gamer going to need to take and advantage of it? We recently sat down with ATI and talked about DirectX 10 and how their next generation desktop GPU will benefit.
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2.5.2006 Microsoft: 10 Vista Activations
Microsoft today talked to bit-tech in a bid to reassure the enthusiast community about the licensing terms of Windows Vista.
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27.10.2006 BitDefender for Windows Vista v.10.2
BitDefender, an award-winning provider of antivirus software and data security solutions, announced today the availability of BitDefender v10 security solutions for Microsoft Windows Vista based on 32bit.
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24.1.2007 Top 10 Vista Hacks
You've run Windows Vista, you've played around with the Aero interface, and maybe you've even mucked around a little bit in Vista's innards to see what makes it tick.
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17.4.2007 Google: 1 in 10 webpages contain malware
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC.
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12.5.2007 Microsoft in 2008: 10 Predictions
It's pundit prediction time again. Here are ten predictions about what I think we'll see in Microsoft land in 2008.
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18.12.2007 Download Mac OS X 10.5.6 Now
Not surprisingly, Apple has released Mac OS X Update version 10.5.6 for both Client and Server users of the Mac OS. Weighing in at around 370MB and 470MB respectively, the two updates are immediately available to download and install on Leopard-running Macs.
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15.12.2008 Sakshat, $10 laptop from India?
Government hopes its mini-computer, the world's cheapest, will bridge the digital divide between rich and poor.
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7.2.2009 Microsofts 10 Unlucky Breaks
It's Friday the 13th, the unluckiest day of the year. How unlucky has been Microsoft over the past 34 years?
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13.2.2009Improved 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 8.10 officially launches Thursday
Canonical today announced that the 8.10 version of its popular Linux distribution Ubuntu will be available for free download on Thursday, October 30...
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28.10.2008Ubuntu 9.10 due on October 29
A new version of one of the most popular Linux distributions, Ubuntu, is due in less than a month's time. The final stable version of Ubuntu 9.10
will be released on 29 October, according to their website. However, a beta for version 9.10 is available for those interested. The new version
features several changes, one of which is the use of the faster ext4 file system by default for new installations (although existing file systems will
not be upgraded). In addition, the latest version of GNOME, version 2.28, is included with the beta. The "look and feel" of booting the system has
also been improved.
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06.10.2009Canonical 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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22.06.2009Review: 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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04.11.2008First 'stable' Wine puts Windows apps on Linux
The makers of
Wine, a compatibility tool that allows Windows applications to run on Linux
machines without Windows installed, have released a stable version of Wine 1.0.
The makers of Wine claim that version 1.0 is the
first such "stable" release and have said that although compatibility is not perfect, thousands of applications are reported to "work very
well".
Member and former president of Linux Australia Jonathon Oxer told ZDNet.com.au that the Wine project is "an attempt to
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18.06.2008Dell to Ship Ubuntu 7.10 on Desktops and Laptops
The PC vendor will ship the new Ubuntu Linux desktop on its PCs later this year.
Ubuntu 7.10 arrives Oct. 18, and not long after
that Dell will start shipping that version of the Ubuntu Linux desktop on its laptops and desktops.
"We will offer Ubuntu 7.10
preinstalled on our systems soon," said Anne Camden of
Dell corporate communications, in
an e-mail interview. "For customers who are interested in updating their existing Ubuntu systems, we advise them to visit the
Ubuntu 7.10 page on our wiki, which will go live
after the
official launch."
Dell isn't ready yet to give a shipping date. "As with any OS release, Dell needs to take the time to
qualify the final code on our systems for optimal interoperability," Camden said.
winbeta.org - 18.10.2007
Ubuntu targets 10 second boot time for 2010 release
In an email to developers of the Linux distribution Ubuntu, Canonical's Scott James Remnant explained how they hope to achieve a 10 second boot
time with Ubuntu 10.04, the version to be released in 2010, after 9.10 is released this fall. The projected speed improvements come with changes to
the kernel, such as making the X.org server, which controls the display elements in Linux, load up quicker. The boot process will divided into
sections with time budgets: two seconds for Kernal and initramfs, Plumbing (drive loader), and X.org server; and four seconds for the desktop session
and other services. "This benchmark time is to a fully logged in desktop (auto-login) with an idle CPU and Disk.
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neowin.net - 11.06.2009
Wine Reaches Beta - After 12
Years
After twelve years of
development, the Wine Project
announced Tuesday night that
its software to run Windows
applications within Unix is
entering the beta phase. The
group acknowledged the program
still has bugs, but asked
those interested to download
and test out the application...
betanews.com - 27.10.2005
Ububtu 8.10 officially launches Thursday
Canonical today announced that the 8.10 version of its popular Linux distribution Ubuntu will be available for free download on Thursday, October
30.
Both the desktop and server editions of Ubuntu 8.10 will be available for download on the official Web Site, and on FileForum.
winbeta.org - 28.10.2008
Ubuntu 9.10 Off To A Great Performance Start
The first alpha release for Ubuntu
9.10 was made
available yesterday and while it does net yet integrate
Plymouth or any other new features, it has picked up a few new
packages. Most
prominently, Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 1 features the Linux
2.6.30 kernel and GCC
4.4. There are also other updated packages
from Debian like GNOME
2.27, but most notable are the kernel and
compiler updates. We have tested
out Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 1 and compared its performance to Ubuntu 9.04. While this is very early within the
Ubuntu 9.10 development cycle, the results already may come as a surprise.
winbeta.org - 15.05.2009
Ubuntu 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...
winbeta.org - 13.05.2007
Wubi 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.
winbeta.org - 24.02.2008
Ubuntu 7.10 on XPS M1330, Ubuntu on Dells comes to Spain
In response to feedback from Dell customers who want Linux on more hardware and in more countries, Dell has announced that starting today, customers
in Germany, United Kingdom, France and now Spain can purchase Ubuntu Linux 7.10 with built-in DVD playback on the XPS 1330n (in addition to the
previously-released Inspiron 530n desktop system). Surprisingly enough, this time it will be the U.S. customers who watch their European counterparts
receive an offering first and are forced to wait for availability in their country. Open source supporters everywhere are probably very satisfied with
Dell’s frequent decisions to give them what they want. I can’t stress how important I believe OEM support for Linux is.
neowin.net - 23.01.2008
Ubuntu: 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 Ubuntu
might be next.
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...
winbeta.org - 17.06.2007
Former Linspire CEO Switches to Ubuntu
The sincerest complement a Linux distribution can get is when the onetime CEO of a rival Linux company switches to that distribution. That's exactly
what happened when Kevin Carmony, former CEO of Linux desktop distributor Linspire, publicly announced that he's switched to Ubuntu.
Carmony, who left Linspire in late July, announced his switch to Ubuntu in the Ubuntu Forums on Oct. 17. In his note, Carmony wrote: "Now that
I'm no longer the CEO of Linspire, or under any obligation to use that particular distribution, I thought I should take some time and look around at
all the distributions and decide which one was right for me and my PC. In addition to already being quite familiar with Linspire and Freespire, I also
looked at Novell/SUSE, Red Hat/Fedora, PC Linux, Ubuntu, and Kubuntu."
His decision? "Well, after all my research, I have to
tell you, it was an easy choice. Ubuntu! I'm excited for the new release in a few days, which I will use to replace the
many Linux desktop and laptop PCs I own (five)."
winbeta.org - 19.10.2007
Linux 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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neowin.net - 04.12.2008
Firefox Faster In Wine Than Native Linux
Tuxradar did some benchmarks comparing
Firefox's Windows and Linux JavaScript performance. 'We did some simple JavaScript benchmarks of Firefox 3.0 using Windows and Linux to see how
it performed across the platforms — and the results are pretty bleak for Linux.' Later on, they tried Wine. 'The end result: Firefox from
Mozilla or from Fedora has almost nil speed difference, and Firefox running on Wine is faster than native Firefox.'
winbeta.org - 13.02.2009
Google behind Photoshop's new Linux compatibility
Google recently confirmed in a blog
posting that it had paid Codeweavers to help develop WINE to make Photoshop usable on the well-regarded but still somewhat unpredictable software
package, which aims to replicate Windows libraries to enable popular Windows applications run in a Linux environment.
"Photoshop
is one of those applications that Desktop linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we're happy to say they work pretty well now," Google
engineer and Wine release manager Dan Kegel wrote. "About 200 patches were committed to winehq, and as of wine-0.9.54, Photoshop CS2 is quite
usable," Kegel noted in a separate post.
winbeta.org - 18.02.2008
Next 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...
winbeta.org - 29.08.2007
