Ubuntu Look

Today a new feedback site is launched at brainstorm.ubuntu.com that will make it easier for users of Ubuntu to suggests ideas for improvements. Voting makes it clear which ideas have the most support in the user community and should be given priority. We have of course been inspired by the IdeaStorm site from our good friends at Dell but modified the concept to fit our needs.

The development team can now take the pulse on the most pressing user issues and propose the ideas as topics at the Ubuntu Development Summits and ultimately as specifications. Ubuntu development is in turn driven by detailed specifications written up in the wiki and tracked as blueprints in Launchpad.

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The next major production release of Ubuntu — version 8.04 LTS, codenamed Hardy Heron — will ship with KVM as its virtualization package. This choice is surprising to those of us who have been watching the Xen virtualization package become the darling of Virtual Machine world. So let’s try to make sense out of the KVM virtual machine and this recent choice by Ubuntu.

Hardy Heron, slated to ship in April 2008, is a major Ubuntu release and somewhat more important then the last several versions going as far back as 6.06 Dapper Drake.

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Canonical will not be officially supporting KDE 4 until Kubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” but for Kubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” will be a KDE 3.5 spin and then a community-supported Kubuntu 8.04 version based upon KDE 4.0 (though a few KDE 3 applications are still bundled). Arriving today, albeit a week after the Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 5 release, is the first KDE 4.0.1 Hardy Heron build.

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System76 Inc., a leading provider of Ubuntu pre-installed laptops and desktops, introduces the first available line of certified, pre-installed servers featuring Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition — delivering a new choice in quality server platforms.

Denver, CO (PRWEB) February 26, 2008 — System76 Inc., a leading provider of Ubuntu pre-installed laptops and desktops, introduces the first available line of certified, pre-installed servers featuring Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition — delivering a new choice in quality server platforms.

Ubuntu 7.10 availability on System76 servers fulfills a broad range of data center needs including email, file and print services, virtualization, and customer relationship management. The pedestal or rackmount servers feature Quad Core Intel XEON Processors, up to 8 TB of storage, and up to 32 GB of memory.

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Zebuntu is an Xfce-based Ubuntu distribution with heavy - you guessed it - Zeta influences. Our goal is to use BlueEyedOS to offer a new platform for our former Zeta customers. In the future, Zeta, BeOS, as well as any future Haiku applications, will run natively on Zebuntu.

You can look screenshots at The Coding Studio

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Imagine trying to expose a large number of people (people you might not know personally) to Ubuntu all at once. The logical thing to do is, of course, give them a CD. So what are they going to do with that CD? Well, almost no matter what you say or do, many of them will put the CD in the drive on their Windows computer and see what happens. When they put the CD for the current Ubuntu in, a screen will come up with an Ubuntu logo, a screenshot, and a sentence of text that says to reboot your computer to try it out without changing anything.

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 79 for the weeks
February 17th - February 23rd, 2008. In this issue we cover the
release of Hardy Alpha 5, Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid Ibex, newly approved
LoCos and members, interview with the Ubuntu Server Product Manager,
and, as always, much, much more!

== In This Issue ==

* Hardy Alpha 5 Released
* Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid Ibex
* 5-a-Day
* Newly Approved LoCos and Members
* Review of Open Week
* Interview with Nick Barcet, Ubuntu Server Product Manager
* Florida Team Rocks the Florida Linux Show
* In The Press & Blogosphere
* Meeting Summaries
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* Bugs & Translations
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I’ve released another version of CrunchBang Linux, my remastered version of Ubuntu featuring the lightweight Openbox window manager. Version 7.10.02 is the version that was never meant to be; however, as soon as people started downloading and using the original [I'm still finding it hard to believe that anyone would actually do that] I realised I’d better try to clean up the distribution and start to attempt to fix any issues/problems.

One of the biggest issues with the original release was the dark GTK theme. While the dark theme worked well with all the default applications, it would render some other applications, installed via the repositories, next to useless. Therefore, the dark theme has been replaced by a new more usable/reliable light theme. I know some users [including myself] are quite fond of the dark theme, don’t worry, it’s still available and I’ll post information on the forums and wiki about how to get it back.

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Yesterday, Dell announced to its customers in Canada and Latin America that the Inspiron 1525n now has the option of shipping with Ubuntu 7.10, as well as with the Canadian models of the XPS M1330n and Inspiron 530. The latter two will ship in Latin America soon.

The computers will feature DVD playback capability, just like the
models announced in the United States, UK, Spain and Germany. If you want support for them, the prices will start at $65 for 30 days, and will go up to $275 for one year of standard support from Canonical.

Read more at Softpedia