Ubuntu Look

I’m running Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) on one of my main workstations. As with its sibling Ubuntu, it’s an endlessly-entertaining blend of really nice stuff and really irritating stuff. The nice stuff is nearly-current releases of fast-moving applications like KDE, Digikam, Krita, KWord, and other apps that I use a lot, easy-on-the-eyes graphics, a good set of default applications, and nicely-organized menus. The irritating stuff is they still don’t pay enough attention to delivering reliable basic functionality in core functions like networking and printing. Both often require manual tweakage to get them to work correctly, and even then you may be foiled by a Helpful Daemon.

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South African Linux and open source specialists, Obsidian, will from March be offering official training for the Ubuntu Certified Professional programme.

In terms of the deal with Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, Obsidian will start offering the training from March 2008.

Obsidian will be provide both Ubuntu Professional Courses 1 and 2 for system administrators wanting to pass the required Linux Professional Institute 101 and 102 and Ubuntu 199 exams to achieve the Ubuntu Certified Professional certification. These courses are two of a series of classroom and e-learning courses available for Ubuntu Linux professionals.

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This just in:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTSUpgradesHowto

If anyone’s interested in trying LTS to LTS upgrades, follow the (short) instructions there, I have also posted this to the forums so discussion can take place there.

Fabián Rodríguez Blog

You know what Ubuntu is, so we will not talk about it in this article. Instead, we’ll talk about some or the most popular Ubuntu-based distributions. There are enough (or not) Linux distributions derived from Ubuntu, so we thought it will be a very good idea to make a list with all of them, or at least the popular ones. The following classification is based on popularity (read: number of downloads each distributions has on Softpedia) and it includes only 100% FREE and English-based distros. Moreover, the following list doesn’t include distributions from the Ubuntu family, like Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, etc, because it will not be fair to include them. So, are you eager to see which one is the best and the most popular? Take a look below!

Read more at Softpedia

I’ve written before about the data collected from Alfresco’s Open Source Barometer survey. While originally a survey of 10,000 members of Alfresco’s “content community” (i.e., those who register with Alfresco to download white papers, documentation, etc.), the survey now includes a swelling population of the community, with 35,000+ members.

The data becomes even more significant when you consider Alfresco’s customer base: a high percentage include the world’s leading financial services, media, publishing, government, and educational institutions.

So when I see Ubuntu at 23 percent of Alfresco’s Linux user base (second only to Red Hat at 35 percent), with 51.3 percent of Alfresco’s users choosing to deploy on Linux (with a scant 26.5 percent opting to deploy on Windows), I take notice.

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 77 for the weeks
February 3rd - February 10th, 2008. In this issue we cover MOTU
Elections, Clutch BitTorrent WebUI, Parallels in the Ubuntu partner
repository, Firefox 3 in 7.10, and much, much more.

”’UWN Translations”’

== In This Issue ==

* MOTU Release Team Election
* Clutch BitTorrent WebUI Package
* In The Press & Blogosphere
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Firefox 3 for 7.10
* Updates & Security
* Bug & Translation Stats
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We are seeing more and more questions relating to Kubuntu 8.04, the Hardy Heron, and KDE 4, and some KDE 3 as well. So to hopefully save you some keystrokes on IRC, forums, or mailing lists, lets try this out first.

• Will there be a KDE 4 Live CD for 8.04?
  • YES
• If So, when will it be available for download?
  • Take the date of this blog post and look at about a week hopefully. Some infrastructure changes are needed first, which are currently being addressed.
• Once again, if so, then where will it be available?
  • A good place to keep an eye out will be Kubuntu.org for an announcement. They should be released somewhere under THIS directory.
• Hey, KDE just included the ability to resize the Plasma Panel, is that included in your latest 4.0.1 updates?
  • A straight answer would be maybe, however we really want to follow the release schedule set forth by the KDE community, so if one of our developers don’t create a patch and include it right now, all you have to do is wait a month until 4.0.2 is released.

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Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, will on Thursday begin making commercial applications available to Ubuntu users directly through the desktop, in a step designed to simplify software installation.

The company is making Parallels Workstation for Linux available to users via the operating system’s built-in software update tool, using a feature called the Ubuntu Partner Repository. Parallels Workstation allows users to run Windows and Linux simultaneously on a single system.

The deal marks the first time Canonical has distributed commercial software through the repository, which has in the past only distributed free and open-source software. Because of the inherent diversity in Linux distributions, software installation can be a serious stumbling block for inexperienced desktop users of the sort that Ubuntu is designed for.

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Ubuntu seems to be the latest, greatest thing in the world of operating systems. The creators of Ubuntu have done some good things in terms of making Linux easier to use and in providing guidance for Linux newbs. But with newbs you bring ignorance, and there are a couple things I’ve been seeing that are kind of ridiculous.

First, I saw a post stating that “I’m of the opinion that Ubuntu could not exist without Debian.” The poster of that comment is Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu project.

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Pioneer Linux 3.1 has been released: “Technalign, Inc. has announced the release of the Pioneer Basic 3.1 workstation, Stagecoach 3.1, and its enterprise server MigrationSERVER 3.1. These workstations utilize the KDE desktop and run off a live CD for users to test before installation. The new releases maintain….

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