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PC/OS 2008v2 Available now

On Saturday, August 30, 2008 we are very proud to announce the general availability of PC/OS 2008v2. This update brings to PC/OS all the bug releases and distribution updates for Ubuntu 8.04.1 as well as seperate application updates for some of the installed packages. PC/OS 2008v2 can be downloaded from
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/pcos/
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/pcos
All torrents have been updated and [...]

Ubuntu 8.10 Feature Freeze and Kernel Update

Ubuntu 8.10 is now feature-frozen; effort has moved away from adding new features to concentrate on fixing bugs. The final release is on track for October 30th.
A comprehensive and up-to-date list of the new features has been posted on the Ubuntu Forums.
Development of Ubuntu 8.10 started with the Linux 2.6.26 kernel, compared to version 2.6.24 [...]

Kiwi 8.08 release notes

Kiwilinux 8.08 is a Desktop CD derivative based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS for the x86 architecture.
It contains packages necessary for playing restricted audio, video and Flash formats by default and supports the Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem.
The list of available languages is English, French, German, Hungarian and Romanian. It is the first distro to ship [...]

Second Ubuntu Developer Week!

The second Ubuntu Developer Week will be held from Sep 1st to Sep 5th in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net.
‘There are Wiki docs, MOTU Videos, MOTU Interviews and we’re seeing more and more contributors each day. This is all good and well, but there’s nothing like talking to real people, asking real questions in a real-time environment.
‘The [...]

5 Factors Making Ubuntu Server Business Ready

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is getting serious about the server. The company is working hard to partner with 3rd party server application providers, and to develop the required core OS services for Ubuntu to make it a highly successful business server platform. There are many factors that make Ubuntu a strong server platform, but [...]

gOS – a good OS for your Mum

What’s free, looks like Mac OS X, just works and is actually Linux? The answer is gOS, which recently launched a new beta that builds on the distro’s initial success and adds new tools like integrated Google Gadgets for Linux.
When it launched onto the scene late last year, gOS (which stands for good OS) made [...]

Getting to know Ubuntu Lite

I’ve long been a sucker for small-footprint Linux distributions. So naturally, I thought it would be interesting to explore the latest version of “Ubuntulite.”
The community-run Ubuntulite project aims to extend the useful life of aging, under-resourced hardware, as might be found in schools or nonprofit organizations. Accordingly, instead of using a high end, video-hungry desktop [...]

Is Ubuntu Really the Most User-Friendly Distribution?

For several years, Ubuntu has been synonymous with user-friendliness. A Web search quickly unearths dozens of articles that suggest that Ubuntu is the distribution you should give non-technical people to introduce them to GNU/Linux. It even won a “Most User-Friendly Linux Distribution” award, which you might think confirms its status.
However, like all conventional wisdom, this [...]

Ubuntu CE 4.0 Released!! New Site!!!

“We are excited to announce the release of Ubuntu CE 4.0! Ubuntu CE has been on hold for quite a while for various reasons, but we are back up and running. This is a “back to the basics” release. We have discontinued most of the Windows program installers that we had a previous releases due [...]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #105

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #105 for the week of August 17th – August 23rd, 2008 is now available.
In this Issue:
* Major update of Ubuntu Brainstorm: Call for testing
* Ubuntu Arabic Team
* New Xubuntu Developer: Michael Casadevall
* MOTU News
* Ubuntu Stats
* Software Freedom Day:Ubuntu Maryland
* Ubuntu New Jersey 2008 BBQ/LAN party
* Atlanta Linux Fest 2008
* [...]

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