Estobuntu 8.09 released

Estobuntu 8.09 is released. New version is based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS release and uses as default KDE desktop. Main features are special Estonain ID card modules, Estonian internet provider Kou support. Also all needed multimedia codecs etc. Read more at Estobuntu website (in Estonian)

100+ Beautiful Free Fonts for Ubuntu

100+ Beautiful Free Fonts for Ubuntu If you are a graphic and web designer, the default fonts that came with Ubuntu will surely be not enough for your needs. However, if you know where to look, you can find plenty of additional fonts that can help get the job done. If you don’t believe me, [...]

Linux Mint Weekly Newsletter – Issue 62

* News about Mint Elyssa x64 RC1 released If any of you have ideas for how we can make Mint more known please feel free to leave a comment. * News about Linux Gnome 2.24 released Released final versions lately Pardus Linux 2008.1 ; Vector Linux 5.9.1 ; sidux 2008-3 Gentoo is having problems and [...]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #110

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #110 for the week of September 21st – September 27th, 2008 is now available. In this Issue: * Potential hardware-damaging e1000e driver: Intrepid * Ubuntu 8.10 beta freeze now in effect * Ubuntu 8.10 beta approaching * Ubuntu 7.04 reaches end-of-life, October 19, 2008 * Intrepid Release Parties * Ubuntu [...]

Full Circle Magazine issue 17

This month: * Command and Conquer – Nano & Vim. * How-To : Program in C – Part 1, Connect to IRC, Using GIMP – Part 6 and Scan & Convert to PDF. * My Story – …When I Was Two * My Opinion – Is This The Year? * MOTU Interview – Harald Sitter [...]

Ubuntu 7.04 reaches end-of-life on October 19, 2008

Ubuntu announced the release of 7.04 almost 18 months ago, on April 19, 2007. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 7.04 will reach end of life on Sunday, October 19th, 2008. At [...]

Ubuntu Server Team Wants to Know – How do you Ubuntu?

The Ubuntu Server community wants to ask a broad set of users to share just exactly how they are using Ubuntu Server and in what kind of organisations. A previous shorter survey from Canonical was completed by those requesting free server CDs, but this is the first time the Ubuntu server team is requesting information [...]

gOS Gadgets 3.0

gOS gadgets version 3.0 is out and available for download. Based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, gOS Gadgets provides a unique spin off that could be useful especially for netbook and netTops which is what gOS gadgets seems to be geared towards. gOS lets you use the provided gadgets, code your own or install a 3rd party [...]

10 Command-Line Applications I Use in Debian and Ubuntu

In this article I’ll briefly review ten of my favourite CLI (command-line interface), not necessarily the most popular or most powerful of them. So if you don’t find your personal favourite, (e.g. Midnight Commander or mp3blaster), it’s because the article includes the tools I use more often. So here it goes: Irssi This is definitely [...]

Helix 2008R1 – Released

Helix 2008R1 (2.0) has officially been released and is available for download! This is a major update to the bootable side of Helix, as it is based on Ubuntu rather than Knoppix. There are a number of other changes that you can review by looking at the changelog. The MD5 hash value of the iso [...]