Archive for September 25th, 2008

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 from the community worldwide.

Co-sponsored by RedMonk Research, the survey [http://survey.ubuntu.com/] will gather more detailed knowledge in order to:

The anonymous survey takes 10 to 20 minutes to complete and is open to anyone deploying Linux servers today, whether or not they use Ubuntu. The Ubuntu Server Community Team will present the results in the beginning of December.

“Our survey earlier this year provided insight into the diversity and global reach of the Ubuntu Server customer base,” said Nick Barcet, Ubuntu Server product manager. “With this survey, we hope to understand more about them – including how they are using our software in their businesses – in order to better serve them in the future.”

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 widget on your desktop. The new gOS brings users the choice of over 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets after loading the desktop with some of the more popular on startup.

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