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Over the past few weeks we have been providing several in-depth articles looking at the performance of Ubuntu Linux. We had begun by providing Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 benchmarks and had found the performance of this popular Linux distribution to become slower with time and that article was followed up with Mac OS X 10.5 [...] The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #118 for the week of November 16th- November 22nd, 2008 is now available. In This Issue: *Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 1 released *The Ubuntu Hall of Fame *Ubuntu for the Holidays *New Community Developers *Ubuntu-Iranian Team Release Party *Ubuntu-Colombia to Host First UbuCon *Ubuntu-Zimbabwe host 1st release party *Ubuntu Presentation: Ubuntu [...] New version of Greenie, based on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is here! Want to know, what is new and how it works? Take a look at our blogpost (in Slovak). Main changes: Greenie is now based on Ubuntu 8.10 – new version of the applications and improved hardware support. Greenport has been re-writen, easier to [...] Ubuntu Privacy Remix (UPR), based on Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS), is a live, read-only CD that seals off your private data from the outside world. It does this using encryption and isolation methods. Creators of the CD image Ubuntu Privacy Remix designed it as an island solution and took measures to adapt the Ubuntu distro accordingly. [...] Today we release the first Mythbuntu Jaunty Jackalope alpha release: Mythbuntu 9.04 alpha 1. With this release, we are providing mirroring on sponsored mirrors only. It is very important to note that this release is not compatible with Mythbuntu 7.10 or any other MythTV 0.20.2 based distribution. Changes from Mythbuntu 8.10: Not Much * Alternate [...] It’s nearly a year since KDE released the KDE4 desktop. The initial roll-out was rocky for KDE, and while subsequent releases have brought ever increasing stability and enhancements, some KDE users feel it’s not quite ready for daily use. In the beginning the solution — for the KDE project, and for distributions that ship with [...] South Africa’s Stefan Lesicnik was this week confirmed as an Ubuntu contributing developer. Tectonic asked Stefan where his work with Linux started. Tectonic: Congratulations Stefan. Can you explain what a “contributing developer” is? Ubuntu contributing developers are contributors to Ubuntu that do so on a more technical level. There are many ways people can contribute [...] “On a western hillside, a pack of hungry coyotes flushed their prey from a thicket of scrub mesquite. With gleeful yips, they began pursuing what first appeared to be a large jack rabbit. But what was this thing? In between its long ears, the animal was sporting a set of small antlers similar to those [...] Today, Wed Nov 19 2008 we are happy to announce the newest release of PC/OS. The new release follows PC/OS OpenCore 1.0. PC/OS OpenDesktop 2009 and PC/OS OpenWorkstation 2009 have been fully tested and ready for broad consumer adoption. This release updates the PC/OS 2008 line of products. Some of the changes include a newly [...] On desktops and Netbooks, it has been a stellar year for Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux distribution. But on the server, Ubuntu continues to face long-term challenges in terms of application and vendor support. Here’s the scoop from The VAR Guy. First, let’s be clear: The VAR Guy isn’t pressing the panic button. It will take several [...] |
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