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Canonical’s $30 Million and Redmond’s Gathering Storm

January has been an exciting month, what with all the many changes taking place around us. As the month draws to a close, however, there’s a certain feeling of winter doldrums setting in, particularly for those of us being pummeled by harsh weather again and again. Never fear! The economy may be a wreck and [...]

CrunchBang is a Speedy, Dark-Themed Linux Desktop

CrunchBang, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that sports a snappy, low-drag interface and is perfect for thumb drives, live CDs, or speed-obsessed Linux fans. Check out how it looks and runs in our screenshot tour.
Getting started is pretty simple. Head to CrunchBang’s main site, find the Download section, and grab the main ISO file (from BitTorrent [...]

Launchpad 2.2.1: signed PPAs and easier translation exports for upstream projects

The Launchpad team are proud to announce Launchpad 2.2.1, our first release of 2009!
In 2.2.1 we’ve introduced:

a unique signature for each Personal Package Archive
a way to introduce new translators to your team’s way of working
an easier way for projects to export translations made in Launchpad.

Read on for details of what’s new!
Signed PPAs
If you’ve recently installed [...]

Adventures In External Media With Kubuntu

My new ASUS X83-VM laptop has a very capable, whisper-quiet 320 GB SATA drive. For some jobs, like storing my photos, that disk simply isn’t big enough. It was time to look at external USB media options. Good thing the new machine has five USB 2.0 ports.
After successfully installing Kubuntu (kernel version: 2.6.27-11-generic, 64-bit), I [...]

Ubuntu Pocket Guide Available as a Free Download

In the midst of the current financial crunch, the popular, free Linux distribution Ubuntu has never looked more attractive. If you’ve considered switching, a free copy of the Ubuntu Pocket Guide is the perfect place to start.
Written by Keir Thomas, author of Ubuntu Kung Fu, Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference covers all the beginner-to-expert knowledge [...]

Kuki Linux 2.0 for the Acer Aspire One

Kuki Linux (pronouced “cookie”) is a new Linux distribution, optimized for the Acer Aspire One netbooks.
Kuki Linux 2.0 is based on a minimal install of Ubuntu 8.10. It’s meant to be a better Linux distribution, than Linpus Lite that comes pre-installed on some Acer Aspire Ones.
It uses the lightweight Xfce user interface for the desktop [...]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #126

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #126 for the week of January 18th- January 24th, 2009 is now available.
In this Issue:
* Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released
* Ubuntu Developer Week
* Ubuntu Classroom upcoming sessions
* Developer application process changes
* Technical Board run-off results
* Ubuntu Developer News: issue #1
* Ubuntu Stats
* Ubuntu on Italian TV
* Japanese LoCo holds “Offline Meeting [...]

Ubuntu Developer News #1

Ubuntu Developer News Issue #1 has been released. Topics include:

Colin Watson elected to the Technical Board
Package bug reporting guidelines in launchpad
Testing Days
New D-Bus Uploaded
Launchpadlib support in ubuntu-dev-tools
The removal of /dev/.static/dev
udevadm, and why you should stop what you’re doing
Developer changes

mintCast – Episode 5

Charles Olsen and the mintCast team published another episode of their podcast. Happy listening everyone!
In Episode 5:

The News (Wine, Reading on paper vs reading on a screen, Windows 7 to kill Linux)
Rothgar’s segment: CES 2009 (Palm Pre, Vaoi P, Asus Eee Keyboard), ext4 filesystem, Gnome-Art NG.
Main Story: Templates in OpenOffice.org
Website of the Week: http://www.snopes.com

To subscribe [...]

Top 10 Applications to Install After Installing Ubuntu

Amarok – in my opinion, this is the greatest music player and collection management for the Linux platform. I think it’s also a killer application for Linux with all the features it has.
SMPlayer – one of the most powerful video players for Linux using the mplayer engine, and including support for DVDs, DVD ISO images, [...]

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