Full Circle magazine issue 24

Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our twenty-fourth issue. This month: It’s our birthday! … and a redesign! *gasp!* * Command and Conquer – Cron. * How-To : Program in C – Part 8, Create a MAME Machine, and Spreading Ubuntu – Part [...]

A Gaming Team For Ubuntu Has Been Started

Take it as you will, but a group of interested Linux gamers have launched the Ubuntu Gaming Team. The mission of this newest Ubuntu focus group is “to give the open source gaming world a boost!” They intend to promote gaming on Ubuntu, connect free software gamers together on Ubuntu, address barriers to the development [...]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #139

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #139 for the week of April 19th- April 25th, 2009 is now available. In this Issue: * Ubuntu 9.04 released * Announcing Ubuntu 9.04 for ARM * Ubuntu Open Week Schedule * MOTU Council News * Ubuntu Stats * German LoCo team launches new portal * Ubuntu Live in Aalborg [...]

Improving Ubuntu Localization

Unlike proprietary platforms–and some Linux distributions–Ubuntu doesn’t identify primarily with any single country or language. The operating system’s developers are spread around the world, and aim to make their product equally accessible to all users, regardless of their locales. But how well have the challenges of localization been met? As an American and a native [...]

Four Simple Features That Set Ubuntu Apart

I had to set up a Fedora 8 machine recently. The installation process was simple enough, but configuring the system reminded me of several simple features that I take for granted when using Ubuntu, but which, when absent, make the user experience significantly more daunting. Below are four of the features that provide an extra [...]

UbuntuStudio 9.04release notes

Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphics enthusiast or professional. The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its fifth release: Ubuntu Studio 9.04. With this release, which you can download in a 1.2GB DVD, Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of packages, targeted at [...]

Download Ubuntu Installation Guide and Cheatsheet Now

Today is the big day you have been waiting for, the day where Ubuntu 9.04 is released. I hope you have successfully downloaded the LiveCD and installed it on your system. For those who have difficulties installing or migrating to Ubuntu, we thought this would be a good time to bring a nice little cheat [...]

10 Useful Ubuntu-related Sites You Should Bookmark

We have arrived at the last part of the Ubuntu Jaunty series. If you have missed the first four part, here are the links: First part – What’s new in Ubuntu 9.04 Second part – How to upgrade from ext3 to ext4 without formatting the hard disk Third part – 9 things you need to [...]

Tips on running netbooks with Ubuntu Netbook Remix from Ladislav Bodner … plus a look at flash-memory life span

Distrowatch guru Ladislav Bodner has been rolling more than a few operating systems onto his ASUS Eee PC 900 netbook — probably the most popular netbook out there at this point (they even sell them at Target now). In this week’s Distrowatch (which I recommend as a must-read for anybody who wants to follow what’s [...]

JauntyReleaseParties

JauntyJackalope is coming, scheduled for release in April 2009. For every Ubuntu release we like to organize parties all over the world. At these parties everyone is welcome and we get together to celebrate, meet new friends and often introduce people new to Ubuntu to our community and our Operating System. Release parties are not [...]