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Launchpad, a Web application developed by Canonical for managing software development, was finally open-sourced last week. But with a number of its other products remaining proprietary, what are Canonical’s real intentions towards living by the free-software ideology that drives projects like Ubuntu? Canonical faced criticism early-on for releasing the Launchpad platform under a closed-source license. [...] Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #152 for the week July 19th – July 25th, 2009 is available. In this issue we cover: * Karmic Alpha 3 released * Launchpad is now open source * Ubuntu Stats * Ubuntu-US-NY is now an approved LoCo Team * Focusing on the Launchpad UI * Answer contacts [...] Over the last few years, various figures have been put forth as measures of Ubuntu’s desktop market share, with some sources contradicting themselves and most sources contradicting the other ones. Below, we take a look at different attempts to put a number on Ubuntu’s popularity, and explore the various shortcomings and ambiguities involved in all [...] Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) has recently released a beta version of their online file syncing service – UbuntuOne for public testing. This file syncing service is similar to the popular Dropbox service and it allows you to share and sync file across different computers. In this tutorial, we are going to take a quick [...] There’s really nothing that hard about installing programs on Linux. Anyone who still uses shell commands like say, “apt-get install some-program-or-the-other,” is doing so because they want to do it that way, not because they have to. Programs like Debian and Ubuntu’s Synaptic, Fedora’s yum or openSUSE’s YaST makes installing programs little more than a [...] Hello Ubuntu developers, Welcome to Karmic Koala Alpha-3, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.10. Pre-releases of Karmic are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, [...] You’ve heard of Smart Phones and Netbooks. Now, get ready for Smartbooks — mobile 3G wireless devices that appear to be slightly larger than the iPhone. Qualcomm is rallying hardware partners (OEMs, original equipment manufacturers) to introduce Smartbooks sometime in Q3 or Q4 2009. And here’s the twist: Qualcomm is hiring Ubuntu talent to help [...] Rumors are swirling that Dell’s U.S. Web site has stopped selling Ubuntu-based desktop Linux PCs. Here’s what The VAR Guy knows so far, and the potential implications for Canonical and the desktop Linux movement. Earlier today, one of The VAR Guy’s readers stated: “DELL stopped selling Ubuntu Desktop (530N) computers, July 2009. Where do we [...] * News about Mint Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” XFCE RC1 released! Firefox 3.5 available in Gloria and Firefox 3.0.12 also available through mintUpdate (security fixes) Command line – improvements We are changing our workflow and will use Launchpad and git – As Mint grows we need tools to handle the growth (announcement in the blog) [...] We recently announced that Linux Mint was now using Launchpad for bug tracking. The decision was also taken to use Launchpad for blueprints and for translations. We’re also starting to use code hosting and version control. Although Launchpad does that as well the decision here was to use github. Development has started for Linux Mint [...] |
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