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There are a lot of people still stuck with Windows because it’s the ‘easier alternative’. Linux is both cheaper and more versatile than Microsoft’s operating system, but the learning curve has frightened off many people. In the past we published A Newbie’s Getting Started Guide to Linux, aimed at the making you familiar with the [...] System76, the Ubuntu PC maker, continues to offer special holiday pricing on selected systems through Monday evening, November 30. Here’s a look at System76’s Ubuntu PC and notebook discounts, which are part of an ongoing Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales promotion. First, a little background: In the U.S., Black Friday typically kicks off the [...] The team is proud to announce the stable release of Linux Mint 8 Helena. Quick steps: Download the ISO or the torrent. While it’s downloading take an overview of the new features and make sure to quickly go through the known issues. After the ISO is downloaded verify the MD5. Burn the ISO at low [...] Two years ago Ubuntu began supporting LPIA, or the Low-Power Intel Architecture. LPIA is i386, but with different compile-time optimizations. LPIA was in use by the Ubuntu Mobile project with Intel’s recent mobile CPUs supporting this lower-power architecture. Tests we carried out earlier this year at Phoronix showed Ubuntu’s LPIA-based MID spin can conserve 10%+ [...] Bryce Harrington is agonizing over the nontrivial task of delivering a working X server for Ubuntu. On the Ubuntu desktop mailing list he speaks of a flood of bug reports and appeals to improving the situation. The X server must ideally cooperate with with open and closed ATI, NVIDIA and Intel cards, but not forget [...] I’ve been thinking about replacing the hard disk on my production notebook with a solid-state disk (SSD) for quite a while. So when I stumbled upon a good offer on Kingston 64GB SSDNow V series SSD I decided to take the plunge. 64GB is a far cry from the modest by today’s standards 160GB hard [...] Opportunity is knocking in the government market for Canonical’s Landscape, a systems management and monitoring tool for Ubuntu systems. Specifically, Autonomic Resources — an integrator that serves the U.S. federal government — is now approved to offer Landscape to government customers running Ubuntu, WorksWithU has learned. Here are some quick details. First, a little background [...] Occasional criticism of Ubuntu as a less-than-perfect Linux distribution, and of Canonical as a selfish member of the free-software ecosystem, is nothing new. But no matter how many flaws one can find with Ubuntu and its developers, they have succeeded in respects where every similar endeavor to date has failed; namely, they’ve achieved a public [...] Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #169 for the week November 15th – November 21st, 2009 is available. In this issue we cover: * Lucid Ubuntu Developer Summit Videos * New LoCo Council Members * America’s Membership Board Meeting: November 18th, 2009 * Developer Membership Board public meeting * Ubuntu Stats * LoCo Contact [...] * News about Mint Linux Mint 8 “Helena” RC1 released! Linux Mint 8 in your language – translations Which dress for Helena? More on Mint8 Artwork The SimplicITy computer – a computer for the elderly with Eldy (see below) running on Linux Mint – it has received quite a bit of attention (BBC – google [...] |
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