Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support). This release incorporates the Desktop Edition and the Server Edition. The Server Edition can be used on physical servers, on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), and on Amazon’s EC2 public cloud. Codenamed “Lucid Lynx”, 10.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest [...]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #190

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #190 for the week April 18th – April 24th, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: * Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS * Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks * Ubuntu Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source * Mark Shuttleworth [...]

X-Server problems in Ubuntu 10.04 release candidate

The release candidate of Ubuntu 10.04 published on Thursday, apparently contains a bug in X-Server. A Launchpad bug report, [KMS] gem objects not deallocated, describes the details. The bug makes itself felt as a slowly growing memory hole in X-Server. After a few hours of operation, so much memory is taken up that X11 becomes [...]

EasyPeasy 1.6 Release Candidate

The team has been working hard to bring you the best netbook experience. The 1.6 Release Candidate is the last release of EasyPeasy 1.6 before it’s final. It was released April 23 2010. Screenshot tour Features New boot system and new boot artwork (Uses Plymouth) 1.6 RC sports full removal of the hal package, making [...]

Dear Ubuntu: I Have Some Concerns

Dear Ubuntu: For the last couple years, life has been good. Every time I’ve shown you to a friend or family member, they’ve compared you to what they’re familiar with – Windows XP or Vista, mostly – and by comparison you’ve looked brilliant. Yeah, your ugly brown color scheme was a bit off-putting at first, [...]

Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman Speaks

My Frugal Tech Show co-host, Jason Perlow, and I spoke with Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman early this morning about the upcoming Ubuntu releases and a few other selected topics of interest to Ubuntu users. There are some secret goings on in the mill at Canonical that he didn’t tell us about but I can read [...]

Lubuntu (w/ LXDE) 10.04 Lucid Lynx Beta 3 Available For Download

The Lubuntu Lucid Beta 3 is now available released by Julien Lavergne. We are now close to the final release, this beta should be the last one before final release. The status of this final release is not determined yet (“beta stable”, “rc final” …), that’s why its a beta and not a rc like [...]

Ubuntu, the family album

A few days before the release of the new Ubuntu, here’s a guided tour through the Ubuntu family album with some annotations telling my story with the different versions. Ubuntu Warty WARTHOG (4.10) Read and LOOK more at http://blog.nizarus.org/2010/04/ubuntu-the-family-album

Will 12,000 Cloud Computing Deployments Lead to Profit?

The cloud isn’t just a buzzword for Canonical. For the Ubuntu Linux vendor, the cloud is a technology that its users are actually deploying, and it’s got the numbers to prove it. The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) has been available since the Jaunty Jackalope release in April 2009. UEC is now poised to be included [...]

Ubuntu Lucid in final stretch

Ubuntu’s Lucid Lynx release is one step away from final release. Lucid Lynx, otherwise known as Ubuntu 10.04, is now in the final stretch. Yesterday the Ubuntu Developers announced the Release Candidate, the penultimate release before its final April 29 release. The desktop version of the release includes cloud computing updates, Music Store improvements and [...]