make your own Custom LiveCD/distro easily Using Novo Builder

Making your own fully customised Debian/Ubuntu based operating system has never been easier using Novo Builder – an easy-to-use GUI ‘Linux Operating System building tool’. Novo was was built to “…allow anyone with the time and interest in designing their own fully customized OS without having to spend a long time learning all the methods [...]

Unattended Ubuntu installations made easy

In creating Ubuntu Linux, Canonical has focused on ease of use, and this extends to the install procedure. To this end, Ubuntu eschewed many of the detailed questions that had discouraged potential Linux users of an earlier era. However, despite relative improvements in that area, the installation is still peppered with questions. This means that [...]

Main frozen for Alpha 2

Two days out from the expected release of Maverick Alpha 2, the milestone freeze is now in effect. Please take care that any packages that you upload to main between now and the Alpha 2 release will help us in the goal of a high quality and timely alpha, and hold any disruptive or unnecessary [...]

Linux Mint 9 KDE RC released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 9 KDE RC. New features at a glance: KDE Network Manager New applications New Software Manager 30,000 packages Review applications straight from the Software Manager APT daemon Visual improvements New Backup Tool Incremental backups, compression, integrity checks Backup/Restoration of the software selection Better look [...]

Ubuntu Control Center 0.3 “UCC” On Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Great tool to get access to main configuration tools, system tool packages also listed in good way to easily access your configurations, Ubuntu Control Center inspired by Mandriva Control Center looks the same to it. Slightly different between Ubuntu and Mandriva control centers for included system configurations tools. Read more at LinuxNOV.com

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #199

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #199 for the week June 20th – June 26th and is available here. In this issue we cover: Welcome New Ubuntu Members Kubuntu Tutorials Day Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Milo Casagrande (Italian Team) Meet Steve Kowalik Debian Import Freeze in effect 100 Ubuntu Users Project announcement Ubuntu [...]

Dell’s ‘Love Letter’ to Linux: Now You See It, Now You Don’t?

Well, it’s been an emotional rollercoaster ride here in the Linux blogosphere in recent days, thanks to Dell’s proclamation — and then apparent retraction — of its love for Linux. “Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft Windows” read item No. 6 on Dell’s “Top 10 list of things you should know about Ubuntu” as recently the [...]

wattOS R2 – released

wattOS R2 is finally done and released. The ISO is being uploaded right now and will be available to download within the next hour. Notes and version info, details, gotcha’s, etc. to follow later today or tomorrow (I am on an airplane). So if you are an early adopter, just know more info will be [...]

Peppermint OS One-06172010

We’re proud to offer the second official Peppermint OS respin, featuring a fully updated system as of June 17 and a few other things including bug fixes and new features.  Like any of our version respins, there’s no reason to reinstall unless you just want to, the version you already have installed is being automatically [...]

CrunchBang 10 “Statler” Alpha 2

The second alpha release of CrunchBang 10 is now available. The new alpha 2 builds were created on Thursday 24th June 2010 and are in sync with the Debian Squeeze repositories as of that date. Debian Squeeze continues to develop nicely and the Debian developers are doing a fantastic job. Major updates to Squeeze and [...]