Ubuntu 9.10 reaches end-of-life on April 30 2011

Ubuntu announced its 9.10 release almost 18 months ago, on October 29, 2009. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 9.10 will reach end of life on Friday, April 29, 2011. At that [...]

Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 Will Support Multiarch

Steve Langasek proudly announced last evening, March 22nd, that it is now possible to install library packages of different architectures on your Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system via multiarch. This is great news for all Ubuntu developers and users alike, because it means that commands such as the one below can now be easily [...]

Ultimate Edition 2.9

Ultimate Edition 2.9? What is Ultimate Edition 2.9?  Ultimate Edition 2.9 was built off Ultimate Edition 2.8 which is built off Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.  All updates fully updated / upgraded old kernels purged, new initrd and vmlinuz rebuilt.  Ultimate Edition 2.9 as with all odd release numbers was built with KDE users in mind. [...]

Zorin OS 4 Business

The Zorin OS Team are proud to release Zorin OS 4 Business. Zorin OS 4 Business provides all the tools needed to start and maintain a small/medium sized business out of the box. In here you will find a wealth of software waiting for you including accounting, bookkeeping, stock analysis, database, retail, word processing, spreadsheet [...]

Linux Mint Xfce RC (201104) released!

The team is proud to announce the release candidate of Linux Mint Xfce. Linux Mint Xfce RC (201104) Introduction to Linux Mint Xfce Linux Mint Xfce is rolling on top of a Debian Testing package base and uses the same repositories as LMDE. This offers the following advantages to Linux Mint Xfce: A huge performance [...]

Linux Mint 10 LXDE released!

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 10 LXDE. Linux Mint 10 LXDE New features at a glance: Software manager Application icons Better categorization Update manager Ignore updates Download size Upload manager UI, speed, ETA Connection test Cancel / Run in background System improvements For a complete overview and to see [...]

Ubuntu Netbook Edition Bid Farewell

One of the benefits of the direction that’s been taken with the next release of Ubuntu is that there is no longer a need for a separate netbook edition. The introduction of the new shell for Ubuntu means that we have a user interface that works equally well whatever the form factor of the PC. [...]

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal & 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Countdown Banners

The Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal countdown banners contest hasn’t started yet, but if you can’t wait, you can use some cool banners provided by picomol.de. And if you’re really impatient, you can go further and use a beautiful Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot countdown banner provided by the same website. The banners use an image that’s [...]

Ubuntu 11.10 Is Called The “Oneiric Ocelot”

While Fedora 16 might be codenamed Bacon, Mark Shuttleworth has announced the codename for Ubuntu 11.10 and it’s to be called the “Oneiric Ocelot” release. Succeeding the Natty Narwhal (Ubuntu 11.04) and other releases like Maverick Meerkat, Lucid Lynx, Karmic Koala, and Jaunty Jackalope, the Oneiric Ocelot is perhaps the oddest Ubuntu codename yet. However, [...]

Wayland For The Ubuntu Unity Desktop Redux

While there have been some battles waged recently between Canonical and GNOME developers over collaboration with regard to the Unity desktop shell and revenue sharing for purchases made within their online music store (even this morning with another post by Mark Shuttleworth), on a more positive and productive note: how’s the Wayland plans coming along? [...]