Current Ubuntu 10.04 Review

With Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) so far our first impressions aren’t good. 10.04 booted to the “Install” prompt from a LiveCD in 4 minutes and 23 seconds, compared to a solid 40 seconds on Debian Squeeze (“testing” repository) from a LiveCD on the same machine, and Debian’s LiveCD isn’t even the “normal” way of installing [...]

Testing The Different Ubuntu 10.04 Kernels

The release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” is quickly approaching next month and it will arrive with a whole set of new features and improvements including a faster boot process, a long-awaited new theme, the Nouveau driver to replace the crippled xf86-video-nv driver, the unveiling of the Ubuntu One Music Store, integration of Plymouth, [...]

Ubuntu Dumps the Brown

Color is not typically a topic of much discussion on the Linux blogs, but in recent weeks, it’s been drawing a lot of attention. Why, you ask? Simple: Ubuntu recently announced a major change to its longstanding “Human” earthtone-palette theme and branding. “I don’t know whether to call it ‘poo brown’ or ‘dirt brown,’ but [...]

Ubuntu’s new look

The Linux world is all excited about Ubuntu’s new look but surely there are more important things that need to be done to make Ubuntu more appealing?
News this week that Ubuntu was introducing a new, refreshed, look for its brand as well as a new default theme for its Ubuntu distribution has got everyone talking. [...]

Redesigning Ubuntu – behind the scenes on 10.04

Dave (@Daviey) is a Ubuntu community leader, consultant specialising in business IT, server and telephony systems.
The next version of Ubuntu – codename Lucid Lynx – will be the 10.04 release, and is scheduled to be released and declared stable in April. As a long-term support version, coupled with increasing popularity, this is undoubtedly [...]

Ubuntu, The Ultimate Linux Distribution

From its Debian roots to its commercially available support to its overwhelming popularity, Ubuntu is the ultimate Linux distribution. For me, Ubuntu became a significant force within the Linux community with its 2006 releases: 6.04 and 6.10. From April 2006, I’ve installed and used every new version and anticipate each new one the way a [...]

Taking Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix out for a Spin

For quite some time I’ve been intrigued by Ubuntu’s Netbook Remix (UNR), but I’ve never given it a shot up until now. Being a KDE guy, I usually lean toward applications based on the Qt toolkit and I’ve never really liked GNOME much. For some reason though, the Ubuntu Netbook Remix has been lingering in [...]

PC-BSD 8.0 vs. Kubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

PC-BSD 8.0 was released last week and while we have already delivered FreeBSD 8.0 benchmarks including against Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and Fedora / Debian / OpenBSD / OpenSolaris for which PC-BSD is based, we took this opportunity to deliver a fresh set of *BSD benchmarks. In this article we have benchmarks of PC-BSD 8.0 x64 against [...]

Lubuntu Gets a New Look

A couple weeks ago, we took a look at Lubuntu, a lightweight Linux distribution based on Ubuntu.  Since then, the operating system has undergone major changes that merit a revisit of its features.  Here’s a second look at the Ubuntu variant that just might replace Xubuntu.
When I wrote about Lubuntu previously, I was impressed by [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Alpha 3 Screenshots Gallery

The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04, bringing with it the earliest new features for the next version of Ubuntu.
Note:- This is an alpha release. Do [...]