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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Beta Released

jeudi 20 avril 2006 par jdub

Due to the schedule slip, the final release of Dapper didn't ship today, but instead the team has delivered a rock-your-socks-off beta for our testing pleasure… If ever there was a time for keen testers to upgrade, it's now! We strongly encourage you to try it out and report bugs so that (...)

Edgy Eft ... Edges Closer

jeudi 20 avril 2006 par jorge

sabdfl has declared that the version of Ubuntu past 6.06 will be named “Edgy Eft”. Usually referred to as “Dapper+1”, edgy is expected to be a little more … edgy: So dream a little about Xen for virtualisation, Xgl/AIGLX and other wonderful wobbly window bits, the (...)

Speedy on Niagara

mercredi 19 avril 2006 par jdub

Colm MacCárthaigh gobsmacked himself — and us! — with some impressive stats that show Ubuntu tidily outperforming Solaris Express on Sun's Niagara-powered T2000. Given that Niagara is optimised more for throughput and thread-count than raw number-crunching, Colm benchmarked Apache web (...)

BehindUbuntu.org Launches

mercredi 19 avril 2006 par jorge

Have you ever wondered who the people behind Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu are and what they do? Or what they are like? Behind Ubuntu is a new series of interviews with those involved in bringing you Ubuntu. The first interview is with Jonathan Riddell from the Kubuntu Team. (...)

Ubuntu Certification from LPI

mardi 4 avril 2006 par jorge

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and Canonical Ltd. have announced the development of a certification exam for the Ubuntu distribution. The certification will consist of a single exam on top of LPI's existing 101 and 102 exams. Jim Lacey, President and CEO of the Linux Professional (...)

Kubuntu in the Press

samedi 1er avril 2006 par jorge

Javier writes in pointing out some recent Kubuntu articles in the press. Firstly, Phil Hughes from Tux Magazine takes a good look at the upcoming Dapper Drake version of Kubuntu. You'll find the latest Kubuntu 5.10 Live CD featuring KDE 3.5.1 and KOffice 1.5 beta in the current edition of the (...)

Warty ready to Retire

vendredi 31 mars 2006 par jorge

After eighteen months of faithful service, Ubuntu 4.10 (aka the Warty Warthog), will be end-of-lifed on 30 April 2005. Matt Zimmerman made the expected notice on the announcement mailing list, along with the upgrade path for those of you still running Warty: The supported upgrade path from (...)

Teaching Digital Arts With Ubuntu

jeudi 30 mars 2006 par jdub

NewsForge reports a wonderful success story for an Iowa art professor who migrated his students from Mac OS X to Ubuntu for their digital arts course. Way to go! I'm an art professor, and last semester I embarked on an exciting new adventure by erasing Mac OS X from nearly all of the (...)

New MEPIS Linux Test Version Uses Ubuntu Base

mercredi 22 mars 2006 par jdub

Great news for lovers of Ubuntu and MEPIS: MEPIS founder Warren Woodford has announced a test release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0, incorporating software from the Ubuntu Dapper package pools. This is the first version of SimplyMEPIS with an Ubuntu base. Ubuntu has a 6 month stable release cycle that (...)

Meet the SABDFL at LUGRadio Live 2006

mercredi 22 mars 2006 par jdub

Say it loud, say it lewd! The cheeky pranksters at LUGRadio let us know that the sabdfl will be making an appearance at LUGRadio Live 2006, which takes place in Wolverhampton, England on the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd July. The sabdfl was at last years event and according to all reports, (...)