Category: Technology
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Announcing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: The Lucid Lynx
Here we go again! The next release of Ubuntu is on the way and it is a Long Term Support version too, 10.04: The Lucid Lynx! I would not expect to see huge difference between that and Karmic Koala due out on October 29th as stability is key in these LTS releases. So maybe a…
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Playing with the Karmic Koala (UNR, Alpha 5)
Well I waited and waited but I finally decided to take the plunge and download the the current development version of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR, 9.10, Alpha 5). So now after about a day of playing and tweaking with it what do I think so far? Well first off I downloaded the torrent from the…
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Want to Connect?
Well I am going to give this a try and see what you guys think or if you are interested in taking part! On the right hand side you should see a new widget called ‘Followers’. It is a new google attempt to get people more involved in the content that bloggers talk about. Facebook…
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So Whats New Bunny?
Now that the release is almost upon us of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope I just want to take a brief look at what is new or has been upgrades since 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, you can find all this information and more at Ubuntu! These notes are from Ubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate; GNOME 2.26 Ubuntu 9.04…
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Use Ubuntu? Lets Party!
Excited yet? Well, you should be, Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope is coming at us fast. This Thursday the 23rd of April it will be available for all to download. Before getting into the details of what has been updated in this new release let me just bring your attention to the Ubuntu community. Ubuntu users…
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Humanity To Others
Have some spare RAM? Then why not try and help humanity and do your bit in saving the world. I (as Victor9098) have been helping the World Community Grid for almost a year now (though I have longer running projects with CERN and SETI). The available projects range from mapping the human gnome, trying to…
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The Monkey Is Dead…
…So Long Live The Rabbit! Goodbye Gutsy On October 18th 2007 I got a taste of my second Ubuntu flavour, 7.10 ‘Gutsy Gibbon’. Now some 18 months and 2 upgrades later (8.04LTS Hardy Heron & 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) the impressive monkey will swing no more as it reaches its end of life on April 18th…
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Karmic Koala’s Bringing Humanity To Others!?
Last Thursday (19th February) the next version of Ubuntu (9.04 Jaunty Jackalope) went into ‘Feature Freeze’, which essentially means that the current testing version is as close as you will get to the finished product due on the 23rd April. Of course there are still bugs to be splatted and the last few kinks ironed…
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Pimping Your Gnome Deskop
One of the best features about Ubuntu has got to be the ease at which you can grab whatever need when you need it. The debate goes on about free/open/proprietary license issues, but for the end user you are spoilt for choice, which moves me onto the look and feel of the Ubuntu desktop. At…
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Ubuntu and the world of tomorrow
Below are some excerpts from an interview by the NY Times with Mark Shuttleworth and gives a good history of Ubuntu and Canonical up to now. It also looks at the companies future plans and giving an indication of what is to come. No word on specifics or any of the technology advances that Ubuntu…
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