Tag: Ubuntu

  • 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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  • Farewell Feisty Fawn

    Has it been 18 months already? Seemingly so, as Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn reaches the end of its supported life. This may not be a huge deal as the releases that have come since have just been better and better. Now we are just a few weeks away from the release of Intrepid Ibex at…

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  • Royal Aspirations

    Royal Enfield Bullet Electra Well, I must confess that I have always had royal aspirations, do not get me wrong I have no problem with what everyone else is into but for me there are times when I just want that little bit more and in this case I find myself very excited by the…

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  • Advent & Ubuntu, A Perfect Partnership?

    Screenshot of Ubuntu on the Advent 4211 No. Sadly not perfect, but it is a close call. I recently purchased an Advent 4211 from PC World, this had not been my original intention as the MSI Wind was what first turned me onto the world of UMPC/Netbooks. The Asus ‘effect’ never got my attention, it…

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  • Hello Hardy Heron

    How appropriate this is, approximately one year after making the leap to Ubuntu I find myself finally upgrading to the latest release, 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron. This has been much applauded by many as being the best and essentially simplest version of Ubuntu to use and install. Many of the features within it will be…

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  • Heron Soars

    Ubuntu have released the first updated release to Hardy Heron LTS, this being 8.04.1. As with the last LTS (Long Term Support) version of Ubuntu there were releases along its life to include all relevant security updates and upgrades. Basically so that once you were finished installing your brand new OS you then do not…

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  • Intrepid Dates

    Here are the dates for the testing & release schedule for the next release of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. June 26th – Alpha 1July 10th – Alpha 2July 24th – Alpha 3August 14th – Alpha 4August 28th – Feature FreezeSeptember 4th – Alpha 5September 18th – Alpha 6September 15th – Beta FreezeOctober 2nd – Beta…

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