Ubuntu 8.10 ‘Intrepid Ibex’ feels more like a service pack than a …

The News Review:

- Ubuntu 8.10 ‘Intrepid Ibex’ feels more like a service pack than a …
- Canonical Expanding Online Store to Drive Ubuntu Linux Deployments
- Linux Gains Flash, Ubuntu Gains Wikipedia – but Can They Change …
- Living with Meaning: What Are You Reflecting?

Ubuntu 8.10 ‘Intrepid Ibex’ feels more like a service pack than a …
ZDNet 
10 is released I decided to take a look at the latest beta to see what the new release has to offer. Oddly enough, “Intrepid Ibex” feels more like a service pack to me than a new release.

Canonical Expanding Online Store to Drive Ubuntu Linux Deployments
OSDir 
:
Businesses don?t buy operating systems. They buy applications. With that fact in mind, Canonical is gradually expanding its online store for Ubuntu Linux applications. It?s a smart move ? but solutions providers will need to keep their expectations for the store under control.
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Linux Gains Flash, Ubuntu Gains Wikipedia – but Can They Change …
TechNewsWorld, CA 
‘Worth Bragging About’

“Wikimedia has been using Linux on its servers for a while; the only real news is that they’re standardizing on one distro, instead of the collection that they had been using,” Mhall119 said. “And that’s not really very interesting news. It’s good news for Ubuntu — having such a highly visible client may help them compete against.

Living with Meaning: What Are You Reflecting?
Huffington Post, NY 
In other words, it is part of the human condition; a “karmic” force, if you will, that guides our very existence. In this connection, there is a humanistic concept advanced in South Africa called “Ubuntu” that offers us a new mindset when facing the pressing challenges in today’s world. The full expression in Zulu of this concept is UBUNTU NGUMUNTU NGABANTU, translated roughly into English as, “A person is only a person through other persons. ” Importantly, Ubuntu is not about relationships per se; rather, it is about human-ness and how only human beings can establish the human-ness of others. In effect, our human-ness can only be truly expressed as a “reflection” of others, which also means that we must be able to extend beyond ourselves (also known as “self-transcendence,” a principle that I will describe in a future post in the Living with Meaning conversation) so that we can fulfill or realize more of ourselves. To gain an appreciation for the reflective basis of self-transcendence, let me now share with you the following story, called “The Echo,” that appears in my book,.

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