Ubuntu’s breakout
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- Ubuntu’s breakout
- Ubuntu Linux 8.10’s five best features
- Ubuntu Open Week
- Can the New Ubuntu Save You Money?
- Ubuntu could continue as a non-commercial distro too
- First Look: Ubuntu 8.10 Beta
Ubuntu’s breakout
CNET News, CA
They’ve emerged as a third Linux distribution to have commercial market momentum on a worldwide basis. Prior to Ubuntu, the distribution landscape consisted of commercial and community-supported versions from Red Hat and Novell’s Suse–together with some regional and “flavor of the month” distros.
Ubuntu Linux 8.10’s five best features
Computerworld, MA
10 release candidate, which goes final tomorrow, October 30th 2008, I agree with Shuttleworth. I’ve been running Ubuntu 8. 10, aka "Intrepid Ibex," on a Gateway GT5622. 80GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 processor.
Ubuntu Open Week
Tectonic, South Africa
Ubuntu’s community manager, Jono Bacon, says that “Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this week for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved. Its going to be a fun week!”Ubuntu Open Week happens from Monday 3 Nov – Friday 7 Nov and takes place in #ubuntu-classroom on the Freenode IRC network. Users can use a program such as XChat-GNOME in Ubuntu to connect and get involved.
Can the New Ubuntu Save You Money?
ITworld.com, MA
10 to be released on Thursday, October 30th. This blog entry is being written on a Ubuntu desktop, as is 90 percent of all the work I have done for the last two years. View full article » Chatter 1 comment Add a comment Ubuntu is stable and easy to use if you have typical hardware. Unless you have rare or obsolete equipment, Ubuntu works like a charm.
Ubuntu could continue as a non-commercial distro too
OS News
Just like Debian is already doing as a community distro. It is too bad that there have been some friction between the Ubuntu and Debian communities as the two communities are so close to each other. Debian is great in itself too, but in those fields where it has been weaker, Ubuntu has come to help, quite successfully too.
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First Look: Ubuntu 8.10 Beta
ADT Magazine
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"Hardy Heron" had some significant shortcomings, so I was eager to
see if 8. 10 "Intrepid Ibex" would be any different. Since the software included with 8.
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