The News Review:
- Ubuntu lands on Arm processors
- Ubuntu Kung Fu
- How-To Triple Boot XP, Vista, Ubuntu Linux (Part 4)
- Comments on ‘ARM to fuel netbook, internet gadget drive with Ubuntu’
- Jamie’s Random Musings on Video IM
Ubuntu lands on Arm processors
IT Examiner, India
Arm collaborated with Canonical, a sponsor of the open source Linux distribution Ubuntu, on the roll out. Arm’s Ubuntu distribution will support the ArmV7 marchitecture, including CortexA8 and A9 based systems, and will be released in April next year. The release date coincides with the Ubuntu roadmap, which states release 9. 04 (dubbed Jaunty Jackalope) will be out by April 23 2009.
Ubuntu Kung Fu
IRISHDEV.com, Ireland
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In a few short years, the Linux operating system has gone from a hobbyist’s power tool to a highly usable, mainstream choice. The most popular version of Linux these days is called Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s rise to power has been rapid, historic and well-deserved. It’s the best Linux distribution ever, still most people only use a fraction of its power. In Ubuntu Kung Fu: Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks (Pragmatic Bookshelf), award-winning Linux author Keir Thomas gets down and dirty with Ubuntu to provide over 300 concise tips that enhance productivity, avoid annoyances, and simply get the most from Ubuntu. You’ll find many unique tips here that can’t be found anywhere else.
How-To Triple Boot XP, Vista, Ubuntu Linux (Part 4)
Seguà la Flecha, Argentina
This 30-minute walk-through video tutorial (split into 4 parts) walks you through the partitioning and installation processes of Windows and Ubuntu. Learn how to correctly configure your harddrive to handle all three operating systems.
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Comments on ‘ARM to fuel netbook, internet gadget drive with Ubuntu’
Reg Hardware, UK
Unless it’s from Apple of course, then it’s a wonderful new paradigm in human-fruit information interchange, even though most users only barely know how to make phone calls on it. It’s a shame that Psion’s own netBook™ and netPad ranges never survived, I’m sure they’d be quite incredible machines today with wi-fi, touchscreens, 8 hours of battery life and an all-singing-and-dancing ER10. As with the MC laptops of the 1980s, it seems Psion were 10 years too early again. SCC versus MID Torben Mogensen ? Thursday 13th November 2008 12:42 GMTThe article mentions the "full Ubuntu desktop", which sounds more useful for SCCs than for MIDs.
Jamie’s Random Musings on Video IM
ZDNet UK, UK
10), and the upcoming releases of Debian (lenny), Fedora (10) and MEPIS (8. 0), I’ve been loading (or trying to load) each of these on each of the laptops, with varying degrees of success. - Ubuntu loads on both laptops just fine, no muss, no fuss, both work fine, displays are good, wired and wireless networks are good. Honestly, the ONLY two (minor) complaints that I have are that the Broadband Network (Sierra Wireless cellular modem) doesn’t connect using the “default” network manager configuration, although I can work around that, and they didn’t include OpenOffice 3. 10 release, so I had to upgrade that myself.