The News Review:
- The reason why I don’t use Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Security Notice - clamav vulnerability (USN-672-1)
- Three things I like about Ubuntu Intrepid, and one I don’t
- Ubuntu to run on ARM-based netbooks
- Ubuntu for mobile phones
- How to Install Adobe Flash Player 64-bit on Ubuntu 8.10
The reason why I don’t use Ubuntu
OS News
Their unwillingness to report bugs and any fixes is AFAIK, not playing fair with the other distros that do this. Even ’source clone’ distros like CentOS feed back bugs they find to RedHat. Many of these get fed into the main kernel & other packages which Ubuntu seems to want to use in a one way street (the linux kernel, not the application packages)
IMHO, this is a selfish attitude. There is far more to the FOSS world than Ubuntu.
Ubuntu Security Notice - clamav vulnerability (USN-672-1)
Help Net Security, Croatia
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This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 8. 10:
libclamav5 0.
Three things I like about Ubuntu Intrepid, and one I don’t
Tectonic, South Africa
Probably like many Ubuntu fans I remember the heady days of early Ubuntu releases when each one was so noticeably better than the previous. Each new release was like opening a pile of new birthday presents with no idea of what to expect. And then, about a year and a half ago, Ubuntu suddenly became a little more staid, even a little boring. The familiar brown background became annoyingly … brown and all the icons looked a little old-fashioned and uninteresting.
Ubuntu to run on ARM-based netbooks
ZDNet
ARM-based processors have traditionally been used in small devices such as mobile phones, but it emerged in October that ARM’s technology would soon be used in netbooks, the new breed of small, low-cost notebook PCs. Thursday’s announcement builds on that revelation, as well as on Canonical’s announcement in June that it would.
Ubuntu for mobile phones
MyADSL, South Africa
Popular Linux operating system Ubuntu could soon be making a debut on mobile phones, and even possibly the iPhone, in the very near future. The maker of the ARM processors - widely used in smaller devices and for system-on-chip processors - announced late last week that it had secured a deal with Ubuntu backer Canonical to port the operating system to the mini platform. Ubuntu in turn announced that with the release of Ubuntu 9. 04 in April next year, it would also make available an ARM version of the operating system. Initially the deal is designed to make Ubuntu more compatible with a range small laptops, known as netbooks which run on the ARM processor.
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How to Install Adobe Flash Player 64-bit on Ubuntu 8.10
Softpedia, Romania
Moreover, the “grey box” issue in Firefox 64-bit for the Ubuntu 8. 10 AMD64 (Intrepid Ibex) operating system is a known and unresolved problem, as is also the fact that users had to reload the web pages to see the flash content, or even to restart Firefox. The following guide is here to teach you how to replace the 32-bit version of the flash player with the 64-bit one, on Ubuntu 8. It will work with other 64-bit Linux distributions.