Ubuntu

A collection of 30 posts

Bad Voltage

Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 43: Got The Om On

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge and myself present Bad Voltage, in which Bryan is sadly unavoidably absent, we discuss relationships between the Ubuntu and Kubuntu community councils, we ask you to tell us which bits you like, there are once again accusations that eating yoghurt is a bad personality trait, and:

LinuxQuestions.org

2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners - Thoughts

The polls are closed and the official results are in. You can view the detailed results here, but I’ll include a list of winners at the end of this post for convenience. We also have a nice visual overview of all categories on a single page, new last year,

Linux Foundation

LinuxCon: Let's Get Together: Coordinated Software Releases, The Linux Ecosystem and the Impact on the Global Marketplace (liveblog)

Keynote - Mark Shuttleworth * Open Source has the power to "end up defining the experience that the average person has when they turn on their computer" * For every 1 Ubuntu alpha user there are about 10 beta users and then about 100 final release users. * There's

community

Panel: Measuring Community Contributions (Liveblog)

Panelists: Joe Brockmeier - OpenSUSE Jono Bacon - Ubuntu James Bottomley - Novell Dan Frye - IBM Karsten Wade - Fedora * Don't always associated "contribution" with "code". * People tend to contribute things that are of value to them - they are scratching their own

Apple

End Runs Around Vista?

BusinessWeek recently ran an article that indicated that HP may be working on a version of Linux to ship on its hardware: The ecosystem that Microsoft (MSFT) has built up around its Windows operating system is showing signs of strain. In one of several recent moves by partners that sell

Ubuntu

Ubuntu Live 2008 has been canceled

A heads up to those of you who were planning on attending Ubuntu Live 2008 in Portland this July.  The event has officially been canceled.  From the site: The Ubuntu Live conference, which was scheduled to take place July 21-22 in Portland, OR has been cancelled. We are planning to

Ubuntu

Gratis Ubuntu Live 2008 Conference Pass

Are you interested in attending the second Ubuntu Live conference?  It's my pleasure to inform you that LQ is able to give away one $895 full conference pass absolutely free of charge.  I attended the event last year and it was a very good one.  With all that&

Linux

Some Novell Momentum

It looks like Novell might be quietly building up some momentum.  First came news that Office Depot is consolidating onto the SLES platform: In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that Office Depot has elected to consolidate its server infrastructure on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1. In

Dell

Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server II

As a quick follow up to this post, it seems that Dell is not seeing the same trend.  From the article: Dell CEO: Linux server sales increasing Claims made by Microsoft that Linux violates its software patent have not affected sales of Linux-based hardware, according to Dell's CEO

Linux

Lenovo X61 - Update

A quick update to this post.  As of Tribe 5, both audio and wifi work flawlessly in the default configuration.  With the manual installation of ThinkFinger for the biometric thumb scanner, absolutely everything on the machine is working as expected.  I'm really liking the form factor of this

Linux

Lenovo X61

The new laptop arrived today, just in time for my trip to LinuxWorld.  I had an Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn disc laying around from Ubuntu Live, so figured I'd just go with that.  I've not had Linux installation problems in a long time.  I guess

Linux

OSCON Executive Briefing II

(live blogging, so forgive the grammar and lack of proof reading) Always Better Matt Asay (Alfresco) and Mike Olson (Oracle via SleepyCat) discuss the value of source code.  Mike argues that zero cost frictionless distribution is more disruptive than source access.  A response from the crowd asked why he doesn&

Linux

Day 1 - Ubuntu Live

The first day of Ubuntu Live is coming to an end.  One thing that has permeated the first day is the amount of energy in the Ubuntu community.  People are excited and eager to get things done.  While originally mostly a desktop distro, Ubuntu is scaling in multiple directions from

Linux

Ubuntu Live & OSCON

I'll be leaving for Portland in a few hours to attend both Ubuntu Live and OSCON.  OSCON is always a great conference and I'm looking forward to the first ever Ubuntu conference.  If you'll be in Portland for the event(s) and would like

Linux

Intel Launches Mobile Linux Project

The mobile Linux space continues to heat up (recent coverage).  Now, Intel has jumped into the fray with the Mobile & Internet Linux Project.  From the about page: Moblin.org hosts the Mobile & Internet Linux* Project which is an umbrella, open source project focused on the development of Linux

Dell

Ubuntu on Two New Inspirons

In a move that would seem to back up initial indications that the Ubuntu Dell offerings were selling well, Dell has officially announced that it is adding two additional models to its Linux lineup: From a Ubuntu perspective, we're now offering Ubuntu 7.04 to customers in the

Linux

More Microsoft Patent Dealings

So, Linspire is the latest company to sign a patent deal with Microsoft.  They've even managed to wrangle some additional items they claim are not in the other deals: Linspire Inc. has announced an agreement to license voice-enabled instant messaging, Windows Media 10 CODECs, and TrueType font technologies

Linux

Update: Free Ubuntu Live Conference Pass

A follow up to this post.  I'm happy to announce that a winner has been selected and Benanzo will be receiving a gratis pass to Ubuntu Live via O'Reilly Media compliments of LinuxQuestions.org.  A big thanks to O'Reilly for allowing us to do

Linux

Free Ubuntu Live Conference Pass

I'm happy to announce that as a Media Sponsor I've just been informed that LQ is able to give away one full Ubuntu Live Conference pass absolutely free of charge. To be eligible please post in this thread saying how you are involved in the Ubuntu

Linux

Ubuntu Live and CrossOver Linux Discounts

Would you like to attend the upcoming Ubuntu Live Conference?  As a media sponsor, I'm happy to announce that LQ can over you a 35% discount.  Simply used the code ubu07ucm when registering and the discount will be automatically applied.  I'm looking forward to attending Ubuntu

Dell

In San Francisco for OSBC

Landed in San Francisco earlier today and spent most of the day walking around.  The OSBC starts tomorrow morning.  My recent post on Dell and Ubuntu seems to have gotten a fair bit of attention while I was traveling.  If I get any further information I'll be sure

Dell

Dell announces the models for Ubuntu

I just got the following email forwarded to me by a Dell employee: We will be launching a Linux based OS (Ubuntu) on the E520, 1505 and XPS 410 starting next Thursday, 5/24. We expect these systems to be less than 1% of our OS mix for the entire

Linux

Migrating to Ubuntu Linux from Microsoft Windows

It's a great reminder that we're making real progress to see stories like this: Four years ago I tried about a dozen Linux distributions, to see if they were ready for an ordinary user to install as an escape from the Windows world. None of the

Linux

Dell to Offer Ubuntu 7.04

It's Official.  In response to the Idea Storm feedback, Dell will be offering desktop Linux.  There are not a lot of details available yet, but this isn't the "Linux on any model" option we're looking for yet.  It may be a good

Linux

Linux and Open Source Conference Discount Codes

I'm just booking some upcoming conference travel (in this case OSBC).  As you may know, LQ is a sponsor of quite a few fantastic Linux and Open Source conferences.  As a result of that, we're able to offer you some discounts.  Here's a partial