The update patches 5 important security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various hackers. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to update your system as soon as possible

March 18th, 2010 by cj2003

Canonical’s Jorge Castro recently introduced me to a nifty tool called TestDrive that simplifies the setup process by automatically downloading the ISO and configuring a VM.

March 18th, 2010 by cj2003

OpenShot video editor has steadily improved since its official release 2 months ago. OpenShot 1.1 even got included into upcoming Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.

March 17th, 2010 by cj2003

The new Ubuntu-based virtual appliances from BitNami make it easy to deploy applications such as Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, Subversion, SugarCRM, Alfresco and development environments such as LAMP and Ruby on Rails. The virtual appliances are now available free of charge from BitNami.org.

March 17th, 2010 by cj2003

Like most people I use Microsoft Windows and Office on my computer at work, and up until recently I had a similar setup for my home computer. But I recently changed to use the Ubuntu version of Linux and OpenOffice at home and and feel that both systems perform comparably.

March 17th, 2010 by cj2003

KDE users, those who use Kubuntu, were left out of the initial release. In order to use Ubuntu One, they would have to install the Gnome client or use only the web-based interface. Now, all of that has changed with the development of Ubuntu One KDE Client.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

I recently tried setting up a Dell Laptop with a Broadcom wireless driver. It was the only thing that wasn’t auto detected and setup correctly. Which got me a bit worried.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

Mark Shuttleworth claims some progress toward his goal of having distributions synchronize their major releases and calls for more distributors to join in.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

Canonical designer Ivanka Majic has written a blog entry that describes the reasons behind the change. Majic is also seeking additional feedback from the Ubuntu community.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

While it may not be as exciting as looking at these new end-user features, in this article we are testing out the available kernels for Ubuntu 10.04. Besides the standard Linux 2.6.32 kernel used in the Lucid release, there is also a specialized server kernel as well as a new -preempt kernel is now available.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

When you have Mark Shuttleworth as your backer, as commercial Linux distributor Canonical does, it is a bit like having money in the bank when the bank also believes fervently in your cause.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

Ever since FSF chairman Richard Stallman was accused of making sexist remarks at the GNOME summit in Spain last year, the free and open source software community has indulged in much discussion about the proportion of women in the community and the reasons for the same.

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #184 for the week March 7th – March 13th, 2010. In this issue we cover: Lucid Kernel now Frozen, Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 freeze now in effect, Intel, Eucalyptus and Canonical join forces to help user build cloud infrastructures confidently…

March 16th, 2010 by cj2003

I’m going to write this post as an opposite follow up to “It’s the little things that count” that shows off some of the neat new additions to 10.04 that I think are sweet as.

March 14th, 2010 by cj2003

I’m getting pretty sick and tired of the Ubuntu users out there that revert to saying that all changes that canonical has made to Ubuntu for 10.04 are bad “because Ubuntu users aren’t used to them”.

March 14th, 2010 by cj2003

Ordinarily I wouldn’t bother trying to help out Gnome users because Gnome itself is deliberately hamstrung and at the same time grotesquely overweight, but this is something so simple and so straightforward as to make all the

March 14th, 2010 by cj2003

“I’m very excited to announce that Ubuntu has applied as participating organisation in the Google Summer of Code 2010!,” Ubuntu’s Daniel Holbach writes.

March 14th, 2010 by cj2003

In Ubuntu, if you can believe this, it’s quite easy to change or “reset” the password for an account, so long as you have physical access to the machine. In total this should take you about 10 seconds to finish, give or take for the actual speed of the machine.

March 12th, 2010 by cj2003

I wanted to look at some of the things I’ve done recently on Ubuntu that under Windows would be costly, difficult or impossible. So without further ado….

March 12th, 2010 by cj2003

Jane Silber has been chief executive of Canonical for 11 days. But she’s no outsider swooping in to take over Ubuntu Linux’s corporate sponsor. She joined Canonical in June 2004, two months after previous CEO Mark Shuttleworth founded the company.

March 12th, 2010 by cj2003

Ubuntu Server not only follows the same twice yearly updates (April and October) as its desktop counterpart does, but it also benefits from unsurpassed commercial support, consulting and training available through Canonical.

March 12th, 2010 by cj2003

In the attempt to make Ubuntu 10.04 a rock solid LTS release, large changes have been made to the packaging stack and as a result, Nouveau’s kernel module is now in the main kernel package.

March 12th, 2010 by cj2003

Looks like mobile phone modders love modding Windows Mobile handsets to run numerous operating systems, and the latest of these mods appears to be with the HTC Touch Pro2 and has been modded to run Ubuntu, which is a flavour of Linux.

March 12th, 2010 by cj2003

The guys over at XDA-Developers have managed to do it again, and run Ubuntu on devices such as the HTC Touch Pro2, and the XPERIA X1.

March 10th, 2010 by cj2003

I was privileged to be invited to the Canonical offices in London recently to preview the image changes and comment on how we might adopt them; offer opinions on how I feel the community would interpret the changes, and offer feedback.

March 9th, 2010 by cj2003

I am a Gnome fan, but this Kubuntu shakes my loyality towards Gnome. I am not to be blamed if Kubuntu seduces me and I leave behind the simplicity that Gnome offers and take a dive into the world of Apple Mac killing KDE 4.

March 9th, 2010 by cj2003

Mark Shuttleworth personally took the challenge of polishing Ubuntu to an extent that even Mac users feel envy. He is heading in the right direction. Lucid Lynx is till date the most polished, sophisticated, resource efficient, and user-friendly operating system ever built.

March 9th, 2010 by cj2003

From its Debian roots to its commercially available support to its overwhelming popularity, Ubuntu is the ultimate Linux distribution.

March 9th, 2010 by cj2003

Most likely you are excited about the next version of Ubuntu, I know I am. The 3rd Alpha of the next version of Ubuntu was released a few days ago so I got some screenshots for you guys.

March 8th, 2010 by cj2003

Backing up data is very important to protect yourself from the hassle of hard disk crash or corruption. Creating a back up on the web gives us the convenience to retrieve our data anytime anywhere as long as we have an Internet connection. I found some on-line solutions for Ubuntu.

March 8th, 2010 by cj2003