Herschel Cohen at LX'er starts a series about customizing his Ubuntu installation – the first entry is now online.
Read about it here
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It is my intention to start a small series that describes both my travails of getting to the Ubuntu desktop and customizing the same. These include my additions, tweaks and all but certain screwups [...]

Slashdot have had a read-through of “Beginning Ubuntu Linux – From Novice to Professional” and find it a good book targeted at neophytes in Linux who wish to install and use Ubuntu on their machines.
The review is found here
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Having said that, even though at first glance, a person who is well versed in Linux might [...]

Linux.com has a small article praising EasyUbuntu.
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Ubuntu uses only open/free formats, so it doesn't include playback support for formats such as MP3, Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Audio Video Interleave (AVI) that may have some restrictions. If your country has no such restrictions or legal issues with these formats, the Restricted Formats article [...]

The first version of Ubuntu (Warty Warthog aka 4.10) will not be supported after April 30th.
On October 20th, 2004, Ubuntu announced its first public release, version4.10. This release was accompanied by a commitment to ongoing securityupdates for a period of 18 months, which has been reflected in thecomprehensive set of Ubuntu Security Notices issued [...]

Backup or copy? Whichever you choose, here's a blog about how to do it on Ubuntu.
Enjoy it here at flavor8
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I wrote a bash script to help you duplicate your DVDs. This may be illegal depending on where you live, but if you use your DVDs regularly you should have backups, to protect your investment. [...]

Paul Dwerryhouse at Nepotisima has reviewed Dapper Drake and is looking at the pro and con's of it – and he ends up liking it too.
Read the review here
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So, when and why would you choose to use Ubuntu? I would have no hesitation in rolling it out in an office environment, where the primary applications [...]

Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is now also available for Debian and Ubuntu.
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Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that's free to develop, deploy, and distribute

See what it is here

At EasyLinux.info they have made a starter guide for Dapper Drake.
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This guide http://ubuntuguide.org/ was started by Chua Wen Kiat (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). It is now being maintained by the Linux Center of University of Latvia, and everyone else who is willing to contribute.

Linuxloader.com has made a small how-to on getting the Nvidia driver to work with Kubuntu.
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I've found that I'm using Kubuntu more and more. So this is the first one of the supplemental How-To's concerning a specific config for Kubuntu. We are going to install the Nvidia drivers so we can get all the benefits that [...]

Versora, developers of a tool to migrate from Windows to Linux, now also supports Ubuntu with their Progression Desktop.
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Progression Desktop employs an easy to use 'next, next, finished' interface to guide the user through a migration. Additionally, migrations can be fully automated from a command line to allow integration with third party system [...]

Gurdy Leete writes about the experiences experienced when switching to GNU/Linux at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa.
The piece is found at Newsforge
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If you're contemplating a similar switch, I encourage you to move ahead. Think about which distribution best matches your needs, and select your applications carefully.
If you need to share the computers with [...]

Amongst the not-so-serious news is a bunch of images of Ubuntu cakes. Yes, you read it corretcly.
They are here at The Fridge
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The Edubuntu cake is the biggest so far, while the Kubuntu cake is at least 40% more blue than the other cakes. The Ubuntu cake happened to be a birthday cake (nice, eh?).

Dapper Drake, the next version of Ubuntu, will be delayed 6 weeks to a release date of June 1st.
It is also covered here and at Tuxmagazine
Below is Mark Shuttleworth's announcement:
Hi,
June 1st 2006 is the updated release date for Ubuntu Dapper, Desktopand Server editions, a delay of 6 weeks over the previous release dateof April 20.
The [...]

LX'er has an objective (as objective as it can be at their site) look at the competing operating systems of today.
You can read it here
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Macintosh with OS X and Microsoft Windows XP have an advantage over Linux in the area of education where curriculum demands exists for things such as foreign languages courses. The inability [...]

This article in Rochester Democrat and Chrionciel shows that Linux is getting a broader acceptance.
Thsy try Linux (Ubuntu) here
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Oh, and here's the best part: Linux is free. Not just the operating system, but all those applications. Depending on the version of Linux you get, that can be 20,000, 30,000 or more.
There are a lot [...]

Also at OSDir, they have a screenshot tour of Kubuntu Dapper Drake Flight CD 5
Enjoy

Here's a story about getting Kubuntu to run on an HP Vectra computer with a 500 MHZ Pentium III processor, 256 meg of RAM, an 8 gig hard-drive.
Enjoy the succes here
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The one thing that I have noticed about Kubuntu is that it is noticeably faster than other versions of Linux I have previously used on [...]

Linux.com has a praising article about Automatix and the good it does for the perhaps user-unfriendly distribution named Ubuntu….
The article is forund here
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I already thought Ubuntu was pretty easy to use. Although it doesn't come out of the box with everything I need, I quickly found out how to get just about everything I needed [...]

TecTonic comments the status after two Dapper Delay meetings. Updated: Release date is most likely June 1st.
The delay meetings are mentioned here and the article at TecTonic sums it up:
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The delay could impact on some services companies who have promised clients upgrades, and for those working on books and other Ubuntu related projects. Shuttleworth committed [...]

If you're keen on following up on the decisionprocess of whether Ubuntu 6.04 (Dapper Drake) will be delayed, the meeting summarys are a good place to look.
And they can be found here
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Why can't we make 2 releases? One in 6.04 for normal users and an enterprise release later?
Simply because there is no manpower to [...]

Labelled “Howto: Ultimate Ubuntu eye-candy with Xgl and Compriz”, TecTronic has posted an article about the set up of it on Ubuntu.
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Compriz. Maybe you've heard the buzz, the pictures and videos, and spent the past few weeks in absolute agony over the coolness of it all. Okay, maybe you haven't – but I [...]

OSNews have written a little piece about getting Ubuntu and OSX dualbooting on a Powerpc.
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“In conclusion: the Ubuntu team have done excellent work in bringingthe PowerPC version of their distribution on par with its moregrown-up siblings. Many issues turned out to be non-issues, andbasically all hardware is working fine, without any hitches. Eveninfamous [...]

A nasty bug has hit Ubuntu – it does not seem to affect Dapper, however, users upgrading from Breezy to Dapper might still be at risk because the log files are not modified.Update: It's fixed.
Read more about it on OSNews
It's fixed – mentioned here

DesktopLinux and a user at the Ubuntuforums show how to get your WoW-fix on Ubuntu.
Read it here and here
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I had a hard time getting WoW to work in wine using the information I found on this forum and others. After being pointed to this howto (http://wiki.kaspersandberg.com/doku….orldofwarcraft) by a helpful individual named 'vanilla' on the winehq [...]

Flight 5, the latest alpha of Dapper Draka aka (K)Ubuntu 6.04 has been announced.
Here's the announcement
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Flight 5, the latest alpha of Dapper Drake, is available. Thesereleases are tested to be reasonably free of show stopper bugs, butare obiviously still alpha quality, so do not use these on yourproduction systems.

The classic screenshot tour is also [...]

Mark shuttleworth has proposed a six week delay in the release date of Dapper Drake in order to do additional validation, certification, localisation, and polish.
Read the question here
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However, in some senses Dapper is a “first” for us, in that it is thefirst “enterprise quality” release of Ubuntu, for which we plan to offersupport for a [...]

The Ubuntu development team has announced an Ubuntu version that will run on Sun Microsystem's much-vaunted Niagara processor.
See it here at Tectonic
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While there is already a netbootable image available, Di Nitto says: “Sometime soon we'll have a CD installer for Sparc as well. This installer work uses D-I and so will be available in Debian [...]

LinuxdevCenter have been adjusting their Ubuntu installations and also installed Kubuntu directly and improved on them.
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As nice as Kubuntu is, the default installation doesn't fit every user. This article shows how to get help, get access to more software packages, set up a firewall, and review and get rid of unnecessary services. This [...]

CertCities.com try out Ubuntu very appealing in their review of its usefullness.
Read it at their site
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Final Thoughts? Ubuntu offers an interesting approach to Linux. An attempt to make everything truly free, and including only software that requires no licensing, Ubuntu is definitely a step in the right direction. The ability to not only have the [...]

Hddsaver.com has an article about backups – and they use Ubuntu as it “..is quickly becoming the Linux distribution of choice for home desktop users”
Read here how to do your Ubuntu backups:
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Like most tasks in Ubuntu, backing up and restoring data is easy enough for any user to attempt. This article is going to run [...]