Interntnews.com have an article about the upcomming release of Ubuntu and the meaning of the recently announced Solaris support.
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For its part, Sun is encouraged by Ubuntu's support for Niagara and does not see it as competition for its own Solaris operating system.
Fadi Azhari, director of outbound marketing for Sun, explained that, for [...]

Kubuntu and Edubuntu have released newsletters and they are both posted here for your viewing pleasure. Focus is naturally on the release June 1st.
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= Kubuntu Newsletter =
In this newsletter: release candidate, Kubuntu meeting, KOffice 1.5.1,Kubuntu in Rosetta, Adept 2.0, Icecream and the Summer of Code.
== Release Candidate ==
The Kubuntu 6.06 LTS Release Candidate [...]

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) will include a dedicated server edition with an extended five-year support period for enterprise users. It is also commented at tectonic.
As originally announced here, it is now official that Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support), will include a dedicated server edition with an extended five-year support period for enterprise [...]

With two “right soon, now”-articles about what the upcoming Ubuntu 6.06 will contain, Canonical is setting the stage for a much anticipated release.
Ubuntu tips June 1 upgrade, server release plans – at desktoplinux
Enterprise-level Ubuntu Linux due this week – at ZDNet
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Enhancements in the new release that are common to all the new versions, according to [...]

Okay, this is interesting…or weird. Someone at knightwise.com had his fiancé's grandmother use Ubuntu and noted the results.
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I have been toying around with Linux since 1999, Seen the first desktop versions evolve and have seen the Linux OS grow in strength on the desktop. Last year I found out about Ubuntu Linux and [...]

Tuxmachines have had a look at the recent release candidate of Ubuntu – schreenshots included. And reallylinux.com has a small article about starting services in Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu
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I downloaded the i386 pc version last night and it came in fairly quickly. The md5sums matched and I burnt it to a cd. This [...]

Recently Mark Shuttleworth spoke with The 451 Group at length about Dapper, Ubuntu, and the trends and development of the open source and free software movements. Here we will present Shuttleworth?s comments along with insight and commentary from 451 Group analysts.
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Ubuntu 6.06, the Dapper Drake, is scheduled to launch officially on [...]

The Ubuntu team announces the Release Candidate for version 6.06 LTS of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu – codenamed “Dapper Drake”. Screenshots at OSDir too.
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The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Release Candidate for version 6.06LTS of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu – codenamed “Dapper Drake”. The ReleaseCandidated includes installable live Desktop CDs, [...]

Ubuntu users and Local Teams around the world have already started to plan the worldwide celebration of the release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Read about the parties at The Fridge or see where they are happening in the wiki
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Once Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) is out, there will be plenty to celebrate, whether you were directly involved [...]

Our friends at DebCentral has made a nice tutorial of perl6 in ubuntu dapper.
See it in action here
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I will present an small howto compile and install perl6 and parrotvm on an ubuntu dapper
machine. I followed this howto with small corrections when the build/install went astrayhttp://dresden-pm.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/PM/PugsFirstBloodEnglish

This tutorial shows how to build a modified Kubuntu live CD, using the latest “Kubuntu 6.04 Flight3″ (to use a 2.6.15 kernel).
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This tutorial reflects a work I had to do in the last days: I had to build a modified Kubuntu live CD, using the latest “Kubuntu 6.04 Flight3″ (to use a 2.6.15 kernel). [...]

Despite its world-saving image, open source software has not made much real revolution. But Becky Hogge at OpenDemocracy.net finds hope in new software “for human beings”, designed to bridge the digital divide.
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So maybe Ubuntu wasn't such an altruistic endeavour after all. But is the fact Shuttleworth might make a profit bad news for [...]

The Server Edition of the June 1st 2006 release of Ubuntu will include a mechanism to set up a standardised, certified and supported LAMP server with a single command.
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The term “LAMP” refers to “Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP”, four components of the world's most widely used framework for [...]

In this comment, Microbabble investigates whether Ubuntu really is as easy to go to as we usually say and think.
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Let me tell you about Grandma and vi. Back in the early days of Ubuntu, I sat Grandma down and explained that in order to really become productive with Linux, you need to learn [...]

At Linux-Watch, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols discuss if and how Ubuntu can make the transition from community to commercial.
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Canonical Ltd., Mark Shuttleworth's UK-based company, has never made a secret of the fact that it has intended to support Ubuntu both as a free of cost Linux and as a commercial venture.
That last part, [...]

Armed with a 800 megahertz Celeron, 10 gigabyte hard drive and 128 megabytes of RAM, Fedora Core, Gentoo, (K)Ubuntu and OpenSUSE and VectorLinux are being tested.
Read the 3-page test here
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Kubuntu / Ubuntu: 3/10 pointshttp://www.ubuntu.comAdvantages: One of the easiest install routines.Disadvantages: Fairly sizable footprint (2 gigabytes PLUS user space). Very few options for installation to minimize [...]

Canonical and Open Source Press GmbH have collaborated on the delivery of a full boxed set of the upcoming Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. Available in German, it will be sold in book stores for EUR 49.95.
Read more about it here if you happend to be in Germany and want your Ubuntu in German…
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The Ubuntu box set [...]

Here's a small guide about how to setup KDevelop wtih Kubuntu so you can start your development. Another guide shows you how to alter the screen setup on Ubuntu.
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KDevelop allows you to easily develop and deploy KDE applications. I was very surprised to see that KDevelop was not installed in the base Kubuntu [...]

This combined review/comment about Ubuntu is very, very positive – even ahead of Windows Vista's current state. In other Ubuntu news, Shipit has opened for Ubuntu 6.06 orders.
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To be perfectly fair to Ubuntu I had also played with a copy of Vista beta. My sound card was not found, the ethernet adapter [...]

Six South Africans were this afternoon the first candidates worldwide to write the brand new Ubuntu Professional certification. They wrote the exams, backed by the Linux Professional Association (LPI), during the LinuxWorld show in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Well, not quite a small review – more a trying out Ubuntu ans posting the impression om this blog
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I've seen Ubuntu at the top of DistroWatch for some time. I've avoided it for the usual reasons: I don't know how to pronounce it, I didn't have a machine conveniently available to test it [...]

This blogger is a pretty avid Firefox user and it was one of the first applications he/she installed. The problem that he/she ran into was that all the KDE applications were still using Konqueror as their browser.
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Ok; at this point I was getting frustrated. So I launched Konqueror itself to see if there was [...]

Sun Microsystems plans to offer support for the Ubuntu server Linux distribution on its T1 server line, the company said at the JavaOne industry conference in San Francisco.
Read about it at itweek.co.uk
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Sun hopes that supporting the operating system will expose its hardware to a new group of users. A company spokesman denied that the support [...]

This is a short tutorial showing how to install the Macromedia Flash player on a Ubuntu system using Wine.
It was tested on Ubuntu Dapper Drake beta 2 (on x86 – 32 bit machine).
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_flash_player

As part of an anthropological fieldwork in the Ubuntu community , Andreas Lloyd have constructed a questionnaire to gather basic and relatively valid statistics on the community as whole.
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To all users and developers of Ubuntu,
To begin my announced anthropological fieldwork in the Ubuntucommunity [1], I have constructed a questionnaire to gather [...]

Distrowatch weekly answers a couple of Ubuntu questions in this weeks edition – amongst others the one in subject; and the answer given is “no”
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Speaking about Ubuntu 6.06, also known as “Dapper Drake”, some readers have apparently been confused by the unexpected recent release of “Flight” 7, a new alpha, which followed shortly [...]

Whether excerpts or one chapter, there's a bunch from the book found online – titeled “Software management under Ubuntu – made simple!”
The reading starts here
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One of the fun aspects of running any operating system is the ability to expand it?to add in new software over time to improve your workflow or just for entertainment value. [...]

Here's a rather critical look at Ubuntu and what they do right – and a lot more on what they do wrong – “In fact, if the most popular Linux distro has the smallest engineering team and is the least stable, it threatens the perception of the desktop distro market as a whole.”
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Techsential have tested Ubuntu Center – the recently released PHP control center for your Ubuntu box.
The test is found here
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Finally, Ubuntu Center will show you your system status. Everything from what distro you are using, to how much space you have left on what mount, and your CPU load. System status is pretty much self [...]

Oreillynet have a very short and positive review of Ubuntu Dapper Flight CD7
I spotted it at DebCentral and the article is found here
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To sum things up, this was an excellent install of Ubuntu, probably the best OS install I?ve ever experienced both in that installation itself and the usability afterward. It is honestly difficult for [...]