You've probably read it at Digg.com or /. – but here's Simon Law discussing how Ubuntu is being developed.
Download the files with the speech here
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Simon Law leads the Quality teams for Ubuntu, a free-software operating system built on Debian GNU/Linux. As such, he leads one of the largest community-based testing efforts for a software product. [...]

Ralph Whitbeck had an itch to run Ubuntu and did it using WMware Player. In other Ubuntu news, Brent Roos installs Flock On Ubuntu
Read how he did it here
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I actually wanted to see how Konqueror compared to Safari in rendering as I needed a way to test since I don't own a Mac. Since [...]

Swapping WinXP with Ubuntu on your laptop – why and what's the gain by doing it is the topic of this blog.
Read it here
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1. Use Firefox – If you use Firefox for the web you?ll be 80% there and you won?t be able to tell which platform you?re working on anyway.
2. Use Open Office – [...]

The German pcwelt.de have an article in English about Ubuntu and the wealth of utilities on Linux platforms.
Have your fun here
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Is it the perfect bare-bones desktop? No; it still ships with multimedia players, unnecessary Internet tools, and, yes, the GIMP. But Ubuntu's developers have taken great care to streamline its Gnome-based UI to make it [...]

TheFridge have posted a couple of items regarding the upcomming Ubuntu Magazine (working name)
Pleas for help and a reminder of it's existence is here
And here's a poll to find out what it should be called
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Anyone interesting in helping the Magazine project get off the ground should check out the Magazine Project Charter which has a [...]

Bill roth writes about how it is to be using Ubuntu at BEA's Corporate offices using BEA's own products…sounds like an ad disguised as an article.
But here it is
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I wanted to try an real application with it, so I download BEA Workshop Studio, of course. I needed a little bit of help from superstar [...]

In this issue – Edgy Eft Knot 1 Release, The Classroom, Ubuntu Magazine Meeting, Canonical Commercial Repositories, Opera 9 for Ubuntu and much more
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter – Issue #7 for the week of July 15 – 21, 2006
You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter
== In This Issue ==
* [...]

I am writing this as a partial documentation of my trials and tribulations with hopes of aiding all Linux noobs on the steps necessary to create a basic Linux, Apache2, MySQL5 and PHP5 system with FTP
HowtoForge comes to your aid with the guide
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I, like many others, made the decision to attempt an install [...]

The Linux Professional Institute will provide certification testing during LinuxWorld Conference & Expo San Francisco, August 15 – 17, 2006
Read the press release here
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For the first time at a LinuxWorld event LPI will also be offering both the Ubuntu Certified Professional exam and the exams for the MySQL 5.0 certifications (Developer and Database Administrator).

LXer have summarized the recent arguments against having no open ports after an install of Ubuntu.
Read the overview here at LXer
Or go for the source of the critisism
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The “No Open Ports” policy: This policy (or at least the way many people interprete it) seems to be thought out by someone who doesn't have much experience [...]

performancepccanada have reviewed Ubuntu – yet another sign that Linux is getting more headlines in the mainstream media
Read it =Reviews]here
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You know a Linux distribution is becoming popular when it?s mentioned at the Fox News website, and there it was in a June 20 headline, ?Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop-Linux Champ?. Of course, the story was [...]

In a short interview with Jeff Waugh, infoworld covers that Ubuntu is working on improving power management.
Read it here
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Jeff said that Thinkpads are still the most popular laptop for Linux and “since they are mostly all Centrino based it's a big advantage as Intel open-sources the drivers. This makes those specific drivers more manageable in [...]

TecTonic have covered that the editors of ResExcellence.com, a popular Macintosh website and longtime Mac enthusiasts, have switched to Ubuntu
Read about the reactions here
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To be quite honest the community problem was the real killer. If … the community was fun to be around and work with … I would have stuck it out. I would [...]

Two more Ubuntu reviews have appeared today – and they are both very positive
One here at itreviews
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A much more business-like implementation of Linux, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS retains many of the features that have made it so popular, with sensible enhancements in terms of installation, hardware support and usability. Still a very complete solution and equally [...]

Stating that “I can't see how Ubuntu Linux 6.06 is ready for anything except perhaps a patch release.”, Jem Matzan reviews 6.06.
Read the rest here
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After spending three days with Ubuntu Linux 6.06, and recognizing that a large percentage of first-time GNU/Linux users are trying out Ubuntu before other distros, I understand why many people think [...]

Scott Spanbauer writes that Ubuntu 6.06 is sweet, but can be slow on older PCs. Here's how to speed it up.
See it at pcworld
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It was such a nice change, I began to wonder how well Ubuntu would run on some of my older PCs. Alas, the resulting installations were a little slow, and in [...]

This screenshot show at Flickr shows Ubuntu running on a Sony X17 – and it seems like there's more to come.
See the show here
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Taniwha says:No, it's not all working yet – but we have a client paying us to get it working… so “watch this space”quote]

Jeff Waugh leaves Canonical to work for Gnome and Canonical is also looking for a security engineer.
Jeff says goodbye here
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I?m excited about Ubuntu, passionate about its mission, confident in its future, and have thoroughly enjoyed being part of it from the very beginning? But ultimately, my heart lies with another, and I have to [...]

Using Ubuntu, ClusterMonkey have provided a guide, which is the first of a series in which they give you detailed step-by-step instructions on how to build a virtual cluster with Xen.
Part one is found here
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Thanks to the Xen virtual machine monitor, you can create a number of virtual machines, all running simultaneously in your computer, [...]

ChannelRegister have an interview with Mark Shuttleworth on the upcoming path and strategy of Ubuntu.
The two pages start here
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Mr Shuttleworth also has a distant intention, somewhere in the future, of recouping some of the $10m a year he funnels into Ubuntu, and trying to turn it into some kind of profitable business.
“We are in this [...]

whatpc.co.uk have written a how-to to setup Squeezebon on Ubuntu to enjoy the music.
Read it here
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So what has this device got to do with Linux or Unix? Perhaps a unique feature of the Squeezebox is that the server software, which controls the device and streams music to it, is completely open source; it is released [...]

Not a fan of the brownish theme in Ubuntu – here's how to ..well… a more familiar colour-scheme.
Read the blogging help here
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If you thought that the default Ubuntu mix of Brown and Orange sucked , then here?s your chance to make it cool blue. You don?t need to download anything big. Just a couple of [...]

Unfortunately, three significant factors appear to show signs of an all-out hacker attack against Ubuntu this weekend. Update: It was a power failure, so no need to worry.
More news is here:
Weekend Hacker Attack on Ubuntu
As for a motive, I have no idea whatsoever.
James Troup lets us know the facts right here
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I'm afraid the cause of [...]

Ubuntu 6.06 and The Distribution Formerly Known As SUSE are quickly compared on this blog entry. The score ends 10-10.
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In conclusion, SLED 10 brings everything that Ubuntu does and feels slightly faster. But Ubuntu has bigger and nicer community and .deb is simply better than .rpm. Out of 10, I give both of them [...]

Jon Barnhardt writes his top 10 reasons to use Ubuntu and Flexbeta have a 3-page review of Ubuntu 6.06.
10 reasons?
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1. Hardware Recognition: I would have to say that Ubuntu is by far the best Linux variant available today for hardware recognition. I have installed Dapper Drake (the latest Ubuntu release) on almost 10 different [...]

Desktoplinux have made a small writeup about what's what on the next release of Ubuntu.
Read the relative short article here
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Key features, according to the project team:
* OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 * PostgreSQL 8.1.4 database * Thunderbird 1.5.0 email client * Firefox 1.5 browser [...]

Marketing material? Preview? In all circumstances it's a short report about the book Ubuntu hacks and works as a teaser for me.
Read about the book here
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This is a book written by passionate Ubuntu and Kubuntu users who are excited to talk about a powerful, cool distro that meets the needs of novice, intermediate, and experienced [...]

Pre-releases of Edgy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stablesystem or who is not comfortable running into occasional, evenfrequent breakage. Screenshot tour included.
Here's the announcement – and here's the coverage at Distrowatch
Screenshot tours of Ubuntu and Kubuntu Knot CD1 can be found here
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Knot 1 releasedTollef Fog Heen tfheen at ubuntu.comThu Jul 20 13:15:52 [...]

Eweek.com have reviewed Ubuntu and like what they try and see.
The three-page review is found here
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Since Linux distributions boil down to collections of software that are freely available to everyone, distributions most clearly differentiate themselves from each other in the ways that they bring together and manage this software.
Ubuntu owes its excellent software management [...]

Free-bees.co.uk reviews and goes through Installation; Logging On; Package Management and much more of Ubuntu
The article starts here
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To sum it up – Dapper Drake is Ubuntu's best release to date, where just about everything just works. The massive array of packages, with the user friendliness bolted on, mean that I can recommend Ubuntu to [...]