And the winner is….The most popular desktop of Linux today is… well, most of you can already guess without seeing the scores: Ubuntu.
Oh, and Debian is second!
Read it at desktoplinux.com
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A little closer peek at the data, and some comparison with the Distrowatch page hit list, reveals that “classic” Ubuntu with the GNOME interface is the [...]

SearchOpenSource have a piece on the adoption and progress of Ubuntu.
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But for every user like Jones, there appear to be several like Michael McDaniel, a value-added reseller at Orlando, Fla.-based Configuration Concepts Inc.
“The person there at Ubuntu that heads up quality control should get an award for assuring Ubuntu is as good [...]

James Pyles at Linux-Tutorial have had a look at the official Ubuntu book and indeed likes it
Read the review here
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The book is a winner and belongs on the bookshelf of the Ubuntu newbie and veteran alike. As an Ubuntu user, I found it interesting and helpful on several occasions and I'm sure as my use [...]

This article is from a new book: Ubuntu Linux for “Non-Geeks: A Pain-Free, Project-Based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook” by Rickford Grant. This excerpt covers using your iPod with Ubuntu
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Well, you will be happy to know that Ubuntu does iPods, even Nanos. You will also be happy to know that using your iPod [...]

In a review of Acer TravelMate 2428, they try out Ubuntu on it and it just works.
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Battery life on the TM2428 while running Linux was about 20% less than in windows. Manually controlling the settings I was able to get about three hours of use from a charge and in 'DVD mode' I [...]

Wired.com have an article about Ubuntu and its usefullness for the non-geeks out there.
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Can Ubuntu completely replace Windows or Mac OS X?
Probably not. It doesn't work perfectly out of the box. And even if you do get it working smoothly, you may miss industry-standard professional programs, such as Photoshop and Adobe InDesign, [...]

Want to add extra repositories in Ubuntu? Here?s how to do it.
See it here at Arsgeek

Due to all the positive fuss about Kubuntu, this blogger tries it out instead of his/her usual SUSE-installation – and is happy with it.
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ConclusionThe Kubuntu distribution seems to have lived up to its Ubuntu lineage. The installation was simple. The configuration interface is clean and not intimidating. The Adept software installation tool is [...]

HowtoForeg have made a small how-to on installing Flash Player 9
Read it here

This weeks edition of Distrowatch News contains articles on Kubuntu vs openSUSE and the recent update disaster for Ubuntu.
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Of course, one user's positive experience with Kubuntu doesn't mean that Ubuntu and its derivatives are perfect. In fact, last week's update fiasco left many affected users question the quality control and, by extension, trust [...]

The writer looks at the good, the bad and the funny aspects of having to cope with Ubuntu.
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The Funny · I finally got to the point where the publishing software would attempt to run without whining about missing pieces, wrote the first couple paragraphs of this and optimistically hit the ?proof? key; disappointingly, [...]

See the impression of Ubuntu on this user…A week ago or so he decided to ditch windowx xp on my machine. He would install one of the many popular Linux distributions floating around on the net…
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To make the long story short, I ended up screwing the system, rendering it unusable, and then [...]

In This Issue X.org breakage in 6.06, Distro sprint in Germany, Backports are back and much more
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= Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter – Issue #11 =
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter – Issue #11 for the week of August 20 – 26, 2006
You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issues at:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter
== In This Issue ==
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Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth comments on the coverage of the rexent problems with upgrading X on Ubuntu.
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An incident report is being compiled by the team and we will publish that for our broader community and users as soon as it is complete. My apologies to those who have been affected, I know that a [...]

Is Ubuntu getting to be a little bit too successful? So successful in fact (it's consistently number one on DistroWatch) that it's beginning to cast a shadow on the rest of planet Debian?
Jeff Gould comments:
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The cutesy cleverness of Ubuntu's marketing makes some people sniff that it's all just a trick. For example, blogger Tech Anchor [...]

Very short, very easy guide to install Flock on Ubuntu
It's found here
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I?ve been using Flock now for almost two months I?m a total ?Flockstar!? I really enjoy its smooth interface, compatibility with Firefox extensions and integrated social browsing options. It has simple browser-blogging, double-click URL bookmarking to del.icio.us or Shadow. Also integrated Flickr & PhotoBucket [...]

upstart is a replacement for the init daemon, the process spawned by the kernel that is responsible for starting, supervising and stopping all other processes on the system.
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Why change it?
Running a fixed set of scripts, one after the other, in a particular order has served us reasonably well until now. However [...]

At the ACHAT hotel in Wiesbaden, central Germany, twenty-three members of the Ubuntu development team have managed to get together for a small, fast-paced development conference known as a ?sprint?.
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One of the successful advantages of Ubuntu is the distribution of Ubuntu developers across several countries and timezones around the world. There?s [...]

Brent Ross have had it with Ubuntu – read about the crashes here. Update – it was a hoax, so I hope Brent will survive the Attack Of The Linux Hordes.
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What does this mean? Hello XP! That?s right. I?m back on Windows. I think Ubuntu has something to do with these [...]

SecurityFocus writes about that many users of Ubuntu found themselves on Tuesday thrown back to mid-1990s, when a botched update to the graphical X Window subsystem forced them to use command-line terminal.
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Despite the distributed programming model of open-source projects, catastrophic errors in patches are rare. The companies and groups behind most Linux [...]

This article is excerpted from The Official Ubuntu Book and they take a look at filesystem security, system resource limits, dealing with logs and finally some network security.
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As a system administrator, one of your chief tasks is dealing with server security. If your server is connected to the Internet, for security [...]

WhatPC have made an overview article and review about Ubuntu 6.06 and free software in general.
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After a short delay, Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) was released in June. Originally scheduled for mid-April, the developers decided to let the date slip six weeks to allow for concentrated bug fixing and some final polishing.
The previous version, [...]

CRN Test Center set out to locate good examples of free Linux distributions that still have some channel focus and offer robust features, along with upgrades to commercial support. The field was narrowed down to three familiar names in the Linux world, Ubuntu, OpenSuse and the new Freespire, the free version of Linspire
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IRC channels, LUG mailing lists, and Ubuntu wikis were buzzing with the news this morning that a recent Ubuntu Xorg update (xorg-server 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.3) crashes the X Window System on some video hardware.
When X is restarted following installation, affected Ubuntu users get a "no screens found" error message instead of X.
The Dell Inspiron 6400 with an [...]

Win4Lin announced today full support for Ubuntu 6.06 for Win4Lin Pro Desktop and Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server.
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Win4Lin Pro Desktop allows Linux users to run Windows applications from the security of the Linux desktop. Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server is the enterprise/SMB product for delivering Windows applications on thin clients via a Linux server. [...]

Lifehacker have had a go at Ubuntu and shares his findings with us in this article.
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After a little searching around the interweb, however, I've been more than impressed with the number of great, full-featured applications available for Linux, many of which outshine their Windows counterparts. And what's best – they're all totally [...]

With San Francisco LinuxWorld Expo barely having finished, the Ubuntu camp have picked up their bags and headed across town for the world-famous Ubucon at Google
Read the report at The Fridge
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We got lots more reports, ?Google HQ was big and kind of confusing? and everyone was told that they had to stay ?within the blue [...]

Both Gnuman and Mepis.org mentions that you should be carefull with Xorg-core update as it breaks X
Here at Mepis.org
and Gnuman as well
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For those who are using Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu are effected. Please be aware that there is a problem when updating xorg-core.
The latest update breaks X (X allows desktop environments to run (Gnome, KDE, [...]

Testing different altervative software, Rob Pegoraro thinks it's a viable Windows replacement, especially for the “I just use the computer for Web and e-mail” contingent.
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That's not something I'm willing to say about most earlier Linux distributions; just compare yesterday's assessment with the verdict I rendered two years ago.(Yesterday's story is my fifth in-depth [...]

Ubuntu has a very drawn-out validation process, on top of the fact that it appears they changed some of the paradigms of Debian that can make it very difficult to just use an existing Debian-specific package on Ubuntu.
Read what Payton Byrd did
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My saga started as I was going to code my Joined DataTable blog entry [...]