Last week Canonical announced the official date for Hoary Hedgehog?s retirement: October 31st 2006.
See it mentioned at TheFridge
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On October 31st, after 18 months of hard work, Hoary will reach its End-Of-Life (EOL) which means it will not receive any new security updates from Ubuntu. Users still using this version are highly encouraged to upgrade to [...]

Here's an interview with Rickford Grant, the author of two Linux books, Linux for Non-Geeks and Linux Made Easy
Found at Tectonic
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FN: Why Ubuntu?I love trying out new distros, and Ubuntu was simply too hot to pass up. Once I tried it, I found it to be pretty much to my liking, especially since it [...]

Now it's time for TechTarget to get some comments and analysis of Mark Shuttleworth's suggestion to make Linux 'pretty'
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It's the user experience, stupid“I agree with Mr. Shuttleworth,” said Matthew Mossbarger, the chief operating officer at Synapse Data and Telecom Inc. “The main edge that Macs and Windows machines have had over Linux is [...]

The blogger David Span have installed Fireworks on his Ubuntu box in order to use it instead of Gimp
See here how he did it – http://davidspan.com/2006/10/30/install-fireworks-on-ubuntu/
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When I installed Ubuntu on my laptop I decided to learn Gimp. Well that didn?t go very well, so I tried a few others. But after a week I [...]

Ubuntu has been a phenomenon in the desktop Linux niche. But Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth, who founded the project, has his eyes on the more lucrative server market.
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So it's open after that?Yeah. The desktop is very important to us because there's this opportunity to create something new that hasn't existed before. [...]

With this procedure you can install the latest version of Asterisk by compiling from source.voip-info shows us how to do it.
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Compiling Asterisk from Source on Ubuntu
Ubuntu includes packages for Asterisk and Zaptel, but they may not be up to date, or the newer packages may only be available in newer Ubuntu releases. [...]

DebianAdmin have collected some of the common problems and their solutions from Ubuntu forums and they hope this collection will help for some users to fix their upgrade problems.
Read the help here

This weeks edition contains a brief look at the difficulties that has followed the Ubuntu release last week.
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According to an informal poll by UbuntuForums.org, almost 44% percent of those who attempted the upgrade process encountered “serious problems” or reported that their upgrades went “really bad”.

Ooohhhh, and then there's a first look [...]

This blogger needed to move Ubuntu Linux from its temporary home on a fairly dodgy 60Gb Maxtor to its new 80Gb Western Digital home. Se how it went!
Read it at digital end
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All I had to do then was remove the old disk and ensure the new disk occupies the same channel that the old disk [...]

titeled “Ubuntu stays Foxy”, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols comments how Ubuntu still uses Firefox while Debian doesn't.
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In Ubuntu's dealings with Mozilla Corp., Shuttleworth was able to “establish that it really is possible for a distribution that cares about free software and Mozilla to agree on a framework which gives us both what we need.” [...]

As the title states, this is a project-based guide. The book?s structure is to identify and explain features (or software) and move on to a hands-on exercise (project) using those features
Read the bloggin' review here
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A good book? Yes, especially for geek wannabes. But not the book for a total newbie, and not really the book [...]

Till last night, both systems ran Fedora Core 5. Today the laptop is Ubuntu 6.10. When I get a chance, I'll take the desktop to Fedora Core 6, so that I can maintain access to a Fedora system.
Read what and why Steve Carl did it
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Everything is faster. Firefox, Evolution, menus, terminals. I installed VMWare's vmplayer [...]

Gnuman.com have also reviewed The Official Ubuntu book and find it a great read. Tom Duff has also reviewed it in his blog.
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The Official Ubuntu Book was well written and covered all topics that is necessary for a new Ubuntu user who is either trying out Ubuntu for the first time or just [...]

The blogger Leonivek is telling and showing us how life is with Ubuntu 6.10 – you can follow him in his blog.
The entries are found here
Day 1.

Day 2, Part 1.

Day 2, Part 2.

Day 3.

Or access all from the Homepage.
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This will be the first post in a series of posts called the Adventures in a New [...]

Desktoplinux covers the current issues wit upgrading to Ubuntu 6.10 – many users report difficulties and malfunctions. Update – Slashdot also covers the problems
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Analysis — Upgrading an operating system is always a chancy thing. An application can stop working, a modem can freeze up, and then, when upgrading to Ubuntu 6.10, Edgy Eft, [...]

With the new version of Ubuntu available, I thought it would be useful to walk through the upgrade steps to bring your Drake to an Eft. This article will show you step-by-step how to implement the upgrade along with screen shots along the way. Update: Debuntu also have an articel on this.
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What You [...]

This is a detailed description about how to set up a Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters
Read the show from Falko Timme at howtofrge
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Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial [...]

With the release of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), installing MythTV is now easier than ever. Enjoy the guide.
It is found here
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Ubuntu is a great basis for a general purpose MythTV box and now comes with the latest version of MythTV (0.20) in its standard packages.
This guide focuses on DVB in the UK (Freeview), but [...]

Yet another blogger finds the pleasure of Ubuntu 6.06, this time on a HP zt3000 laptop.
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I had thought that the laptop would be kind of a worst case scenario. I've heard of past versions of Linux having trouble with the unusual hardware that sometimes appears on laptops. I figured if it could handle [...]

On the eve of 6.10's release, Mark Shuttleworth, held an early morning meeting in London to talk about Ubuntu, Canonical, and their business future.
Read it here at http://www.linux-watch.com
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Shuttleworth also said that while there had been discussions with major OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) about a preloaded Ubuntu Linux desktop PC, he had no news, at this [...]

Unlike Microsoft, Canonical releases new versions every six months, despite the fact that these releases are nearly as comprehensive as Microsoft's and the changes more dramatic in structure
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The company that makes billions of dollars a month and has a $7.5 billion R&D budget is the one that can't get a release [...]

“Fundamentally, though, this is still free software in a proprietary wrapper. The pricing may be different, but it?s still old-school thinking. I don?t think anybody who will consider jumping to Ubuntu from Red Hat will pause very long on the Oracle option.”
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Earlier today, we reported on our discussions with Mark Shuttleworth on the [...]

Distrowatch brings us the news that Ubuntu 6.10, formerly known as Edgy Eft, has been released
Read it here at Distrowatch or the announcement on the Wiki
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The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.10,codenamed “Edgy Eft”. This release includes both installable DesktopCDs and alternate text-mode installation CDs for severalarchitectures.
Ubuntu is a [...]

Ubuntu won the “Best Linux/Open Source Distribution” in the 2006 Linux award.
It's posted on TheFridge and not quite up at http://www.linuxawards.co.uk/ in time of writing this.
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Ubuntu has walked away with Best Distribution at the Linux Awards held in London last night.
Maggie Meer of UK Linux magazine Linux User and Developer presided over the show with [...]

In This Issue: Ubuntu 6.10 release candidate out, Mark Shuttleworth's announcement naming Ubuntu 7.04, A feel-good “Thank You!” for Edubuntu, Edgy Changes, Oracle relationship speculation and much more.
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 19 for the week ofOctober 15 – 21, 2006. In this issue we cover Mark Shuttleworth'sEdgy+1 announcement and BBC interview, speculations [...]

Oracle announced that the company would be offering specific and full support for Red Hat Linux and taking on the Linux giant head-on. The announcement put to an end the many of the romours about a possible buyout of Ubuntu Linux.
Read the comment here at TecTonic
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Ellison said that the market was crying out for enterprise-level [...]

Zdnet Australia have noticed that Thursday 26th will be Release Day for Ubuntu 6.10. Included in the article are a run-down of features, with the opening paragraphs dedicated to the init-replacement named upstart.
Thanks to TheFridge, the article is found here
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Upstart replaces the decades-old “init” software originally created for System V Unix and provides “substantially faster” [...]

My goal with this guide is to make it as easy as possible for everyone to install a 3D Desktop on Ubuntu Linux (Edgy Eft) with Beryl and Xgl.
Read the blog/how-to here
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..there will be no use of the terminal in this guide so everyone should be able to follow this guide and install a 3D [...]

The user DaBruGo on Ubuntuforums have managed to successfully load Ubuntu a number of times on his/her external USB drive.
See here how it was done
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BACKGROUND: I have an internal hard drive (western digital) already in my system with Windows XP Pro installed (which shows up initially as drive HDA in the UBUNTU partitioning phase [...]

Arsgeek helps you to prepare if you?re planning to upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10, which is due tomorrow.
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All that?s taken care of now the only thing left to do is wait for tomorrow to upgrade, right? Actually, I?d recommend upgrading today if you can. Why? Well tomorrow with the official release [...]