In this post, Bill Roth will be recounting his experience with Ubuntu server 6.10, WebLogic Workshop 9.2
Read it here at weblogic.sys-con.com – website of one of the products he use
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That said: I had a chance to play with the new Ubuntu server over the long weekend. I set up a server in my garage, [...]

Linux.com have comments to the blog post of Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth that deals with the outcome of his post to openSUSE's list.
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Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth's invitation to openSUSE developers last week has generated heat from openSUSE developers and some members of the Ubuntu community. In an effort to set the record straight, [...]

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols comments the recent announcement of Mark Shuttleworth to OpenSUSE
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There has been a great deal of heat in open-source circles over the Novell/Microsoft patent deal, but Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, took it to a whole new level when he went to the main openSUSE list to invite openSUSE's developers to abandon [...]

This tutorial shows how to set up a Ubuntu 6.10 server (Edgy Eft) as a firewall and gateway for small/medium networks.
The article covers the installation/configuration of services such as Shorewall, NAT, caching nameserver, DHCP server, VPN server, Webmin, Munin, Apache, Squirrelmail, Postfix, Courier IMAP and POP3, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu6.10_firewall_gateway

In This Issue: mEDUXa Released, Jono Bacon Interview, Free Geek Burgled, Free Poster for Quiz Winner and LoCo Team News
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 23 for the week of Nov19 – 25, 2006. In this issue we cover the hot new BehindUbuntuinterview with Jono Bacon, the mEDUXa release, the free geek burglery,upcoming [...]

To quickly install and configure support for your broadcom chipset, follow this simple guide
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Since the release of Ubuntu (6.06.1) ?Dapper Drake? there have been some great improvements in support for wireless and broadcom chipsets. You no longer need to configure ndiswrapper for wireless support. This supports *MOST* broadcom chipsets. I have only run [...]

Thanks to TuxMachines, this batch of tutorials popped up: Parental Controls with dansguardian, tinyproxy & firehol : Ubuntu (6.06.1 / 6.10), How to install multimedia codecs : Ubuntu (6.06.1 / 6.10) and How to install Adobe Reader (PDF) for Firefox : Ubuntu (6.06.1 / 6.10).
They are found here – and thanks to Tuxmachines

In his blog and on OpenSUSE's developer list, Mark Shuttleworth has invited them to support Ubuntu in the light of the Novell's patent agreement with Microsoft.
Read it in his blog here and commented on Linux.com
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Tensions are already high over Novell's patent agreement with Microsoft, but Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth's invitation to openSUSE developers “concerned [...]

Jono Bacon writes: Next week, the Ubuntu community hold their Ubuntu Open Week – a week of IRC tutorials and sessions designed to encourage more and more people to join their diverse community.
Read about it at Newsforge
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In addition to the formal events, Friday 1st Dec (the Friday in the Ubuntu Open Week) is a [...]

China Doll have posted yet another blog about the work needed to instal Ubuntu on his Dell computer.
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It took me a few days to get it right. Didn?t have any problem installing Ubuntu5.10 on my old DIY desktop pc. But the same couldn?t be said about installing the newer release on my [...]

Ubuntu?s Community Manager is interviewed on BehindUbuntu.org about his work, his thoughts and meaning of life.
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In what way are you involved in Ubuntu?
I am the Ubuntu Community Manager, and my role is to help keep the wheels of the community rolling. I am here to optimise how the community works, resolve problems, encourage [...]

Howtoforge also uses With Garmin Etrex, Kismet, And GPSDrive to have fun on the roads
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This tutorial is about wardriving using GPS. It explains how to install Garmin Etrex on Ubuntu and how to configure it. It also shows how to use Garmin with GPSDrive and how to convert the data [...]

Joseph Hall blogs about his read of Ubuntu Hacks, he sees it as okay, but not fantastic
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I've read many an O'Reilly book in my time, and this one certainly didn't make it to the top ten. But it's far from being the worst one either. It's certainly better than one of those yellow [...]

This bloggin how-to shows how to put Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu – from the amounts of comments, there seems to be room for improvement
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This HOW-TO covers up the whole process of installing Adobe Photoshop CS2 on a Ubuntu box in a few simple steps. This method has been tested only on Ubuntu, but [...]

Canonical today announced it has scooped another two awards for Ubuntu, its leading-edge Linux distribution, 'Most User-Friendly Linux Distribution'/'Best Linux/Open Source Distribution' and Canonical picked up the 'Best combination of Community and Commerce' award.
Read the press release in all its wonder here
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London (PRWEB) November 22, 2006 — Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today [...]

In This Issue: Feisty on the Schedule, New LoCo teams announced, New Ubuntu Customization Kit release, Ubuntu-based PBX announced and much much more
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 22 for the week of Nov12th – 18th, 2006. In this issue we cover the new Feisty schedule, newLoCo teams, Ubuntu-uk auction, changes in Feisty and [...]

A few weeks ago I started seeing the ?Blue Screen of Death? on my Sony Vaio PCG-K35 laptop every 10 minutes or so, making the computer nothing more than an overpriced 7 lb. Ubuntu comes to the rescue
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Wow. That?s all I can say- Wow. Ubuntu installed like a dream in less [...]

This blogger continues setting up his Powerbook with Ubuntu goodness.
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See my post from yesterday on how I setup a dual-boot of Mac OS X and Ubuntu Edgy on my Powerbook.
Geoff Arnold left me a comment asking if the wireless connection worked. It didn't. I went a googling.

Scope: creating a firewall/(mail)gateway for a small network (say 10 to 15 users or so on a PIII 450MHz, 512 MB ram and two identical network interface cards, broadband connection, fully featured, for a bussines environment.
Read it on http://www.howtoforge.com
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Expected audience: (beginning) sysop.
This tuto leads towards a solid 'ready to go' sytem. The fun part, I [...]

I have a 1.5GHz G4 Powerbook. Until Saturday, I'd just been running the latest Mac OS X Tiger release on it. It's got an 80GB internal disk. I decided that I wanted to make it a dual boot system.
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From talking with someone else who'd already done this, I was under the impression [...]

The process of customizing or “remastering” Ubuntu install CDs is not especially complex, but it is a little tedious and finicky. This page documents all the problems you might find; if it doesn't, please edit it!
Read about it here

Joseph Hall blogs and reviews Ubuntu Hacks by Jonathan Oxer, Kyle Rankin & Bill Childers
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For those not familiar with Hacks series by O'Reilly, let me get you a little up to speed. Each book is a collection of 100 tips and tricks pertaining to a particular subject. The subject is divided into categories, [...]

Ubuntu6.06 LiveCD is perhaps the only distro on earth which doesn?t give you a chance to specify where to install its Grub Loader ? it installs itself on the default boot disk?s MBR ? something that will nicely mess up Dell?s special MBR
Read about the disaster here
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Dell pre-installs two hidden partitions on the harddisk; the [...]

Given the recent Novell+Microsoft, RedHat vs. Oracle, and Sun Java Open Source news, Ubuntu is out there marching to it's own drummer. It is a grassroots effort that seems to be growing.
Read the blog at LinuxToday
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So, how will Ubuntu do in the rough and tumble world of Linux and commercial support? It seems to have [...]

The blogger skunkwork entertains us whti his ecperiences with Ubuntu 6.10 compared to Windows XP
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I am a proficient Windows XP user and more, but after seeing what?s Vista going to be with all the issues in relation to implementing security and the way Microsoft wants to license it, I decided that it [...]

Reluctantly, the Ubuntu developer community has decided that with the next version of Ubuntu, it will be including some proprietary drivers. Feisty Fawn's emphasis on “multimedia enablement” appears to be the culprit.
Read it from Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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Thus the goal is that while Ubuntu will be shipping “proprietary drivers in the short term, we should take [...]

Here is a brief Q&A between DesktopLinux.com's Chris Preimesberge and Suttleworth
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South Africa native and current London resident Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd. and the Ubuntu Linux distribution, told DesktopLinux.com Friday in an interview that widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop — so long-awaited by many people — “is just a matter [...]

In this final report from the UDS, Linux.com look at plans for the Ubuntu and Kubuntu desktops, the future of PowerPC, and how Ubuntu is working with local community teams.
Read about Desktop plans, PowerPC's future, and community
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Shuttleworth says the biggest challenge for Ubuntu right now is “the chicken and the egg” problem of getting [...]

Murray have blogged about the UDS, primarily from a Gnome perspective
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Canonical (or Ubuntu, or even Google, not sure) sponsored travel and accommodation for ?upstream? participants, including several people from GNOME and associated projects. Now that?s really working with upstream. We were new to the Ubuntu Summit way of [...]

Krzysztof Lichota shows us how we can change and optimize the Kubuntu liveCD
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Tools
* Bootchart * Squashfs module instrumented by me to dump information about page reads * Script to remaster live CD in various ways (version 1.0.1 – contains cutomization directory for [...]