This blogger analyses what Ubuntu, SUSE and Linspire does right and wrong in the marketplace.
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If I had a magic wand, I would take Novell?s resources and Ubuntu?s (Canonical) vision and see the birth of a single Linux product. Each entity has half of it right and the other half of it totally wrong. [...]

This blogger shows us how to switch between the Ubuntu versions
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Wrong desktop environment :-s
I recently installed Ubuntu6.10 with the Kubuntu6.10 install cd,Why ? I did not feel like downloading the Ubuntu iso while having the Kubuntu cd ready for usage.After a successful install of Kubuntu its easy to revert to Ubuntu:

Linux-Watch compares Ubuntu, Novell, Red Hat and Mandriva in their offerings to resellers.
Ubuntu isn't the winner
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So, which company should you work with? Well, again, consider what you're bringing to the table and what your customers want. For the vast majority of resellers, Novell and Red Hat, as you would expect, should be at the top [...]

Users, administrators, and developers of Ubuntu are invited to attend the second UbuCon on Friday, Feb. 16 — the day after the LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit
Read about it at DesktopLinux
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The day's schedule, for what is billed as an “unconference” rather than a conference, will be decided on the day of the event, event organizer John [...]

Lars Risan and Christian Lundestad have posted a paper on the authority and power of software repositories, especially Launchpad and Rosetta, the repositories that contains the source code and translations of Ubuntu.
Read the massive paper/blog here:
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The basic idea of this paper-to-be is that repositories are traditional and bureaucratic-rational authorities, and that they do important [...]

Downloadsquad comes with this clear recommandation – and also helps the users a bit along the road.
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What about those of us who've had it up to here with Windows XP but also aren't ready to spend tons of cash on a Vista capable PC, what are we to do? Here's a thought; take [...]

Mark Shuttleworth invites you to join in their first annual business conference – Ubuntu Live 2007
Read it in his blog
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After six developer summits, many more sprints and countless informal meetings amongst our developers, maybe it?s time to invite our users, customers and partners to the party? Together with O?Reilly we are thrilled to be inviting [...]

Perhaps you've run into this situation before : what to do with a machine that has no usable CD reader? Now you can install Ubuntu Edgy on it using a USB key as small as 64 mb.
You can read the blog entry at Techno Wizah

Ubuntugeek shows us Conky: An advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo
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Conky is an powerful desktop app that posts system monitoring info onto the root window. It is hard to set up properly (has unlisted dependencies, special command line compile options, and requires a mod to xorg.conf to stop [...]

This blogger tries Ubuntu in an old Inspiron 4000 laptop with 700MHz Pentium 3 and 310Mb of memory
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As I used Ubuntu, I could feel myself getting dismayed by just how much work I'd have to put in to get it “just right” for me. But then my XP setup has taken several [...]

Avoiding repartitioning? Bringing Ubuntu to a larger, less technologically inclined audience? Making the installation process even simpler than it already is? These are all excellent ideas. However, I feel that there are many flaws with the concept that need to be considered.
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If progress continues as the developers have outlined, then install.exe [...]

This issue cover community news, loco news, weekly quiz news, changes in feisty, osdl survey results, “Linux Magazine names Canonical Ltd as one of the top 20 companies to watch in 2007″ and much more
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 29 for the week January 15th – 27th. In this issue we cover community [...]

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols prepares, installs and compares Vista and SimplyMEPIS 6.0.1 in this series of articles.
Here is part one
And here's part two
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At the end of this, as you can see, I had both Vista Ultimate and SimplyMEPIS 6.01 installed and running successfully on my PC. Well, mostly successfully. For what went right — and wrong [...]

Here's a small guide on how to get the .ape-files working on Ubuntu.
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To be able to work with .ape audio files, you need to compile and install the ?mac? program which isn?t available in the ubuntu repositories.

The blog about it is here

Here's a graphical guide for all new users with a Windows background using Ubuntu
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Having problems installing something on your new Ubuntu operating system? “Where's the EXE?”, “Where do I need to extract this to?”, “How do I run it?”, “Where did it go?” – have you been thinking questions like these? Don't worry, [...]

Zimbra is an open source email server. It does email, calendar, contacts, and various other useful things that software like Microsoft Exchange does.
And there is a guide at bluish coder:
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The problem is that Zimbra has a number of dependencies on other open source projects and they don't provide direct downloads for those dependencies.
This means you [...]

APCmag have outlined what to do in specific scenarios: what to do if you've already got Linux installed, what to do if you've already got Vista installed, what to do if you're starting off with XP.
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If you've ever asked for advice on how to set up dual-booting, you've doubtlessly come across online tutorials that [...]

Infoworld have an article about that the fundamentals of Ubuntu might be a hindrance in the business world.
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What Mark doesn't recognize – either out of pretence (meaning, he knows better but pretends otherwise) or out of ignorance (because Ubuntu isn't yet being used in the enterprise, so he doesn't yet know better) – [...]

Johan Carter blogs about 10 games he'd recommend from the Ubuntu repositories
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Now and again, I show some new Linux users some of the games that are available for Ubuntu. Many of those times, theres a seasoned Ubuntu user close by, who says that they haven?t seen that before. I decided to put together [...]

This blog post is generally aimed at people who still use only Microsoft Operating systems (e.g. XP, Vista, Win98) etc. and shows you why Linux is a good alternative
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1. It?s safer: Right now, thousands of people are busy writing viruses, trojans, spyware, and malware aimed specifically at people who use Microsoft Operating systems. [...]

This blogger writes about his experiences with Ubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad R50e with a lowly 256mb RAM
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Well, at long last I?ve bitten the bullet and thought I?d go and see what this thing called Linux was all about. Many moons ago I dabbled with Unix and loved the fact that the command [...]

Here, there and everywhere – the number of articles and posts about the windows installer for Ubuntu is all over the place.
It's at OSNews
And Cybernetnews
And Lifehacker.com
And also blogs pop up
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I love the idea of the Ubuntu installer, and it sure makes it easy for folks to try Ubuntu out. I expect problems when these users [...]

Here's a blog about one of the commen problems when installing WebSphere Application Server 6.1 on Ubuntu
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Thankfully a quick Google turned up this article. I was completely unaware that /bin/sh was linked to dash instead of bash – what on earth possessed them. I didn't really like the suggested solution of running the [...]

Alastair Otter at Tectonic explains why he's using an older version of ubuntu than the Edgy Eft.
Read about it here
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But, after my recent experience with Edgy I am more than happy to stick with something a little less cutting edge and flashy. At least for now.
It started a couple of days after Edgy was released. [...]

In this issue we cover the recent community council meeting, herd 2 release, the new screencast team, the new xubuntu-users mailing list, Ubuntu Forums weekly update, bug stats, upcoming meetings and events, Ubuntu-Women IRC Meeting, feisty changes, Main Inclusion Requests, weekly quiz update, and much more.
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 28 for the [...]

That article take a look at the process of creating the startup soundin Vista and in Ubuntu.
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Today, Fast Company released an article from their February issue about how Microsoft created the new Windows Vista startup sound. Appropriately titled ?twenty people, four notes?, the article explains how it took 18 months, 20 people and [...]

Tristan Rhodes blogs thorough about the useability of Ubuntu in this post – plenty of analysis.
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Overall, this process was not very hard, especially if you consider how far Linux has come in the past few years. Once I completed the steps described above, my computer was ready for me to use. Based on [...]

This blogger tries to get Ubuntu, Debian and Xubuntu to run on his PIII 600mhz/128mb laptop. Xubuntu stays there.
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As the title above probably gives away I have settled on Xubuntu for my laptops OS. I found this to be the best solution for everything. I still get the tools I`m used to such [...]

WhatPC.co.uk have reviewed Ubuntu Edgy Eft and goes through much installation of this 3-page review.
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Away from the Desktop there have been some more adventurous developments. The start-up procedure has changed dramatically, replacing the standard init that Linux distributions have always used with a new system called Upstart. This is developed by Ubuntu (primarily [...]

Howtoforge is at it again – this time on Ubuntu (and Debian) with the native flash player.
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This article describes how to install the new native Linux Flash Player 9 from Adobe on an Ubuntu Edgy Eft desktop so that it can be used within Firefox. The procedure works for other Ubuntu versions and Debian as [...]