This is one of a number of posts detailing how to install Ubuntu 6.10 (codename Edgy) on a Thinkpad X41. This post focuses on upgrading from Ubuntu Edgy Eft (version 6.10) to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (version 7.04).
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Long story short, I?m less happy with Ubuntu now than when I was back on Edgy, [...]

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to install the free VMware Server on an Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) system.
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With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (“virtual machines”) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating [...]

In this issue we cover Gutsy Gibbon's kick off off development and new additions, the availability of VMware server on Canonicals commercial servers and the Latinamerican Installfest.
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 38 for the week April22nd – April 28th, 2007. In this issue we cover Gutsy Gibbon's kickoff off development and new additions, [...]

This guide will help you understand with screenshots, instructional videos and to-the-point language.
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The package manager Installing software with Synaptic The 3 steps: Search, mark and apply But what if my program isn't available through Synaptic? I installed it, but where did my program go? How do I uninstall the program? Installing software with [...]

This tutorial describes how you can install and configure the Snort IDS (intrusion detection system) and BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine) on an Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) system.
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Ubuntu has decided to address possible trademark issues by creating its own trademark policy.
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Ubuntu's trademark policy opens by stating what's covered by the policy. “Canonical owns a number of trademarks and these include UBUNTU, KUBUNTU, EDUBUNTU, and XUBUNTU. The trademarks are registered in both word and logo form. Any mark ending [...]

Have Michael Dell and Mark Shuttleworth come to some kind of understanding that will see Dell machines out on the shelves soon with Ubuntu installed?
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Then Shuttleworth came up with his piece that supported Dell's weasel words. I reacted by casting reasonable doubt on most of his assertions. (As a side [...]

For myself, I have been happy with Ubuntu and for others looking at expanding into an addition OS, I have been pushing Linux Mint. Well, after looking at PCLinuxOS from head to toe, I have some new insights that I would like to share.
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But on the flip side of this, the [...]

For the first few projects I was using a VIA EPIA MII10000 motherboard with an embedded 1.0GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM. This worked well with lightweight versions of Linux and even Ubuntu, but it did not offer the power I wanted for future projects.
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Overall, this part of the Mini-ITX project [...]

I've always wanted to install a distro over the Internet — so I burned the CD this morning and am currently installing a Debian system over the Internet.
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Debian 4.0 is a great product, and if there was a lot of hype, I'd encourage you to believe it. As it is, with [...]

About a month ago I got a new laptop at work. A nice one (or at least, nicer than my old one) — a Lenovo ThinkPad T60p. I installed PartitionMagic 8.0, shrank the XP partition down to 65GB and carved out 35GB to install Ubuntu.
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I was desperate. So desperate that I made [...]

I decided to interview Scott James Remnant (by e-mail), he who appears as the lead Upstart developer. He?s letting us in on juicy details and a glimpse of his life.
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But ?why replace init??, you might be asking? The answer is dynamism. Modern Linux distributions have lots of usage scenarios, and most of those [...]

Anyone who follows Linux at all knows that Ubuntu is currently the Linux community's favorite distribution. But can Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, translate that popular success into business success?
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Even without the equivalent of Red Hat's RHN (Red Hat Network) or Novell's ZENworks system management programs, thanks to Debian's thousands of [...]

Other tech sites will bore you with in-depth “technical details” and performance specs in their product analysis. At BBspot we pull back from the boring benchmarks to compare the superficialities, and we do it all on a single page.
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Ubuntu beats Vista by a score of 4-3. It looks like [...]

OSNews cover the Ubuntu Open Week, which is a series of IRC meetings of people behind the distribution and the community. They link to a bunch of ressources on the week.
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Mark Shuttleworth answered various questions on Tuesday and Wednesday. The interview covers many issues, including: GPL v3, proprietary software, Microsoft's $3 project, Launchpad, non-free [...]

Nvidia have released their 9xxx series drivers. This allows compiz/beryl to now run directly on an x server (xorg7.1) without separate aiglx or xgl.
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This blogger shows us briefly how he customizes Ubuntu 7.04 to make it – in his opinion – better and more beautifull.
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I am sure everyone who read this blog regularly knows that I am running Ubuntu on my production system. Ubuntu?s performance, features, and all blah.. blah.. all every one in this tux [...]

OpenBusiness took the opportunity at MiniBar to interview Mark Shuttleworth and he took us on a space ride through the Ubuntu galaxy Open Source land
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Arsgeek have a look at Marcel Gagne's book about shifting from Windows to Ubuntu.
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Marcel Gagne put a lot of thought into Moving to Ubuntu Linux. He?s careful to look at the move from the perspective of someone completely new to Ubuntu and in the process was able to illustrate in concise and friendly [...]

This blogger have listed none less than 10 guides of how to improve performance in Ubuntu 7.04. Enjoy!
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I must say, Ubuntu rocks but has it?s drawbacks. I hate to give Windows any credit when it comes to better performance, but unfortunately out of the box, a Windows XP system for example does perform [...]

Mark Shuttleworth have announced the 5 nominations to expand the Ubuntu community council, and voting starts today.
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Members of the Ubuntu community,
We have 5 nominations to expand the community council, and voting starts today.
Each candidate is standing individually, so there are 5 separate votes. If a majority of the voters approve that candidate, then (s)he [...]

Fosswire shows us how to alter the screen resolution using reconfiguration of xserver-xorg
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Most of the time, in Ubuntu, you can easily change the screen resolution by going to Preferences > Screen Resolution. However, sometimes that doesn?t work, and sometimes the resolution that you want isn?t on the list.

This weeks edition of the DWN contains another article about the release of Ubuntu 7.04
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If you've had your doubts about how popular Ubuntu really is, then the events of the past week must have removed them once and for all. With the release of its latest and greatest — version 7.04, code [...]

Ubuntu has announced the availability of Sugar Open Source for users of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS edition (Long Term Support).
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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is freely available, including security updates for five years on servers, with no restrictions on usage. Businesses can download and install Sugar from the Ubuntu repository using the integration that [...]

In this issue we cover the release of Ubuntu 7.04 and related press coverage, a week long series of events to introduce the diverse Ubuntu community, and a friendly competition where individuals and Lo“Cos can win money and prizes.
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #37 for the week April15th – April 21st, 2007. In [...]

In this post, I will be recounting my experience with Ubuntu server 6.10, WebLogic Workshop 9.2, and REST
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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, and loaded the latest linux bits from WebLogic Platform. (Its actually [...]

This guide is a collection of tips and tweaks for Ubuntu Linux 7.04, gleaned from the Ubuntu Forums and countless other sites, collated and narrated with links to external resources and supplemental information.
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The howto includes a step-by-step procedure for setting up a system, tips on increasing system speed and suggestions on how [...]

Blogger: “Please never write again “I never received patches from Ubuntu for my package foo”. You don't own a part of the Debian project, you're a maintainer, stop crying, go there and raise the bar again.”
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Well, I'm really tired of these comments on how Ubuntu doesn't contribute patches back for Debian and how [...]

FOSSwire looks at one of the new features: The new codec download feature
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Another addition, and the best in my opinion, is the option to automatically install the required codecs for a video file when you try to play it. You simply click to open the file, and if you do not have [...]

I'm a Kubuntu user and I ran into a situation recently where the app I wanted to install only came in an RPM.
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There is one potential issue that I should call out. Typical filenames in Debian and Ubuntu use an underscore to separate the package name and the version. The filename [...]