In the three years since Ubuntu was unleashed upon an unsuspecting populace, debate as to its viability and marketability within ?the enterprise,? whatever that means anymore, has been rampant
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Step one, then, in Ubuntu?s multi-year ?enterprise? strategy needed to be ?be there in three or four years.? It?s sort of like nature photography; [...]

Everywhere I turn, I see articles on how to do obvious things in Ubuntu. Books on Ubuntu concentrate on listing every insignificant detail of every obvious procedure
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I don't know what specifically pushed me over the edge about Ubuntu articles. Maybe it was the daily “How to do something obvious in Ubuntu” blog [...]

Did you ever live with the fear that somebody may break into your system one day and steal your files? Well, those days are over, because you can now have an entire encrypted operating system.
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But the following guide is supposed to work with your actual Ubuntu 7.04 installation (no reinstall [...]

In this issue we cover Canonical seeking help with training courses, last call for Software Freedom Day registrations, a call to arms for US Lo“Co teams, new Drag & Drop Gnome tabs, new Launchpad features, and much much more.
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #50 for the week July21st – July 27th, 2007. In [...]

So it?s been two weeks since I started using Ubuntu 7.04. I have to say that it has been a very interesting experience so far.
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To say that it has been easy and seamless would be a lie. However, I have to say that I?ve been able to do 99% of the things that [...]

Yet another blogger installs Ubuntu and is happy, but without wireless access.
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I used to dabble in Linux a lot, but not so much these days. Macintosh does everything I need it to do, and then some, but from time to time I do find myself pining to take a look at the [...]

When I first got the Toshiba Portege 3490CT from an auction at work, my main goal for the machine was to install Linux on it.
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He (I assume) pointed me to PXE netboot install and a detailed set of instructions posted on Ubuntu Forums. I tried it last weekend and it didn?t work. [...]

Wanting to not fuss with a laptop card or USB modem, I decided that its time to setup a connection via my mobile phone, i.e. use my phone as a modem, via Bluetooth.
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A quick word of warning: the phone doesn?t register how much packet data you use when [...]

I tested my Ubuntu setup for about 45 days and found that I didn?t ever boot into the Windows partition. So I bought a large external hard drive and copied whatever was left on that partition over to it.
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So when I loaded the live CD six months ago, it was more a [...]

These days, we have come to a point when we can install Linux from inside our Windows OS by using a native Windows executable.
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What are those steps I'm talking about? Well… this is about everything you have to do:
Dowload Wubi. Run Wubi from Windows as you would with any other ordinary [...]

Groklaw member Tyche got a Dell Inspiron 530N with Ubuntu Linux and, I asked if he'd please write up a quick review after it arrived. He has done so, and as you will see, he found getting online so easy he had nothing at all to do to make it happen.
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Needless to [...]

Helios at Lobby4Linux discuss in his blog that many people see Ubuntu as Linux and the issues with that.
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As much as I disagree with the fact, Ubuntu and the baby-buntus have reached number one status in more than just some website's rankings. Ubuntu is getting big on the streets. I work with nothing [...]

Full Circle – the Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud toannounce their third issue.
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Full Circle – the Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud toannounce our third issue.
It contains : * Xubuntu install step-by-step – Alternative Disc! * How-To : Get a Stunning Ubuntu Desktop, Learning Scribus part 3 and [...]

…if you're sitting on the fence contemplating trying Linux for the first time, you should definitely be considering Ubuntu. Here's why.
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The arguments for choosing Ubuntu fall into two categories: immediate practicality and long-term viability. For sheer practicality, Ubuntu is a no-brainer. It installs in minutes, recognizes most hardware immediately, [...]

I was fortunate to keynote this year's Ubuntu Live conference. I rarely give the same presentation twice, as I figure people are paying to hear something new. Read what Matt Asay had to say.
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In UL's case, I spent a long time thinking through lessons I've learned from my time with Novell/SUSE and my [...]

Lapotopmag want to take this opportunity to answer the myriad questions you might have about this promising OS while sharing what we like about it and what we don't.
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Q: Is Ubuntu much different from Windows?A: To the user, not much. You still have a desktop, toolbar, and quick-launch icons just as you do [...]

Ubuntu has now held its first Ubuntu Live conference, which was a decent first effort but nowhere near as polished as Red Hat's annual get-togethers.
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Ubuntu also holds two tightly focused developer summits every year. Ubuntu Live is supposed to be an “All Things Ubuntu” gathering, which made it seem a little scattered. “Just [...]

The following guide will show you how to install the spam, phising, scam and image signatures from sanesecurity.co.uk and MSRBL into your ISPConfig ClamAV installation under Debian or Ubuntu Linux.
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There is currently a lot of spam where the spam “information” is attached as .pdf or .xls files, sometime also hidden inside a .zip [...]

Ubuntu, the Linux distribution which tops the charts these days, is developed using this closed system. Kind of a contradiction in terms, one would think.
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The mind harks back to the BitKeeper affair. In 2002, Linus Torvalds decided to start using the BitKeeper source code management system for developing Linux. At that [...]

So, it?s the perfect opportunity for a big countdown: 50 things you need to know about Ubuntu.
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45. Students Are Embracing Ubuntu: During several case studies, professors, teachers and IT managers described how Ubuntu is emerging as a solution in schools across California, Oregon, Maine and other states. The real challenge is getting teachers [...]

More on my non-techie experiments with running an Ubuntu desktop on our Windows network here at IT Business Edge.
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I?m posting this follow-up not because I think Ubuntu has failed me in some broad fashion; only to clarify that it, in fact, did not miraculously resolve an issue I assume can be fairly [...]

Is simply comparing Fedora to Ubuntu a valid comparison in the Linux distro category? It depends.
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Mike Mcgrath started an important topic on fedora-adivsory-board-list here and one that I have been thinking about for a long time? ?Who is our Target Audience?? Some of the follow ups are thought provoking and honest?in particular, Bill [...]

In the coming months, Canonical Ltd., the London-based commercial backer of Ubuntu, plans to focus on its server software for many of its system improvements
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In a keynote speech yesterday at the Ubuntu Live conference here, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, said that over the next year “there will be increased investment” in the [...]

While the Ubuntu people are meeting at the Ubuntu Live 2007 conference at the moment I recently noticed some very interesting projects driven or supported by Ubuntu.
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This howto at Ubuntugeek shows you how to install cpufreq-selector and use it
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Unfortunately, CPU frequency scaling can currently only be monitored on Linux machines that have support in the kernel. It can however, support the several generations of frequency scaling interfaces in the kernel.

Ubuntu?s best move ever has happened quietly, and it?s on its homepage.
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I believe the Ubuntu people deserve a great round of applause for this move. For me, starting to use the slightly heavy term ?free software? term instead of the convenient ?open-source? one, was a big step forward, and it?s great [...]

OpenSourcery CEO Brian Jamison, a solutions provider in Portland, Oregon, has embraced Ubuntu as a potential platform for high school teachers and students.
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OpenSourcery has rolled out Ubuntu Linux on 60 student laptops and five instructor laptops at a Portland-area high school. The school?s project requirements were:
Ability to run a comprehensive office suite [...]

In this issue we cover the release of Gutsy Tribe 3, Canonical's launch of training courses, the first Ubuntu conference in Germany, a State of the Union Summary of the Ubuntu US Lo“Co Teams, the release of Launchpad 1.1.7, a new ATI driver in Gutsy, and much much more.
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue [...]

A couple of press releases from Ubuntu-land: “Ubuntu Launches Update Service for Support Subscribers” and “Canonical Creates Personal Package Archive Service for Ubuntu”
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Individuals and teams can each have a PPA, allowing groups to collaborate on sets of packages, and solo developers to publish their own versions of popular [...]

This page aims to facilitate the installation of the newsreader slrn amongst the users of Ubuntu Linux.
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Setting slrn up correctly requires a little preparation. It is not simply a matter of downloading a repository package and firing up the program, rather we will be compiling our own copy from source and also [...]