No surprises really, but VICE 2.1 will compile nicely in Ubuntu 9.04. And since I have the full Gnome suite installed, I decided to check it this time against the Gnome UI.

Charles Dickens wrote that “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. I have a feeling that he wasn’t referring to computer operating system boot times, but that’s what I’m going to discuss today. More specifically Ubuntu 9.04’s boot times.

Dear Mark, Thanks for creating Ubuntu! Jaunty is the best release yet – stable, fast and full of features, just the way we like it. …In fact, there’s one thing we think is colossally stupid, and we’re hoping you’ll give some thought to changing it to something smarter.

One of the excitement from Ubuntu Server Edition 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) which just released on 23 April 2009 is new features in cloud computing.

This is a short sequel for Using Ubuntu in Windows XP as there is a way that you can try Ubuntu without installing Ubuntu or even having virtualization software like VirtualBox.

Canonical recently announced that it would be shipping Eucalyptus APIs as part of the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, which will enable Ubuntu customers to build internal clouds that act like AWS and can federate with AWS to create so-called hybrid clouds. Eucalyptus also will work like Google App Engine.

When I recently joined the Ubuntu Members team, I was surprised to note the user map: Seems a bit more concentrated than I expected. I guess the UDS policy of alternating Europe and America locations is more fair than I supposed.

Mod_evasive is an Apache module designed to protect Apache against DOS or brute force attacks.

Over time K3b got its reputation as one of the most powerful burning applications not only for KDE, but for Linux in general

I know that Ubuntu and Zenwalk should not be compared because there are a lot of differences between them. Ubuntu uses gnome and Zenwalk xfce. Xfce is more lightweight than gnome and Zenwalk tries to be a lightweight distribution.

Ubuntu has finally eclipsed Windows XP in terms of popularity. –That is according to the most recent data from Google Trends.

Here are the install notes for ubuntu intrepid, jaunty or hardy

Apple may have Steve Jobs, Microsoft Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, but we Ubuntu-ers have our own awesome over-lord in the form of Canonical head and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. He even dubs himself “Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life”.

As a new Linux user one of the first things I set out to do was customize my Ubuntu installation. I started to explore the main desktop and window options and I discovered that window backgrounds can be modified to use whichever picture a user designates.

Take a default Ubuntu/Debian install using the Mutt mail client (MUA) then switch to exim4. You get the most monumental FAIL – your bcc addresses will be included in the message to everyone else. Dangerous and embarrassing!

Choice is the best thing about Linux. Without choice, we may as well use an operating system where the developers make those choices for us. As we’ve covered in the past, anyone can create a Linux distribution. There is a flip side to all this choice however, and that’s finding the time to find the [...]

With the supposedly improved notifications system in the recently-released Jaunty Jackalope (aka 9.0.4), Ubuntu unintentionally raises a new issue in usability — that is, whether a distribution can or should set the usability agenda by itself?

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.

. The company provides laptops, desktops and servers pre-installed with Linux Ubuntu. System76 has now introduced the Starling netbook which comes preloaded with Ubuntu’s 9.04 Netbook Remix.

Ubuntu Linux isn’t just an operating system — it’s an ecosystem. Here is a quick guide to help you wind your way through this desktop jungle.

Take it as you will, but a group of interested Linux gamers have launched the Ubuntu Gaming Team. The mission of this newest Ubuntu focus group is “to give the open source gaming world a boost!”

With Ubuntu 9.04 being released yesterday, I am going to show you how to get prepared to upgrade your 8.10 install.

Yes, it’s Ubuntu release week and yes, we’ll be looking at Ubuntu for our feature article. Instead of a review of what everyone already knows, this week I thought we’d take a look at how the newly released Xubuntu 9.04 compares to Debian Lenny with an Xfce desktop.

Ubuntu’s Jaunty Jackalope has bounded onto desktops, and reaction in the Linux blogosphere is mostly thumbs up. There are some who wish the Ubuntu distros didn’t come in such quick succession, however, arguing that there’s not enough time to stabilize them and get into serious application development.

You can install various fonts in Ubuntu 9.04 following the next easy tutorials.

With Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) now safely out the door the Ubuntu team has kicked off Karmic Koala development, the next major release scheduled for October this year.

The latest version of Ubuntu includes some nifty embellishments to the GNU Screen program. These improvements make some of Screen’s more sophisticated features accessible to users.

With the bits safely out the door, I paused to think about what made this release special, and soon realized that version 9.04 was the tenth release of Ubuntu. With two Ubuntu releases each year, this means that it has been five years since I first became involved with the project.

As I’m the proud owner of the Acer Aspire One netbook (Tech Digest review here), I thought I’d whack Jaunty on and see how it behaves. I’m impressed. The UI is clear and clean (although the default Ubuntu brown clashes rather with my machine’s blue chassis) and everything runs zippily.

Fellow Ubuntu Triagers! This week’s HugDay target is *drum roll please* new bugs for SRUs and Karmic!