The new Karmic Koala contains more updates than any Ubuntu release in some time. Users will certainly notice one thing from the start: The system boots up much more quickly. The reworked design also stands out. While it still features the brown tones for which Ubuntu is known, it also reminds one a bit of [...]

The Bughugger project is indicative of an essential bias of mine, that most tasks are more enjoyable and can be done more easily from a local “thick client” than from a web-based thin client.

With 2009 drawing to a close i thought it would be interesting to kick of a series of retrospective posts about Ubuntu in 2009. What better way than to kick off with Ubuntu’s popularity this year!

Over my Christmas break, I decided to try out the latest version of Wine with my most frequently used Windows application, which is called World of Warcraft (or WoW). Just so that it’s clear that I am not antisocial, this didn’t take away much time spending with friends and family

We have recently discovered that possibly all screensavers with lock capabilities are prone to a cleaning lady attack. By issuing Alt+SysRq+f you (or a malicious cleaning lady) can make the OOM killer kill your screensaver process

Coming up in our forums was a testing request to compare the performance of Linux between using 32-bit, 32-bit PAE, and 64-bit kernels. This is coming after Linus Torvalds has spoke of 25% performance differences between kernels using CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and those without this option that allows 32-bit builds to address up to 4GB of physical [...]

Read a bit about Battle for Wesnoth, SuperTux and World of Padman

After six or seven weeks of Windows, I’ve finally gotten Ubuntu linux to run again. My installation crashed when I tried to upgrade on-line to the most recent version, Karmic. And then I couldn’t boot Karmic from a USB stick.

With Microsoft cranking up its effort to reduce the use of pirated Windows operating systems in China, a group of Chinese software pirates have developed a new operating system called Ylmf OS which essentially is a customised version of Ubuntu Linux with a Windows XP style user interface and is capable of running many Windows [...]

At this past Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas, the idea was brought up to create a “beginners day,” similar to Open Week, teaching new Ubuntu users the basics of using Ubuntu.

Many many thanks to everyone who has donated to the Ubuntu @ Anime Boston campaign so far. It hasn’t taken us long at all to surpass our first primary target of $700 and guarantee the Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo Team’s presence at the event

It’s taken me long enough, but finally a solution for syncing both an iPhone and an iTouch with Linux is possible. What is best about this method, is that it does NOT require a jailbroken iPhone

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #173 for the week December 13th – December 19th, 2009. In this issue we cover: Mark Shuttleworth: My new focus at Canonical, Lucid Community Team Plans, Michal Zajac (quintasan) Interview…

This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.1 on an Ubuntu 9.10 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems (“virtual machines”) such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system.

For speed freaks, you could improve the boot up time using friendly GUI application, Ubuntu BootUp Manager or BUM in short. Using BUM you can make the PC load only those system services that you need, killing unnecessary ones.

What I want to talk about, though, is not the individual projects we’re working on. I want to explain how the whole thing comes together, and what’s happening behind the scenes to make 10.04 LTS different from other Ubuntu releases.

First we have Mozilla which showed the world that the browser wars were not over and that Microsoft can be hurt. Second is Ubuntu which showed the world that Linux can be viable, easy and popular desktop operating system.

PlayOnLinux is a piece of sofware which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and softwares designed to run with Microsoft®’s Windows®.

PostfixAdmin provides a way to manage your virtual accounts, multiple domains, using a web based interface. Once it is set up it is very easy to use

In this article, I am going to introduce you to an outstanding graphical tool, found in the GNOME desktop of Ubuntu 9.10, that allows you to manage both users and groups

This guide explans how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 9.10 server.

The new Ubuntu server distribution includes two complementary cloud tools, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus, so providing the technology required to build the three types of Cloud architectures, namely private, hybrid and public clouds.

As Linux grew ever more popular with programmers and businesses, there came to be a demand for a truly easy-to-use Linux. Mark Shuttleworth, saw this need and decided to do something about it.

In a morning press call on Dec. 17, 2009, Mark Shuttleworth announced that he was stepping down as head of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. In his place, Jane Silber, the current Chief Operating Officer who has been with Canonical since 2004, will take over as CEO.

To download torrents for Ubuntu you first need to check find the torrent files for Ubuntu. Further, you need to get a smart Torrent client for Ubuntu.

A former student of mine noticed that my laptop looked different. Well, maybe not the laptop itself, but the user interface. She immediately inquired how I “did that” while she pointed at the screen of my Thinkpad.

Ubuntu 9.10 has been out for a while now, so I’m sure everyone knows what’s new. I’ll just mention some things I came across setting up my new system.

Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu Linux desktops may look alike, but they’ve got some important distinctions.

Ubuntu Software Center (initially Ubuntu Software Store) was released with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and it currently has only a few of the features it was designed for, being just stage 1 out of 4.

For the past three years, Jono Bacon has worked as community manager for Ubuntu, one of the largest and most diverse projects in open source software. Consequently, when he recently published his thoughts on building and managing communities, people listen