The update patches 5 important security issues (see below for details) discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various hackers. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to update your system as soon as possible

The new Ubuntu-based virtual appliances from BitNami make it easy to deploy applications such as Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress, Subversion, SugarCRM, Alfresco and development environments such as LAMP and Ruby on Rails. The virtual appliances are now available free of charge from BitNami.org.

Mark Shuttleworth claims some progress toward his goal of having distributions synchronize their major releases and calls for more distributors to join in.

Canonical designer Ivanka Majic has written a blog entry that describes the reasons behind the change. Majic is also seeking additional feedback from the Ubuntu community.

While it may not be as exciting as looking at these new end-user features, in this article we are testing out the available kernels for Ubuntu 10.04. Besides the standard Linux 2.6.32 kernel used in the Lucid release, there is also a specialized server kernel as well as a new -preempt kernel is now available.

When you have Mark Shuttleworth as your backer, as commercial Linux distributor Canonical does, it is a bit like having money in the bank when the bank also believes fervently in your cause.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #184 for the week March 7th – March 13th, 2010. In this issue we cover: Lucid Kernel now Frozen, Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 freeze now in effect, Intel, Eucalyptus and Canonical join forces to help user build cloud infrastructures confidently…

“I’m very excited to announce that Ubuntu has applied as participating organisation in the Google Summer of Code 2010!,” Ubuntu’s Daniel Holbach writes.

Jane Silber has been chief executive of Canonical for 11 days. But she’s no outsider swooping in to take over Ubuntu Linux’s corporate sponsor. She joined Canonical in June 2004, two months after previous CEO Mark Shuttleworth founded the company.

In the attempt to make Ubuntu 10.04 a rock solid LTS release, large changes have been made to the packaging stack and as a result, Nouveau’s kernel module is now in the main kernel package.

Looks like mobile phone modders love modding Windows Mobile handsets to run numerous operating systems, and the latest of these mods appears to be with the HTC Touch Pro2 and has been modded to run Ubuntu, which is a flavour of Linux.

The guys over at XDA-Developers have managed to do it again, and run Ubuntu on devices such as the HTC Touch Pro2, and the XPERIA X1.

I was privileged to be invited to the Canonical offices in London recently to preview the image changes and comment on how we might adopt them; offer opinions on how I feel the community would interpret the changes, and offer feedback.

I am a Gnome fan, but this Kubuntu shakes my loyality towards Gnome. I am not to be blamed if Kubuntu seduces me and I leave behind the simplicity that Gnome offers and take a dive into the world of Apple Mac killing KDE 4.

Mark Shuttleworth personally took the challenge of polishing Ubuntu to an extent that even Mac users feel envy. He is heading in the right direction. Lucid Lynx is till date the most polished, sophisticated, resource efficient, and user-friendly operating system ever built.

Most likely you are excited about the next version of Ubuntu, I know I am. The 3rd Alpha of the next version of Ubuntu was released a few days ago so I got some screenshots for you guys.

Backing up data is very important to protect yourself from the hassle of hard disk crash or corruption. Creating a back up on the web gives us the convenience to retrieve our data anytime anywhere as long as we have an Internet connection. I found some on-line solutions for Ubuntu.

Ipredator is a service for safe and anonymous access to the Internet. Ipredator creates an encrypted tunnel and changes your public IP number to an anonymous (Swedish) one.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #183 for the week
February 28 – March 6th, 2010. In this issue we cover: Mark
Shuttleworth: “Light” the new look of Ubuntu, Announcing the 10.10
Ubuntu Developer Summit…

The trend had already started with the release of Ubuntu Karmic. A number of community contributed themes started pouring in and some of them even got into the list of default themes for Ubuntu.

Well, this is a welcome surprise for those of us waiting for Ubuntu 10.04, the Lucid Lynx. Several users are reporting that their iPod Touches and iPhones (including the 3GS) work in alpha 3 – without tweaking, without jailbreaking, without patching – with Nautilus and Rythmbox.

Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) Light Themes (Radiance and Ambiance) – click me if you haven’t seen the themes yet – will probably be updated lots of times until Lucid Lynx is released.

The next Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) takes place May 10-14 in Brussels, according to Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager.

Despite its desktop-oriented reputation, Ubuntu is making serious inroads as a business server that can compete with Red Hat

Fortunately, the new themes were rolled out to Ubuntu 10.04 alpha testers today in the latest set of package updates. We used the Ubuntu alpha to conduct some hands-on testing so that we could see how the new theme looks with a number of popular applications.

Canonical’s kernel manager, Pete Graner, spoke at UbuCon—held just prior to SCALE 8x—on the “Ubuntu Kernel Development Process”. In the talk, he looked at how Ubuntu decides what goes into the kernel and how that kernel gets built and tested

Heres a few comments on that Canonical is replacing its signature brown color scheme with the debut of Ubuntu 10.04, the next major release of the popular Linux distribution.

For the past few releases, Canonical has put quite a bit of energy into making Ubuntu a first-class OS for use in the cloud. Ubuntu now has cloud support for Amazon’s EC2 and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (a “private cloud” system based on Eucalyptus).

Behold, Gwibber, GNOME’s microblogging client for your favorite social network. Ubuntu approved of the idea, and with their blessing added Gwibber as standard on all Ubuntu ISOs, following 9.04.

In a significant departure from tradition, Ubuntu is shedding its signature brown color scheme and is adopting a new look with a palette that includes orange and an aubergine shade of purple.