Hall recently spent time in London to make preparations for Campus Party, a technology event taking place at the O2 arena in September. We caught up with him to chat about his love for open source software, the future of Linux, and why he’s excited about Google Glass.

The UK’s biggest operator joins Deutsche Telekom, Korea Telecom, Telecom Italia, LG UPlus, Portugal Telecom and SK Telecom. Its decision to join suggests EE could be a launch partner when the first Ubuntu handsets hit the market later this year. – See more at: http://www.mobiletoday.co.uk/News/25696/EE_backing_new_Ubuntu_operating_system.aspx#sthash.yjP9QSvC.dpuf

Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our seventy third issue.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 321 for the week June 10 – 16, 2013.

In recent months we have been seeing tremendous growth and interest in the Ubuntu SDK that is at the heart of building applications for Ubuntu for phones, tablets, desktops, and TVs. The SDK provides the ability to build rich native applications in QML/Qt that hook right into the system, platform services, messaging, social media and [...]

System76 has launched two high-end laptops powered by Intel’s 4th-Generation Intel Core “Haswell” processor. While that may not seem too unusual in the light of 50 similar devices hitting the market in recent weeks, the company’s Galago UltraPro and Gazelle Professional models stand out for their hefty dose of Linux love.

Getting a new laptop is always fun, no matter which OS you prefer. However, getting Ubuntu installed on a new notebook can be a hit or miss process. Despite those who downplay the compatibility issue, installing Ubuntu on a laptop designed for Windows doesn’t always go as planned.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 320 for the week June 3 – 9, 2013.

Over the past month the team has been working hard at making the OS capable enough to use as a “daily driver” on a smartphone. And they’ve kind of done it. Now you can make and receive phone calls or text messages, access the internet over a cellular connection, and run a few apps.

The “Unity Dash” in Ubuntu has always been designed around the goal of delivering relevant information to the user, but come version 13.10, due out in October, things are about to become vastly improved

After delivering the Intel Core i7 4770K Haswell benchmarks on Ubuntu Linux this week already, which focused mostly on the processor performance, in this article are the first benchmarks of the Haswell OpenGL Linux performance. Testing was of the Intel HD Graphics 4600 graphics core found on the i7-4770K, which under Linux is supported by [...]

The founder of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, has announced that one of the main objectives set for his OS has finally been accomplished: removing Microsoft from their dominant position of the computer market.

For months, my ThinkPad collected dust in the closet because the prospect of rebuilding my old Windows 7 system from scratch seemed like an ordeal. That’s when I decided to give Ubuntu a try. Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/Canonical+free+Ubuntu+Operating+System+breathes+life+into/8477324/story.html#ixzz2VXR1VFlb

However, as far as where the support is at in currently released Linux distributions, there’s a lot better support to find out of the very latest upstream code. With the widely used Ubuntu 13.04, Haswell processors will work, but better support, features, and performance can be found with code not currently available through the standard [...]

“About ten months ago, we realized that the next installation of Debian was upcoming, and after upgrading about 20,000 machines since Debian 6 (aka Squeeze) was released, we got pretty tired,” Dreamhost developer Brett Gailey wrote in a blog post. “The release cycle for Debian is stable, but it’s not long enough for us to [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 319 for the week May 27 – June 2, 2013.

Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our seventy third issue.

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 318 for the week May 20 – 26, 2013.

Ubuntu 13.10 (Suacy Salamander) coming to us with a Touch Animation User Interface may be a reality, as a video detailing a new theme for Ubuntu has surfaced, which showcases the Touch interface being used on a Ubuntu based mobile phone.

Among the topics discussed by the developers at Ubuntu Developer Summit 13.05 were the planned new features for Ubuntu 13.10. The next version of the distribution, code-named “Saucy Salamander”, could include early versions of Ubuntu’s Mir display server and have the Qt-based Unity Next desktop environment for testing.

A common complaint about Chrome OS is that it’s not a full OS. That’s no longer true as you can easily run Ubuntu alongside Chrome OS on the Chromebook Pixel and toggle between the two.

Dell’s 12th-generation PowerEdge server line now supports the use of Ubuntu 12.04 across the board, thanks to a new agreement between the hardware maker and developer Canonical that provides Ubuntu Advantage services to Dell’s customers.

The story of Ubuntu and the Missing Community Link has progressed in the last week. A conflict that initially seemed symbolic of the division between Canonical employees and Ubuntu volunteers has since transformed into an illustration of Ubuntu’s skill at handling community conflict.

It’s been a while since last running any Ubuntu Linux disk encryption benchmarks, but thanks to recent encryption improvements within the upstream Linux ecosystem, it’s time to deliver some new Linux disk encryption benchmarks. In this article are results comparing Ubuntu 13.04 without any form of disk encryption to using the home directory encryption feature [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 317 for the week May 13 – 19, 2013.

Unity Tweak Tool is a relatively new application that allows you to configure Unity, providing access to settings buried deep in Dconf-Tools or CCSM. The tool developed by the freyja-dev team is now available in the Ubuntu Software Center for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail

Our very first keypress after turning on the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (running Ubuntu 12.04) drew no response from the Unity desktop. And with that we thought our test of Dell’s Ubuntu Ultrabook for developers was set to go the way of most Linux laptop tests – Linux kind of works, but not really.

So you are on the lookout for a new laptop, and since you are pretty much down and out where cold, hard cash is concerned, what are you to do? Fret not, as the folks over at Asus do have a heart on the contrary to allegations that huge corporations are all about profit and [...]

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, is planning a change to how it supports its operating system that will see each major release updated for just nine months after release.

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has selected Ubuntu as the basis of a new reference architecture for operating systems.