The Ubuntu team unveiled the Ubuntu brainstorm website, an initiative inspired by the immensely popular Dell Ideastorm.
Just like on Dell Ideastorm, users can post ideas on the brainstorm website and promote other ideas. The Ubuntu team hopes to use the data collected to get an image of what users find lacking about Ubuntu, or what [...]
“Because the traditional System V init daemon (SysVinit) does not deal well with modern hardware, including hotplug devices, USB hard and flash drives, and network-mounted filesystems, Ubuntu replaced it with the Upstart init daemon.”
I took at look at how Debian 4.0 (Etch) performed with the Initng daemon and now Linux.com has an excellent article from [...]
Looks like virtualization in Ubuntu 8.04 will be another great feature! This Phoronix article takes a look at the GUI used in Ubuntu 8.04 to make virtualization easier.
The GUI that will be used in the upcoming Ubuntu release is the virt-manager program that has already been used in Fedora Core 8 and is contributed by [...]
According to this article on Google News the French Paramilitary Police Force (yeah that name is freaky!) is going to switch it’s 70.000 desktop computers over to Ubuntu.
Currently they are running Windows XP but they plan on changing to Ubuntu Linux every time they replace a workstation.
“We will introduce Linux every time we have to [...]
As announced in the latest Ubuntu newsletter, the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Training Course is now available!
Here is an overview of what you expect from this community created training course:
Introduction to Ubuntu - All about the Ubuntu Operating System, Free Software and the Ubuntu community
Exploring the Ubuntu desktop
Using the internet - Connecting to the internet, [...]
Dell has just announched on it’s Direct2Dell blog that it will be offering legal DVD playback on it’s Ubuntu line of computers. This great news comes with the announcement that it will now also support Ubuntu 7.10 on it’s Linux line-up.
DesktopLinux.com has a nice write up on the subject and Mark Shuttleworth has finally updated [...]
The Italian OSSBlog has an interview with Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu developer. In the interview Matt talks about Ubuntu Mobile and says that we can see Ubuntu Mobile powered devices next year!
The moment we’ve all been waiting for! Dell has started selling Ubuntu computers!
Starting from today, you can buy a Dimension E520 N ($599), XPS 410 N ($849) or Inspiron E1505 N laptop ($599) with pre-installed Ubuntu 7.04! Unfortunately, these Ubuntu machines are now only available in the USA so the rest of the world will [...]
The Direct2Dell blog has more technical details on Dell’s upcoming Ubuntu offer.
Ubuntu will be pre-installed with all hardware working on opensource drivers but proprietary drivers will be present where necessary.
Currently, there will be no proprietary media codecs present but Dell is looking at how they can support this in the future.
Yay Dell!
A Dell employee has given more information about what models will be available with Ubuntu 7.04.
From the email the employee sent Jeremy it seems that Ubuntu will be available as operating system choice when customizing the product:
The goal of launching Linux is to continue to give our customers more choices to customize their new Dell.