As a relatively young Linux distro, Ubuntu already sports a wealth of introductory and how-to books vying for the enthusiast's money — and I've already purchased a significant sampling of these which informs my opinion about the book here under review. And even for Ubuntu, the "tips & tricks" section of my own Linux bookshelf contains volumes which run from the encyclopedic to the practical — I'd even collected O'Reilly's
(Oxer, Rankin Read the rest of this entry »

Ubuntu Linux 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex, is the most popular Linux distribution available for installing on your PC, thanks to its steadily improving hardware compatibility and installation software, along with a wealth of free applications and utilities that run on any version of Linux.
But even though the bad old days of disappointing Linux installations are mostly over, putting Ubuntu on your PC can still be tricky if you haven't done it before. Read the rest of this entry »

December 15th, 2008
,
,
,
One of the keepers of the Ubuntu software respositories (called MOTUs, or Masters of the Universe) has proposed a mainstream inclusion of Wine with Ubuntu. For any of you unfamiliar with Wine, it is a body of software that allows Linux users to run a variety of Windows applications.
Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX compatible operating Read the rest of this entry »

The latest version of Canonical’s Linux distribution, Ubuntu 8.10, still outshines the Linux desktop offerings from Red Hat and Novell, and is the best open-source alternative to Microsoft and Apple operating systems. However, both Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux and Novell’s SUSE distributions are ahead of Ubuntu 8.10 in the server space.
Canonical's Ubuntu 8.10, the latest version of the popular Linux-based operating system for desktops and servers, Read the rest of this entry »

This was a good week for distro releases—Fedora 10 finally landed and Ubuntu 9.04 reached alpha status. It was also a busy week for SCO. The dying UNIX vendor received and then appealed the final judgment in its dispute with Novell.
: The developers behind the Fedora project announced the official release of Fedora 10. Ars takes a close look at the new features, including glitch-free PulseAudio, RPM 4.6, and the new version of Network Manager.
Read the rest of this entry »

November 23rd, 2008
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
The assistant superintendent came to me on Thursday with a very sad laptop; it was malware city, population 1. Although it’s his own laptop, he uses it all the time for school-related work, so I was happy to fix it up for him. Well, not happy, exactly, but certainly willing, since I actually like the guy and malware fixes can usually be one of those parallel processes that you chug Read the rest of this entry »

If nothing you ever did was good enough for your mother, than you'll know the tyranny of the whisper number. Traditionally,
companies are judged by the earnings they report every quarter. Wall Street analysts guess at the revenue and profits (or
losses) a company reports, and people buy and sell stocks based on whether they exceed, hit or fall short of those numbers.
Sounds
like a simple formula, but Read the rest of this entry »

Expanding its efforts to offer an alternative to Microsoft's Office desktop applications, IBM is making its free Lotus Symphony office productivity suite available for Apple's Mac OS X and Canonical's Ubuntu Linux.
IBM announced the expanded platform support this week at the OpenOffice.org Conference in Beijing in a keynote speech by Michael Karasick, director of IBM Lotus China Development Labs. IBM also unveiled a roadmap for Symphony for 2009 Read the rest of this entry »

Without much fanfare, developers of Ubuntu Linux have delivered the latest version of the open source operating system that scores higher than Windows Vista in performance testing, does a better job than Windows in making wireless connectivity easy and, overall, leaves fewer reasons to stick with Windows than any other previous release of Linux.
Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition, nicknamed "Intrepid Ibex," provides so much functionality and ease of use, Read the rest of this entry »

will release the newest version of its Ubuntu version of Linux on Thursday,
said Monday, but the company's profitability isn't on such a fast track.
in the company's alphabetically ascending naming convention, is the latest installment of Linux for desktop computers and servers in the company's six-month release cycle. Among the new features are support for 3G wireless modems, the ability to set up an encrypted and password-protected private directory, Read the rest of this entry »