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Tag Archives: Ubuntu
Daily Links for Friday, December 11, 2009
Cloud IBM: LotusLive paying subscribers go from 0 to 18 million in a year ZDNet / Larry Dignan That LotusLive tally at the beginning of the year was nil so the growth is stunning. I double checked with IBM to … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Open Source Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model The New York Times / Ashlee Vance The grass-roots nature of open source has led advocates to view the projects as a populist foil to proprietary software, where a company … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, November 29, 2009
Cloud Roll Your Own Ubuntu Private Cloud InformationWeek / Serdar Yegulalp Conventional wisdom has it that if you want to make use of “the cloud,” you’ve got to use someone else’s service — Amazon’s EC2, Google’s clouds, and so on. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, November 20, 2009
Open Source Good Karma: An In Depth Review Of Ubuntu 9.10 Ars Technica / Ryan Paul Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In this comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look … Continue reading
Operating systems: upgrade or reinstall? guilt or pleasure?
Through the years I’ve run many versions of Microsoft Windows. For the last two and one-half years I’ve had Apple Macs, so I’ve used both OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. I don’t even know how many different desktop Linux … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, Open Source, Software
Tagged Apple, Fedora, Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu
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Daily Links for Monday, November 9, 2009
Open Source Ubuntu: the complete beginner’s guide Times Online / Jonathan Richards Ubuntu, if you’re not familiar with it, is one of many varieties of a broader, open-source OS called Linux. It looks and feels a lot like Windows (more … Continue reading
Working with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala: initial impressions
I’ve been playing with the latest Ubuntu desktop release, 9.10 Karmic Koala, since the first beta and I’ve now been using it full time for business work for three days. Here are my impressions and comments: For some reason, the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, October 29, 2009
Software Product Quality Novell / Jeff Jaffe It is useful to review our comprehensive approach to quality. Quality is not a single process. It is baked into everything we do: before and during development; after products are shipped in the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Open Source The quest for a truly open smartphone: can it be done? Ars Technica / Ryan Paul Although a growing number of smartphone makers are embracing Linux and open source software, the dream of a fully open phone remains … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, October 23, 2009 – Early Edition
Software Nokia: Apple iPhone Violates Our Patents BusinessWeek / Jack Ewing and Arik Hesseldahl The Finnish handset giant said Oct. 22 it has filed suit against Apple (AAPL) in U.S. District Court in Delaware, accusing its California-based rival of infringing … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Open Source, Software
Tagged Apple, Bruce Springsteen, Linux, Nokia, Patents, Ubuntu
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New early releases of Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE Linux are available
It’s been a veritable candy store of new Linux prereleases these last few days, with early versions of three of the most popular distros becoming available. Check out: Ubuntu “Karmic Koala” 9.10 Release Candidate Fedora 12 Beta openSUSE 11.2 Release … Continue reading
IBM/Lotus, Canonical/Ubuntu, and your Linux desktop
Today IBM and Canonical announced the next phase of their program to deliver Lotus desktop- and cloud-based software to users running on Ubuntu Linux. Here are a few links that sum up the announcement: IBM and Canonical Launch Linux- and … Continue reading
Two new books for today
Here are a couple of books that have been released recently that you might want to look at. Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance (Information Revolution and Global Politics) Laura DeNardis Protocol Politics examines what’s at stake politically, economically, … Continue reading
Linux distro release countdown widgets
I poked around and was able to find the following web page countdown widgets for Linux distribution releases. If you know of more, let me know. Ubuntu widgets Fedora widget
Trying out Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala beta: dual boot Thinkpad T400
In my post of yesterday, I tried installing the latest Ubuntu 9.10 beta on a netbook and under VMWare Fusion on an Apple MacBook Pro. The first pretty much worked, while the second did not. Yesterday evening (what do you … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, October 4, 2009 – Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Beta Edition
Open Source Karmic Koala: That’s One Seriously Fast Marsupial ZDNet / Jason Perlow While I would consider Karmic Koala to be an evolutionary improvement rather than a revolutionary one over Jaunty Jackalope and Intrepid Ibex where functionality is concerned, I … Continue reading
Trying out Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala beta: netbook and VMWare Fusion/Mac
Yesterday I tried out the new beta of the forthcoming Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” desktop release. This is a beta, so of course there are some nits. I installed it for two configurations: a 2008 Asus eee 4G Surf with … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, September 24, 2009 – IBM/Canonical Edition
IBM Markets Wares to Africa: Company Targets Region With Low-Cost Software, Challenging Microsoft Wall Street Journal / William M. Bulkeley IBM, which has been pushing into developing markets like Africa and Asia as mature markets slow, said the package — … Continue reading
IBM and Canonical partner on software package for Africa
The Wall Street Journal broke the story this morning of a partnership between IBM and Canonical to provide a software package for users of netbooks and other thin clients in Africa. The package, which can be configured in several ways … Continue reading
First 2010 Ubuntu Linux release to be Lucid Lynx
Mark Shuttleworth announced that the next LTS (Long Term Support) version of the Canonical Ubuntu distribution of GNU/Linux, to be released in April, 2010, is to have the nickname “Lucid Lynx.” It follows, of course, Karmic Koala. You don’t need … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, September 6, 2009
Open Source Ubuntu’s Karmic Koala emerges in alpha 5 DesktopLinux.com The Ubuntu project released Karmic Koala alpha 5 (Ubuntu 9.10), which adds Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud support, a new Ubuntu Cloud file-sharing service, and default switches to GCC 4.4, Ext4, and … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 3, 2009
Consumer Electronics Apple tried to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order – Times Online “Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child’s iPod music player exploded and the family sought a … Continue reading
Life with Linux: The series
So that I have them all in one place, here the posts that are part of the “Life with Linux” series in this blog: Life with Linux: The basic situation Life with Linux: Simplifying and starting over Life with Linux: … Continue reading
Ubuntu 810 on an ASUS eee netbook – Take 1
Last summer I bought an ASUS eee 4Gb Surf netbook to use as a small machine that my family could employ on vacation where we didn’t want to lug around a fullsize laptop or where an iPhone wasn’t enough. We … Continue reading
LinuxWorld 2008 Prediction #3: Linux and x86
Although I’ve previously published the slides for the talk I gave at LinuxWorld 2008 in San Francisco, I thought it might be useful to add some additional comments in the blog about each of the eight predictions I made. This … Continue reading
Ubuntu on MacBook Pro
I’m participating in this now-closed-to-new-people trial to use a MacBook Pro for work. It’s going very well, thank you. I just got off the phone with one of my colleagues who is doing LinuxWorld planning and he suggested I set … Continue reading
Some notes post-travel
I’m home from my trip to Italy last week and except for missing a connection in Chicago, all went well. Even the connection problem was not a major issue except that it was a Friday night and I got home … Continue reading
On to Ubuntu Linux 8.04
Today I got around to installing Ubuntu Linux 8.04 on my Thinkpad T60p. I haven’t done too too much with it, but let me describe how I got this far. For over a month I’ve had the laptop set up … Continue reading
Ubuntu Linux 8.04 comes out on Thursday
The next release of Ubuntu, the so-called Hardy Heron 8.04 version, will be out tomorrow. Visit the Ubuntu home page to download. In honor of this release, I’ll be visiting my laptop Windows partition for the first time since March … Continue reading
links for 2008-01-31
Open Source OpenLogic: HP hogged FOSS limelight | InfoWorld | News | 2008-01-29 | By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service “Grandchamp also said he has received phone calls and e-mail regarding whether HP is now competing with OpenLogic, which makes … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Macintosh, News, Open Source
Tagged France, Google, Linux, ODF, Ubuntu
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