ARM has announced a partnership between it and Canonical (of Ubuntu fame) to produce chips for netbooks. The chips will compete directly with Intel’s Atom CPUs and VIA’s C7 series. Canonical is porting Ubuntu to run on the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processors and is set to be released in April 2009.
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ARM to release netbook chips
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Wikimedia moves to Ubuntu servers
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Wikimedia, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia and its related sites (Wiktionary, etc.), has moved its entire server infrastructure to Ubuntu Server. In the pas Wikimedia has run a mixture of Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Fedora.
“It definitely has gotten a lot simpler,” Vibber said. Mass upgrades can be done more easily, and the data center can be managed as a unit, he said.
“We can run the same combination everywhere, and it does the same thing” and runs the same software, Vibber said. “Everything is a million times easier.”
The move has been seen in the industry as a major victory for Ubuntu Server, and other community based distributions, such as CentOS.
ComputerWorld [via Slashdot]
Ubuntu 8.10 screenshots
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
As promised in my previous post, here’s a gallery of screenshots from Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” Beta.
The look hasn’t really changed that much, and the install procedure is nearly identical with previous Ubuntu versions. All these screenshots are from a virtual machine in VirtualBox, so they do contain bars above and below the window that won’t be there in a real install.
Ubuntu 8.10 Beta released
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Canonical have just officially released the first beta of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. This new version of Ubuntu comes with a slew of improvements over 8.04, which was released back in April this year.
Codenamed “Intrepid Ibex”, 8.10 continues Ubuntu’s
proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source
technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
Ubuntu to pay for upstream software updates
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Canonical’s CEO and founder of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, recently announced on his blog that Canonical will be “hiring a team who will work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE, with a view to doing some of the heavy lifting required to turn those desktop experience ideas into reality.”
Hope fully this will result in a better and more consistent user experience in Linux. Mr. Shuttleworth also offered some other advice to free software projects:
- Make your site visually appealing,
- Do something different and do it very, very well,
- Call users to action and give them an immediate, rewarding experience.
Computerworld [via Slashdot]
Ubuntu 9.04 == Jaunty Jackalope
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Yesterday Mark Shuttleworth announced in a mailing list that Ubuntu 9.04 would be know as Jaunty Jackalope. The next version of Ubuntu, due next month, is known as Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex.
lists.ubuntu.com [via Ars Technica]
getdeb.net announces Playbuntu
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
getdeb.net, a provider of quality packages for Ubuntu, have announced “the start of a gaming repository for Ubuntu.”
The repository (codenamed “Playbuntu“) will provide all games available on getdeb.net in an easy to use repository format – enabling you to receive updates for your favourite game via the Update Manager tool. Additonally, if a game has several packages, installing them is quite easy as it’ll be automatically handled.
geddeb.net [via Software Journal]
IBM to Deliver Microsoft-Free Desktops Worldwide
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
According to a report on MarketWatch, IBM is teaming up with Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu), Novell and Red Hat to deliver Microsoft-free desktops worldwide.
“The slow adoption of Vista among businesses and budget-conscious CIOs, coupled with the proven success of a new type of Microsoft-free PC in every region, provides an extraordinary window of opportunity for Linux,” said Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president for IBM Lotus Software. “We’ll work to unlock the desktop to save our customers money and give freedom of choice by offering this industry-leading solution.”
Canonical, which sells subscription support for Ubuntu, a Linux operating system that scores high marks on usability and “the cool factor,” will re-distribute Lotus Symphony via their repositories. Symphony 1.1 will be available through the Ubuntu repositories by the end of August. General availability will coincide with the Lotus Symphony 1.2 release expected to be available by the end of October 2008.
MarketWatch [via Slashdot]
Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
A user on Ubuntu Forums has details on Foxconn’s refusal to support Linux for it’s motherboards. He even goes as far as disassembling the BIOS and then informing Foxconn of what is causing the problem, but to no avail.
I disassembled my BIOS to have a look around, and while I won’t post the results here,I’ll tell you what I did find.
They have several different tables, a group for Windws XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX.
The one for Linux points to a badly written table that does not correspond to the board’s ACPI implementation, causing weird kernel errors, strange system freezing, no suspend or hibernate, and other problems, using my modifications below, I’ve gotten it down to just crashing on the next reboot after having suspended, the horrible thing about disassembling any program is that you have no commenting, so it’s hard to tell which does what, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to buy a copy of Vista just to get the crashing caused by Foxconn’s BIOS to stop, I am not going to be terrorized.
I think that the best reply he got from Foxconn must be:
Dear Ryan,
Stop sending us these!!!
Ubuntu Forums [via Slashdot]
Mark Shuttleworth: life on mars, Ubuntu in emerging markets
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008After the technical sessions concluded, some OSCON attendees headed across town to see Mark Shuttleworth, the charismatic founder of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, give a presentation to local Portland group Legion of Tech.