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One of the biggest developing PC markets in the U.S. is education, according to Dukker. It represents 15 to 17 percent, based on one computer for every five students. So there are lots of new users waiting for a product they can afford to buy, he noted.
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OpenSourcery CEO Brian Jamison, a solutions provider in Portland, Oregon, has embraced Ubuntu as a potential platform for high school teachers and students. One recent project included a Portland high school. The outcome: Students love Ubuntu, while some
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As Portland gears up for two mega techie conferences, WW takes a look at the city’s own open source wizards.
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On Ubuntu and education
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Favorable report in mainstream newspaper about Linux.
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Interview with Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. Ubuntu grew out of fShuttleworth’s ambition to promote education and the use of free software in his native South Africa.
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Web hosting using Ubuntu. Too bad it’s only available in the U.K.
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Economist interview with Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth
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Informative extract from a new book on Ubuntu, Hacking Ubuntu: Serious Hacks Mods and Customizations, by Neil Krawetz
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Ubuntu case-study from the Eclipse Foundation’s Wayne Beaton on using Ubuntu on a laptop.
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PCWorld on how to sample the various Ubuntu desktop variants. Includes some useful links
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However, the thing is, for the majority of people who simply use their computer to email, surf the web and possibly download music and digital camera photos, a new, blisteringly fast machine isn’t really necessary. Their older, slower machine could probab
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Has several screen shots to help guide the novice along.
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Setting up a LAMP server on Ubuntu — easy as flipping a switch.
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Massively-scalable Internet advertising applications may have been popularized by the likes of Google and Yahoo but local company Mooter Media has developed its own clustered architecture on top of Ubuntu Linux and open source software.
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Guide to installing Ubuntu with lots of screenshots
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Postive post on Ubuntu from a Gentoo’er.
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“I think that will open up Linux to a lot more people, and a lot more people will learn about it,” said Paul Bartell, 13, a devoted Ubuntu user. He’s looking forward to telling people “Hey, you can go to Dell and you can buy a computer from them” with Ubu
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Tinkerer’s Delight Best of all, Ubuntu is fun.
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Today I upgraded my machine from Ubuntu 6.10 to Ubuntu 7.04, and just like my previous upgrade from Ubuntu 6.06 to 6.10, the whole process went very smoothly. Apart from a couple of minor issues with the new desktop effects, which I’ll go into more deta
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This feature includes various hacks to boost Ubuntu’s performance, such as viewing running processes, identifying resources, finding process startups, tuning kernel parameters, and speeding up boot time. This is a complete chapter in the ExtremeTech book
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In Italian, so open a bottle of Pinot Grigio before trying to translate.
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I had an old Dell 8250 sitting around (after purchasing a new Dell E521) and I decided to install Linux to see how the distributions were doing these days.
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OK, you love Ubuntu, but after awhile, the same-old, same-old GRUB and boot splash screens become tedious and boring. Could it be your Ubuntu needs a little SUM-thing to spice it up? If you’re up for a walk on the wild side, try StartUp Manager (SUM), a u
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Ubuntu at Starbucks! Keep the caffeine coming.
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I don’t want to overhype anything but I can say with all honesty that Ubuntu 7.04 is by far the best and easiest version of Linux that I’ve used. The Live CD worked flawlessly for me and allowed me to road-test features without the hassle of installation.
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Ubuntu has always had a server component, but it really shines on the desktop. At DistroWatch.com, a popular Web site that tracks major Linux distributions, Ubuntu has consistently ranked number one with end users month over month.
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IBM’s DB2 has long been a Linux-friendly, cross-platform database. But as of this week, there will be improved coexistence between DB2 and the latest Ubuntu 6.06 Linux release.
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Matt Asay, at InfoWorld, writes about a dinner conversation with Mark Shuttleworth. Another, and much more palatable, kind of Linuix “fork.”
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I’ve been running the Linux distribution Ubuntu (free download from http://www.ubuntu.com) alongside Windows XP for months. It installed in about an hour with no big hiccups and I found I could get down to work straight away. The included free OpenOffice
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If you are fed up with trying to keep your kids out of harm’s way when they are using a family computer running Microsoft Windows, one option is to take a look at the Linux operating system.
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Yet there’s a lot more under the hood that really makes life in Feisty a lot easier. Most are due to the enhancements of Gnome 2.18, but since they’re not really covered well, especially in the context of Ubuntu, I think it’s worth noting.
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The commentary on both that post and Digg, though, has prompted me to write an article about Linux for people other than big businesses. It was the case, back in the day, that Linux was for the hacker elite, but those days are long gone. Now, you can pop
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Detailed post comparing system vulnerability in many systems, including Windows and Ubuntu
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I promised her we’d replace her four-year-old desktop with a laptop and that was what we did. Yesterday, I bought her a new MSI S425. We already decided that with all computer upgrades in the house in the coming months, we would gradually phase out Wind
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Ubuntu is the poster child of usable Linux and it’s looking like Feisty Fawn is only going to hammer that flag deeper into the landscape
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One of the more recent arrivals in the OEM Linux market is System 76, which sells a decent selection of desktop, workstation, and notebook systems with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. I test-drove the company’s Ubuntu-certified Darter laptop recently, and fou
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You can almost set your watch by it nowadays: Twice a year, we have a new version of Ubuntu Linux to explore.
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Srivastava says Indian languages in the desktop computing environment is now available with open source options like SUSE Linux, Ubuntu Linux and the OpenOffice suite.
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Each one of my previous encounters meant that I had to spend at least 2 days configuring before I have a desktop that I was somewhat comfortable with. With Ubuntu Feisty Fawn’s latest test beta –for the first time ever– this was not the case. I was up a
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The author is a regular reviewer of new high-tech gear and longtime computer use…Linux, and more specifically the free “Ubuntu” version, has come a long way in the past few years and is well worth considering for basic computing.
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What do you do with an old computer? Say, a 386-generation PC running Windows 98 that hadn’t been patched in years, with a 20-Gbyte hard drive most likely infected with all manner of viruses, spyware, and other maladjusted programs?
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Recently i managed to install ubuntu on my laptop(IBM Thinkpad Cel 1.4Ghz 256 MB RAM) , which was a very fast machine when i purchased it three and half years back , however things in computers change very fast and now it was a slow moving machine for tod
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Mercian Labels has commenced its migration away from Microsoft to Open Source software because of reliability and upgrade cost concerns….Senokian advised a new thick client system using mostly existing hardware, using the Ubuntu Linux LAMP stack, with Z
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Recently we managed to fund the purchase of 16 new computers in my wife’s primary school. The old hardware were Pentium III 500 MHz boxes running Windows 98. When I connected the computer room to the DSL router (Linksys WRT54G running DD-WRT), they were
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A young startup named Shafetech has launched its first full line of computers, ranging from desktops to notebooks. The company claims that its systems distance themselves from others by shipping preloaded with Ubuntu Linux 6, providing easy access to the
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Today’s links are courtesy of the issues of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter published in Jan-Aug 2007
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