Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu and his CTO Matt Zimmerman held a press conference this AM to pre-announce the launch of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, which will become available this Thursday April 23rd. Aside from the product details on the upcoming release, Shuttleworth provided insight into what he sees the Oracle buy of Sun means to Ubuntu, and the wider open source ecosystem itself.
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What does your OS say about you?
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The Linux Foundation has finally chosen the winning entry for their "We're Linux" video contest. And the result is some coloured squiggles with a European accent telling us how awesome freedom is.
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3 Moonlight Questions
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I got into a discussion on IRC the other day with a mono supporter. One of the things that came up on a tangent was Moonlight, Novell’s implementation of Microsoft’s weapon-of-hope against Adobe’s Flash.
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Richard Dice: "The State of Perl Foundation"
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"Back a few months ago I was interviewed by Renée Bäcker, the publisher of $foo, the German language Perl magazine. The issue with that interview is just about to be released..."
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #139
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #139 for the week April 19th - April 25th, 2009.
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A question about Linux
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Every once in a while I get email like this one: "I’m interested to get your opinion on Linux and how it compares to UNIX and other UNIX-like operating systems."
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New team: Slovak
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"We are pleased to announce the establishment of a new Slovak gnu.org translation team, under the coordinatorship of Dominik Smatana. Slovak is a Slavic language from the Indo-European family, spoken by more than 6 million people (primarily in Slovakia, Central Europe)..."
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No distro-hopping for me these days
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I've been writing updates in my print column of the things I've bought/used/discarded/loved/hated over the past year, and that got me thinking: I got started with Linux in early 2007 and used many a distro on the machines available to me.
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Announcing Ubuntu Open Week
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I am pleased to announce that this cycle’s Ubuntu Open Week will be held the week after Ubuntu 9.04’s release, from 27 April to 1 May on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode. The sessions take place from 1500UTC to 2100UTC (With a special session on Monday night after-hours)
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Artwork Inconsistencies in Ubuntu 9.04
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I admit that the Ubuntu Artwork Team has a very hard job, since themes and looks are so subjective, yet I can't help but feel Ubuntu's art is going downhill fast.
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Red Hat Announces Open Source Cloud Computing Forum
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Red Hat, Inc. today announced a call for presentations for its Open Source Cloud Computing Forum, a virtual event scheduled to take place July 22, 2009.
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A Dream Distro, looking from a noob’s perspective
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Some friend of you asks you to try out Linux. How would you feel? To feel the same you need to first unmount the geekism in you and walk a mile in the shoes of a newbie.
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FLISOL 2009: Hundreds of cities in 18 Latin American countries to host install fests!
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FLISOL - The Latin American Festivals of Installation of Free Software are install fests organized by the regional free software communities since 2005. The event is the largest distributed free software event in the world — last year, there were install fests in more than 200 cities in 18 countries in Latin America.
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How Long Until There Is A Linux Distro Focused On Social Media?
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If you check out DistroWatch.com you will see hundreds of Linux distros available. There are distros out there for just about every purpose you can think of, except social media and social networking.
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People of openSUSE: Jan Engelhardt
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Jan is one of silent community mebers that is active in kernel packaging and development area. Thanks to him openSUSE users have had chance to try stable real time kernel (RT kernel).
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