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Ubuntu is a popular Linux variant based off of the Debian/GNU release. First released in October 2004 as a Debian offshoot, it is now a major Linux distribution with a strong release and support model. Major companies such as Dell are now offering Ubuntu OS options for their products.

Ubuntu has been hailed as one of the best Linux distributions due to the strong community aspects of the OS. It was built and maintained as a platform that is designed to be easy to install, use and evolve due in part to the robust community. Ubuntu has the largest workstation installed base of any Linux distribution.

Ubuntu's success is due to the model its creators, Canonical Ltd, have formed. UK based Canonical Ltd allow anyone to download and use Ubuntu variants for free but charge for professional support.  Ubuntu has new mainstream releases every six months and Long Term Support releases every two years.

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Debian Beckons Ubuntu Refugees to Come Home
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by goldnugget / on Nov 5, 2011

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Broken Windows? Ubuntu Linux Saves the Day
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “ubuntu”

Ubuntu: Download and Convert Video on YouTube with DownVerter

Tips Tricks Tutorial Review about tech and digital world — Authority: 124
DownVerter is a free application, quick, and easy to download and use to convert video from YouTube. Of course, these applications can be used to download without having to convert if you want. While we want you to automatically convert the downloaded videos, DownVerter able to convert it into MP3 format, AVI, 3GP, ...

6 hours ago

Blender 2.62 has been released! PPA Ubuntu and LinuxMint

Unixmen — Authority: 465
Blender 2.62 has been released, this release comes with many new features, improvements and bug fix. In Blender 2.62, the Cycles render engine now has layers/passes, you can track objects inside... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

1 day ago

Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

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Development Update And again we are in the most interesting time of the release cycle. Today we will hit Feature Freeze at around 21:00 UTC. The time where we stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release. Today marks the end of a couple of very busy ...

2 days ago

Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update

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Development Update And again we are in the most interesting time of the release cycle. Today we will hit Feature Freeze at around 21:00 UTC. The time where we stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release. Today marks the end of a couple of very busy ...

2 days ago

Howto- NumLock on by default in Linux

Unixmen — Authority: 465
If you prefer that the NumLock is activated automatically when you turn on your computer, then follow the instructions in this post. Install the package  numlockx : - For ubuntu and other debian... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

2 days ago

Some texts are more equal then others

Words and what not — Authority: 110
In #Ubuntu , the fonts for #Malayalam and several other scripts are a bit broken. As you can see in the Google+ screenshot, headers are not displayed. This is probably because the font provided by Ubuntu does not support bold or something. Obviously, the best solution is when the fonts used by Ubuntu provide the ...

2 days ago

Humanity Icons Colors: 8 Different Colors For Humanity Icon Theme

Web Upd8 — Authority: 509
A while back weve posted an article about Ambiance & Radiance Colors , a theme pack that provides Ambiance and Radiance available in 8 different colors. Well, since then matching GNOME Shell themes were added and the GTK themes got some fixes from Light Themes Evolved , like a dark sidebar for Nautilus or ...

3 days ago

Ubuntu 11.10 beats out Windows 7 in benchmark grudge match

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Autore : ExtremeTech In the mother of all grudge matches, Tom’s Hardware has pitched Windows 7 against Ubuntu 11.10 in a dizzying array of benchmarks — and the winner might surprise you. Out of six test categories — Start and stop times, File copy times, Archiving, Multimedia, System, and Gaming — ...

3 days ago

A New `Locally Integrated Menubar` Might Land In Ubuntu 12.04

Web Upd8 — Authority: 509
It looks like a new "locally integrated menu" will make it into Unity, starting with version 5.6.0. Theres basically no information about the new locally integrated menubar, except for two bug reports which link to some custom Unity, Compiz, Metacity and Light Themes branches so to see "LIM" in action, Ive ...

4 days ago

Q&A: If a program runs on Red Hat and Centos linux will it run on Ubuntu?

Technical Support Help for various Issues in Computers — Authority: 134
Question by carpenma42 : If a program runs on Red Hat and Centos linux will it run on Ubuntu? Here’s the program if you need to know anything about it: www.linuxrenderfarm.com Best answer: Answer by x_southernbelle Red Hat uses RPM files to install from. For Ubuntu, you need to find the .deb file to install ...

4 days ago

Comice OS 4.0-b Beta 1 – available now

Ubuntu Look — Authority: 116
Comice OS 4.0-b Beta 1 is available to download. This version fixes several bugs discovered in the first version.   CHANGELOG - Fixed a bug on boot (GRUB) - Fixed a bug with the driver manager - Fixed a bug during the end of installtion - Fixed some configurations files - Fixed sources.list and lsb-release - ...

4 days ago

Trimble Yuma Tablet: It’s Rugged, and Runs Ubuntu

Ubuntu Look — Authority: 116
As we reported late last year, Canonical is very interested in taking Ubuntu to tablets, TVs and other new devices. And recently, the Spark tablet has been drawing a lot of interest as a Linux-based, open platform device that can compete with Apple’s iPad. Now, the rugged Yuma tablet (shown here) is drawing some ...

4 days ago

LinuxMint Vs Ubuntu: A Growth Analysis

Ubuntu Look — Authority: 116
When Linux Mint fans trumpeted that it was the most downloaded Linux distro in recent years, the distro was throwing itself open to debate on the ways and mechanisms by which it became the most downloaded or most viewed distro on opensource platform watchdog-Distrowatch. Linux Mint 11 and now Linux Mint 12 are great ...

4 days ago

Canonical’s New Spin: Ubuntu Business Remix

Ubuntu Look — Authority: 116
While Canonical dropped official support for Kubuntu, this morning Mark Shuttleworth announced a new Ubuntu spin: Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix. Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix isn’t too different from the stock Ubuntu, but it just dumps a bunch of packages not commonly used in the corporate/enterprise world (social ...

4 days ago

A First Look At The Ubuntu 12.04 Performance

Ubuntu Look — Authority: 116
While there’s still two months left until Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin†will be officially released, here are the first benchmarks of this forthcoming long-term support release. Included are desktop and workstation benchmarks along with a look at the boot performance and power consumption. The Ubuntu 12.04 ...

4 days ago

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 252

Ubuntu Look — Authority: 116
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 252 for the week February 6 – 12, 2011. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue252 == In This Issue == * Ubuntu Global Jam: Call For Events! * Ubuntu 12.04 Development update * Remixing Ubuntu for the Enterprise ...

4 days ago

New Ubuntu 12.04 Unity desktop and the HUD.

Securitron GNU/Linux blog. — Authority: 110
Post by Admin . My Blog: Securitron GNU/Linux Blog. . A look at the Unity desktop coming up in the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release and the new HUD. [...] Original posting: New Ubuntu 12.04 Unity desktop and the HUD. .

4 days ago

OMG Interviews Valorie Zimmerman, Ubuntu women, Linux Grandma and Kubuntu Extraordinaire

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Valorie Zimmerman Valorie has been a valuable contributor to the Kubuntu community and overall Free Open Source Software community for quite awhile and I had the privilege of meeting her last year at Community Leadership Summit and ever since meeting her I have wanted to interview her because I know that she ...

5 days ago

Installing Marlin on Ubuntu 11.10

The Happy Engineer — Authority: 97
As I got tired of Nautilus lack of certain common features (specially the hability to change from icon view to list view in one click), I decided to install a new explorer on my Ubuntu. The logical option was Marlin, the upgraded version of what was previously called "Elementary Nautilus". Here are the steps to ...

5 days ago

Console Only

Game Console Guru — Authority: 114
Shopping for a Rackmount Console – what are the qualities to look for?The keyboard, video and mouse – KVM switch has had great success in helping to conserve space that could have otherwise been occupied by all the monitors, keyboards and mouse for all the computers or servers a firm may have. Continuous ...

5 days ago

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