Ubuntu 9.04 released!

Date April 25, 2009

The newest version of our beloved Linux distro Ubuntu was released on April 21st. Code named Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu 9.04 desktop edition brings some nice features:

finally OpenOffice 3.0.1 installed;
Gnome 2.26 with some improvements for multiple monitors setups, Empathy (multi-protocol instant messenger), Evolution (email client now with MS Exchange support), Volume manager (now integrated with PulseAudio);
X.Org [...]

Switching to Linux which distro to use, Ubuntu?

Date May 27, 2008

This is the third of a sequence of posts where we’ll take a look at a few of the main Linux distros to find out which are the most welcoming to Linux newbies. In our first article of this series we took a look at Fedora 9 Beta, the second article we spoke about openSUSE, [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 update without any issues

Date April 28, 2008

Over the weekend I updated my Ubuntu machine from 7.10 to the brand new 8.04 release. I waited a few days after the official release to see if I heard any reports of upgrade problems.
I searched and searched and really didn’t find that many written reports of people that had updated their machines, most prefered [...]

New Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu 8.04 is in da house!

Date April 24, 2008

The ever so popular and handy Long Term support 8.04 versions of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu are out. The star of the show, Ubuntu has quite a nice set of new features, including:

A windows based Ubuntu installer, so you don’t have to go through creating and managing partitions;
New out-of-the-box programs such as Transmission (for BitTorrents), [...]