The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) on desktop and server. Codenamed “Hardy Heron”, 8.04 LTS continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution… read…
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Google Desktop came out for Windows first. Not a huge surprise. Then it came out for Mac. Now Linux. That is something to be happy about. You can read about the release of Google Desktop for Linux, or you can just go ahead and read…
I have been an adamant Ubuntu supporter since I was ‘converted’ to it – but I have been quite disappointed with Feisty (AKA: Version 7.04). Not Feisty itself, but the process. I was running the previous version (Edgy) and tried to simply upgrade using the…
I am one of those people that doesn’t really like to hear the little tunes played every time I startup and shutdown the computer. Unfortunately, Ubuntu does that by default. I probably wouldn’t mind if it were really soft all the time, but it’s not.…
This is just a quick tip, and something I tend to need to do because I’m a bit absentminded and have one of the worst short-term memories out there. The version names for Ubuntu sometimes escape me. Maybe it’s because they are referred to by…