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Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies around the world.
Ubuntu includes the very best translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free software community has to offer.
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Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

, Jul 08, 2009
A Linux patch has been released to circumvent a Microsoft patent that landed Linux user TomTom in hot water.

, Jul 08, 2009
Are virtualized servers (running a mix of Linux and Windows) really starting to push into the SMB space?

, Jul 08, 2009
Who'd have thought that a rather irritating little note-making C# application could threaten Linux and bring the mighty Debian to its knees? Almost no one. The application in question is called Tomboy, and this little faux Post-It Note utility uses Mono, an open source implementation of Microsoft's .Net framework, to run.

, Jul 09, 2009
Red Hat is at the top of its game right now, delivering quarter after quarter of impressive performance despite (or, perhaps, because of) a global recession.

, Jul 09, 2009
Back in the day, Netbooks ran Linux and packed solid-state drives. But Windows XP and big hard disk drives have prevailed.

Jul 09, 2009
The great thing about Linux distro development, when compared with OS X or Vista, is that the whole process is transparent. You can see at any stage what the developers are planning, and even download the latest build of your favourite distribution.

Jul 10, 2009
Ubuntu Release Manager Steve Langasek has announced that Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (code named Dapper Drake) Desktop Edition will reach its end-of-life on Tuesday the 14th of July, 2009.

, Jul 10, 2009
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Mint 7 "Gloria" is the latest Linux Mint release based off of Ubuntu 9.04, and since I already briefly used Ubuntu 9.04 on this very same netbook, I expected it to perform at least the same, if not better. After all, the boot screen displays the phrase "from freedom came elegace" with the Linux Mint logo above it.

Jul 10, 2009
If you’ve gone to USPS.com to track and confirm delivery of a letter or package, you’ve used the U.S. Postal Service’s Product Tracking System (PTS) and probably not known it. And you might not have noticed either when USPS moved the system to open source.

I've found that maintaining a proper to-do list consistently boosts my productivity. The challenge, however, is finding task management software that fits with my workflow. I've tried several web solutions—including Remember the Milk (RTM) and a self-hosted Tracks setup—but the problem with browser-based to-do lists is that I tend to ignore what's not immediately visible on my desktop. Fortunately, there are several reasonably good open source to-do list tools for Linux.

I recently started using Getting Things GNOME (GTG), an organizer for the GNOME desktop environment that provides a robust feature set and a relatively high level of usability. Although it's still at an early stage of development and has some rough edges, it meets my needs better than any of the other to-do list programs that I've tested. It has supported for nested substasks, tagging, and task notes.

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The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) has announced the lineup for the "Kernel/Userspace/User Interfaces" microconference. Read more...

The Linux kernel provides the basic services and device drivers used by all other programs running on a Linux OS system. The latest kernels available are:

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