Ubuntu News

Så er det vist på tide med en ny omgang Ubuntu News. (Og skulle nogen falde over spændende Ubuntu-nyt, så smid mig en mail)

Ubuntu - Officielt kan det meldes, at Ubuntu har fået IBMs blå stempel, der certificerer at DB2 databasemiljøet kan afvikles under Ubuntu. Alene signalværdien i dette gør, at Ubuntu bør tages alvorlig som distribution.
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Ubuntu - Ubuntu and founder Mark Shuttleworth win new awards
Ubuntu vandt The Best Debian Derivative Distribution, mens Shuttleworth vandt The award for Outstanding Contribution to Linux / Open Source ved Linux World Expo i Frankfurt.

All About Linux - 10 Things that make Ubuntu a Neophyte's Distribution
"Here I have put together 10 things in Ubuntu that make a new user's life that much simple. I used Ubuntu 5.10 to aid my observation."

Pixelmonkey.org - Instilling Doubt
Kommentar til ovenstående.
"If you want to spend the rest of your life talking with geeks (and in the process learn that OS advocacy is best understood as a psychiatric symptom above all else) and trying out an infinite number of kludges, you can get a lot of these problems worked out (more or less), but what you normally wind up doing is succumbing to what I call “Linux disfunction drift,” eliminating tasks that you used to do in Windows because your Linux distro won’t do them, or support the hardware you needed to do them."

R. Schiedermeier - Custom Ubuntu Linux Live-CD
"This text describes how to create a customized Ubuntu Linux Live-CD. [...] Please note that the process requires substantial processing power, memory and disk space."

Waikato Linux Users Group - Notes on remastering an Ubuntu CD
"I want to take the Hoary CD, remove all the graphical stuff, install a preseed ("answers") file for the installer, add some components from universe, and have a nice neat firewall-on-a-CD."

GizmoWatch - Ubuntu H2: A USB drive to carry your OS and applications
"A new USB drive has been released with Ubuntu (linux distro) inside. Now you can take your Operating System and applications wherever you go. The package comes with a 1″ hard drive with 3GB capacity and Ubuntu installation mini CD."

Wikipedia - Xubuntu
Ny udgave af Ubuntu, baseret på Xfce-miljøet.
"While Xubuntu has not been officially released, it is a trivial matter to convert one's desktop environment to XFCE by installing the "xubuntu-desktop" package in an APT repository."

Linux Distribution & OSS Reviews - Impressions: Xubuntu (5.10)
En kort installationsgennemgang og first impressions
"It's fast, easy to configure and looks great. What could be better.. I'm runnnig a top-notch Linux distro with a no-bloat window manager?"

DistroWatch - DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 128
Nævner bl.a. tilsynekomsten af endnu en Ubuntu-baseret distribution, Gnubuntu.
"Mark Shuttleworth: "We've registered "gnubuntu.org" for an ideologically-pure derivative. Have had some discussion with RMS [Richard M Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)] about this. He's supportive of the idea but not the name... we may go ahead with the name as it is, since I think it perfectly captures the link to both projects. The idea would be to setup that derivative to include only stuff that's FSF-blessed (even if the FSF doesn't bless the name of the aggregation)." "

Nye wallpapers og themes:
Ubuntu Dream - blåt wallpaper med en raytracet delfin.
Ubuntu Alone - ret smuk brunlig wallpaper. Ensom mand under et træ.
Rebuntu - blåt tema.