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Get Paid To Use Ubuntu (UK, This Friday only!)

The Canonical design team are looking for volunteers in the London (UK) area to participate in user testing. Testing will take place on Friday 29th January, during the day, and will extend all through the […]

26 January 2010
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UbuntuOne Windows Port In Progress

Ubuntu One, the cloud storage service from Ubuntu, is being ported to Windows at this years PyCon by the Ubuntu One team. Many users have refrained from using the cloud storage solution thus far due […]

23 January 2010
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Awesome ‘Made On Ubuntu’ Badges For Your websites, Projects

Tommy Brunns ‘Made on Ubuntu’ badges are great way to show off the power of Ubuntu when creating something using the worlds best OS – Ubuntu! (He also has some “made on Linux” ones, but […]

22 January 2010
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Ubuntu 8.04.4 Due Today

The fourth “update” to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is tentatively due for release today. As a “long term support” (LTS) release Hardy Heron is supported for three years on the desktop and for five years […]

21 January 2010
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Ubuntu Showcase Videos are Awesome Adverts

Ubuntu is great isn’t it? Due to the fact it is so great many people like to show it off in various forms – whether it’s compiz-laden demos to mates in the pub (Yep – […]

20 January 2010
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Ubuntu Forums Passes Millionth Member Mark

The Ubuntu Forums gained its MILLIONTH new member a day or so ago. What a fantastic achievement! Ubuntu Forum moderator Joe Barker captured the moment with a screenshot, which you can see on his blog […]

20 January 2010
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Let Ubuntu know what applications you think should be included…

Ever wanted to let Ubuntu know which applications you want to see included in future releases? Well here’s your chance! Ubuntu Forum Council member Matthew Helmke – who also co-authored one of the books that […]

14 January 2010
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Official Ubuntu Desktop Support For Home Users

Trust me to miss the memo, but somewhere along the line Canonical started selling support services to home users as well as businesses and enterprises via the official Ubuntu Store. Before your eyes gloss over […]

5 January 2010
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Ubuntu Was More Popular Than Britney Spears In 2009

With 2009 drawing to a close i thought it would be interesting to kick of a series of retrospective posts about Ubuntu in 2009. What better way than to kick off with Ubuntu’s popularity this […]

28 December 2009
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Malware Hidden Inside Screensaver On Gnome-Look

Malware has been found hidden inside an innocuous ‘waterfall’ screensaver .deb file made available on popular artwork sharing site Gnome-Look.org. The .deb file installs a script with elevated privileges designed to perform a DDoS attack […]

8 December 2009
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Canonical ‘contracting engineering’ to Google

Canonical (the commercial funder/creator of Ubuntu) are contributing ‘engineering’ to Google (for ChromeOS, presumably) under contract. The official statement posted on the Canonical blog reads as follows. Congratulations to Google on the open sourcing of […]

19 November 2009
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Visual Tour n’ Tweak Guide To Ubuntu Karmic Netbook Remix

I previously covered Ubuntu Karmic desktop and Kubuntu Netbook Remix, but despite using Karmic NBR i haven’t really touched on it! Until now… The majority of features in the Netbook Remix are the same as […]

28 October 2009