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RSS ubuntuReliability race: Microsoft OS beats Apple, Ubuntu
News Apple's service was down two hours and 34 minutes, with 99.9 per cent uptime, and Canonical's Ubuntu version of Linux was down one day, five hours and 45 minutes, for 98.64 per cent uptime. It noted that Ubuntu's service also is available through... [15 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction?
Comment The processor giant's chipsets will now support OSes from Microsoft and Apple, as well as Ubuntu, Be, Linux and more. Written on the London Liverpool Street to Stansted Express and dispatched via my home LAN later the same day. [02 Jul 2008]
Ubuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News The founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system, Mark Shuttleworth, has called for Ubuntu developers to fix all software flaws found in the operating system, including, crucially, those in inherited source code. [01 Jul 2008]
Open source to 'blow mobiles open'
News Other open source handset software includes the recent release of mobile Ubuntu. Open source software will mean the end of proprietary phone and software bundles, and create universal compatibility and lower the cost of handsets within three years... [30 Jun 2008]
Mobile Ubuntu invites developers to build
News Canonical this week released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile internet devices. Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device Edition works on two devices at present, the Samsung Q1U and the Intel Crown Beach development station... [26 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News Versions for the Mac and Ubuntu are coming later this year. IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready to take on Microsoft Office. The software is free, with unlimited technical support for... [09 Jun 2008]
Ubuntu Linux goes mobile
News A version of the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system is coming later this year for mobile internet devices and subnotebooks. Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, has said it plans to demonstrate the new version, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, at... [04 Jun 2008]
Firefox 3 RC1 unleashed for feedback
News The previous version of Firefox 3 was seen by Canonical as sufficiently stable and complete to be integrated into the latest version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. The first release candidate of Firefox 3 has been made available to... [20 May 2008]
Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year
News Because these could not be offered under the GNU General Public Licence, this stopped OpenJDK - used in the Fedora and Ubuntu Linux distributions - being fully compatible with Java. Sun is to open source the last closed-source parts of Java, a move... [28 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News The company's decision to stay away from the consumer desktop is less about Microsoft's dominance there than about Ubuntu, which is the leading challenger in that space, Blankenhorn said. Anyone who has read anything about open source for any... [21 Apr 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo El-E's power and computation is all on board and runs Ubuntu Linux on a Mac Mini. You know the future has arrived when scientists bring together two staples of science fiction: lasers and robots. But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death... [10 Apr 2008]
Running Linux on the PlayStation 3: More Than a Toy
White Paper People put in hours and hours of effort to get other systems, such as Ubuntu, working. The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In this paper, first in a series, Peter Seebach introduces the... [09 Apr 2008]
Open source Ubuntu announces 'need for an adventurous mountain goat'
News Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has revealed the name of the version of Ubuntu, due in October: 'Intrepid Ibex'. Open-source operating system Ubuntu is developed by Canonical and a community of programmers. [22 Feb 2008]
What is the future for Lotus?
Comment And yes, Lotus also announced improved support for open source platforms such as Ubuntu. This week's Lotusphere marks a big shift for IBM's Lotus collaboration software arm. But can a move into corporate social networking and web 2.0 really pay off... [24 Jan 2008]
Vista - businesses not convinced
News Forty-four per cent said they are "considering" alternative operating systems - mostly Mac OS X, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu. Almost a year on from the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista, only 13 per cent of companies say they expect to... [26 Nov 2007]
