Ubuntu developers are wasting no time gearing up for the next Ubuntu release; Matthias Klose of Canonical announced today on the Ubuntu-devel mailing list that Ubuntu 11.10, codenamed Oneiric Ocelot, is now open for development. Below is the announcement in full:Oneiric is now open for development, with syncs from unstable starting shortly. The development version starts with an updated GCC and binutils, some soname changes (gmp, libffi, boost) and re-enables the default linker settings, whic...
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Announced this morning by Kate Stewart on the Ubuntu announce mailing list, the final release of Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed Natty Narwhal is now available for download. Below is the release announcement in full.
"Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to
enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created."
-Ida P. Rolf
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu...
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With less than one week until the release of Ubuntu 11.04, Jorge Castro of the Ubuntu community team decided to compile "The Power User's Guide to Unity" which answers many questions and offers users various howto videos, FAQs, information on lenses and more in one easy to find location.In regards to what Unity offers end users, Castro said, "I believe new users will enjoy the look and feel of the simplified desktop while advanced users will appreciate the integrated search and...
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Kate Stewart, Ubuntu Release Manager at Canonical, announced in an email to the Ubuntu devel announce mailing list that the Beta 2 of Ubuntu 11.04 was ready and now available for download. This is the last Beta before final release and 11.04 will move from Beta to Final release on April 28th with no planned Release Candidate for this cycle. I've included in total Stewart's email to the mailing list.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2.
Codenamed "...
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Looking for a way to get involved in the Ubuntu Community? Ahmed Kamal of Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical has posted a call for help for anyone who wants to Help Shape Ubuntu.Maps.Com.Kamal says in his post, "About eight months ago, I had started on a fun little project to raise awareness of how widely used Ubuntu Server is around the world." The fun little project Kamal is referring to is of course maps.u...
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Announced on the Ubuntu devel mailing list by Kate Stewart, Ubuntu Release Manager at Canonical, Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron, LTS (Desktop) release will reach its end-of-life support on May 12, 2011. Stewart says in the announcement, "Ubuntu announced its 8.04 Desktop release almost 36 months ago, on April 24, 2008. For the LTS Desktop releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 36 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 8.04 Deskto...
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Ubuntu App Developer Week, will take place in online in the #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat IRC channels on April 11-15, 2011 from 16:00 to 21:00 UTC each day.David Planella of the Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical says "Our goal is to give all attendees a taste of the wide variety of tools on the Ubuntu platform that can be used to create awesome applications, and to showcase some applications that...
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Gerry Carr of Canonical made the announcement on the Canonical Blog yesterday stating, "It’s with some regret that we are announcing the end of the ShipIt Programme and the CD distributor programme." Carr notes that Canonical has shipped millions of free CDs throughout the years to millions of people in every country in the world. However, over the last two years Canonical began to limit the number of CDs per...
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Earlier today, Ivanka Majic tweeted a link to the map of where Ubuntu Servers are being used around the world and I thought that was pretty cool so I wanted to find out a little more about how this information was gathered.According to the website, the application shows Ubuntu logo over each city where Ubuntu Server is used and the data is colle...
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Kate Stewart, Ubuntu Release Manager at Canonical announced Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwhal) release on the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list. Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 is now available for download and details on this Beta release can be found below in the full release announcement.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 11.04
beta.
Codenamed "Natty Narwhal", 11.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of
integrating the latest and greatest open source te...
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