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Hail the penguin
Stuff.co.nz
The DistroWatch website lists more than 4000 variants of Linux and BSD distributions, but the perennial favourites are Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Debian. You will find links to all on the site. At PC World, you will find a blog describing ...

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Looking for something to do today? (Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012)
ReporterHerald.com
• Ubuntu Village Film Festival, 10 am-2 pm, Front Range Community College Challenger Point Room 107, 4616 S. Shields St., Fort Collins. Previously known as Uhuru Film Festival, this year's festival's theme is “Ubuntu, Ngumuntu, Ngabantu: I am because ...

BlackVoices Preach!: Ubuntu And Our Faith
Huffington Post
William E. Flippin in learning about the African principle, Ubuntu. "The philosophy of Ubuntu derives from a Nguni word, ubuntu meaning 'the quality of being human.'" In his sermon, he asks how can we apply this principle to how we relate to each other ...

Ubuntu: Applying African Philosophy in Building Community
Huffington Post (blog)
You might have much of the world's riches, and you might hold a portion of authority, but if you have no ubuntu, you do not amount to much. -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu The philosophy of Ubuntu derives from a Nguni word, ubuntu meaning "the quality of ...

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ZDNet
Spark Tablet Coming for the FOSS Crowd
LinuxInsider.com
It was based on Ubuntu 9.04. Mer was abandoned in favor of Meego but was revived in 2011 after Nokia (NYSE: NOK) walked out of its partnership with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), abandoning Meego. The Spark uses the KDE Plasma Active user interface.
Ubuntu Tablet Release Date Coming In MayTablet Crunch (blog)

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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 arrives for testing
The H
As expected, the Ubuntu release team has published the second alpha of version 12.04 of its Ubuntu Linux distribution, code-named "Precise Pangolin". Aimed at developers and testers, the development milestone release uses the 3.2.0-12.21 Ubuntu kernel ...

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Ubuntu CEO Joins Board of 'data hub' Startup ScraperWiki
PR Web (press release)
Canonical produces Ubuntu, the leading open source platform for client, server and cloud computing. Canonical provides services to the IT industry to bring Ubuntu-based products to market, and to enterprise and consumer users to maximise their Ubuntu ...

Obsidian joins Ubuntu Advantage Reseller programme - Obsidian Systems Press Office
ITWeb
Leading open source software and services provider, Obsidian, is pleased to announce that it has strengthened its relationship with Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system, by joining its Ubuntu Advantage Reseller partner network.

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Australian Personal Computer
Alternatives to Ubuntu
Australian Personal Computer
Old-school Ubuntu fans who aren't a fan of the new Unity-based direction of the operating system might find something to like in some of the official Ubuntu spin-offs. With the release of Ubuntu 11.04 and now 11.10, Canonical's radical new interface ...
Comment: Unity can't go it aloneThe H

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Australian Personal Computer
Obsidian joins Ubuntu Advantage Reseller programme
ITWeb
Leading open source software and services provider, Obsidian, is pleased to announce that it has strengthened its relationship with Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system, by joining its Ubuntu Advantage Reseller partner network.
Alternatives to UbuntuAustralian Personal Computer
Ubuntu's New 'HUD' Factor: A Step Forward or Back?TechNewsWorld
Ubuntu: towards the end of application menusGeneration NT (US)
Co.Design -LXer (press release) -ZDNet UK (blog)
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How to set up Linux on your computer
Techworld.com
Thanks to Linux distributions such as Ubuntu that are easy to install and use, Linux is no longer "difficult to use." Linux is a Unix-like open-source operating system that uses the Linux kernel as its base and comes packaged with basic software, ...
Meet Linux Mint 12 'Lisa': A Tour in PicturesPCWorld

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Title: SA foreign policy guided by Ubuntu - Zuma
BuaNews Online (press release)
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma says South Africa's foreign policy will always be guided by the values of Ubuntu and commitments to mutually beneficial partnerships with Africa and other countries of the world. "Foreign policy, being an integral part ...

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Firefox 10 Released, Running On Ubuntu 12.04
Muktware
As far as Ubuntu is concerned, if you are running 12.04 (which I am running) then you are already on Firefox 10. I hope Ubuntu 11.10 will get Firefox 10 soon. As far as Ubuntu 10x users are concerned Ubuntu team has taken commendable steps to keep up ...

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Ubuntu Creator Warns Businesses to Be Wary of Cloud Lock-in
PCWorld
... was always meant to be based on open standards, and organisations that choose to buy capacity from public clouds that only support one standard are creating problems for themselves in the future, according to Ubuntu creator Canonical.

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NOOK Tablet hacks: Flash a custom ROM or boot Ubuntu to restore OS 1.4.0
Liliputing
Developer Cobroto has put together one of the first custom ROMs for the tablet, while developer AdamOutler has put together a rather impressive tool based on Ubuntu Linux which you can use to reformat the NOOK Tablet and roll back from OS 1.4.1 or ...

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Sick of Ubuntu's bad breath? Suck on a Linux Mint instead
Register
By Scott Gilbertson • Get more from this author If the jump from the GNOME 2 desktop to the new GNOME Shell or Unity desktop in Ubuntu has left you feeling dissatisfied, one increasingly popular distribution just might offer something that turns out to ...
The Dilemma of the Linux DesktopDatamation

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Canonical Promotes Standard Ubuntu Branding with New Website
The VAR Guy
But Canonical has long stood out as an exception, and its latest stride — a new website devoted to helping the community adhere to Ubuntu branding conventions — is no exception. Here's a look. We've covered Ubuntu branding — the artwork and names ...

Australian Personal Computer
Ubuntu's New 'HUD' Factor: A Step Forward or Back?
TechNewsWorld
By Katherine Noyes Ubuntu seems to have shifted lately "from trying to make a rock-solid desktop distribution to playing around with cool ideas for next-generation interfaces," observed Slashdot blogger Chris Travers. "A lot of these ideas are very ...
Ubuntu: towards the end of application menusGeneration NT (US)
Linux Users Will Get A Heads-Up Display Instead Of Menu Tabs. Say What?!Co.Design
Linux MinterfaceZDNet UK (blog)
LXer (press release) -PCWorld.co.nz (blog) -Manila Standard Today
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