The latest and greatest Ubuntu arrived on Oct. 18.
Ubuntu, the remarkably popular desktop Linux distribution that tries to bring the latest and greatest open-source programs every six months, arrived Oct. 18. The Gutsy Gibbon Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Edition includes improvements in advanced plug-and-play printing, enhanced browsing and the option of a smooth new user interface built on top of the new GNOME 2.20 desktop.
openSUSE is released regularly, is stable, secure, contains the latest free and open source software, and comes with several new technologies.
After quite a few rebuilds and testing, the openSUSE team announces that 10.3 RC1 is now ready and available for download.
The team consider this release to be feature complete, stable, and suitable for testing from any user. For more information on the release schedule, take a look at the Roadmap.
As the only major OEM offering pre-installed Linux, Dell is eyeing new markets and working with virtualization to increase the market for its Ubuntu clients.
Dell first announced that it would preinstall Ubuntu Linux on some of its consumer desktops and notebooks just three months ago, but the results have shown the vendor that there is no reason to stop there.
At the same time, Kevin Kettler, Dell’s chief technology officer, spoke of how Dell is also looking to preinstall virtualization technology in its PCs to give users the option of running both a Linux operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows.
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Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, has, along with others like Richard Stallman, literally changed the world of software forever.
Linux-based distributions seem to pop up every day, more and more devices now run Linux at their core, from mobile phones to inflight entertainment systems, to the world’s mission critical server infrastructures.
Linus Torvalds relates his plans for the future of Linux, including the 3.0 kernel, problems with the Linux release cycles and which distro he personally runs on his home PC. ” ’Compile everything by hand’ ones simply weren’t interesting to me,” Torvalds says. And there was that time he was bitten by a ferocious real-life penguin.
