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April 17, 2008 by graham
RedHat runs for the hills
Jorge Castro just sent me a link to this story from El Reg. From TFA: "The desktop market suffers from having one dominant vendor, and some people still perceive that today's Linux desktops simply don't provide a practical alternative." So now you know. Hardy comes out next week, by the way, so feel free to [...]Archive
April 10, 2008 by graham
Top commands
I don't do memes as a rule, but this one's been doing the rounds on Planet Ubuntu, so I thought I'd give it a shot, too. So, the results of the query are: graham@bloodnok: ~$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " "}}'|sort -rn|head93 bzr66 python2.446 sudo44 cd39 grep22 make19 ls18 vim11 tail11 lpvim [...]Archive
March 27, 2008 by graham
A wee rave about Hardy
I shouldn't be writing this now; I should be packing for Edinburgh, where I'm going to be going for the weekend. But I felt that it was my duty as a Canonical employee and moreover as an Ubuntu user to state the following: Hardy rocks! Now, okay, it's still in beta, which by necessity means [...]Archive
March 21, 2008 by graham
Hardy har har
I'm – to use an American expression – jonesing to install Ubuntu 8.04 (The Hardy Heron) Beta, which has just been released (massive props to the distro team for their typically herculean effort). And this time it's going to be a full install, not an upgrade. See, when I upgraded to Gutsy during its Beta [...]Archive
February 28, 2008 by graham
Ubuntu: storming your brain
As has by now been announced more-or-less left, right, center, top, bottom and everywhere else in the universe, Ubuntu Brainstorm went live today. The idea behind Brainstorm is pretty simple and yet immensely powerful. It offers a place for Ubuntu users to post their ideas about how Ubuntu can be improved: new features, tweaks… just [...]Archive
February 14, 2008 by graham
Ubuntu Love, Lancaster Style
I thought you might like to hear this story, since it pertains to ourfavourite distro and also to our shop's products. Picture the scene, if you will: A man, bearded, long-haired,dashingly^Whandsome^W generally me-like, walks through the centre ofLancaster on a busy Wednesday afternoon. He's wearing, proudly, theUbuntu Hoodie as purchased from the very wonderful Canonical [...]Archive
December 16, 2007 by graham
Juiced
I'm waiting for Ubuntu JeOS (pronounced Juice, by the way) to download at the moment so that I can do some virtualised stuff. Well, more accurately, so that I can do some virtualised stuff without having to wait for ever and ever and ever for X to start when I don't need it. Since JeOS [...]Archive
August 7, 2007 by graham
Dell and Ubuntu, sitting in a tree, etc.
The news just came through that Dell have officially unveiled two systems available in Europe (including the UK) with Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) installed on them. This is very cool, and represents another step along the road to fixing bug #1. From the press release (ubuntu.com): Dell today unveiled two consumer PCs in Europe – the [...]Archive
May 1, 2007 by graham