Author Archives: pleia2

Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwhal) Released.

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-03-31

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 technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. Ubuntu 11.04 now combines Ubuntu Desktop Edition and Ubuntu Netbook Edition. This edition introduces the Unity environment as the […]

Ubuntu 9.10 reaches end-of-life on April 30 2011

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-03-29

Ubuntu announced its 9.10 release almost 18 months ago, on October 29, 2009. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 9.10 will reach end of life on Friday, April 29, 2011. At that […]

Interview with Flavia Weisghizzi

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-03-26

Elizabeth Krumbach: Please tell us a little about yourself. Flavia Weisghizzi: I’m Flavia Weisghizzi, I’m 34 years old and I live in that wonderful melting pot called Roma, Italy, where I was born, and from where, maybe, I’ll fly away someday. I’m a writer, I write poems and critical essays about literature. I also work […]

wiki.ubuntu.com Upgrade Update

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-03-10

Dozens of teams use wiki.ubuntu.com daily for their projects, and if you’re one of those projects you’ve no doubt encountered slowness and errors when saving pages with increasing frequency these past few months. Well, there is good news! There is a team working on it and they are making progress. Charlie Schluting of Canonical has […]

Ubuntu is the readers’ choice

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-03-08

Last Thursday I had the honour of accepting the “Linux New Media Award 2011″ in the category “Reader’s Choice – Favorite Linux” . Linux New Media is an international publisher of Linux magazines and has been giving out these awards for a number of years now. This year included a new category in which the […]