PC World Top 100: We're Number 27!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-06-07

Ubuntu was awarded a PC World 2006 World Class Award, identifying it as one of PC World's 100 Best Products of the Year — all the way up at number 27! Ubuntu was the only Linux distribution listed, but is among quite a number of Open Source and Free Software friends. Hooray!

“Products that win PC World's World Class Awards set the standard for excellence in the IT and consumer electronics industries,” stated Harry McCracken, editor in chief of PC World. “From notebook computers and security software to music players and Web sites, the editors reward the most outstanding performers in this annual awards program. Congratulations to Ubuntu.”

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Behind Ubuntu: Daniel Silverstone

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-06-06

Behind Ubuntu speaks with Daniel Silverstone, Ubuntu and Launchpad hacker, about his life in and out of the Ubuntu spotlight, and finds out some of this plans for development during the Edgy cycle!

I’ll be back on the Launchpad team working on various features for Launchpad to make the developers of Ubuntu have an even better time of it. We have Personal Package Archives in the pipeline — those will allow people to have their own small apt-get/synaptic compatible archives served by, and built by, Launchpad. And we have many and various other things to work on, including the much vaunted derivative distributions support. Life will be exciting for distro developers in the dapper+1 cycle. With a shortened development cycle the extra tools we can provide for them will be all the more important.

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter: Issue #1

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-06-05

The Ubuntu Documentation Team have kicked off an awesome new project — the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter!

Welcome to the first issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. Each week we will bring you news from in and around the Ubuntu community related to anything and everything about Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu. We hope you will enjoy these weekly newsletters, we certainly will enjoy keeping you informed about significant events each week. Read, stay informed and enjoy!

In this very special first issue, UWN covers:

  • New Look for www.ubuntu.com
  • Dapper Release Parties
  • Java in Multiverse
  • VMware Player in Multiverse
  • Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Released
  • Kbuntu 6.06 LTS Released
  • Edubuntu 6.06 LTS Released
  • Xubuntu 6.06 Released
  • Paris Developers Summit
  • Edgy Eft Ideas
  • and more…

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Announcing Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-06-01

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, codenamed “Dapper Drake”. This release includes both installable Desktop CDs and alternate text-mode installation CDs for several architectures, for Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu.

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine available with a few clicks from a global network of mirrors, and professional commercial technical support from Canonical Ltd and hundreds of other companies around the world.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS will be the first Ubuntu release with a long-term support cycle: free security updates and commercial technical support will be available for three years on the desktop, and five years on the server.

Read all about it:

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Supported on UltraSPARC T1

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-05-31

Here on The Fridge, we've covered some of the exciting work going on with the Ubuntu port to Sun's new UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) architecture, but now the cat is out of the bag — Canonical will be supporting Ubuntu 6.06 LTS on SPARC, with particular focus on the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. Wow! A few quotes to tell the story…

John Fowler in the Sun press release:

“Ubuntu is arguably one of the most important – if not the most important – GNU/Linux distribution on the planet and will soon blaze new trails in support for SPARC-based servers.”

Mark Shuttleworth:

I would credit the Linux/SPARC community (and David Miller in particular), and the OpenSPARC community, with the speed of this port moving from “first code” to production supportable. When I first saw David speaking about Niagara support at LCA in Dunedin in January, we all thought that Dapper could support traditional SPARC at release but then get Niagara support some months later in an update.

But the fervour with which the community at large under David’s leadership attacked the problem has meant that Linux on Niagara has progressed far faster than we expected – so much so that the first SPARC CD release of Dapper (which will be uploaded a little after the other architectures when we make the Dapper release) will support most UltraSPARC T1 machines out of the box.

Simon Phipps:

Why Ubuntu? Well, it's by far my favourite GNU/Linux (and I'm not alone – it was the system NexentaOS GNU/OpenSolaris was built from too), it's based on the rock that is Debian and best of all the company behind it has a very Software 3.0 approach to business. As Cote is quoted as saying on TechTarget, the possibilities with Ubuntu are fascinating.

So look forward to running a fully-supported Dapper Drake on some seriously sexy hardware!

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