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Ubuntu Florida Local Community Team News

Miami Global Bug Jam 2009

The Ubuntu Florida Global Bug Jam was held Feb. 21st 2009, at Brikolodge in beautiful Miami. In addition to triaging and closing over 150 bugs, we seized the opportunity to add new people to the Florida LoCo, and BugSquad teams. The best part is that we were able to guide several new people into contributing [...]

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Ubuntu Pocket Guide

Get your free PDF copy of the Ubuntu Pocket Guide. Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about it

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The Register: Linux: this year’s silver lining?

With the new year under way and all of the problems in the old year still largely unsolved, people in the IT sector are looking around for a little good news and some prospects for growth. There are a lot of clouds out there right now, and Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, [...]

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The Register: Linux: this year's silver lining?

With the new year under way and all of the problems in the old year still largely unsolved, people in the IT sector are looking around for a little good news and some prospects for growth. There are a lot of clouds out there right now, and Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, [...]

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Ubuntu Podcast #15

Ubuntu Podcast #15 is out! Get it while its hot. Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about it

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Updated Download Locations

Catsceo has updated his iso mirror with the latest Ubuntu Intrepid ISOs. Check the Downloads section. Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about it

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Ubuntu’s Intrepid Ibex: Usability is Hard to Do

November 5, 2008 By Bruce Byfield Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu’s dictator-for-life, has been discussing usability in public and on his blog for the last six months. His call for a GNU/Linux desktop that surpasses Apple’s for usability sounds promising, and you might hope, like me, that Ubuntu 8.10 – a.k.a. Intrepid Ibex — is the first [...]

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Ubuntu's Intrepid Ibex: Usability is Hard to Do

November 5, 2008 By Bruce Byfield Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu’s dictator-for-life, has been discussing usability in public and on his blog for the last six months. His call for a GNU/Linux desktop that surpasses Apple’s for usability sounds promising, and you might hope, like me, that Ubuntu 8.10 – a.k.a. Intrepid Ibex — is the first [...]

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Ubuntu Linux- 8 Million Users and Growing

Ubuntu Linux: 8 Million Users and Growing Latest Ubuntu Linux distribution — Intrepid Ibex — set to debut as the company behind it continues to grow. October 27, 2008By Sean Michael Kerner There is a business behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system and according to its lead commercial sponsor Canonical, that business is good. [...]

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Review: Ubuntu 8.10 Is The Real Deal

By Edward F. Moltzen, ChannelWeb 7:37 PM EDT Thu. Oct. 30, 2008 Without much fanfare, developers of Ubuntu Linux have delivered the latest version of the open source operating system that scores higher than Windows Vista in performance testing, does a better job than Windows in making wireless connectivity easy and, overall, leaves fewer reasons [...]

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