Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu 8.04: A Preliminary Look
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| Overall, what we’re seeing with Ubuntu 8.04, in all its flavors, is a
| refinement of the user experience through the interface, be it GNOME, KDE, or
| Xfce; a stabler and more intuitive installation path; a friendlier boot
| loader (GRUB); and updates to the base applications and file management
| features. File sharing and virtualization of Windows have also received some
| attention, so that you’ll be on firmer ground than ever for playing nicely
| with XP and even Vista on the same machine as your Linux installation.
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http://dailyrevolution.net/?p=1183
Hidden Linux: Hardy - The way I like it (Part II)
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| Here's some more setups I used on my laptop configuring Ubuntu 8.04
| (aka "Hardy Heron") so it's just the way I like it.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2008/05/hidden_linux_hardy_the_way_i_l_1.html
gNewSense 2.0
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| GIMP, Pidgin, and OpenOffice are installed. Firefox is not (it's MPL, not
| GPL-licensed). If you either don't know the difference between the two or
| don't care, I understand. Epiphany is the default web browser.
|
| Aside from a few additions to the lineup (Emacs, GCC and the text-based BSD
| games package) pretty much everything else is the same default program setup
| as Ubuntu.
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| I noticed a few holdovers in the Add/Remove programs menu that I was
| surprised by. There was a check box for NDISWrapper and the Nvidia drivers.
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http://www.techiemoe.com/tech/gnewsense2.htm
Recent:
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
The brazilian Election Supreme Court migrates 430 thousand voting machines to
GNU / Linux
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| The brazilian Election Supreme Court announced at April 4th 2008, that the
| 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU / Linux electronic voting machines with
| software digital authentication.
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| The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (the brazilian Election Supreme Court),
| officially announced on April 4th, 2008, that the brazilian 2008 elections
| will use 430 thousand electronic voting machines migrated from VirtuOS and
| Windows CE to GNU / Linux and open source softwares for security and auditing
| defined by proper law.
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http://techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/tse_migrates_to_linux
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