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Ubuntu: Canonical Focuses on Wall Street
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| Now, Canonical hopes to begin the
| discussion with Wall Street firms as well.
| True believers include Equitec, a financial
| services firm that moved its proprietary
| trading software from 100 Windows-based
| servers to 30 Ubuntu-based servers,
| according to Canonical. (Side note: Iâm
| having difficulty getting an update from
| Equitec regarding the Ubuntu deployment as
| well as the companyâs business status.)
| Somewhat similarly, Linux Box â a solutions
| provider in Ann Arbor, Michigan â has
| started promoting Ubuntu to financial
| services firms.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2010/04/05/ubuntu-canonical-focuses-on-wall-street/
Canonical announces phone sync for Ubuntu One subscribers
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| Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu
| Linux distribution, announced today that
| its Ubuntu One cloud service will soon gain
| support for mobile contact synchronization.
| The feature will be available to users who
| are paying for the higher tier of Ubuntu
| One service.
|
| Canonical officially launched the Ubuntu
| One service last year alongside the release
| of Ubuntu 9.10. The service allows users to
| keep files and some application data
| synchronized between multiple computers.
| The company is planning to roll out several
| significant new Ubuntu One features when
| Ubuntu 10.04, codenamed Lucid Lynx, is
| released later this month. The new Ubuntu
| One music store, which is integrated into
| the Rhythmbox audio player, will use Ubuntu
| One to deploy purchased music to all of the
| user's computers. Much like the music
| store, the new mobile synchronization
| features are opening up for testing, but
| will officially launch alongside Ubuntu
| 10.04.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/canonical-announces-phone-sync-for-ubuntu-one-subscribers.ars
Bisigi Themes Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Testing PPA (And Lots Of Updates)
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/04/bisigi-themes-ubuntu-1004-lucid-testing.html
What's coming in the new Ubuntu Linux desktop?
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| I'm already using the beta of the
| forthcoming version of Ubuntu 10.04 and I
| like it a lot. I decided to ask the good
| people at Canonical, the company behind
| Ubuntu, what they thought about the new
| Ubuntu, scheduled to arrive on April 29th,
| and this is what Gerry Carr, head of
| platform marketing had do say.
|
| One thing I noticed in looking at the beta
| of Ubuntu 10.04 was that Ubuntu, more than
| ever, is becoming the Linux desktop
| distribution for new users. I was right.
| Carr said, "We want new users." Ubuntu has
| never been the distribution for Linux
| purists or experts. "We've always felt that
| one of the most important things that we
| can bring, hopefully, to open source is
| popularity as a desktop OS."
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/15889/whats_coming_in_the_new_ubuntu_linux_desktop
New Ubuntu look too destructive
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| Take a good hard look at your screen and
| ask yourself if it is possible to
| accidentally close an application while
| reaching for the File menu. In most cases
| the answer is a clear no, but for users of
| Ubuntu, it has become a very real and
| dangerous use case.
|
| All the fuss began in March when the
| decision was taken to refresh Ubuntu's look
| and branding, which included a set of new
| default themes that moved the trio of
| minimise, maximise and close buttons from
| the PC standard right-hand side to the left
| side of the title bar. Suffice to say that
| despite the positives of the updated Ubuntu
| look, users overwhelmingly detested the
| movement of the window buttons â as shown
| by the over 630 comments, the vast majority
| of which are intensely negative, on this
| bug report.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/new-ubuntu-look-too-destructive-339302224.htm
Lucid Lynx two weeks after
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| While still in Beta, Lucid Lynx is humming
| along quite nicely two weeks after I
| installed it on my Acer laptop. Sure,
| there are the little annoyances linked to
| using a Beta product from Ubuntu, for
| instance, the large daily updates of
| software and the occasional application
| crash. For the most part, though, Lucid
| Lynx is quite usable and I'm growing to
| like it.
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http://ubuntuliving.blogspot.com/2010/04/lucid-lynx-two-weeks-after.html
What To Do After Installing Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx? Run This Script!
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/04/what-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-1004.html
Unity-based TinyMe 2010 RC1
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| I've used Puppy, DSL, and a few other
| lightweights to bring some old junkers back
| from the dead but never had the pleasure of
| using TinyMe, until now. The Unity-based
| TinyMe 2010 is of course a minimalist
| distro and it uses the Openbox session and
| window manager. The 2010 RC1 download I
| used is only 200MB and runs as a live CD.
| You can get a stable version from the
| TinyMe download page.
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http://beginlinux.com/desktop_training/reviews/tinyme-screenshots
Recent:
Ubuntu 10.04 Beta One Released â My First Impressions
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| Iâve read about all of the changes online
| (which are below), and from what Iâve read,
| itâs faster, more reliable, cleaner bootup
| screen (which is very simplified), and a
| brand new theme. It always seems to be that
| Ubuntu always has a different theme when
| they release a new version!
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http://techcores.com/2010/03/30/ubuntu-10-04-beta-one-released-my-first-impressions/
Ubuntu Unravelled
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| There is also an Ubuntu Foundation that has
| dedicated funds of $10 million that could
| keep Ubuntu going if Canonical stopped
| backing it. Iâve previously been critical
| of Canonical keeping the grasp on the
| trademark, and not giving the dormant
| Foundation greater control. With the funds
| Canonical has put into Ubuntu I suppose it
| is reasonable for it to have a pseudo-
| guaranteed position. Mark Shuttleworth has
| been a member of the âCommunity Councilâ
| since inception and was willing to stand
| for election as if he was any other person
| of the community. This is quite telling of
| Canonical not enforcing a control that it
| legally could. At the last developer summit
| Mark announced that he would be passing the
| helm to Jane Silber allowing Mark to take a
| more âhands onâ role.
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http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/opinion/ubuntu-unravelled/
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