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Canonical's services play: Revenue windfall or trap?
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| It's tough to compete in an industry where
| your customers expect your product to be
| free. Such is the case with software, where
| giveaways have seemingly become the norm.
| (Try selling a Web browser or an audio
| player in 2010.) Some developers have
| turned to advertising to underwrite their
| efforts. More recently, a few software
| vendors have begun offering Internet
| services as a way to add value to their
| products and raise revenue. But the latter
| model is not without its pitfalls.
|
| Take Canonical, for example. The company
| behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution now
| offers cloud-based data synchronization
| services under the Ubuntu One brand. You
| can get 2GB of storage for free; $10 per
| month gets you 50GB. Soon Canonical will be
| expanding its offering to include contact
| synchronization for smartphones -- also for
| a fee -- and an Ubuntu One Music Store as a
| Linux-based competitor to iTunes.
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/canonicals-services-play-revenue-windfall-or-trap-878
Ubuntu Is A Poor Standard Bearer For Linux
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| So how do we, in the Linux press make
| people outside of the Linux community aware
| that Linux does not equate to Ubuntu? That
| is the real challenge we now face if we
| want Linux to be more widely accepted.
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http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/ubuntu-is-a-poor-standard-bear.html
Testing and Feedback in Ubuntu
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| I was reading an article about how Ubuntu
| is a bad standards barer for the âLinuxâ
| desktop. Iâll leave aside how paradoxical
| the brand âLinuxâ is used to mean desktop
| when it means nothing of the sort and I
| assume she means FreeDesktop (FDO).
|
| But I was struck by the problems that she
| has had and the comments to the entry. When
| comparing them to my own support roster for
| the past few months of sudden grub
| mortality (8 cases) where grub just looses
| all ability to boot anything with cryptic
| errors such as âInvalid symbol âuâ foundâ
| and âError 15â.
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http://doctormo.org/2010/04/10/testing-and-feedback-in-ubuntu/
Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 Kernel
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| Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 uses a kernel based on
| version 2.6.32.9 (2.6.32-16.25). But
| already now the current stable version is
| 2.6.33.2 so I would not be surprised if the
| release would be based on this one (or even
| a newer one). Check your kernel version
| with the command uname -r (from your
| terminal). If you have a new computer with
| dual core, i5 or i7 processor, then you
| should consider updating your kernel to a
| kernel where support for older cpuÂs are
| removed. You can try to use the server
| version of the kernel instead of the
| generic one.
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http://www.henriksen-rom.com/william/2010/04/ubuntu-10-04-beta-2-kernel/
Recent:
Dellâs Ubuntu Linux Strategy Extends to China
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| From time to time, Dell does a poor job
| articulating its Ubuntu Linux strategy. But
| sources close to Dell and Canonical
| continue to insist the relationship remains
| healthy and âstronger than ever.â Hereâs an
| update on Dellâs Ubuntu strategy â which
| includes a dramatic Dell-Ubuntu PC push in
| China.
|
| First, some background: Dell began shipping
| Ubuntu preloads in mid-2007 on selected
| U.S. desktops. Dellâs decision to offer
| Ubuntu came only a few months after
| Microsoft launched Windows Vista. That
| certainly caught my attention.
|
| By July 2007, I jumped on the Dell Ubuntu
| bandwagon, and hoped to eventually launch
| an Ubuntu-centric web site that tracked
| Canonicalâs business strategy.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2010/04/07/dells-ubuntu-strategy-extends-to-china/
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