Articles tagged ‘ubuntu’

A hands-on review of Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 on Ubuntu Server.

If you’re having problems pairing Bluetooth devices with the latest BlueZ GNOME software (bluez-gnome-1.8) try this script.

In this article we’ll focus on one of the most popular cloud computing solutions today, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and walk through the development of an open source mashup for EC2.

Ubuntu has caught the attention of the world. What makes Ubuntu so popular? Is it technology, is it community or is it just Mark Shuttleworth's charisma that brings Ubuntu its name and fame. In this interview Mark talks about Ubuntu in the global IT landscape, upcoming technology features, software patents, and what Ubuntu is doing in India.

Because the software industry is a relatively new and complex human endeavor, growth in the sophistication of the FOSS community, in its small way, mirrors similar stages in the evolution of civilization. Now, at their current stage of evolution, the software and technology industries are most advanced in the developed economies. But they are facing broad new competition from the developing world. The two sides of the digital divide can choose to compete each other out of existence, or they can rise and together meet the challenges created by their global interdependence.

In the short time that I've spent using Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger), I've really come to like it. The installation was painless, all my hardware was detected and configured correctly, package management was easy, and the clean-cut GNOME desktop is terrific.

In this review we look at Ubuntu 5.04 to see why it is creating a lot of excitement in the Linux community.