Monthly Archives: August 2006

Make your Ubuntu video – win $100

We’ve all seen how cool technologies – such as Ruby on Rails – have wowed people through video. Ubuntu Video is a new blog that can do the same for our favourite operating system. John Little, the site’s creator, hunts down Ubuntu-related movies and links to them using YouTube. He told The Fridge what motivated […]

Ubuntu Weekly News #9 – new user mentors class, Ubuntu web universe

In Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue #9 for the week of August 6 – 12, 2006, you’ll find: The 6.06.1 point release Welcoming Jono Bacon, the new Ubuntu community manager The Ubuntu web universe – Ubuntu Counter and Ubuntu Video MOTU School Ubuntu New User Mentors Classroom Security updates New apps in Edgy Updates to 6.06 […]

Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS released

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS, the first maintenance release of “Dapper Drake”. This release includes both installable Desktop CDs and alternate text-mode installation CDs for several architectures, for Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu. Xubuntu is also included, although commercial support for it is not available from Canonical Ltd. […]

Mark Shuttleworth Interviewed on TV

More4 News, a Channel4 associate, interviewed Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth recently. The video of the interview is available at the online news story. Mark talks about philanthropy and technology in the interview, and we get to know that he loves the geek culture 🙂 When you’ve made £400m before your 30th birthday -you’d probably want […]

New ForumWiki team

Many Ubuntu users have found out that the wealth of knowledge available on the Ubuntu Forums is almost endless, as it seems there is an answer for almost every question. There are also a lot of forum users who contribute amazing guides to the howto section of the forum. Until now most of this information […]