Author Archives: boredandblogging

Meet Jane Silber

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-04-20

Everyone’s asking about Jane — now we have some answers, straight from the source. As the COO of Canonical and head of business development, Jane plays a crucial role in the breathtaking growth of the Ubuntu juggernaut! In a lengthy interview at the Desktop Linux Summit in San Diego, Computer World ask about the upcoming […]

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Beta Released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-04-20

Due to the schedule slip, the final release of Dapper didn't ship today, but instead the team has delivered a rock-your-socks-off beta for our testing pleasure… If ever there was a time for keen testers to upgrade, it's now! We strongly encourage you to try it out and report bugs so that the Ubuntu team […]

Edgy Eft … Edges Closer

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-04-19

sabdfl has declared that the version of Ubuntu past 6.06 will be named “Edgy Eft”. Usually referred to as “Dapper+1”, edgy is expected to be a little more … edgy: So dream a little about Xen for virtualisation, Xgl/AIGLX and other wonderful wobbly window bits, the goodness of Network Manager, a first flirt with multiarch […]

Speedy on Niagara

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-04-19

Colm MacCárthaigh gobsmacked himself — and us! — with some impressive stats that show Ubuntu tidily outperforming Solaris Express on Sun’s Niagara-powered T2000. Given that Niagara is optimised more for throughput and thread-count than raw number-crunching, Colm benchmarked Apache web requests. He reports that “the result is stunning. Ubuntu is now outperforming even Solaris express, […]

BehindUbuntu.org Launches

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-04-12

Have you ever wondered who the people behind Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu are and what they do? Or what they are like? Behind Ubuntu is a new series of interviews with those involved in bringing you Ubuntu. The first interview is with Jonathan Riddell from the Kubuntu Team. [Discuss]