Author Archives: boredandblogging

IA64, HPPA and SPARC Ports Archive Open

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-13

Fabio Massimo Di Nitto has officially announced the Ports Archive for IA64 (Itanium), HPPA (1.1 or later), and UltraSPARC. A purely volunteer effort, the ports team will make Ubuntu available to communities sometimes neglected by other distributions. Find out more and say hello to the team in the #ubuntu-ports channel on freenode.

Announcing Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu 5.10

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-13

After a long six months of development, the Ubuntu team has announced the release of Ubuntu 5.10, also known as “Breezy Badger”. Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for your desktop or server, with a fast and easy install, regular releases, a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default, every other package you can imagine […]

OSDL Desktop Linux Survey

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-12

The sabdfl calls! Ubuntu users far and wide, please participate in the OSDL Linux Desktop Survey: This survey will help us understand what features are most important for the next release. We are just starting to set the feature list for Dapper (6.04) and would appreciate your knowledge and ideas. In addition, if you have […]

Mass Ubuntu deployment in Macedonia

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-10

Арангел Ангов has written up a preliminary report of 5,000 new Ubuntu desktops in the Macedonian school system. After a few meetings and some research Ubuntu just came up as first on the list. The main factor that influenced our choice was the interoperability of Ubuntu with other operating systems.

LinuxWorld Award for best open source distribution

By boredandblogging | Published: 2005-10-07

On October 5th at the LinuxWorld Award ceremomy in London, Ubuntu received the user-nominated award for best open source distribution. Some of the other winners during the evening included Alan Cox for a lifetime achievement award for his work with the Linux Kernel, SpreadFirefox for best marketing campaign, Joomla for best open source project, and […]