The battle for your desktop

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-04-28

Information Week posted an article on a desktop battle between Ubuntu and Microsoft.

Is Linux finally ready to take on Windows as a desktop OS? We tried out both Vista and Ubuntu on individual PCs to see which works better. Here’s who won.

The articles covers the installations, hardware and PnP support, software installation and networking, word processing, multimedia and image management, as well as backing up and restoring. Overall a fair shake of the Ubuntu versus Microsoft battle with an outcome that is very respectful.

Ubuntu’s best strength is handling the ordinary task-based day-to-day stuff. Vista has a level of completeness and polish that some people find it hard to do without.

To read the complete review, take a look at the Ubuntu Linux Vs. Windows Vista: The Battle For Your Desktop.

Kubuntu an aKademy 2007 sponsor

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-04-28

Kubuntu is once again a sponsor of the KDE conference aKademy 2007. Kubuntu shares sponsorship to this year's aKademy with others organizations such as Trolltech (the developers of Qt), the Linux Foundation, and Google. aKademy is the yearly meeting of the KDE community. This year's event will be held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, and will last 8 days from June 30th to July 7th. aKademy 2007 will feature talks and presentations by outstanding KDE developers, joint development, bug-fixing and coding sessions, workshops for all KDE contributors, and design, usability and polishing work. You can bet KDE 4 will be the number one topic of the event.

Berlin Tube + Ubuntu = Ãœber Tube

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-04-27

Everyone is talking about the latest Ubuntu release. We've heard that even the Berlin subway info system has got in on the act.

The text of the announcement says:

The free OS Ubuntu is available in version 7.04 from April 19th. For more information: http://www.ubuntuusers.de

Berlin metro system is now officially our favourite!

If you have more great marketing stories about Ubuntu, tell us about them at fridge-devel@lists.ubuntu.com.

Ubuntu training launch

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-04-25

The first of a series of courses to be launched in 2007 will be released in May.

Whilst the Ubuntu Certified Professional certification has been available for almost a year now, as of May, two five day courses, Ubuntu Professional Courses 1 & 2, will assist System Administrators to pass the required LPI 101, LPI 102 and the Ubuntu 199 exams and achieve the Ubuntu Certified Professional certification.

The courses will be provided through Authorised Training Partners in a number of locations; the first courses will be held in Montreal, Canada on the 14th May and Stuttgart, Germany on 21st May. For full details regarding the course and availability, check out:

www.ubuntu.com/partners/training

If you would like to receive updates regarding what’s new in the world of Ubuntu training and/or be involved in developing new courses, please see: www.ubuntu.com/partners/training/contact.

Involvement could include translation, proof reading, participation pilot runs and much more.

Weekly News: Issue 37

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-04-23

Issue #37 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, covering the week of April 15th – 21st, 2007, is now available. In this issue you can find these stories:

  • Ubuntu 7.04 released and related press coverage
  • The Funky Feisty Competition
  • Ubuntu Open Week
  • Bolivian LoCo co-hosting a Latin American install fest.

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News please submit it via email or on the wiki!

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