Tag Archives: Release

10 Rocking Features in 10 Days: The killer feature – the Ubuntu community

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-10-18

Tomorrow is the launch of Ubuntu 7.10. We have taken a look at all the cool features that make 7.10 so cool, we come to the best feature of all: the community. So why is the community the best feature? Without a community and a rocking one like we have, none of the very cool […]

10 Rocking Features in 10 Days: NTFS partition writing

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-10-17

As we close in on the 7.10 release, today we take a look at NTFS writing, the ability for our Ubuntu machines to write to NTFS formatted partitions, primarily those of Windows XP and Vista. But couldn't I do this in previous versions of Ubuntu? Nope! What you could do was see your Windows NTFS […]

Mozilla Team needs YOU!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-10-16

Alexander Sack and the Mozilla Team are working on updated Firefox packages for Dapper, Edgy and Feisty releases and they need YOU to test them! To help you help them, a special QA report page has been created. This Firefox testing effort is a great way to contribute to Ubuntu and is important for helping […]

10 Rocking Feature in 10 Days: AppArmor

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-10-16

If you are joining us now, here is a bit of a refresher: as we close in on the 7.10 (also known as Gutsy Gibbon) release, we are taking a look at the various cool features that we are going to get as part of this new Ubuntu. We have already looked at Deskbar and […]

10 Rocking Features in 10 Days: Better Hardware Support

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-10-15

Yesterday we took a look at the new Firefox plugin work. Today we turn to one of the most vexing of questions for many Linux users: hardware support and all that it means. Why is hardware so vexing? Basically, there is a lot of hardware and each requires a driver. People keep making new pieces […]