Ubuntu is a very complete OS, especially the Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), but there are still make tweaks you can do just after installing it that will make Ubuntu shine like never. I will explain here some things I do just after have ubuntu installed.
Fedora project has just released version 8 of community-driven Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat. Release notes available here. Ars Technica has a roundup of new features.
Mini-lookup to some small fun Linux games!
Someone else has been digging Linux games too, check out Top 21 Linux Games Of 2007.
Novell scores a big customer as Peugeot is slated to become one of the few large scale conversions to desktop Linux. Peugeot will convert 20 000 desktops to SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and will purhase 2500 SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers.
The usual claim in conversions like this is the training ‘because Linux is so much harder than Windows’. Well, gladly Peugeot seems to prove it wrong: “The new desktops do not require any special training, except for a quick, double page set of explanations”. Congratulations to Peugeot for dumping Windows in 20k workstations! I can hear chairs flying at Redmond…
Tips and tricks to get Half-Life 2: Deathmatch running on Linux.
I’m running Gutsy Gibbon and noticed that Trash can naming is changed. It’s now named as Deleted Items instead of Trash 
Now this is big - the court as officially ruled that Novell owns the UNIX copyrights.
[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.
This basically means SCO is screwed. They own a lot of money for Novell. And IBM’s nazguls will tear apart whatever is left of SCO.
For those who don’t know what this is about, SCO is one scumbag company trying to play random lawsuit lottery to get rich. Here’s the lawsuit in a nutshell:
Groklaw has more (and better) information about the SCO saga.
Asus introduced extremely nice, small (and cheap!) Linux laptop - Asus Eee PC. Priced 199$ and 299$ for larger model, this can potentially be the hottest consumer Linux machine available. And did I say already it’s small? Smaller model boosts 7″ tft with 800×480 resolution and no hard drive or optical drives. The machine has USB to connect additional optical media or hard drives. The machine also has MMC/SD/MS card reader for additional storage. CPU is 900mhz Intel Pentium M (Dothan), and Eee has 512mb ram. The bigger model comes with 10″ tft screen - but the specifications for 10″ model hasn’t been released yet. If it has 1024x or 1280x wide resolution, count me in for buying one. 800×480 is just too small for pretty much anything.
The Linux inside is custom distribution made by Xandros. It has custom ‘tab-view’ user interface which can be changed back to “full” mode which reveals a standard KDE desktop. Ships with Firefox, OpenOffice and other usual suspects. See Hothardware’s page 2 for UI shots.
More information about the Eee laptop:
The Ubuntu Live conference began in Portland Oregon July 22nd, and Ars Technica has coverage of Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote from the conference.
Shuttleworth revealed many interesting things about the future of Ubuntu, especially the server version of Ubuntu:
And couple interesting notes about the next release, Ubuntu 7.10, also known as Gutsy Gibbon:
In a nutshell the future of Ubuntu, and Linux in general, is pretty interesting.
