ARM has announced a partnership between it and Canonical (of Ubuntu fame) to produce chips for netbooks. The chips will compete directly with Intel’s Atom CPUs and VIA’s C7 series. Canonical is porting Ubuntu to run on the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processors and is set to be released in April 2009.
Wikimedia, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia and its related sites (Wiktionary, etc.), has moved its entire server infrastructure to Ubuntu Server. In the pas Wikimedia has run a mixture of Ubuntu, Red Hat, and Fedora.
“It definitely has gotten a lot simpler,” Vibber said. Mass upgrades can be done more easily, and the data center can be managed as a unit, he said.
“We can run the same combination everywhere, and it does the same thing” and runs the same software, Vibber said. “Everything is a million times easier.”
The move has been seen in the industry as a major victory for Ubuntu Server, and other community based distributions, such as CentOS.
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As promised in my previous post, here’s a gallery of screenshots from Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” Beta.
The look hasn’t really changed that much, and the install procedure is nearly identical with previous Ubuntu versions. All these screenshots are from a virtual machine in VirtualBox, so they do contain bars above and below the window that won’t be there in a real install.
Canonical have just officially released the first beta of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. This new version of Ubuntu comes with a slew of improvements over 8.04, which was released back in April this year.
Codenamed “Intrepid Ibex”, 8.10 continues Ubuntu’s
proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source
technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
Canonical’s CEO and founder of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, recently announced on his blog that Canonical will be “hiring a team who will work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE, with a view to doing some of the heavy lifting required to turn those desktop experience ideas into reality.”
Hope fully this will result in a better and more consistent user experience in Linux. Mr. Shuttleworth also offered some other advice to free software projects:
- Make your site visually appealing,
- Do something different and do it very, very well,
- Call users to action and give them an immediate, rewarding experience.
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