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News March 5, 2013

Early Thoughts on Ubuntu Touch

At lunch today I was able to load up a version of Ubuntu’s touch based OS on my Asus EeePad Transformer, because I had come across a post on the infamous XDA forums from a hacker who has actually gotten this to work. Well … it works in that it boots! So I decided to [...]

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News June 8, 2012

by Joel McLaughlin

LinuxMint Project Releases the mintBox, a PC the Size of a Router

I have long been a fan of Clement “Clem” Lefebvre’s distribution of Linux that goes by the name LinuxMint. LinuxMint is based on the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux and also has a version that is based on the Debian distribution of Linux. LinuxMint is sleek and sticks to a traditional desktop style interface unlike Ubuntu’s Unity [...]

Ubuntu’s HUD: A New Way to Use Your Linux Computer

Yesterday Ubuntu’s community manager, Jono Bacon put up a post calling for people to test their brand new idea for the Unity interface they currently use. They call it HUD. HUD will be included in the next relse of Ubuntu, version 12.04, code named “Precise Pangolin”. With HUD, you can do many different things like [...]

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News December 3, 2010

by Joel McLaughlin

Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 1 reveals more of the future of Ubuntu

Late on the December 2nd, Ubuntu released the first Alpha quality code of their next version, 11.04, due out in April. An alpha release is code that isn’t ready to be used for production work. This release is designed more to get people testing and looking for bugs that cna be fixed before the beta, [...]

Ubuntu One Music Store Now in Public Beta

For a long long time, Linux users never really had a built in music store like Mac and Windows users do. That all changed today IF you use Ubuntu, specifically the 10.04 “Lucid Lynx” Beta 1. The service is run by 7digital in the US and pretty much everywhere. Songs are 320 Kbps MP3′s with [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” Preview

Spring is in the air! The trees are budding and the flowers are starting to come out of their slumber. It also means that it is time for another release of the desktop oriented Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu will frequently produce what is called a LTS or a Long Term Support release. That means unlike non [...]

Always Innovating Touchbook to Support Android and Ubuntu and More.

To refresh your memory, the Touchbook is a ARM based device that has been released that has Linux installed on it. It was their own version of Linux called AI OS. However, today I noticed the Always Innovating site has been updated. The Touch Book comes with an optimized home-made Linux-based OS. Guided by openness [...]

The Ubuntu Baby Rocker

My one-year old daughter appears to take after her mother in almost all ways, which is a really good thing. The only thing she seems to have inherited from me is that she doesn’t need a lot of sleep. She sleeps well at night, but once she’s up, she’s up, and that’s the end of [...]

Review: Jolicloud OS

Netbooks are all the rage, and while Linux did start out on netbooks, it seems Microsoft has been getting the lion share of the shipments. Well, if you have a netbook and are tired of Windows XP, but your hardware is too anemic Windows Vista or you don’t think you are geek enough for Linux, [...]

ZaReason Now Selling Terra A20 Netbook

Over on workswithu.com, I came across this sweet new Ubuntu Netbook. ZaReason has released the Terra A20 Netbook. While ZaReason is not the first to use Ubuntu, I personally think they will be one of the best! Base specs are an Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz CPU, 10 inch 1024×600 LCD, Intel GMA 950, Draft [...]

Support the World Wildlife Fund and Linux

Active Media Products, maker of SSD drives and WWF series USB drives, have announced a new USB drive that is sure to interest my penguinista friends out there. Yes it is a penguin thumb drive but not just any penguin thumb drive: This one comes with a live image of Ubuntu Linux 9.0.4 otherwise known [...]

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News February 16, 2009

by Joel McLaughlin

MOTO Development Group Demonstrates Android on E-Ink Display

This press release came down on Friday, but I wanted some time to digest the lengthy press release because there’s more than just Android on a E-Ink display in this release. First, the headline is that MOTO Development Group has the first example of Android running on a E-Ink display. E-Ink displays are like the [...]

10 Reasons I am Thankful for Free and Open Source Software

As we prepare to give thanks for all the things we’ve been blessed with over the past year and eat a bunch of food, I was thinking of one thing I am most certainly thankful for and that’s Open Source Software. Without it, I could not be writing this post as we are a user [...]

How Hackable is the Neuros Link? VERY!

Still being very geeked about the announcement from Neuros, at lunch I was perusing the forums on the Neuros site and discovered just how hackable the Neuros Link will be. The answer is: VERY The Neuros Link is running Ubuntu 8.10 according to Joe Born’s post in the forum and the specs page. That means [...]

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Reviews October 26, 2008

by Joel McLaughlin

Preview: Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”

We’re nearing the release of the Intrepid Ibex, and I thought I would share some of my thoughts after having used both Ubuntu and Kubuntu versions of the venerable and popular Ubuntu Linux. First, since there’s not a large Linux audience on Gear Diary, I will do a little explaining. The Linux Kernel was first [...]