Matias Vangsnes

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Celtics’ mission is to recapture Ubuntu feeling

Saturday, October 6th, 2012

“You have a new team now,” Pierce said. “You have four or five players from a year ago, and it’s up to us to implement the new guys, to help them understand the kind of culture we have around here, the team concept, what it means to be a Celtic.

Celtics’ mission is to recapture Ubuntu feeling

Friday, October 5th, 2012

“You have a new team now,” Pierce said. “You have four or five players from a year ago, and it’s up to us to implement the new guys, to help them understand the kind of culture we have around here, the team concept, what it means to be a Celtic.

Boston Celtics Head Coach Doc Rivers Hopes To Recapture “Ubuntu” On …

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Greg M Cooper – US PRESSWIRE Boston- Ubuntu is a word that very means very simply I can only be all I can be if you are all you can be. The Boston Celtics have long tried to engrain Ubuntu into their players as the sole team mindset in order to create a family like [...]

Ubuntu and Amazon Make Uneasy Bedfellows

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Well it’s been another tempestuous week here in the Linux blogosphere, rounding out a month that never ran short on controversy, to put it mildly. The topic du jour this time? None other than Canonical’s decision to integrate Amazon results into searches done through the Dash on Ubuntu’s Unity desktop. In fact, the rowdy Slashdot [...]

Working Ubuntu 13.04 Release Date Announced

Monday, October 1st, 2012

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Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2: Preview

Sunday, September 30th, 2012

GNOME and Windows 8 developments have resulted in some controversial changes for Ubuntu 12.10 (codenamed Quantal Quetzal), which has now reached the Beta 2 stage. Fortunately, solutions now seem to be in place in time for the 18 October release to proceed as scheduled. Canonical has generated further controversy by introducing online scope results, specifically [...]

Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2: Preview

Saturday, September 29th, 2012

GNOME and Windows 8 developments have resulted in some controversial changes for Ubuntu 12.10 (codenamed Quantal Quetzal), which has now reached the Beta 2 stage. Fortunately, solutions now seem to be in place in time for the 18 October release to proceed as scheduled. Canonical has generated further controversy by introducing online scope results, specifically [...]

Meet The Ubuntu Women – They’re More Involved Than You Think

Saturday, September 29th, 2012

Take a quick look around the Ubuntu forums and IRC channels and you can miss the pattern: it’s mostly men. That is not to say that there is no diversity in the open source community, only that you need to look a little deeper to find it. According to a recent survey, only 12% of [...]

Canonical adds a ‘kill switch’ for Ubuntu’s Amazon search

Friday, September 28th, 2012

The new integration of Amazon search results in Ubuntu Linux 12.10 has stirred up quite a hornet’s nest of controversy over the past week or so among observers unimpressed by Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth’s calm assurances that users’ privacy would be maintained. According to two separate investigations over the past few days, in fact, Shuttleworth’s [...]

Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2: Preview

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

GNOME and Windows 8 developments have resulted in some controversial changes for Ubuntu 12.10 (codenamed Quantal Quetzal), which has now reached the Beta 2 stage. Fortunately, solutions now seem to be in place in time for the 18 October release to proceed as scheduled. Canonical has generated further controversy by introducing online scope results, specifically [...]

Controversy Erupts over Amazon Search in Ubuntu 12.10

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Among the new features planned for Ubuntu 12.10, one, a Unity “lens” that generates search results from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), has been stirring a lot of controversy lately — so much that Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth recently responded publicly to what he’s calling “FUD-points” regarding the lens. But what will it take to put users [...]

Ubuntu Education Fund Launches Innovative Fundraising Campaign at 2012 …

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – ”How can we design our world to create more opportunity and more equality?” The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, themed Designing for Impact, asks this question. This is the ideal venue for Ubuntu Education Fund to launch the U.ME.WE campaign. U.ME.WE is Ubuntu’s most ambitious CGI Commitment [...]

Now in Ubuntu Linux 12.10: Amazon search results

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

News about Ubuntu Linux 12.10 is coming fast and furious as the software’s October release date approaches, but it seems fair to say that not even the project’s Secure Boot plans have been as controversial as a new feature that came to light late last week. Specifically, the latest prerelease version of Ubuntu 12.10 “Quantal [...]

Shuttleworth defends Ubuntu Linux integrating Amazon

Monday, September 24th, 2012

Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s founder, approves of Amazon search result integration into Ubuntu Linux and thinks you should too. You’d think someone had just kicked some Ubuntu Linux fans’ puppy. Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, has added Amazon search results to the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Dash search function. Some users hate this and have declared Ubuntu [...]

Ubuntu Linux changes its plans for Windows 8 Secure Boot

Sunday, September 23rd, 2012

Microsoft’s “Secure Boot” plans for Windows 8 have already caused no end of controversy in the Linux community, and certainly one of the more divisive announcements in recent months was Canonical’s decision to drop the GRUB 2 bootloader as part of its solution for Ubuntu Linux. It didn’t take long for the Free Software Foundation [...]

Ubuntu, not hooliganism, will build a better society says Zuma

Sunday, September 23rd, 2012

Without respect and ubuntu, members of society become hooligans, President Jacob Zuma said in Alexandra on Saturday. “We believe that all human beings are equal and important… that they must be respected by virtue of their humanity. “Once we lose respect for one another and ubuntu, what type of society will we be? “If we [...]

Ubuntu Linux changes its plans for Windows 8 Secure Boot

Saturday, September 22nd, 2012

Microsoft’s “Secure Boot” plans for Windows 8 have already caused no end of controversy in the Linux community, and certainly one of the more divisive announcements in recent months was Canonical’s decision to drop the GRUB 2 bootloader as part of its solution for Ubuntu Linux. It didn’t take long for the Free Software Foundation [...]

NexPhone concept: an Ubuntu-based, Android ‘brain in your pocket’

Friday, September 21st, 2012

Canonical generated significant excitement earlier this year when it announced its Ubuntu for Android plans, which included dockable smartphones that can launch the full Ubuntu Linux desktop. No specific names were mentioned at the time regarding manufacturer partners, but recently a new concept project appeared that seeks to bring that vision to life. Billed as [...]

Canonical updates Ubuntu Landscape management platform

Thursday, September 20th, 2012

Canonical has enhanced the management landscape once again for Ubuntu Linux. The Ubuntu sponsor last week released an upgrade of its Landscape systems management platform that offers a bevy of new features including enhanced reporting capabilities for compliance management, roles-based access control, a robust API, bare metal provisioning capabilties and better integration with the Ubuntu [...]

Canonical updates Ubuntu Landscape management platform

Thursday, September 20th, 2012

Canonical has enhanced the management landscape once again for Ubuntu Linux. The Ubuntu sponsor last week released an upgrade of its Landscape systems management platform that offers a bevy of new features including enhanced reporting capabilities for compliance management, roles-based access control, a robust API, bare metal provisioning capabilties and better integration with the Ubuntu [...]

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