In a message to the ubuntu-devel mailing list, the Ubuntu Release Team has announced that there are some slight changes to the release schedule of Ubuntu 11.04. According to the original release schedule, the final release of Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narhwal" on 28th April was to be preceded by a Release Candidate on 21st April.
Oh glorious day! After two years of development, one of the prime Linux distributions has pushed out a new release - Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' has been released. The most fascinating aspect fo this new release is that it includes Debian/kFreeBSD s a technology preview, which fascinates me to no end. Of course, there's a whole lot more, including a brand new website for the project - the first major redesign in 13 years.
Recent meetings held among the RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, and Mageia communities has resulted in an informal agreement on an architecture for a common app installer API. Yet the dream of a universal GNU/Linux app-store may be much farther off.
Word of the app-installer meetings at OpenSUSE's Nuremberg, Germany, offices earlier this month emerged last week in a blog post by OpenDesktop.org's Frank Karlitschek on Jan. 24. This was followed by a more detailed Jan. 26 report on the meetings by Swapnil Bhartiya in Muktware.
Linux has a long history of software development, and a flourishing range of applications that meet even the most bizarre of needs.
A quick poke around freshmeat.net is testament to this, with its rich tapestry of useful, wild, and often wacky apps. Distros such as Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu bring these applications to their users with a quick apt-get or a yum install.
Although you won't hear this through official channels, Barnes and Noble's Nook has been plenty of fun for hacksters. And what spells fun better than U-b-u-n-t-u? Certainly nothing that we can mention in mixed company, that's for sure! If you pop over to the always lively XDA Developers Forum, you'll see a crazy little post wherein the author took inspiration from a Nexus One hack and decided to port Ubuntu to the Nook Color. And by jove, it looks like it's worked... even if it is by accounts "a little laggy" and not without errors.
The Linux 2.6.37 kernel was released this week with improved symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) scalability and the addition of many new hardware drivers. Other 2.6.37 highlights include security, power management, and memory management enhancements, plus an I/O throttling speed boost, and (finally) a disabled Big Kernel Lock.
Linus Torvalds is starting 2011 off with a bang with the release of the 2.6.37 Linux kernel. The new kernel is the first release since 2.6.36 debuted in October.The goal of the new 2.6.37 kernel is to provide developers with improved Linux performance, security and scalability.
From a performance perspective the 2.6.37 kernel removes the Big Kernel Lock (BKL). The BKL is a legacy part of the Linux kernel that has now been fully supplanted by more modern and efficient locking mechanisms for kernel processes.
Running Linux from a USB stick is a fun and sometimes useful distraction. It can be handy if you want to try another distribution, for example, but can't commit to the drive space. Or perhaps your netbook insists on running Windows while your heart hankers for Ubuntu. But running a single, monogamous distribution can be a little limiting, and there's only one reason why you can't squeeze a few more alongside on any decent-sized USB stick: it used to be quite a difficult process.
Sure, the HTC HD2 smartphone ships with Windows Mobile 6.5. But that doesn’t mean you’re stuck with that operating system. We’ve seen hackers take to this phone like ducks take to water, thanks to its 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, high resolution 800 x 480 pixel display, and other attractive features which made the HD2 one of the best phones around… about a year ago.
PC World - It's a testament to how far Linux has come that users today don't typically have to use the command line if they don't want to. Such is the quality of the graphical user interfaces in many modern Linux distributions that there's simply no need, in general.
Yet the command line can be a highly efficient way of getting things done in the Linux world--it's often a much simpler, easier and more direct method than clicking through all the menu choices, in fact.
