It has been confirmed that the official Ubuntu Forums have been hacked. At the moment there are not many details but what is confirmed is that the hackers have been successful in their attempts to gain access and they have managed to get every users username, password and email address. For the time being the Ubuntu Forums have been taken down and have been replaced with a simple splash page with ... »
Last night it seems that Sébastien Maes accidentally tripped over some images of a device dubbed the Ubuntu Edge. These images show a pretty sleek looking Ubuntu branded smartphone. Subsequent to Sébastien’s find the site/images have been taken down. However, that didn’t stop Sébastien grabbing the images before the site went down. As you can see from the image above the devic... »
The latest release of the ever popular Pinguy OS has been released. Pinguy OS 13.04 is loosely based on Ubuntu 13.04. However, this latest release has been consciously marked as a beta release by it’s developer Antoni Norman. What is Pinguy OS 13.04? As mentioned in the introduction, Pinguy OS 13.04 is a linux distribution that is loosely based on the Ubuntu base build. The whole point of... »
It's been a week since Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail was released. Many are enjoying the enhancements to Ubuntu's Unity desktop, but many former fans – including our own Kev Quirk– are not feeling very impressed. I was a big fan of Unity when it first debuted as the main desktop of Ubuntu in 11.04 two years ago, but recent performance issues and a dash design that feels more and mor... »
The latest version of Ubuntu has now been released, but with 13.04 being a none LTS (Long Term Support) release will it mean that it isn’t as stable as 12.04? Let’s take a look at our Ubuntu 13.04 review to see how it gets on. New Features Obviously Ubuntu 13.04 brings a number of new features. What’s the point in having a new release if nothing there are no new features right? ... »
Today marks the release of Ubuntu 13.04, the open source operating system made by Canonical. The release marks yet another milestone in the history of the world most popular open source OS. So what’s new now that Ubuntu 13.04 has been released? I’m writing this post from Ubuntu 13,04 as I’ve just replaced Windows 8 Pro with it. However, it’s still very early days for me on ... »
Today marks the release of the final development beta of Ubuntu‘s latest version, 13.04. Will you be upgrading? Also available with this release are the newly created Ubuntu Gnome and Ubuntu Kylin projects. The final beta is usually the time where I personally feel that Ubuntu is stable enough for me to upgrade my machines. However, just because it’s good enough for me doesn’t n... »
Canonical has announced the signature of an agreement with the Chinese government, within the framework of a development project, which aims to implement an operating system based on Ubuntu – Ubuntu Kylin. In the way of FOSS Kylin was formerly known as an ultra-secure operating system developed by China to withstand cyber attacks and cyber espionage attempts. The announcement of Ubuntu Kylin... »