Ubuntu

Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released

Canonical on Thursday released version 7.04 of Ubuntu Linux, nicknamed Feisty Fawn, but the company's Web site was unable to keep up with the demand for the software.

Ubuntu got an unsolicited endorsement from Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell, a computer maker that's been wrestling with how to meet demand for desktop Linux. On Wednesday, the company announced on its Direct2Dell blog that Michael Dell got a new notebook with Feisty Fawn installed.

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Ubuntu's 'feisty' spin on virtualization

The Ubuntu version of Linux is getting more virtualization-friendly, but in a different way than its top rivals.

Canonical on Thursday is releasing Ubuntu 7.04, also known as Feisty Fawn, sporting two newer virtualization technologies. First is paravirt-ops, a layer that lets Linux get along better with the dominant virtualization software today, VMware. Second is KVM, which lets Linux run other operating systems as guests.

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How-to: Instal Ubuntu Linux on a usb pendrive

This tutorial will show how-to install Ubuntu on a usb stick. Even though this tutorial uses Ubuntu as its base distribution, you could virtually use any type of Linux liveCD distribution.

Being able to run Linux out of a usb bar is a great way to enjoy the live CD experience (being able to use Linux on any computer you might get by) and the big advantage of being easier to carry around than a CD.

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Make Ubuntu Linux run faster

Hardware-hacks site ExtremeTech shows you how to improve Ubuntu performance using a variety of techniques. The article is actually an entire chapter excerpted from a book on hacking Ubuntu. It covers topics such as viewing running processes, identifying resources, finding process startups, tuning kernel parameters and speeding up boot time. Granted, the focus is on the Dapper Drake version of Ubuntu, which is now two versions behind, but there's plenty of good information here. If you're fairly new to Linux or just want to learn some tricks of the tweaking trade, this is worthwhile reading

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