Tag Archives : Ubuntu

Canonical, the official distributor of the Ubuntu operating system, announced that the new version will be available from April 28. The Ubuntu version 11.4 will bring the new interface Unity, with modern graphics and visually reminiscent of the design used in tablets and smartphones.  In older PCs Ubuntu will detect if the graphics processor has support [...]

  Canonical, while maintaining a more user-friendly Linux distributions market attacks very well at a point where Linux, generally speaking, often fails: marketing. They have a nice and striking visual identity, shop for products, and spared not facilitate the use of Ubuntu to the four winds and say what they are doing. Some decisions may sound [...]

The MindTeck, consulting company specializing in low-power systems, published as part of an article the result of comparing the power consumption of Windows XP with Windows 7. The results indicate that the latest version is more economical in all configurations tested, and the difference in consumption may reach 25%. An important factor for the research [...]

Dell will not sell more computers in Europe with Linux preinstalled, through its website – the primary source of order. From now on, consumers can only purchase laptops and computers with the system on purchases made by telephone. “Dell offers more than two years, the possibility of the customer choosing Ubuntu from the factory, and continues [...]

Security experts have discovered that Ubuntu “Lucid Lynx” 10:04 is able to see and change the personal information of iPhone handsets, despite the protection of PIN codes. The tests involved the upgraded 3G model and others with various versions of Apple‘s operating system. According to the site ZDNet, Marienfeldt Bernd Herbeck and [...]

Canonical introduced to the world on Monday a preview of Ubuntu Light, a new version of its Linux distribution that will be embedded in desktops and notebooks from several manufacturers. Designed as a competitor systems like SplashTop of DeviceVM, Ubuntu Light will have as main features a new interface optimized for low resolution screens of netbooks [...]

The Synaptics, a maker of track pads, today announced that its software suite for Gesture touchpads is available now for OEMs. With multitouch support for some of its trackpads models. With it, usersof distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE and others may soon join the fashion of gestures initiated by the iPhone and enlarge images with a pinch gesture [...]

As the latest fashion seems to be the launch of tablets, more and more corporations begin to plan and launch the most different models to suit all tastes. Sharp has announced a new product in its line of ultraportable, called Netwalker. The Netwalker PC-T1 is a version without the keyboard “mini netbook” PC-Z1 Netwalker released last August. [...]

Besides the free online file storage and song store, users of the next version of Ubuntu (10.04, after the next version of Ubuntu – 9.10 Karmic Koala -, has the code name Lucid Lynx) may have another resource to integrate computers with the cloud: the synchronization of address books on the desktop and a smartphone via an online service. Everything [...]

As expected, today launched the newest version of Ubuntu, possibly the Linux distribution most beloved today. And this for a very good reason: Ubuntu, besides a great look, it’s easy, fast and safe (this last one is something that Windows isn’t enough). Karmic codenamed Koala, version 9.10 promises to bring lower boot times, improved User [...]