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  In Pictures: Ubuntu 13.04

• Dell buys Enstratius to beef up multi-cloud management chops

  By Brandon Butler | 09 May, 2013 14:28

  Dell has purchased Enstratius, a company that allows customers to manage cloud resources across multiple providers from a single management console for an undisclosed sum this week.

• In Pictures: Ubuntu 13.04

  By Jon Gold | 29 April, 2013 09:17

  “Raring Ringtail” features performance and stability upgrades, along with social changes – but the controversial shopping lens remains.

• Fuduntu Linux to shut down, new distro to follow

  By Jon Gold | 17 April, 2013 22:04

  The team in charge of maintaining and developing Fuduntu, a Linux-based operating system designed as a hybrid of Fedora and Ubuntu, voted Sunday to close down the project.

• Four alternatives to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone

  By Michael Homnick | 26 March, 2013 13:24

  Today Android and iOS dominate the smartphone market, combining to provide the operating systems for more than 95 percent of smartphones. Still, not everyone is a fan of the Apple-Google mobile universe.

• Official Twitter app for Ubuntu Touch canceled

  By Jon Gold | 25 March, 2013 20:09

  A Canonical software engineer told a public mailing list on Friday that there would be no official Twitter app released with Ubuntu Touch.

• Dell, Canonical announce new Ubuntu 12.04 support for servers

  By Jon Gold | 11 March, 2013 21:14

  Dell's 12th-generation PowerEdge server line now supports the use of Ubuntu 12.04 across the board, thanks to a new agreement between the hardware maker and developer Canonical that provides Ubuntu Advantage services to Dell's customers.

• Ubuntu tablet pre-order raises eyebrows for several reasons

  By Jon Gold | 06 March, 2013 14:16

  The news yesterday that an Australian company called Intermatrix has begun offering pre-orders of the first dedicated Ubuntu tablet has already made waves in gadget circles - but many raised questions about the device's legitimacy.

• Canonical tips new Mir display server for use in next-gen Ubuntu Unity shell

  By Jon Gold | 04 March, 2013 23:33

  The next version of Ubuntu's Unity shell will be based on an all-new window and display management framework called Mir, rather than the older X and Weston systems, parent company Canonical announced today.

• 10 open source projects to watch this year

  By Katherine Noyes | 31 January, 2013 14:46

  Open source software projects may not typically have the marketing budgets necessary to match launch events like the one Microsoft just held for Office 2013, but that doesn't mean their products are any less valuable.

• Ubuntu Server: Lean, mean, cloud-making machine

  By Tom Henderson and Brendan Allen | 02 June, 2009 08:12

  Ubuntu Server is a fast, free, no-frills Linux distribution that fills a niche between utilitarian Debian and the GUI-driven and, some would argue, over-featured Novell SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

• Switching my dad to Linux -- part two

  By Keir Thomas | 15 May, 2009 23:31

  As mentioned in my last posting, I'm not a very good Linux evangelist. I don't try and convert family and friends to Linux. Therefore, as surprising as it sounds, putting Ubuntu on my dad's new laptop--as I did a week ago--was the first time I've ever directly converted another individual to Linux.

• Top 7 reasons people quit Linux

  By Keir Thomas | 02 May, 2009 03:26

  I've been writing Linux guidebooks for some time, and it's fair to say that most people who buy my books are Windows users looking to make the leap to Linux (or perhaps just wondering what the fuss is about).

• Ubuntu 9.04 beta: quick look

  By Keir Thomas | 28 March, 2009 12:03

  So far there have been six alpha releases of the forthcoming Ubuntu 9.04, due for final release next month, and late yesterday the one and only beta release was made available for download. From this point forward there's a release candidate in mid-April, before the final release is made on the 23rd.