Free Software is available as download from Internet. This software is created by many gifted software developers from around the world. Software packages put together on CD or DVD is called distro or distribution and is easy to install and use. Internet in South Africa is slow and unreliable with cap on total bandwidth usage. You can't download free software for free as ADSL users are paying minimum R68 per Gig therefore to download 4.5 Gig DVD will cost R306. As you can see free software download is slow and problematic with often dropped connections. Our SA Linux distributor service lowers the pain and cost of downloads and also provides technical support. Save time and money !
Web Upd8: "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin alpha 2 is available for download, we'll do a recap of all the changes since the previous milestone (alpha 1)."
Kate Stewart has announced the availability of the second alpha release of Ubuntu 12.04, code name "Precise Pangolin": "Welcome to Precise Pangolin Alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 12.04. Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone images that will be released throughout the....
Softpedia: "Canonical updated its default web browser and email client to Firefox 10 and Thunderbird 10, respectively."
The Register: "The result is not, surprisingly, a Frankendesktop of horrendous proportions, but something quite usable."
DarkDuck: "Have you ever installed any GNU/Linux distribution? Have you ever installed Windows? Have you noticed the difference? I think you know what I am talking about..."
Softpedia: "The sponsorship for the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit 2012 event is now open for submissions."
Softpedia: "It looks like Canonical is trying hard to make it more user friendly by adding new functionality and allowing users to easily configure it."
Linuxaria: "Miro, first launched in 2005 then revamped in 2007 (it was first launched as Democracy Player), is written in Python."
UbuntuPortal: Trickle is a portable application bandwidth shaper lightweight. It can run in collaborative mode 'together with trickled' or in stand alone mode.
InternetNews: From the 'Mozilla Labs is Ok; Real implementation is Better' files:
MakeUseOf: There's absolutely no denying the fact that there has been a lot of bickering between people about which desktop environment is the best.
Softpedia: "The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu and Kubuntu users how to install the newly released KDE SC 4.8 on the Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system."
TechWorld: "The industry is moving towards a world where multiple public cloud providers will be competing on price, functionality and uptime."
EnterpriseAppsToday: Ubunutu's desktop lead explains why HUD will succeed where Mozilla Ubiquity failed.
OSTATIC: "Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth is getting a lot of notice for a blog post he has up, that defends the Heads-Up Display (HUD) interface that the upcoming version 12.04 LTS version of Ubuntu will feature."
Linux and Open Source: "This new interface, which will first appear as a beta in April's Ubuntu 12.04 release, is called Head-Up Display."
For the first few years of its existence, it would have been fair to say that Canonical was essentially polishing, packaging and publishing Debian Linux (and Gnome) to create the base Ubuntu desktop, to great acclaim. For the past few years, though, the company has pushed new looks and new applications (cf. Unity and Ubuntu TV), and refused to stick with prettifying existing interfaces. Now, Barence writes with this excerpt from PC Pro: "Ubuntu is set to replace the 30-year-old computer menu system with a 'Head-Up Display' that allows users to simply type or speak menu commands. Instead of hunting through drop-down menus to find application commands, Ubuntu's Head-Up Display lets users type what they want to do into a search box. The system suggests possible commands as the user begins typing – entering 'Rad' would bring up the Radial blur command in the GIMP art package, for example. HUD also uses fuzzy matching and learns from past searches to ensure the correct commands are offered to users. Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth told PC Pro the HUD will make it easier for people to learn new software packages, and migrate from Windows to Linux software without having to relearn menus. The HUD will first appear in Ubuntu 12.04." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server."
Softpedia: "Canonical announced that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system is now available."
Tech Drive-in: "Canonical is slowly stepping up its marketing pitch."
The Power Base: "Ubuntu 10.04 is almost 2 years old now, but you can teach it the electric slide even if all it know how to do is the funky chicken."
Webopedia: "The Ubuntu Linux-based operating system (OS) has spawned a number of official and non-official variants that generally differ from the main Ubuntu release in one or two small, but very specific, ways."
Softpedia: "Java packages will be removed only from the software repository and no future updates will be applied to them."
Ars: The launch of Ubuntu TV fits with Canonical's efforts to bring its popular Linux distribution to a variety of mobile and embedded form factors.
LinuxForum: "So, you have Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10 and have no interest in using the default mail client (Evolution or Thunderbird respectively), but instead you'd rather have integrated access to your Gmail account?"
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can install and run a TYPO3 (version 4.6) web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache."
HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 11.10."
HowtoForge: "This tutorial is supposed to show some features of the Enlightenment window manager as an alternative to the often used Gnome and KDE managers."
WebUpd8: A new Unity version (soon to be 5.0) is available for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, but not in the official repositories but the Unity Team PPA.