Ubuntu Real-Time News: Justin Uberti / juberjabber:Google voice and video – now available for Linux! — Google voice and video chat is now available in Gmail for Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions. As the comments on this blog indicate,...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Katherine Noyes / Computerworld:Don’t Count on Oracle to Keep OpenOffice.org Alive — Back in January, the Amsterdam-based consultancy Software Improvement Group warned government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle proved its commitment to treating the software...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld:Ubuntu Linux to go multi-touch — I spoke with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, this morning, and he tells me that Canonical will be bringing true multi-touch to Ubuntu Linux in Ubuntu 10.10...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Cory Doctorow / Guardian:Curated computing is no substitute for the personal and handmade — Bespoke computing experiences promise a pipe dream of safety and beauty – but the real delight lies in making your own choices — ...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Barry Collins / PC Pro:Dell drops Ubuntu PCs from website… for now — Dell has stopped selling consumer PCs preloaded with Ubuntu from its website, and doesn’t know when they’re coming back. — A search for...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Russell Beattie:The end of WIMP and the rise of Touch — I recently bought a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t multi-touch tablet/netbook. It was on sale for $200 off and I just couldn’t resist. I figured it’d be...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Google Open Source Blog:Introducing the Google Command Line Tool — Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt? We did, a lot, last summer. It made us want to...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Lee Mathews / Download Squad:First Chrome OS systems to come from Acer, Dell, and HP? — Last month at Computex, Acer’s rumored Chrome OS netbook was nowhere to be found. Of course, I’d already said it...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Lee Mathews / Download Squad:Coming soon: an open source Dropbox alternative with collaboration — Dropbox is a great little service (and app). Developer Hylke Bons seems to like it — but he’s got designs on building...
Ubuntu Real-Time News: Agam Shah / Network World:Canonical developing Ubuntu OS for tablets — Tablets with the OS could reach store shelves in the latter part of Q1 next year — Canonical is preparing a version of the Ubuntu OS...