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, I know many folks have been waiting very patiently for this day!
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 as well—and with as much investment—as Sun Microsystems had.
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 (code name Maverick Meerkat). — “Multi-touch is just as useful on a desktop as...
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 — The launch of the iPad and the general success of mobile device app stores...
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 on the Dell UK website returns only one laptop – the Dell Latitude 2100...
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 a great way to test out the variety of new tablet OS’s coming out and...
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 say: — $ google picasa create —title “My album” ~/Photos/vacation/*.jpg — So we wrote a...
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 wasn’t going to be on display — and Acer backed up my prediction days later...
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 an alternative with a few improvements. As he writes on his blog, “Dropbox has a...
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 for tablet computers as the company looks to extend its presence in the mobile...